Hole Reunion Confirmed

Like most things involving the infamous Courtney Love, the prospect of a reunion for her seminal '90s alt rock band Hole has been fraught with half-truths and speculation to the point you could be forgiven for treating anything short of all four members appearing on-stage together as mere conjecture. The most recent case in point -- mere days after it was reported that Love was making plans to revive the group, she recanted those statements, saying they had been blown out of proportion.

However, the enigmatic frontwoman has started making reunion rumblings once more, and this time - as theMusic found out in a recent interview with bandmate Patty Schemel – there is a degree of credibility to the suggestion.

 “Yeah, we did get together a couple of times into a little rehearsal space and played, and then we talked about getting back together," she told theMusic writer Adrian Potts when asked about recent movements among the original quartet.

"It felt like old Hole with Eric and Courtney – with that guitar sound and her voice and the style that we all fall into. Of course, we've all grown and we've all expanded our abilities, but we still have a certain style that sounds amazing when we play together.”

Though she remained candid about any other future prospects for the iconic act, it has since been revealed that any remaining hold-ups with regard to a classic Hole reunion rest with Love's current solo commitments.

"The problem is just that the Hole camp are like, 'Can you get this over with?' And I'm like, 'OK, we don't have to worry about anything, festivals etc, if we do this'," Love told NME. "We have to dot the 'i's and cross the 't's."

She indicates, however, that she has made up [her] mind regarding the reunion, in part influenced by the sheer number of vintage acts getting by on the nostalgia ticket -- though the decision came just too late to properly capitalise on the US festival season.

"We're the last band to do this," she said. "The Jesus Lizard did a reunion tour, OK? Fucking Sunny Day Real Estate did a reunion tour; I'm like, what? We got asked to open for Alice In Chains. I said to my manager, 'Layne's dead, We can't open for Alice In Chains!' He's like, 'They had three radio hits'. What, with a ghost?!"

On the plus side, they might just be in time for the Aussie summer of festivals at the end of this year/start of next. We can always hope.

Watch a song of Hole's that isn't Celebrity Skin below: