Editing Hole (band) (section)

===Performances===
Throughout the duration of the 1990s, the band received widespread media coverage due to Love's often rambunctious and unpredictable behavior onstage.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1995/07/28/courtney-love-causes-trouble-lollapolooza/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |title=Courtney Love causes trouble at Lollapolooza |date=July 28, 1995 |access-date=September 25, 2015 |author=Smith, Ethan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924110935/http://www.ew.com/article/1995/07/28/courtney-love-causes-trouble-lollapolooza |archive-date=September 24, 2015 }}</ref> The band often destroyed equipment and guitars at the end of concerts,<ref name=sp/> and Love would ramble between songs, bring fans onstage, and [[stage dive]], sometimes returning with clothes torn off of her or injuries sustained.<ref name="walters">{{cite interview|last=Walters|first=Barbara|interviewer=Courtney Love|work=The Barbara Walters Special|title=Interview with Barbara Walters|publisher=ABC|date=August 1995}}</ref> In a 1995 ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine article, journalist John Homans addressed Love's frequent stage diving during Hole's concerts:

<blockquote>The most shocking, frightening, and fascinating image in rock in the last few years is Courtney Love's stage dive&nbsp;... When some male performers do it, it looks like muscular, frat-boy fun, controlled aggression&nbsp;... For obvious reasons, the practice was strictly no-girls-allowed, but Love, typically, decided that she wanted to do it, too. Groped, ravaged, she compared the experience to being [[rape]]d, wrote a song about it, and now does it just about every show.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|author=Homans, John|date=February 20, 1995|title=Love Trouble|pages=64–65|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nOMCAAAAMBAJ&q=courtney+love+stage+diving&pg=PA64|issue=2|volume=28|via=Google Books}} {{free access}}</ref></blockquote>

[[Nina Gordon]] of [[Veruca Salt]], who toured with Hole in 1995, recalled Love's erratic behavior onstage, saying "She would just go off and [the rest of the band] would just kind of stand there."<ref name="hitsohard" /> The majority of Love's chaotic behavior onstage was a result of heavy drug use at the time, which she admitted: "I was completely high on dope; I cannot remember much about it."<ref name="hitsohard" /> She later criticized her behavior during that time, saying: "I [saw] pictures of how I looked. It's disgusting. I'm ashamed. There's death and there's disease and there's misery and there's giving up your soul&nbsp;... The human spirit mixed with certain powders is not the person, it's [a] demonic presence."<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Spin|date=October 1998|pages=90–100|title=The Love Issue|first=Phillip|last=Weiss}}</ref>

Love's stage attire also garnered notoriety, influenced in part by [[Carroll Baker]]'s wardrobe in the film ''[[Baby Doll]]'' (1956).{{Sfn|Brite|1998|p=110}} The style was later dubbed "[[kinderwhore]]" by the media, and consisted of [[babydoll]] dresses, [[slip (clothing)|slip]]s and [[nightgown]]s, and smeared makeup.{{Sfn|Klaffke|2003|p=116}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spinner.com/2010/01/22/courtney-love-nobodys-daughter/ |work=Spinner |date=2010-01-22 |title=Courtney Love Is Learning to Rein In the 'Courtney Monster' |author=Baltin, Steve |access-date=June 3, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210014402/http://www.spinner.com/2010/01/22/courtney-love-nobodys-daughter/ |archive-date=February 10, 2013 }}</ref> [[Kurt Loder]] likened her onstage attire to a "debauched ragdoll",<ref name="loderfiles">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1585956/courtney-love-opens-up-about-kurt-cobains-death-loder-files.jhtml |work=MTV |title=Courtney Love Opens Up About Kurt Cobain's Death |series=The Loder Files |date=April 22, 2008 |archive-date=October 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020094216/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1585956/courtney-love-opens-up-about-kurt-cobains-death-loder-files.jhtml |author=Loder, Kurt |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[John Peel]] noted in his review of the band's 1994 Reading Festival performance, that "[Love], swaying wildly and with lipstick smeared on her face, hands and, I think, her back, as well as on the collar of her dress,&nbsp;... would have drawn whistles of astonishment in [[Bethlem Royal Hospital|Bedlam]]. The band teetered on the edge of chaos, generating a tension which I cannot remember having felt before from any stage."<ref name="atreading"/> ''Rolling Stone'' referred to the style as "a slightly more politically charged version of grunge; apathy turned into ruinous angst, which soon became high fashion's favorite pose."<ref>{{cite magazine
 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/musicians-who-defined-nineties-style-20120724 
 |title=Musicians Who Defined Nineties Style 
 |author=Nika, Colleen 
 |magazine=Rolling Stone 
 |date=July 24, 2012 
 |access-date=December 30, 2016 
 |url-status=live 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505095323/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/musicians-who-defined-nineties-style-20120724 
 |archive-date=May 5, 2016 
}}</ref>

The band's set lists for live shows were often loose, featuring improvisational jams and rough performances of unreleased songs. By 1998, their live performances had become less aggressive and more restrained, although Love continued to bring fans onstage, and would often go into the crowd while singing.<ref name="natgeo" />