Pretty on the Inside Tour
| Tour by Hole | |
 Flyer for Toronto date at The Rivoli | |
| Start date | July 1991 |
|---|---|
| End date | December 22, 1991 |
| Hole concert chronology | |
The Pretty on the Inside Tour was the first international concert tour by American alternative rock band Hole in promotion of their debut album, Pretty on the Inside. The tour began in the summer of 1991, and concluded in December of that year. The tour largely had Hole as a supporting act, with them performing as an opener for Mudhoney's European tour, as well as The Smashing Pumpkins in the United States.
Overview
In anticipation of the release of Hole's debut studio album, Pretty on the Inside (1991), the group embarked on an international concert tour in promotion of the record. The tour began in July 1991 in Los Angeles.[1] For the first European leg of the tour, Hole was a supporting act for Mudhoney.[2] The band returned to North America in the fall and toured in the United States and Canada before returning to Europe in November 1991.
The band opened for Nirvana at several European dates, including in Ghent, Belgium[3] and Nijmegen, Netherlands.[4] During this time, frontwoman Courtney Love became romantically involved with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain[5][6]; the two had previously been acquainted in May 1991.[7]
The band returned to the United States in mid-December 1991, appearing as a supporting act for the West Coast tour of The Smashing Pumpkins, supporting their debut album, Gish.[8][9]
Reception
Sam Batra of The Guardian wrote of the band's London date in December 1991: "There's no pretending that [Love] is in control. This is the sound of living on the edge and consequently working it out in splurges of furious noise seems to be the only articulation that has any authenticity," adding that "it's as if every flurry of noise unravels itself, breaks down as it struggles within the confines of a genre that is predominately male. Hole will burn themselves out. See them before they lose it willfully."[10] Adam Sweeting, reviewing the University of London Union performance, noted that the band's songs seem to be "teetering on the edge of collapse, [while] Love pouts, whispers, and shrieks... the volume of the voice is startling."[11] Richard Cromelin of the Los Angeles Times observed of the band's supporting performance at a Los Angeles Smashing Pumpkins concert that the crowd "didn’t take to Courtney Love’s powerful howls of anguish."[9] At the end of the show, Love "ordered the band to a halt and hurled her guitar to the ground," after which guitarist Eric Erlandson demolished his guitar by smashing it against the floor.[9]
Other acts
Supporting
- Hi Dummy
- Drag
Supported
- Buffalo Tom[12]
- Mudhoney (August 9–22, 1991 dates)[2]
- Nirvana
- The Smashing Pumpkins (December 16–22, 1991 dates)
Tour dates
| Date | City | Country | Venue | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North America | ||||
| July 7, 1991 | Los Angeles | United States | Jabberjaw | [1] |
| July 11, 1991 | Montreal | Canada | Les Foufounes Électriques | [12] |
| July 12, 1991 | Boston | United States | The Rathskeller | |
| July 15, 1991 | New York City | CBGB | [13] | |
| July 19, 1991 | Hoboken | Maxwell's | [14] | |
| July 22, 1991 | Richmond | Twister's | ||
| Europe | ||||
| August 9, 1991 | Windsor | England | The Old Trout Pub | [2] |
| August 11, 1991 | London | Astoria Theatre | [15] | |
| August 12, 1991 | [2] | |||
| August 13, 1991 | Brighton | The Zap | [16] | |
| August 14, 1991 | Wolverhampton | Wulfrun Hall | [2] | |
| August 15, 1991 | Newcastle upon Tyne | Riverside | [2] | |
| August 16, 1991 | Glasgow | Scotland | Queen Margaret Union | [17] |
| August 18, 1991 | Manchester | England | International II | [2] |
| August 19, 1991 | Bristol | Bierkeller Theatre | [2] | |
| August 20, 1991 | Sheffield | The Leadmill | [2] | |
| August 21, 1991 | Birmingham | Goldwyns | [2] | |
| August 22, 1991 | London | New Cross Venue | [2] | |
| North America | ||||
| October 30, 1991 | Kalamazoo | United States | Club Soda | [18] |
| November 1, 1991 | Toronto | Canada | The Rivoli | [19] |
| November 6, 1991 | Cambridge | United States | Tower Records | |
| November 7, 1991 | Boston | The Rathskeller | ||
| November 9, 1991 | Philadelphia | Khyber Pass | [20] | |
| November 11, 1991 | Carrboro | Cat's Cradle | ||
| November 15, 1991 | Austin | Emo's | [21] | |
| Europe | ||||
| November 21, 1991 | London | England | The Underworld | [22] |
| November 23, 1991 | Ghent | Belgium | Vooruit Concertzaal | [3] |
| November 24, 1991 | Nijmegen | Netherlands | Doornroosje | [4] |
| November 25, 1991 | Nancy | France | Bar La Plage | |
| November 26, 1991 | Paris | La Cigale | ||
| November 27, 1991 | Villeurbanne | Transbordeur | ||
