 - - - - - - - - - - - - - MAY 1ST, 1995, GLASGOW BARROWLANDS, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND 4 out of 5 stars HOLE Glasgow Barrowlands WHAT with all the fisticuff shenanigans in Amsterdam the previous week, this gig positively screamed ‘event!’. For starters, they have to play the intro tape twice before Courtney and company finally appear. Decked out in a fetching black number which seems to have gotten shredded en route from the dressing room, Courtney hails the crowd as “the only audience in the whole fuckin’ world who never ripped my clothes off when I stage-dived”, before launching into Neil Young’s ‘Cinnamon Girl’. This lasts all of 60 seconds, before collapsing into silence and then ‘Miss World’ screams into life. ‘She Walks On Me’ is introduced as “a rip-off of ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’”, before Courtney accepts as fag from a punter with the question, “Has it got acid in it?”. With her foot planted atop a monitor, the throttle is openen up for a run through ‘Jennifer’s Body’, ‘Plump’ and ‘Asking For It’, and then she falls off the stage... The band then pursue endless discussions about song intros, and suddenly we’ve got a live striptease as Courtney trades her panties for a Pear Jam T-shirt thrown onstage in response to her offer to refund the cost of said garment. “You can’t like Kurt and Pearl Jam at the same time,” she snarls. Cue another smoke break. Normal service is resumed with a raging tirade of ‘I Think That I Would Die’ and ‘Credit In The Straight World’. Applause rings out loud and clear, but no encore follows. Volatile and unpredictable right to the end. - Grahame Bent, Metal Hammer, 1995 - - - - - - - - - - - - - |