The Daily Swarm

Starpulse:

Former Hole rocker Courtney Love is forbidden from releasing music under the band’s name, after signing a contract when it split in 2002. The singer recently revealed she planned to release a new solo album using the name of the group she formed back in 1989.

The news came as a shock to ex-bandmate Melissa Auf der Maur, who insisted she knew nothing about a reunion – and co-founder Eric Erlandson is similarly in the dark.

Furthermore, guitarist Erlandson insists a contract Love signed with him in 2002 bans her from using the name Hole for any future ventures, unless he’s involved.

He tells Spin magazine, “We have a contract. She signed a contract with me when we decided to break up the band, which was like 2002 or something, so I really don’t have comment on it except that I know my part in that band. The way I look at it, there is no Hole without me. To put it blunt. Just on a business level. Somebody told me (about Love’s plans) and it just sounds like something… it just sounds like the usual. I love her a lot and I wish her the best, and I’m open to discussions regarding the real Hole, and if she has a solo album together, I think that’s great. I think she should finish it and put it out and do that.”

UPDATE: “Courtney Love slams Hole co-founder in Twitter rant” via Guardian

“He’s out of his MIND,” Love wrote. “He may want to check the trademark… and his [American Express] Disease Model Tour bills, and umm, let’s see, his [1999] usage of that Amex and his [2001] usage of, wow – 298k? 198,000 DOLLARS? Hole is MY band, MY name and MY trademark. He also might want to check his TAXES versus my redone taxes on a bogus [social security number], and talk to Perez Hilton’s crook CPA accountancy firm (COUGHS then VOMITS) who pay themselves something like $350,000 a week and then dump $38,000 into shell corps. In 2006 Steve went and corped the name HOLE INC. No one knows where, probably Delaware, but it’s not worth getting into I’ll tell you that.”