WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Courtney Love on her new record and Kurt's Irish roots

Courtney Love has revealed exclusive details of her Nobody’s Daughter album (a change from the original working title How Dirty Girls Get Clean). Although due out this month, the release date has now been pushed back to early 2009.

“I know it looks like I’m doing an Axl on it,” she laughs, “but I swear to God this isn’t Chinese fuckin’ Democracy. I’m more concerned with getting it right than getting it out. I was kind of all over the place on my last record, but I’ve now realised that I can’t be Mick and Keith at the same time.

“Plus the whole music industry is basically fucked right now, and I’m trying to work out what the new business paradigm is. I don’t think it’s gonna be In Rainbows, but we’ll figure something out.”

The album is co-produced by Linda Perry and Michael Beinhorn. Although it was recorded in LA, Love revealed that she’d originally considered working in Ireland. “I was thinking of going over to Ireland to do some recording. You know, get an old castle by a river for, like, a hundred pounds a week. Then I was talking to Bono who told me that, with the way prices are going over there, I’d be outta money before I’d finished the second song. What the fuck happened?

“Actually, I’ve got the most kickass Irish guitarist playing on this record,” she continue. “Micko Larkin – he used to be in a band called Larrikin Love. He showed up smelling like a brewery but, the second he started to play, I knew he was the guy. He’s better than Keith Richards. He’s better than – fuck it, I’m gonna say it – Kurt Cobain!”

Speaking of whom, Love has recently been researching the genealogy of her late husband: “If you go back a couple of hundred years, Kurt’s family are all originally from County Sligo. He’s got the most fucked up family background. There were five brothers – and four of them died from gunshot wounds.”