Kurt Cobain - 30 years.

Arghus

April 5th 1994.

Hard to believe three decades have passed.

https://youtu.be/tGc8jL4dzao?si=JUtrfzE-2DE38FVc

LowOdour

BBC 6 Music are celebrating Cobain today, lots of really good stuff already on the radio already this morning so worth a listen

Sugarlumps

Always appeared older looking to me, when I look back now that hasn’t changed. Even the way he spoke, wiser for someone so young.

Vote4Squirrels

God rest him, 30 years ? I was just listening to his Bowie cover from Unplugged on the way into work, beautiful tortured voice.

Grayson

I was thinking of this a couple of days ago.

I remember I was in first year in college and in digs. My housemate came into my room that morning and told me because he'd queued up and bought tickets the previous day.

Arghus

I remember hearing about on the news at the time and people talking about it. I was a bit too young to really understand.

It was something for the adults from my perspective, you know those 12-13 year olds.

drury..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121978286#Comment_121978286

Ya something like 600 million views or thereabouts

I look it up sometimes when in the mood

Bowie was responsible for a few mega covers afaik

BrianD3

I was in secondary school in 94, was quite nerdy and not a Nirvana fan. I first heard about his death in school - not sure when as we probably would have been on Easter holidays on the 5th. I remember that there were some girls crying and I asked somebody what was up. "Did you not hear that Kurt Cobain died. Like, HELLO".

About a month later, Ayrton Senna was killed at the San Marino Grand Prix and when I and anyone else (a small number) known to be F1 fans came into school the next day, we were slagged off and his death was seemingly a source of amusement for some.

It is hard to believe that 30 years have passed since 1994. It was a very memorable year - 94 World Cup, IRA ceasefire etc.

drury..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121978206#Comment_121978206

Persons who die by suicide often have that wisdom

My son was like that

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121978834#Comment_121978834

He was murdered. His wife wanted his money. The guy had very poor judge of character. But musically he was a genius.

NewbridgeIR

I remember he wasn't found until the Friday (8 April)

The weather in Ireland was sh*te.

I was in UCD, sharing a flat in Donnybrook. We had MTV on all weekend.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980587#Comment_121980587

ffs, would yea go way outta that nonsense, suicide rates are off the walls with bipolar!

jesus, im old….

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8h3b7a

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3llw8p

It was never investigated properly by the police. Lots of fans killed themselves afterwards in copycat suicides.

Wanderer78

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980764#Comment_121980764

seriously!

Tork

I think this is the bit where one says the Conspiracy Theories forum is this way →

JupiterKid

I remember Cobain's death very well. I was just turned 19.

I was in my first year in college and a Nirvana fan but couldn't get a ticket for their Dublin gig before they were sold out which was due to held in April 1994. Two of my best mates did manage to get the highly coveted tickets but after his OD in Italy on Nirvana's 1994 European tour, the Dublin gig was cancelled and one my mates got a refund which he used to buy some hash. My other mate held on to his and I believe still has his ticket to this very day!

I'd been out partying with college mates the evening before the news broke. I got home rather inebriated and tired, put on the radio in my bedroom and the news came on that Kurt was dead. It was sad but sadly not really a shock.

It was all over MTV for the following weeks, including the televised vigil/gathering in the park in Seattle where Courtney Love read out his suicide note and was bawling her eyes out.

o1s1n

Still have my original giant poster from the RDS gig on the wall :D

Were meant to be playing 30 years ago in three days.

_H80_GHT

There has never been a cooler musician.

magicbastarder

I could never remember if that gig had been originally scheduled on the day he died, but that poster would put paid to that notion.

Tork

What's startling is how cheap the tickets were for that Dublin gig - £16.75. In today's money, that comes to just under €40.

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o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980804#Comment_121980804

He was found dead on the 8th of April so the gig date lines up with the actual announcement.

NewbridgeIR

Sebadoh ended up playing the Rock Garden at the end of the summer touring Bakesale.

castletownman

Unplugged in New York is still the best live music recording I have ever heard. The Leadbelly and other covered stuff are unreal.

Iconic, will always be my favourite musician/band.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980811#Comment_121980811

Aha, that's probably what I had remembered so.

Lewis_Benson

https://youtu.be/Xy01EguXucU?si=CDFRDmV1kBTEdzNd

Still remember watching this the moment it was broadcast.

TinyMuffin

It’s better to burn out than fade away.

