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The shock never wore off for me, just stunned.
Yeah, I had tickets to see them, the tour was re-arranged after his first suicide attempt, then obviously was cancelled. I wish I hadn't returned the ticket - they are worth a few hundred £££££s now.
In 1992 before Reading festival we heard a rumour that Nirvana would do a warm up at a local TUC club. We went along, as for us students, it was cheap beer. Nirvana played.
Also had tickets for manchester, I was gutted. I remember hearing the news and just being stunned.
I remember being in a school assembly and the rumour was going round the crowd. I had to ask who he was! Even though I had a taped copy of Nevermind.
Yeah, I had tickets to see them, the tour was re-arranged after his first suicide attempt, then obviously was cancelled. I wish I hadn’t returned the ticket – they are worth a few hundred £££££s now.
A mate at uni still had his ticket. This was back in 2000 though - I wonder if he still has it now
They played the Waterfront in Norwich and I thought I'd catch then another time. 🙄
I remember being absolutely gutted and as I've got older I just find it more tragic.
Had tickets to see them in 90 in Birmingham as a housemate said they were going to be huge - decided at the last minute to go to a party instead.
Not one of my best decisions.
And I remember where I was when I heard the news (York city centre, near the HSBC bank). Just like I remember where I was when Elvis died back in 1977 (camping with my family in a farmer's field near Malton as a 10th birthday treat).
Shook me up as a 25 year old.
Then, within 4 weeks, Senna died.
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Lad in my class said to me “Kurt Cobain has died.” I was 13. Gutted.
Yeah, I had tickets to see them, the tour was re-arranged after his first suicide attempt, then obviously was cancelled. I wish I hadn’t returned the ticket – they are worth a few hundred £££££s now.
Dammit, don't say that, I had tickets to see them at manchester G-mex, cancelled as he overdosed in Italy a few weeks prior, if I recall...so the remainder of the tour was cancelled and I got a refund and he went back home.... there were to be no more concerts after that for obvious reasons.
I had no idea who he was at the time but in around 98/99 I bought the 4 track Smells Like Teen Spirit single and that was it. My brain was completely reprogrammed by that.
I'm glad this exists...
I'm trying to think what I would have been doing that night when they were playing just up the road. Probably playing with my Ninja Turtle action figures and having an early night.
I was offered a ticket to see them the last time they played London. I was a bit tired having been out a couple of times that week, and knew they were due to tour again later that year so blew it out.
21 Year old Matt was a Tw*t sometimes.
I am also of the opinion that Nirvana's acoustic cover on MTV Unplugged of 'The Man Who Sold The World' is up there as perhaps the best cover version of a song ever.
My mate knocked on my door one afternoon asking if I wanted to go to see Nirvana and Tad at Edwards No.8 in Brum. I was hunger over so stayed at home and got stoned instead. In hindsight, not my best decision.
I'm sure your mate told you, but Tad blew Nirvana off the stage that night.
Always hated Edwards though.
It's only as time has marched on that I appreciate Nirvana, back then they were just another band...and when they got big after Bleach we all kind of zoned out (like idiotic teenagers do).
@sc-xc That's exactly why I didn't bother. Back then every indy/grunge band and his dog was playing Brum - The Sonics, Godflesh, Silverfish, Tad plus all the alternative bands, Primitives, Sugercubes, Voice of the Beehive, Poppies, Chumbawamba and obviously Napalm Death. Gigs were so cheap that even a student could afford 1 or more a week.....why would I sacrifice possibly getting laid and definitely getting stoned for yet another sweaty sticky gig at the worst venue ever. And I was wrong - was 89 not 90 because I remember after your post it was Tad playing with them.
Couple of my mates were waiting to go see them at the SECC and they were distraught over the suicide, as like others, they'd missed the first time they were up in Glasgow in '91 as they did something else instead, Cobain always came across as a decent guy, who wasn't all about the fame and money, the whole band were that way.
I saw therapy? Daisy chainsaw and hole in Glasgow ended up on the Razz with therapy? and Courtney Cobain was meant to turn up but didn't. It was a pretty messy night but could have been legendary, well for me.
Met Andy Cairns backstage at Reading '93 equally messy.
I’ve said it before but I remember playing Nirvana in the tape deck of my first car and the pretentious student friends of the girl I was seeing at the time, moaning about how awful it was.
I remember being gutted I missed them at the TUC in Reading, in fact I never got to see them play at all.
Also never got round to seeing Motörhead, which saddens me, I made a point of seeing Black Sabbath years ago as I assumed Ozzy wouldn’t live much longer. Who knew?
I do remember that Grunge pretty much killed Thrash.