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Grunge rocker Courtney Love has revealed she tried to get Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards on Hole's fourth album, but had to make do with a tattoo saying 'Let It Bleed', the title of the Stones eighth album.

Nobody's Daughter is the band's first in 12 years, due for release in April.

Speaking to 300 students at the Oxford Union on Friday 12 February, she said: "I asked Keith Richards because I thought number two should get to meet number one. And my friends did a record with Keith and he acted like he knew me but I've never met him.

"Although check it out, man (Takes off jacket). I just got this tattoo and it's, 'let it bleed' (Shows 'Let it bleed' tattoo). So, just want to feel his liver and stuff, but he winters in the Caribbean."

'Kurt was cool'

A day after a court order was extended restricting Love’s access to her daughter with the late Nirvana icon Kurt Cobain, she said Frances Bean was the most important thing to her in the world.

She told the students her daughter, who is being cared for by Cobain’s mother and sister, gave her the strength to get through his suicide in 1994.

"I asked Keith Richards because I thought number two should get to meet number one."

Courtney Love

Talking frankly about the impact of his passing on her family she explained: "You know my guitar player the other day-- he's an NME reader he's very young, he's 22 now - 22 - he's probably the best young guitar player in Britain and never read a book and doesn't care because he's that good.

"But he goes: 'God, Kurt was cool'. No he wasn't, in the sense of that action. That action had a horrible effect on our family and it's not cool. And it just wasn't cool and that action was regretted the second it happened."

'I'm slow'

With exception of Love, her band features all new members.

Despite the 12 year break between records, the singer said: "The reunion thing is silly. It's not a reunion.

"As I said tonight, I'm not prodigious, I'm pretty slow. And unlike some of my peers, I don't know Trent Reznor, Billy Corgan, Chris Cornell, um, who else is left standing?

"I can't remember there's not a whole lot of us - Slash. I'm slow. Beck, I mean he puts out a new album every day or something. I put out a record about once every ten years."

Hole’s gig at London's Proud Gallery on Thursday 11 February was cancelled after a squat party on Park Lane turned into a riot and Love was stuck where she was staying.

"It was crazy," she said. "They wouldn't let us into our house at Park Lane and then-- it wasn't a party, it was a riot.

"And Nick Cage bought some big house and-- I used to squat in Hackney, I mean viva okay, but I don't squat anymore and Nick Cage - not Nick Cave - bought a house in Park Lane and the squatters were supposed to be out and they went frickin bananas."

Hole perform at Shepherds Bush Empire on Wednesday (17 Feb).