Courtney Loves U2

During a recent interview with The Irish Times, Courtney Love describes how her relationship with U2 has evolved:

After a “troubled” early childhood in the US - spent mainly in hippy communes - and later a schooling in New Zealand, Courtney Love, aged 16, pitched up in Dublin.

“U2 had a big song at the time called ‘I Will Follow’ and I was so in love with U2 that I followed them to Dublin. I was also in love with The Boomtown Rats,” she explains. “My biological father, my real father, who used to work with The Grateful Dead, had this beautiful house in Drogheda, just by the sea. I loved it in Drogheda; it was the time of Bobby Sands and his name was just everywhere you looked. Things didn’t really work out with me and my biological dad - ha ha big surprise - so I moved down to Dublin and into a squat in St Stephen’s Green. I’m sure that big old house on Stephen’s Green is worth about [euro]20 million now.” Maybe not.

“Then I talked my way into a job with U2 at Windmill Lane. I used to hang out at the Baggot and McGonagles - I was a real McGonagles girl and I got this job making coffee and all of that when The Edge was doing his guitar sounds for the Octoberalbum. I think I lasted about four days at Windmill Lane. Most American girls of my age then who had come into a little bit of income would go to London or Paris, but I went to Dublin and I loved it. Looking back now, it was a totally random thing to do. I tried to do a degree in Trinity College, I studied theology for a while, but I didn’t finish that. I still have my shamrock tattoo - but I usually only show people that when I’m drunk.”

Gosh, give us a look. “It’s on my ankle,” she says wiggling both her legs up in the air to display said tattoo. “The Dublin thing all came full circle last year when I was at the Carnegie Hall show with Gavin Friday and Bono. I felt that night that I had gone from being U2’s red-headed stepchild to their first cousin.”

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