Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, members of My Bloody Valentine and Portishead meet in London to cowl Marianne Faithfull songs for thriller challenge

Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, My Bloody Valentine’s Deb Googe and Portishead’s Adrian Utley have been engaged on a challenge collectively at Konk Studios in London, together with PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis.

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It appears as if they’re engaged on a Marianne Faithfull covers challenge, per an Instagram publish Googe shared on Tuesday (September 10).

Within the publish, Googe wrote, “I spent a day within the Kinks‘ studio, protecting Marianne Faithfull songs,” alongside a variety of images from the studio.

The producer Ben Christophers made a post, too, wherein he referred to as the assembly “an incredible expertise within the merging of music and movie.. Don’t wish to say far more however you’ll discover out quickly sufficient.”

Whereas we don’t know any extra particulars concerning the challenge at this stage, the album ‘The Faithfull: A Tribute To Marianne Faithfull‘ was launched final December, that includes covers of 19 songs initially carried out by the singer-songwriter between 1964 and 2004. Among the many artists concerned have been Iggy Pop and Cat Energy, who collaborated on ‘Working Class Hero‘, Rubbish’s Shirley Manson, and singer-songwriters Tracy Bonham and Joan As Police Girl.

Faithfull, who’ll be 78 in December, has additionally teamed up with public sale home Sotheby’s to public sale off a collection of “private artefacts”, together with Chanel jackets given to her by Karl Lagerfeld and a signed expired British passport.

In the meantime, this yr has seen rumours that Courtney Love could possibly be bringing Gap again. In June, Love and former Gap bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur have been within the studio collectively for the primary time in over 20 years, whereas Love carried out the band’s 1998 basic ‘Movie star Pores and skin’ on stage with Inexperienced Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in March.

A couple of days prior, she once more appeared with Armstrong, and on the finish of her time on stage thanked followers earlier than including, “Later… I’ll be again in Gap.”

This yr, Love has seemingly modified her tune since 2021, when she advised Vogue {that a} “correct” Gap reunion will “completely not” occur. She defined, “You guys have gotta recover from it. Our outdated supervisor Peter Mensch calls yearly to ask a few reunion: ‘Hey, simply doing my factor I do yearly with you and Jimmy Web page.’

“And I’m so honored to be in that firm, but it surely’s simply not gonna occur.”