Opening with the all-out riot grrl attack of 20-year-old track ‘Pretty on the Inside’ – from way back before she was saddled with the label of being Mrs Kurt Cobain – Courtney Love seems keen to tell us she’s as dangerous as she ever was as she takes to the stage for the opening night of Hole’s UK tour. The band as it was is long gone, with Courtney having ditched the original members for boy with haircuts who’ll give her less hassle, but the screaming dervish of a frontwoman is undimmed.

Tracks from brand new album Nobody’s Daughter admittedly drag – with ‘Pacific Coast Highway’, Samantha’ and ‘How Dirty Girls Get Clean’ never quite gaining traction and ‘Letter to God’ being actively embarrassing – but Love has set herself the task of “doing a Bruce Springsteen” and is aiming to go all night so there is plenty of time to raid older classic tunes.

Released four days after Cobain’s body was found, Live Through This remains the blistering benchmark of Hole and Love’s potential and it is the songs from it that are greated with the greatest enthusiasm. “I never really understood why this song was so big,” Courtney says, before launching into a version of ‘Doll Parts’ that would still make the hairs raise on the back of your neck. But it is ‘Violet’, with its screamed refrain “Go on take everything, take everything, I want you to”, that is the stand out moment of the night. When she’s spitting out its words in gutteral growls, Courtney seems every bit as potent and angry as back in 1994 when she first sung those words.

Elsewhere, there’s plenty of the batty side to her that the tabloids love – she drags a young man onstage early on to watch from the side and berates her band throughout for not knowing some of Hole’s most famous songs. But there’s also a surprisingly emotive Leonard Cohen cover – ‘Take This Longing’ – and a fantastic bit of blues that might show the way forward for Courtney once she gives up on the over-polished LA sounds that she seems wedded to for the moment. Kicking on for two and a half hours after she took the stage Courtney is forced to take her bow, her voice having given out but its not before giving Glasgow a big mad memorable night of rock'n'roll.