Courtney Love

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Guitarist WILL SERGEANT Produced New COURTNEY LOVE Solo Album

Posted on by JL

26 November 2024

Last night Echo & The Bunnymen‘s guitarist and multi-instrumentalist
WILL SERGEANT posted this message on the band’s Facebook account.

“From @ Will Sergeant. Evening all my old friend Courtney Love has spilled the beans,
so I think I can now. Been working on her amazing new record. Been a trip, she gave
me complete artistic freedom. Loved every minute, autoharp, electric mandolin, Bulbul
Tarang, baritone guitar plus layers of 12 & 6 string guitars.”

Courtney Love on Tik Tok about the album she already teased this past summer,
the day before Sergeant‘s announcement : “It’s the longest record that’s ever been written in the history of rock, so it better fuckin’ be good, no filler. I don’t do “collabs” — man, I hate that word! However, I have co-written songs with some people on this album. [REM’s Michael] Stipe mentioned our collaboration to The New York Times. I fell down weeping hearing his voice — it’s better than ever! I thought I knew the outcome, but I’m still the grasshopper while Michael is the sensei. There are others I can’t mention; I didn’t intend for any collaborations.

I did ask PJ Harvey to come back — I wanted just one of her great iconic Stones guitar riffs. We have a relationship; I’ve endorsed her over the decades, but she chose not to respond to me. So I wrote her about how fucking rude that was. Her manager tried to smooth things over, but it’s not okay — she hasn’t played rock music in 100 years! Her first five albums are great; after that, she ventured into art space (though I do love the Last Living Rose, which feels like a John Donne poem with… WTF? A tuba?.

Kurt Cobain‘s infamous widow COURTNEY LOVE released 4 albums
with Hole and one solo LP, named America’s Sweetheart 20 years
ago, in 2004.

She also played in 7 movies. Trust me, she’s a great actress.


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CL: Instagram

New HOLE Music? COURTNEY LOVE And MELISSA AUF DER MAUR Together In A Studio After 24 Years

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A couple of days ago COURTNEY LOVE and MELISSA AUF DER MAUR
who played bass for 5 years with HOLE alongside founder/singer Courtney,
got together in a studio for the first time in 24 years.

It happened in London. Photos appeared on the Instagram account
(@_fromhertoeternity) of website From Her To Eternity that celebrates
the contributions of women to music, and is curated by Love and longtime
rock journo Julie Panebianco.

No further details or news about what they were actually doing
there, but cool to see them back together on the 5 photos below.

Celebrity skins Courtney and Melissa back in 1998.

Hole: Story

Quote Of The Day – Pretender CHRISSIE HYNDE Joins Slamming ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Discussion

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Chrissie Hynde joins the slamming Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall Of Fame discussion started recently
by Courtney Love who criticized the organization: “Barely 8% of its inductees are female.
The canon-making doesn’t just reek of sexist gatekeeping, but also purposeful ignorance
and hostility.”

Her full statement.

“If anyone wants my position in the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame they are welcome to it. I don’t
even wanna be associated with it. It’s just more establishment backslapping. I got in a band so I didn’t have to be part of all that. I was living a happy life in Rio when I got the call I was being inducted. My heart sank because I knew I’d have to go back for it as it would be too much of a kick in the teeth to my parents if I didn’t. I’d upset them enough by then, so it was one of those things that would bail me out from years of disappointing them. (like moving out of the USA and being arrested at PETA protests and my general personality). Other than Neil Young’s participation in the induction process, the whole thing was, and is, total bollocks. It’s absolutely nothing to do with rock ‘n’ roll and anyone who thinks it is is a fool.”