February 20th, 2007
Kurt Cobain…
…would have been 40 today if he’d lived. The Guardian and UK Independent look at his life and influence.
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February 20th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
What would he be doing if he were alive?
Scratching on the coffin lid of course…
I’m here all week… etc etc
February 20th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
You know the way they said everyone remembered where they were, what they were doing when JFK died?
Cobain is the only person that happened to me with. 15A bus, listening to my radio walkman, heading up Whitehall Road.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Martin, you’ve been great, thank you, thank you.
Twenty, that’s mad. I would have been just around the corner in my folks house. Used to get the 15A all the time…
February 20th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Obviously the 15B was the far superior route although I had to do some radio stuff round those parts back then.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Wasn’t there something about the day he died, a Dublin gig and MCD making loads of money because everyone kept their tickets as a souvenir?
February 20th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
yeah Sinead, I know a couple of people who still have them.
But David Donohoue (of The Floors, mates to Sonic Youth and Lydia Lunch) said it best:
“In a damp bedesit in Dublin town, they’re playing Nevermind to death …
And going for the clincher, a girl cries out in vain
How Jesus lived 6 years longer than Kurt Cobain
And Jesus’ hair was longer, and Jesus’ arms were stonger
And Jesus’s eyes were bluer, and Jesus’ thoughts were truer”
He’s been a busy little fecker has David:
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/show_narrative_page.do?page_id=3424
February 20th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
That’s right, I remember the tickets thing.
I’m sure MCD would have done the right thing. Let’s face it, they epitomise all that is good with concert planning and customer service.
February 20th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Wasn’t there something about the day he died, a Dublin gig and MCD making loads of money because everyone kept their tickets as a souvenir?
Yeah, my sister still has her one.
I was in first year at college when it happened and have a bizarrely distinct memory of it - a bunch of us were sitting in the canteen end of the Buttery in Trinity on a Friday night when an aquaintance walked past and said “hey, did you hear Kurt Cobain topped himself?” It was a week after Cobain had taken that overdose in Rome so it wasn’t the most surprising thing in the world but still strangely shocking. I was never a huge fan (I turned down a friend’s suggestion of going to that famous gig they did in the Top Hat with Sonic Youth, and I only went along to the Point gig in ‘92 because the Breeders and Teenage Fanclub were the support - what an early-90s cliché!) but it did all seem very tragic.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Ah yes, the Top Hat gig. What a great venue. I went just to see Nirvana and remember getting the 75 bus there with my pals and being all excited. No one at the gig seemed to have a clue who they were except me and two blokes I knew. I used to send off to Sub Pop in Seattle for their stuff (after joining the Sub Pop Singles Club) and some of if it’s very rare. Christ, maybe I should ebay it.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:06 am
i saw them in sir henrys on that tour - what a gig. they were truly mind-blowing
February 21st, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Pilchard Says: …they were truly mind-blowing…
That, if intentional, is even worse than Martin’s joke.
Speaking of bad jokes at the expense of Kurt… my girlfriend at the time worked in Hodges Figgis and remembers selling loads of Nirvana books in the days after Cobain’s death. Each transaction went something like this:
GF: ‘So, Kurt’s dead, eh?’
Distraught Fan: ‘Yeah sniffle.’
GF: ‘Oh well, never mind!’