Hole at Shepherd's Bush Empire

Hole
Foxy Shazam
Little Fish
Shepherd's Bush Empire, 17 February 2010

I remember when I first saw Hole many years ago it the same week I also saw Neil Young for the first time (life-changing) and had just seen two Pearl Jam shows at Brixton Academy back to back (joyous). Hole, playing the slightly dingy Clapham Grand, were a world away from those shows: kind of disorganised, kind of ramshackle and definitely punk rock.

This Old Guitar: Neil Young and Hank Williams

Hank Williams' famous 1941 Martin D-28 acoustic guitar (pictured here being played by Hank himself to his son Hank Jr back in 1949) isn't in a museum somewhere, shut away in a glass case being stared at by visitors, or locked up safely by some rich collector, it's actually still being used to make innovative, beautiful, heart-breaking music, just like Hank did back in the 1930s and 40s. That's because Neil Young is now the proud owner of the priceless guitar.