Courtney Love Kathleena Hanna Feud involving the band's Hole and Bikini Kill

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Founded in 1991 by Jane’s addiction frontman perry farrell started the traveling tour known as lollapalooza that would become one of the most memorable music festivals of the 90’s. It would run until 1997 after which it took a 6 year hiatus. The 1994 incarnation of the festival was supposed to be featuring so called Indie bands. Keep in mind I’m using the promoters words not mine. The 1994 version of the festival was supposed to see Nirvana headline, but by the summer of 1994 Kurt Cobain was dead, so their plans changed. The so called indie year would be moved to the following year to 1995 with Sonic Youth headlining with Hole, Pavement, Beck, Cypress hill, Bikini Kill. and Sinead O’Connor and many others on the bill. It seemed like the promoters of the festival by 1994 were receiving a lot of backlash from fans and critics. Stuart Ross who served as the festival’s tour director during the 90’s recalled to the Washington Post

In ’94, the press was starting to take shots at us. They said, “Smashing Pumpkins and Beastie Boys are platinum-selling artists, and Lollapalooza was never a show for platinum artists.” In ’95, the same press came back and said, Lollapalooza’s a rip-off, there’s no headliners.

When the 1995 incarnation of the festival happened it had been about a year since Courtney Love’s husband had passed away. Of all the artists on the bill that year, Courtney Love and her band Hole seemed to attract the most media attention. From the beginning of the tour in George, Washington there was drama between the bands on the bill.The drama was only further exasperated by the internet which was still in its infancy. it created a new way for fans to get even closer to the artists and get a better understanding of what happened behind the scenes. For the 1995 incarnation of Lolapolaozza Spin Magazine teamed up with some of the artists on the bill who wrote tour diaries that would be published online. Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth would publish an entry that called out Courtney Love writing

“everyone is disgusted and grossed out. Perry [Ferrell, Lollapalooza figurehead] is bummed. Everyone’s bummed.” He would go on to reveal that Courtney Love during a stopover in Vancouver and i quote “yell[ed] at the audience something about how she’s wearing a cast on her arm cuz she ‘punched some expletive in the face.’” He would go on to reveal that Courtney Love and i quote “suckerpunched” Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, and she in turn filed criminal charges against Love. Four days later it had turned out that Love had read Thurston Moore’s posts.” Suddenly Thurston had a change of heart. & from his follow up online posts it appeared him and Courtney Love were friends again.

Courtney Love for her part also published some online posts about her experience on the tour. In one rant she would call out Kathleen Hanna saying and i quote “Kathleen Hanna was my husband’s worst enemy in the world, someone who would stop at nothing to aggravate us.” She would go on to refer to Hanna as and i quote“Ratface.’ It’s important to note that Hanna was responsible for coming up with the name Smells Like Teen Spirit which eventually became nirvana’s most popular song. So what went down between Courtney Love and Kathleen Hanna. Well you’ll get a different story depending on who you ask and what you read.

Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson would recall to the Washington Post “We had bulk candy backstage. I go, “Courtney, there’s [Bikini Kill frontwoman] Kathleen Hanna. You should offer her some candy.” She grabbed the candy and just threw it at her. Everybody was like, “Oh my God, she punched her in the face,” but from what I saw, she threw the candy, and kind of slapped her in the direction of her face. I don’t know if she actually hit her, or what. It doesn’t matter, it was not cool. . . . The whole tour started on that note.

Hole bassist Melissa Auf (off) der (der) Maur (Mao-Er): Courtney did a fake cat hiss, like a joke. Like, “We’re at war” kind of a thing , ” . . . making a weird joke in passing. Next thing you know, there’s this explosion of arguing. Maybe a shove, I can’t remember.

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