Courtney Love shares legendary story of Kurt Cobain, the hospital robe, L7, Nick Cave and a bloody tampon from Reading 1992

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Courtney Love has shared a legendary story about Kurt Cobain playing Reading festival in a hospital robe, and recalled the time when L7 threw a bloody tampon into the crowd.The Hole frontwoman was speaking as part of a new interview with BBC Radio 6, and was asked to recall the craziest story from a show she was at.During the interview, she went on to say that the most extreme one that came to mind was actually from a show she didn’t perform at, but involved her then-husband Kurt Cobain and close friends L7.Sharing the anecdote about how Cobain famously went to play Nirvana’s legendary ’92 Reading set in a hospital robe, she recalled that the robe he wore was actually hers from when she gave birth to their daughter, Frances Bean.“He played Reading in that robe.

They roll him out like there’s this thing like, ‘Kurt’s dead’, this whole thing. They roll him out and he’s wearing my bloody placenta robe, but that’s not the crazy part,” she explained, going on to recall something else that happened earlier at the festival.“The crazy part is that earlier in the day L7 played – [they are some] of my oldest friends – and they’re getting bottled, like real bottled, like bad.

And [one] hits De Plak, the drummer, in the eye. Donita, the singer, gets pissed. She’s menstruating and she’s having a heavy flow day, so she just reaches up into her crotch and pulls out her tampon and throws it,” she continued.“There’s a YouTube [clip of it], and you can kind of see it.

I mean, it’s just bloody. There’s more to it because the tampon somehow made its way back onto the stage,” she concluded. “I didn’t even know Nick Cave played that day.