In an interview with the Quietus, Courtney Love has said that the classic line-up of her band Hole have begun rehearsing again. "I started playing with Patty and Melissa and Eric, just to see how that was," Love told the website. "We already played like three or four times in the last week."
Hole became famous as part of the grunge movement of the 90s, with Love as frontwoman. The mordant, confessional and melodic songs of their 1991 debut and hit 1994 album Live Through This expanded into hard and glossy glam-rock on 1998's Celebrity Skin, which made the top 10 in the US and garnered four Grammy nominations.
After the band disbanded in 2002, bassist Melissa Auf der Mar released a solo album and toured with the Smashing Pumpkins, guitarist Eric Erlandson formed a band with actor Vincent Gallo and drummer Patty Schemel made a documentary about her life, Hit So Hard. Love, meanwhile, re-formed the band with new members in 2009, but in 2012, after a brief reunion of the original line-up for a two-song live set, she declared "Hole is dead."
Love is also famous for her relationship with Kurt Cobain, and this week announced plans to oversee a stage musical based around his work, with the blessing of their daughter Frances Bean. Later this month she will appear at Nirvana's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Ohio, meeting band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselić for the first time in 20 years. In May she plans to tour the UK and release a new single, Wedding Day.
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