JupiterKid

Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box (1993)

https://youtu.be/n6P0SitRwy8?si=IPn6gb8JI97hlyx-

Sephiroth_dude

Layne Staley's of alice in chains anniversary as well, dead 22 years imagine. Two incredible musicians with amazing voices, gone to soon.

June 1992 Belfast Kings hall. Teenage fan club and breeders as support

Curt messed himself up diving backwards through the bass drum. Chris nearly knocked himself out throwing the bass into the air…..I nearly done the same stage diving off the front. Happy times

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980770#Comment_121980770

There's no escaping it.

el Fenomeno

https://youtu.be/zaLF3-13-WQ

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KungPao

And then Alan went and had a fling with his widow!

As she said herself:

"I had never seen Alan Partridge. But I was in a band with people who did know Alan Partridge, so I had to make a record with them constantly saying, “Back of the net!"

All it was, was a couple of shags at the Sunset Marquis and I did not know he was Alan Partridge."

TomSweeney

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980798#Comment_121980798

Wow - could be worth a bit …

I clearly remember it, I was in my Junior Cert year, some of the grunge rock girls in my class were absolutely shattered…

Eoinbmw

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980817#Comment_121980817

Still have unplugged on tape and have no way to play it kind of fitting realy!

peter4918

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980802#Comment_121980802

there was long before him and long after him.

happyoutscan

I'll never understand how I wasn't thrown out of the Point for crowd surfing. Every member of security knew me by the end of the show. What a night.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121981800#Comment_121981800

it’s on YouTube, maybe not in full in one go. But the songs are there

Musicrules

He was murdered. Seriously, look up some of the details of the case. I know some will shout conspiracy theory but it was literally impossible that he could shoot himself.

ceadaoin.

I've had a massive crush on him for about 28 years now lol. Such a beautiful man.

Was just slightly too young to be into nirvana while he was still alive but about a couple of years later was well into my grunge/rock phase. Their music still stands the test of time.

Vote4Squirrels

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121982126#Comment_121982126

It was the eyes - such beauty and pain, very sexy combination.

ceadaoin.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121980846#Comment_121980846

So many musicians from that era, and the Seattle scene in particular, gone so young

JupiterKid

I remember reading an interview with Kurt in Q magazine from late 1993 shortly after In Utero was released - and unlike most rockers of the time that were quite homophobic, he was very supportive of gay and lesbian rights, which to a still closeted 18 year old me was extremely heartening.

screamer

Ah the angst, the music, we were way cooler than todays teenagers…..and i still love a good old mosh to Kurts music, me and my hubbie and the kids lookimg at us like we're nuts! middle aged but still remember the teen spirit! good memories.

ceadaoin.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121982311#Comment_121982311

My 12 year old actually likes nirvana, she says they are one of the coolest bands ever. I'm also told that the grunge look is back in style. Finally my child considers people of my age slightly cool 😄

JupiterKid

Kurt in concert with Nirvana at the Top Hat, Dun Laoghaire, August 1991

Hangdogroad

I'm pretty sure I remember a letter being read out on Arthur Murphys Mailbag by someone asking if RTE were going to show the concert in the RDS and this edition was broadcast just days after the news his death.

Badly Drunk Boy

When I heard about his death, I was in my ex-girlfriend's with the radio on in the background, and it was announced between songs. I had seen Nirvana at the Top Hat but hadn't bothered with the Point gig because I had some sort of boycott of The Point (?) or at least an avoidance.

The coverage on MTV was non-stop for a while, back when MTV was about music.

ceadaoin.

I really feel like Kurt would turn in his grave about how "nirvana" is a brand now, at least in the US. Target sell a full range including baby grows with the nirvana logo, which I agree are totally cute, but its the absolute antithesis of what he stood for.

Hande hoche!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121982989#Comment_121982989

Wait until they have a hologram advertising Just Eat.

hoodie6029

I still remember the day after the news broke, I was in national school when the teacher asked who would you like to offer the prayers for today, someone said Kurt Cobain. Teacher said no straight away ‘we won’t be remembering a drug addict.’
The teacher was only in his late 20’s at most then, so much for Christian compassion.

growleaves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121982989#Comment_121982989

Is it the absolute antithesis of what he stood for though?

He used to ring up the record company to get them to pressure MTV to play the video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" more often.

By the time he wrote "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" he was obviously pretty conflicted about the way he'd become a kind of (deniable) pop star. But he helped put himself in that position imo.

They could've ploughed a furrow as an alternative niche experimental band instead of writing Beatles/Pixies-ish pop punk type music and going all out with promotion and heavy rotation on radio/TV.