Courtney Love shares legendary story of Kurt Cobain, the hospital robe, L7, Nick Cave and a bloody tampon from Reading 1992
Courtney Love has shared a legendary story about Kurt Cobain playing Reading festival in a hospital robe, and recalled the time when L7 threw a bloody tampon into the crowd.
READ MORE: Courtney Love: âI feel like the luckiest motherfucker in the history of rockânârollâThe Hole frontwoman was speaking as part of a new interview with BBC Radio 6, and was asked to recall the craziest story from a show she was at.
During the interview, she went on to say that the most extreme one that came to mind was actually from a show she didnât perform at, but involved her then-husband Kurt Cobain and close friends L7.
Sharing the anecdote about how Cobain famously went to play Nirvanaâs legendary ’92 Reading set in a hospital robe, she recalled that the robe he wore was actually hers from when she gave birth to their daughter, Frances Bean.
âHe played Reading in that robe. They roll him out like thereâs this thing like, âKurtâs deadâ, this whole thing. They roll him out and heâs wearing my bloody placenta robe, but thatâs not the crazy part,â she explained, going on to recall something else that happened earlier at the festival.
âThe crazy part is that earlier in the day L7 played â [they are some] of my oldest friends â and theyâre getting bottled, like real bottled, like bad. And [one] hits De Plak, the drummer, in the eye. Donita, the singer, gets pissed. Sheâs menstruating and sheâs having a heavy flow day, so she just reaches up into her crotch and pulls out her tampon and throws it,â she continued.
âThereâs a YouTube [clip of it], and you can kind of see it. I mean, itâs just bloody. Thereâs more to it because the tampon somehow made its way back onto the stage,â she concluded. âI didnât even know Nick Cave played that day. Yeah, Nick was staring at a bloody tampon the whole time.
âOften people will say to me âOh you threw that tampon at Readingâ⦠I wish. The few times I had been bottled after that, it had already been done, so I didnât want to copy Donitaâs thing, so I didnât do it. But man, what a genius move, kudos to you Donita Sparks.â
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The interview with BBC Radio 6 comes just weeks after the station, along with BBC Sounds, announced a new series called Courtney Loveâs Women â which will see the music legend share her âultimate soundtrack to her lifeâ as she reflects on the women in music who have âshaped her journey, her sound and her next chapterâ.
Back in February, Love joined Billie Joe Armstrongâs covers band The Coverups onstage in London where she delivered a joint performance of Holeâs âCelebrity Skinâ. She also made a surprise appearance at the first show, assisting Armstrong and co. on covers of Tom Pettyâs âEven The Losersâ, and Cheap Trickâs âHeâs A Whoreâ and âSurrenderâ, as well as teasing a Hole reunion.
Armstrong subsequently told NME about his longtime friendship with Love at the BRIT Awards 2024, sharing: âWeâve known her since â94, sheâs always great! Sheâs a wild woman, she has a lot of great stories and I love Courtney⦠Sheâs definitely like a rock nâ roll-er in herself. Sheâs got her sea legs back so weâll maybe be hearing more from her.â
Back in 2020, Courtney Love spoke with NME after picking up the Icon Award at the 2020 NME Award and opened up about why she chose to settle down in London.
âWhen I arrived in London from Liverpool aged 16 in the early â80s, I ended up staying at the Columbia in Bayswater â the scene of so much decadent rock and roll activity. My knowledge of London literally became the tube from Bayswater to Oxford Street â thatâs literally all I knew,â she explained.
âYou havenât got nearly the Thought Police you think you do compared to in Portland or parts of LA. Iâm allowed to dissent here, which I havenât felt comfortable doing recently elsewhere. Being able to have a real dialogue and read all sorts of opinions⦠it made me fall in love with the UK even more.â
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Courtney Love shares legendary story of Kurt Cobain, the hospital robe, L7, Nick Cave and a bloody tampon from Reading 1992
Courtney Love shares legendary story of Kurt Cobain, the hospital robe, L7, Nick Cave and a bloody tampon from Reading 1992
Courtney Love shares legendary story of Kurt Cobain, the hospital robe, L7, Nick Cave and a bloody tampon from Reading 1992
Courtney Love shares legendary story of Kurt Cobain, the hospital robe, L7, Nick Cave and a bloody tampon from Reading 1992
Courtney Love shares legendary story of Kurt Cobain, the hospital robe, L7, Nick Cave and a bloody tampon from Reading 1992
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