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MTV Review: Courtney Love Hits London's O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

Say what you will about Courtney, but she is a rock legend that continues to give an energetic show...

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 15:11

The second night of Courtney Love’s residency at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire saw her performing an incredible set of old and new songs to the delight of the packed crowd.

Feeling: The audience was a mix of grown up misfits, exactly as you’d expect to see.  Some dressed in business casual, some in flannel grunge, but all eager to see the Love they love. 

As the lights went down and a recording of Ravel’s Boléro began to play, the crowd started to pack toward the front of the venue…only to relax when the lights came back up revealing a false start!  A couple minutes later, the lights went out and Boléro began again and the audience was ready for what was sure to be an amazing show.

The Look: Love is never one to shy away from slick attire, but this show focused on simplicity and rock music rather than fashion.  She came out in flowy black dress with a lacy shawl and black fishnets and a huge paper flower in her hair (which was pulled out and tossed aside two songs into the set). 

Another song in and the dress came off (“I’m feeling frumpy!”) revealing silky black shorts and a skin tight top underneath.  For the encore, she ditched the Stevie Nick-esque wardrobe for a vintage Hole transparent white nighty.

Tunes: From classic Hole to her latest solo singles “Wedding Day” and “You Know My Name,” Love treated us to nearly her entire song writing catalogue.  Packing in a set list of over 20 songs, fans were encouraged to sing along to “Malibu” and “Celebrity Skin.” 

For the encore, Courtney came out with just guitarist Micko Larkin, performing acoustic versions of “Northern Star,” “Dying,” and Leonard Cohen’s “Take This Longing” before the band returned for “Awful” and “Jennifer’s Body.” The only songs missing were anything from her 2004 flop solo album, “America’s Sweetheart,” but no one seemed to mind, and Love made no reference to the album.

Banter: As one of the mouthiest rock stars out there, Love is known for insane tirades and bad behaviour onstage.  However, Love indicated at the beginning of the show that she was on her best behaviour due to “friends in the audience.”

After a few songs, she seemed to warm up a bit, chatting with a fan in the front (“Are you following me? You’re everywhere!”) and encouraging the audience to scream profanities at her.  When they did, Love proved she could scream louder.  At one point Love solicited cheers saying, “I’m not feeling it yet!”  The audience obliged, prompting Love to squeal, “Oh, there it is!  I’ve gotten my rock and roll erection back!”

Sweat Factor: The audience wasn’t as raucous as they might have been when Courtney first hit the scene, but there was a lot of jumping up and down and rocking out.  As Courtney has aged, so have her fans, and the once violent moshers have turned into responsible and courteous adult rockers.

Summary: Say what you will about Courtney, but she is a rock legend that continues to give an energetic show.  Her voice, as gravelly as it always was, held strong and delivered powerfully rich vocals for the full 90 minute show. Her new songs fit in perfectly with the classics, and the audience left satisfied.

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Hey yeah we had everything
Vinyl in mono
And we looked the other way
Man we were so dumb
Is this the part in the book that you wrote
Where I gotta come and save the day
Did you miss me
Did you miss me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Well they say that rock is dead
And they're probably right
99 girls in the pit
Did it have to come to this?

Oh God you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you that
I'm so much better than him
Oh god please listen fast
Here comes the crash
We're gonna rise above
We gotta smash it up
You won't abandon us again

Give us brilliant boys we wanna fuck, man
Full of ecstasy, hard drugs and bad luck
Yeah yeah yeah
Turn the lights back on
You burn so hard
But you won't burn long

Three chords in your pocket tonight
Are you, you the one
With the spark to bring my punk rock back
(I don't think so)

Oh God I wanna hear you say
I wanna hear you say, that you're sorry again
Oh God you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you
That I'm so much better than him
Oh God I'd give you anything
To hear you say that I was right
And you were wrong

Oh God before I leave this life
Enable us to love,
A hooker's never gonna come
Just give it back to me
Blow out all of the lights tonight

Oh yeah
Drive a million miles down the PCH
(And now he's gone)
I slashed his tires, I bled his brakes
(It had to be done)
Their hand-job lives were just too cruel
(But) mercy was done
We drowned them all in their swimming pools
Run away, run away, run away yeah

Oh God I wanna hear you say
I wanna hear you say that you were wrong again
Oh God I wanna hear you say
I wanna hear you say that
That I'm so much better than him
Oh God you owe us one more song
Get out of my life
See this world as it really is

Is it just a sad slide show
Can you make a hooker cum?
And enable us to love
I need one thing that's divine
Let me hear it tonight
Let me hear it tonight
I've gotta hear it tonight
You're gonna let me hear the lost chord tonight
Yeah
Writer(s): Linda Perry, Courtney Love, Patty Schemel, Larry Schemel Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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Set List:
Wedding Day
Miss World
Plump
Honey
Gold Dust Woman (Fleetwood Mac Cover)
Malibu
Reasons To Be Beautiful
You Know My Name
Softer, Softest
Rock Star
Letter To God
Skinny Little Bitch
Asking For It
Violet
I Think That I Would Die
Celebrity Skin
Doll Parts

Encore:
Northern Star
Dying
Take This Longing (Leonard Cohen Cover)
Awful
Jennifer’s Body

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