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The London love-in between Courtney Love and Billie Joe Armstrong continues

Courtney Love and Billie Joe Armstrong
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Courtney Love teamed up with Green Day's covers band The Coverups for the second time in a week to perform Hole's Celebrity Skin at the 100 Club in London last night (March 1). 

Having previously guested with The Coverups at their gig at The Garage on February 27, Love joined the band once more at the legendary Oxford Street basement venue to sing Hole's best-known song, plus David Bowie's Suffragette City, as well as reprising her participation on a cover of Cheap Trick's Surrender.

The band's Friday night gig also included covers of punk classics Teenage Kicks by The Undertones, Buzzcock's Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've), Neat Neat Neat by The Damned, and Ramones' I Wanna Be Sedated, a cover of Nirvana's Drain You, and classic songs by Tom Petty, Mott The Hoople, Pretenders and more.

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The Coverups at The 100 Club, London: Setlist

A Million Miles Away (The Plimsouls)
I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones)
Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've) (Buzzcocks)
I Think We're Alone Now (Tommy James & the Shondells)
Message of Love (Pretenders)
Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams)
American Girl (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
I Fought the Law (The Crickets)
Dancing With Myself (Generation X)
Rockaway Beach (Ramones)
Love is for Losers (The Longshot)
Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
Suffragette City (David Bowie)
Celebrity Skin (Hole) with Courtney Love
I'm So Bored With the U.S.A. (The Clash)
Neat Neat Neat (The Damned)
Drain You (Nirvana)
Last Nite (The Strokes)
Fox on the Run (Sweet)
Teenage Kicks (Undertones)
Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash)
Surrender (Cheap Trick) with Courtney Love

Encore

Ready Steady Go (Generation X)
Where Eagles Dare (Misfits)
All The Young Dudes (Mott The Hoople)

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Tre Cool also appeared as guest presenters at the BRIT Awards in London tonight, March 2, to present the Best Group award to Jungle.

Paul Brannigan
Paul Brannigan
Contributing Editor, Louder

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.