Courtney Love is teasing a Hole reunion with Melissa Auf der Maur. Find all the details below.
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The band’s classic line-up has been on hiatus since 2002, though it returned between 2009 to 2012 with some different members. Since then, Love has frequently teased and denied a potential reunion.
Now, however, it seems the musician has shared the strongest indication yet that they might be reforming with bassist Auf der Maur.
Love sparked rumours with a mysterious video shared on her Instagram yesterday (Tuesday March 3), which features Auf der Maur posing in a flowing gown, with an elaborate gold ring in the spotlight. She dances in slow motion as the 1998 Hole hit, ‘Malibu’, plays in the background.
Love captioned the post, “So do we tell the kids about the tour?”, while Auf der Maur commented: “It starts with eternal love…”. Check it out below.
The two got back in the studio together in 2024 for the first time in over two decades, and later that same year, joined forces in an appearance on 070 Shake’s cover of Tim Buckley’s ‘Song To The Siren’.
Earlier that year, Love further reignited hopes for a reunion when she told a crowd in London that she would be returning with the band “later”.
During a surprise performance with Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong, which included performances of ‘He’s A Whore’ and ‘Surrender’ by Cheap Trick and ‘Even The Losers’ by Tom Petty, she said: “Later… I’ll be back in Hole”.
Love and Auf der Maur did appear on stage together in October 2018 in Hudson, New York, playing Hole songs ‘Doll Parts’, ‘Miss World’ and ‘Softer Softest’.
In 2019, Love entertained the idea of getting the band back together full-time during an interview with The Guardian, telling the outlet: “We are definitely talking about it. There’s nothing wrong with honouring your past.”
This coincided with later comments she’d make with NME the following year when she revealed that she had “had a good session” at a rehearsal with ex-bandmates Patty Schemel and Auf der Maur. When NME asked her if the band would be coming back officially, she responded: “It’s something I’d love to do and I’ve been taking guitar lessons over Zoom during lockdown and I’m writing again so we’ll see!”
However, during a discussion with Vogue in 2021, Love went on to put a dampener on the prospect, saying that fans shouldn’t get their hopes up for an announcement coming any time in the foreseeable future.
“A proper Hole reunion will absolutely not [be happening],” she said at the time. “You guys have gotta get over it. Our old manager Peter Mensch calls once a year to ask about a reunion. I’m so honoured to be in that company, but it’s just not gonna happen.”
In other news, last November Auf der Maur announced her memoir, Even The Good Girls Will Cry. It will be Auf Der Maur’s first book and is described as a “part coming-of-age autobiography, part travel diary, part psychedelic scrapbook” and will also feature rare photos from throughout her career.
The memoir will be released via Da Capo on March 17, 2026 and you can pre-order/pre-save your copy here.
As for Love, she recently shared her thoughts on Geese and revealed that she and Marianne Faithfull “hated being compared to each other”.
