Courtney Love has stepped up her one-woman war against the music industry.

The Hole singer has spent the past week in a Los Angeles courtroom, where she’s arguing that her contract with Universal Records amounts to an unlawful restraint of trade.

“I could end up being the music industry’s worst nightmare: a smart gal with a fat bank account who is unafraid to go down in flames fighting for a principle,” she proffers. “Look, you show a music industry contract to any attorney in any other business and their jaw just hits the floor. Somebody has to put a stop to this.”

Needless to say, Universal see things differently with a spokesman dismissing the suit as “a meritless, inflamatory diatribe” designed to “attract media attention.”

Inbetween court appearances, Love has been shacked up in the studio with her punk side-project, Bastard.

“We’ve written four songs – some excellent stuff – nothing slow or mid-tempo, everything fast. We wrote a lot of AC/DC-sounding stuff but always, of course, with that Jane’s Addiction/Zeppelin undertone that I’m addicted to and is part of my aesthetic.”

As if that wasn’t enough, the 36-year-old has a starring role in the new Scott Elliott and Martin Scorsese film, Hello Suckers.

Love plays Texas Guinan, a turn-of-the-century showgirl who schemed her way onto Broadway and the silver screen.