Courtney Love, Shepherd's Bush Empire

These days, Twitter spats, filial quarrels and monstrous lawsuits overshadow Courtney Love's music career. She led dishevelled grunge outfit, Hole: a hardcore girl-group, heavy on bass and light on inhibitions. They debuted in 1991 with the raucous Pretty on the Inside, and perfected their sound with the universally-praised Live Through This in 1994, four days after her husband's suicide.

Hole never really took off until Love married Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. If Cobain was the king of 90s grunge, Love is queen. Together, they ruled chaotically over their scuzzy fandom, with a heavy hand on the eyeliner and ripped denim in the place of ermine furs, producing an, heir Frances Bean and, generally, causing a ruckus. 

Twenty years after the chaos, she's still a firecracker: expect pageantry at her solo shows this May. If her last tour is anything to go by, there'll be a mixture of old and new, spanning her 90s albums to the polished grunge of 2004’s America’s Sweetheart, which twists feminine tropes with lyrical violence: Mono demands “brilliant boys we want to f**k,man/ Full of ecstasy hard drugs and bad luck”. Love is known to unplug, too: expect plaintive singer-songwriter tracks, performed on an acoustic guitar.

Having recently downplayed her earlier claim that we might see another Hole reunion, we don’t know when London will have its next dose of Love. So don’t let this one slip by.