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Finally – Hole might actually get back together. On Tuesday, Courtney Love posted a video of Melissa Auf der Maur on Instagram, set to the band’s 1998 hit “Malibu.” In addition to clips of the bassist in a flowing black dress gyrating in front of the camera, Love linked Auf der Maur’s account and wrote in the caption: “So, let’s tell the kids about the tour.” In the comments Auf der Maur teased: “It begins with eternal love….”
Shortly afterwards, the singer also reposted a photo of Chateau Marmont to her Instagram Stories, taken a few months before the release of the monumental album “Celebrity Skin” in September 1998. The picture shows Love, Auf der Maur and guitarist Eric Erlandson posing by the hotel pool.
The teaser comes just days after Love appeared as a surprise guest with Billie Joe Armstrong’s cover band The Coverups in London, hinting at a Hole reunion: “I’ll be back at Hole soon.”
A decade after the dissolution
The potential Hole tour would come a decade after the band first broke up in 2002 and played its last tour – “The Beautiful Monsters Tour” with Marilyn Manson. Hole reformed with a different line-up from 2009 to 2012.
Earlier this year, “Antiheroine,” a new documentary about Love, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. In a ROLLING STONE review of the film, critic David Fear wrote that its “moments of stark, almost brutal honesty, straight from the source, make this entire endeavor such a necessary counterpoint to all the myth that has formed around Love, and attest to an accountability she has come to on the path to self-acceptance.”
For her part, Auf der Maur is about to release “Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A 90s Rock Memoir” on March 17th. The book describes the experienced bassist’s career from her childhood in Montreal to her career – first with her band Tinker, later with Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins.
Love’s changeable attitude towards the reunion
Over the years, Love has repeatedly raised the possibility of a Hole reunion, but has often changed her mind. In an interview with “Vogue” in 2021, she categorically ruled out a comeback by the band: “No, absolutely not. And you finally have to accept that. Our old manager Peter Mensch calls once a year and asks about a reunion: ‘Hey, I’m just doing my annual thing with you and Jimmy Page [von Led Zeppelin].’ And I’m so honored to be in this company – but it’s just not going to happen.”
