Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, members of My Bloody Valentine and Portishead meet in London to cover Marianne Faithfull songs for mystery project
Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, My Bloody Valentine’s Deb Googe and Portishead’s Adrian Utley have been working on a project together at Konk Studios in London, along with PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis.
It looks as though they’re working on a Marianne Faithfull covers project, per an Instagram post Googe shared on Tuesday (September 10).
In the post, Googe wrote, “I spent a day in the Kinks‘ studio, covering Marianne Faithfull songs,” alongside a range of photos from the studio.
The producer Ben Christophers made a post, too, in which he called the meeting “an amazing experience in the merging of music and film.. Don’t want to say much more but you’ll find out soon enough.”
While we don’t know any more details about the project at this stage, the album ‘The Faithfull: A Tribute To Marianne Faithfull‘ was released last December, featuring covers of 19 songs originally performed by the singer-songwriter between 1964 and 2004. Among the artists involved were Iggy Pop and Cat Power, who collaborated on ‘Working Class Hero‘, Garbage’s Shirley Manson, and singer-songwriters Tracy Bonham and Joan As Police Woman.
Faithfull, who’ll be 78 in December, has also teamed up with auction house Sotheby’s to auction off a series of “personal artefacts”, including Chanel jackets given to her by Karl Lagerfeld and a signed expired British passport.
Meanwhile, this year has seen rumours that Courtney Love could be bringing Hole back. In June, Love and former Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur were in the studio together for the first time in over two decades, while Love performed the band’s 1998 classic ‘Celebrity Skin’ on stage with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in March.
A few days prior, she again appeared with Armstrong, and at the end of her time on stage thanked fans before adding, “Later… I’ll be back in Hole.”
This year, Love has seemingly changed her tune since 2021, when she told Vogue that a “proper” Hole reunion will “absolutely not” happen. She explained, “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.’
“And I’m so honored to be in that company, but it’s just not gonna happen.”
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