At long last, Hole may finally be getting back together.
On Tuesday, Courtney love posted a video of Melissa Auf der Maur on Instagram soundtracked to the band’s hit 1998 “Malibu.” Alongside clips of the bassist in a gauzy black dress and twirling in front of the camera, Love tagged Auf der Maur’s account and wrote in the caption: “So do we tell the kids about the tour.” In the comments, Auf der Maur teased, “it starts with eternal love ….”
Soon after, the singer-superstar also reposted a photo from the Chateau Marmont on Instagram stories photographed a few months before their monumental album Celebrity Skin was released in September 1998. The image features Love, Auf der Maur, and guitarist Eric Erlandson posing by the hotel pool.
The teaser comes days after Love performed with Billie Joe Armstrong’s cover band the Coverups as a surprise guest in London and hinted at a Hole reunion, saying, “Later, I’ll be back in Hole.”
The potential Hole tour would arrive more than two decades after the group first disbanded in 2002 and played their final run, The Beautiful Monsters Tour co-headlined by Marilyn Manson. Hole reformed with a different lineup from 2009 to 2012.
Earlier this year, Antiheroine, a new documentary on Love, premiered at Sundance. In a Rolling Stone review of the film, critic David Fear wrote, its “moments of blunt, borderline-brutal honesty coming directly from the source that make this whole endeavor such a necessary counterpoint to all of the mythology that’s sprung up around Love, and speaks to an accountability which she’s arrived at on the way to accepting herself.”
For her part, Auf der Maur is set to release Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A 90s Rock Memoir on March 17. The book traces the veteran bassist’s upbringing in Montreal through her career as a musician, first with her band, Tinker, and later with Hole and Smashing Pumpkins.
Over the years, Love has touched on the possibility of a Hole reunion, but has often shifted on the topic. In 2021, she dismissed the possibility of the group coming back together in an interview with Vogue, and when asked about the topic, replied, “No absolutely not. And you guys have gotta get over it. Our old manager Peter Mensch calls once a year to ask about a reunion: ‘Hey, just doing my thing I do every year with you and Jimmy Page [of Led Zeppelin].’ And I’m so honored to be in that company, but it’s just not gonna happen.”
