Circle One / Shutdown

< Circle One
"Circle One / Shutdown"
Front cover art, featuring Hole
Single by Hole and The Monkeywrench
from the album A Small Circle of Friends
ReleasedNovember 1994 (1994-11)
Recorded
  • "Circle One": December 18, 1992 (1992-12-18)
    in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  • "Shutdown": 1992 in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Genre
LabelGasatanka Records
Songwriter(s)
Hole singles chronology
"Doll Parts"
(1994)
"Circle One" / "Shutdown"
(1994)
"Violet"
(1995)

"Circle One / Shutdown" is a split single by the American alternative rock band, Hole and the supergroup, The Monkeywrench, released in November 1994, on the independent label Gasatanka Records. Both tracks are cover versions of songs by the Los Angeles punk group the Germs. On the single, Hole is credited as "The Holez," a nominal homage to "The Germs."

Pat Smear, an original member of the Germs, performed as a guest musician on Hole's cover of "Circle One," with frontwoman Courtney Love playing bass guitar—at the time of the track's recording in 1992, Hole had not yet hired a new bassist following the departure of Jill Emery.

Both of the band's tracks were later issued on the Germs tribute album A Small Circle of Friends (1996).