Courtney Love hints at Hole reunion tour with Melissa Auf der Maur
Courtney Love has hinted at a Hole reunion tour with Melissa Auf der Maur, with a mysterious video appearing online.
The iconic musician took to her Instagram to share a video, which is soundtracked by the 1998 anthem ‘Malibu’. In the video, Auf der Maur is adorned in a blue gown and dances in slow motion to the Hole hit.
Cryptically, she captioned the post, “So do we tell the kids about the tour?” which elicited the equally mysterious response from Auf der Maur, who commented, “It starts with eternal love…”
The pair returned to the studio in 2024 and joined forces later that year with a feature on 070 Shake’s cover of Tim Buckley’s ‘Song To The Siren’. Love told fans in London that she would be returning with the band “later”, though she has yet to make good on that claim.
The band’s classic line-up has been on hiatus since 2002, when they played their final run, The Beautiful Monsters Tour, co-headlined by Marilyn Manson. The band also reformed with a different lineup from 2009 to 2012.
In 2021, Love definitively ruled out a reunion tour, insisting that it would “absolutely not” happen. At the time, she went on to add, “You guys have gotta get over it. Our old manager Peter Mensch calls once a year to ask about a reunion: ‘Hey, just doing my thing I do every year with you and Jimmy Page.’ And I’m so honored to be in that company, but it’s just not gonna happen.”
Auf der Maur is currently gearing up to release Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A 90s Rock Memoir on March 17th. The book will trace her upbringing in Montreal, as well as her career as a bassist with Tinker, Hole, and Smashing Pumpkins.
Lately, Love has been backing a new alt-rock on-the-rise group, Geese. “I feel like their team might be like elder millennial, you know, Brooklyn people?” she mused in a viral Instagram post. “Like, very Girls-y. But who cares? Like, you can’t fake the way he’s singing,” she said, in reference to frontman Cameron Winter.
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