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Courtney Love plays rare Hole and Nirvana sessions on 6 Music
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Rarely heard 91Èȱ¬ sessions by Hole and Nirvana will be broadcast on 91Èȱ¬ 6 Music when
Courtney Love takes over the network for the day next month.
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Hole's Drown Soda - written and recorded especially for a John Peel session in 1991 -
and Nirvana's Been A Son and Something In The Way - recorded for the Radio 1 Evening
Sequence in the same year - will be included in the tracks chosen by Courtney Love
when she becomes the 6 Music Selector on Monday 11 December 2006.
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Selector is an annual 6 Music event which gives artists the opportunity to take
over for the day, choosing the music, commissioning sessions and playing rarely
heard 91Èȱ¬ sessions.
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Courtney Love joins Oasis (12 December) and Moby (14 December) who will each take over the digital airwaves for a day
next month.
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Courtney Love follows in the footsteps of some illustrious predecessors - Radiohead,
Manic Street Preachers, Franz Ferdinand and Kaiser Chiefs - who over the past four
years were given the freedom to programme 6 Music for Selector.
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In a unique opportunity for listeners, Courtney talks about her favourite music,
reveals the artists that have influenced her career, and plunders the extensive 91Èȱ¬
archives to play some classic sessions and concert recordings from the past 40
years.
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Courtney Love says: "I like to think I have good (or at least interesting) taste,
and I'm doing sort of a teaching exercise; I want people to learn things.
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"I kind of
find myself living in the past. There's a lot of Sixties stuff, some Eighties and a little
bit of Nineties. It's sort of a chronology of my life." Ìý
Love's selections include music from The Beatles, New Order, The Psychedelic Furs,
R.E.M., Elvis Presley and The Bangles, plus a documentary about the New Wave scene
in Liverpool where she lived in the early Eighties, hanging out with Julian Cope
and Echo and the Bunnymen.
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She also talks about her work with her first band, Hole,
recording sessions for the 91Èȱ¬, and meeting Kurt Cobain for the first time.
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Love released three albums with Hole - Pretty On The Inside (1991), Live Through
This (1994) and Celebrity Skin (1998), before releasing her solo album America's
Sweetheart (2004).
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She is set to release her second solo album next year.
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She has also developed a successful acting career including her acclaimed
performances in The People vs Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon.
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Her other films
include Trapped, Basquiat, 200 Cigarettes and Feeling Minnesota.
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Her latest project is the book Dirty Blonde, a collection of personal
artefacts including letters, poetry, diary entries and photographs, reflecting on
all aspects of her life - from childhood and modelling days, to life in Hole, her
marriage to Kurt Cobain, and her life and work after his death.
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6 Music's Head of Programmes, Ric Blaxill, has been delighted with Courtney Love's response
to the challenge.
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He says: "I'm delighted that Courtney Love has agreed to join Oasis and Moby for
this year's Selector. It confirms our most diverse Selector line-up yet and
promises to deliver some fascinating programmes for our listeners."
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6 Music Publicity
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