Watch Courtney Love join Billie Joe Armstrong on stage for intimate covers band London show
nme.comGreen Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong was joined on stage by Hole icon Courtney Love as his side-project covers band The Coverups performed an intimate show of rock classics in London tonight (Tuesday February 27).Following the announcement of the two surprise gigs in the capital last week, the band – famed for their impromptu gigs with renditions of rock and punk staples – took to the stage at The Garage in Islington before a crowd that included Sex Pistols‘ Glen Matlock as well as Blondie‘s Clem Burke and comedy legend Frank Skinner.“How are you guys doing?” said Armstrong, arriving on stage. “We’re The Coverups, we play cover songs.
This is the kind of stuff that we do at home. We’re just friends who get together and we hang out, and it’s just glorified karaoke.”“Without further ado, here’s our first song,” he ended, before the band burst into ‘A Million Miles Away’ by The Plimsouls.After a run of standards by the likes of The Ramones, Pretenders, Sex Pistols, Bryan Adams, The Clash and David Bowie – assisted by a feral repeated crowd chant-along of “Billie, Billie, Billie fucking Joe” – the frontman and his friends (including Green Day touring guitarist Jason White) invited a special guest to the stage.“Ladies and gentlemen, Courtney Love,” invited Armstrong, before the grunge icon took the mic and replied: “Thank you, Billie Joe.
My name is Courtney Love – you may not remember me. I’ve been living in a cave in Birmingham for about nine years. We’ll give this a fucking try, right?”She and the band then tore into a spirited rendition of ‘He’s a Whore’ by Cheap Trick before a take on ‘Even the Losers’ by Tom Petty.
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