| December 3, 1991 | Berlin | Germany | The Loft | |
| December 4, 1991 | Cologne | Rose Club | ||
| December 6, 1991 | Groningen | Netherlands | Vera | [23] |
| December 7, 1991 | Utrecht | Tivoli | ||
| December 8, 1991 | Amsterdam | Melkweg | [24] | |
| December 10, 1991 | Newport | Wales | TJ's | [5] |
| December 11, 1991 | Exeter | England | Lemongrove | [25] |
| December 12, 1991 | London | University of London Union | [11] | |
| December 13, 1991 | Leeds | Duchess of York | [10] | |
| December 14, 1991 | Glasgow | Scotland | The Mayfair | [10] |
| December 15, 1991 | Manchester | England | The Boardwalk | [10] |
| North America | ||||
| December 16, 1991 | San Diego | United States | Sound FX | [8] |
| December 17, 1991 | Los Angeles | Whisky a Go Go | [9] | |
| December 19, 1991 | San Francisco | I-Beam | ||
| December 20, 1991 | Sacramento | Cattle Club | [26] | |
| December 22, 1991 | Portland | The Underground | [27] | |
References
- ^ a b Hole with Slug (Concert flyer), Jabberjaw, August 1991
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Mudhoney Tourbook: 1991". Open Computing Facility. Berkeley, California: University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on April 1, 2017.
- ^ a b True 2006, p. 328.
- ^ a b De Winter, Suzanne (June 2, 2018). "Koop een stukje van het oude Doornroosje". De Gelderlander (in Dutch). Archived from the original on June 2, 2018.
- ^ a b "Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love in Newport". BBC. July 6, 2010. Archived from the original on December 11, 2011.
- ^ McCarthy, James (June 29, 2017). "The night Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love came to Newport - told by the people who were there". Wales Online. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018.
- ^ Cross, Charles (April 5, 2014). "The Moment Kurt Cobain Met Courtney Love". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on June 9, 2017.
- ^ a b "Smashing Pumpkins, Hole". The Californian. Temecula, California. December 13, 1991. p. 83 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d Cromelin, Richard (December 19, 1991). "POP MUSIC REVIEWS: Pumpkins, Hole Unleash Frustrations". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. Archived from the original on November 8, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Batra, Sam (December 7, 1991). "Lashing Back in Anger". The Guardian. London, England. p. 86 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Sweeting, Adam (December 14, 1991). "Hole". The Guardian. London, England. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Clubs". Montreal Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. July 11, 1991. p. 44 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Richin, Leslie (December 23, 2014). "CBGB: 10 Classic Moments That Helped Define the Birthplace of Punk". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 23, 2015.
- ^ Cotter, Kelly-Jane (July 19, 1991). "On the Road". The Central New Jersey Home News. New Brunswick, New Jersey. p. 38 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Brite, Poppy Z. (1998). Courtney Love: The Real Story. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-684-84800-6.
- ^ True, Everett (2009). Nirvana: The Biography. London: Hachette Books. p. 317. ISBN 978-0-786-73390-3.
- ^ "Mudhoney with guests Hole and Captain America (concert ticket)". Glasgow, Scotland: Queen Margaret Union. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
- ^ "God Bullies". The Concert Database. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
- ^ Tate, Daniel; Bowman, Rob (2019). The Flyer Vault: 150 Years of Toronto Concert History. Toronto: Dundurn. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-459-74543-8.
- ^ Cotter, Kelly-Jane (November 8, 1991). "On the Road". The Central New Jersey Home News. New Brunswick, New Jersey. p. 38 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Crawford 2014, p. 77.
- ^ Crawford 2014, pp. 18, 123.
- ^ Kolvoort, Willem. "Hole". Vera Groningen. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019.
- ^ Prato 2010, p. 368.
- ^ "Highlights". The Guardian. London, England. December 7, 1991. p. 92 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Davis, Aaron (August 18, 2018). "Raw, loud concert film marks Nirvana at the Cattle Club, 20 years later". Sacramento Press. Sacramento, California. Archived from the original on April 26, 2016.
- ^ "Smashing Pumpkins & Hole, Live at Portland Underground - Orig. 1991 Promo Concert Poster". WorthPoint. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019. Retrieved October 29, 2019.
Sources
- Crawford, Anwen (2014). Hole's Live Through This. 33 1/3. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-623-56377-6. OCLC 883749105.
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