Courtney Love has debuted eight new tracks from upcoming Hole album Nobody's Daughter at London's appropriately named Shepherd's Bush Empire.

The new tracks included "Skinny LittleBitch", "Honey", "Letter To God", "Pacific Coast Highway" (like"Malibu" Part 2, she said), "Never Go Hungry Again" and "How DirtyGirls Get Clean". NME said, "After a hit-packed climax, Love returned to the stage solo for an acoustic encore, playing 'Northern Star' and new track 'Never Go Hungry Again'."

It's been 12 years since Celebrity Skin, and since then Love has pulled a Wolfmother and reformed without Melissa Auf Der Mar and Eric Erlandson, telling BBC 6Music, "It’s just like Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails, I have Hole... I’ve had 16 members in my band but it’s my band. I work better in aband where people are putting input in and there’s just more ebb andflow."

Love also "threw out" the first recording of Nobody's Daughter and started from scratch. It is expected to release around April. Somewhat surprisingly, it doesn't sound like the gig was the train wreck many were expecting.

6Music guaged the crowd reaction...


"Ireally enjoyed it. It could have been a bit more grunge, a little bitless acoustic but she hasn't been that good in a very long time. She'sCourtney Love, she's still got it.  She'll always have it."

"I think she needs to patch things up with Melissa [Auf Der Maur] andEric [Erlandson] because at the end of the day she can't really justifycalling it Hole, but it was still a really amazing performance. It wenta lot better than expected."

"It was a dreamcome true, glad to see her back in action. I wasn't alive when theyfirst came out so this is just amazing for me, just another chance tosee a hero."

"The new songs are amazing, and her old songs, you can't beat them,"said another fan and it was a nostalgia trip for others: "It feltreally '90s, but it was really nice. It was like a flashback. It'scool. There's still young people there but you know there's people thathave been there the whole time."


The Guardian was there too, saying...

"The band are a dreary assembly of session musicians, missing the sparkand camaraderie of old Hole, but nobody was looking at them anyway.This was The Courtney Love Show and it felt like she'd earned every single second of it."

"Until now, she's always played second fiddle to infamy. To the surpriseof almost everybody in the crowd last night, it sounds like the musicis starting to reassert itself."


The Telegraph gave it four stars...

"The 1998 alt dancefloor filler Celebrity Skin preceded an acoustic encore thatbegan with Doll Parts, another from Live Through This. "I am doll eyes,doll mouth, doll legs," Love sang, teasing out the disaffected teenfrom many in the audience once more."


The Times Online gave it three out of five...

"She complained about how hard the new songs were to play and insisted sheneeded a teleprompter to remind her of the lyrics. Pacific Coast Highwaywas a lilting soft-rock tune which again suffered somewhat at the hands ofher serrated howl. “My fingers are bleeding now,” she helpfully informed usas she led the band into the more familiar sound of Malibu. It was agenuine thrill to hear this revived again, along with a handful of otherHole favourites. There was a wonderful thrashy edge to Violet, and MissWorld reminded you that Love remains one of pop’s greatestself-mythologists... 'Not so bad for an old lady,' she pronounced triumphantly, which was fairenough."