NIRVANA’S LEGENDARY NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED 1992 READING CONCERT SET TO DEBUT IN NOVEMBER

NIRVANA’S LEGENDARY NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED 1992 READING CONCERT SET TO DEBUT IN NOVEMBER

Nirvana Live At Reading Features Performances of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Lithium,” “Aneurysm” And More

“Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didn’t see it then it was something you pretended you saw.” — Kerrang (October 2003)

“The staggering energy and intensity radiating from the stage never let up…Cobain’s ravaged pop songs coming off like some dream marriage of the Sex Pistols and the Beatles, borne on bracing waves of distorted guitar noise.” — Rolling Stone (October 29, 1992)

For the first time, fans will be able to experience on video one of the most acclaimed concerts in rock history–Nirvana’s 1992 headlining performance at the Reading Festival–with the November release of Nirvana Live At Reading (DGC/Geffen/UMe). Ranked #1 in Kerrang’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” list and voted as the band’s #1 greatest moment by fans in a 2008 NME poll, the August 30, 1992 U.K. concert is the most bootlegged in the band’s history. Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited edition CD+DVD Deluxe Edition on November 3, 2009, followed by DVD only, CD only and 2LP versions on November 24, 2009. Unlike these past bootlegs, this is the only version that is under the band’s supervision, The DVD has been sourced from the original, multi-track masters and is mixed in 5.1 surround sound.

At the time, three unrecorded songs, “Tourette’s, “All Apologies,” and “Dumb” were performed at Reading and appeared on the band’s final studio album In Utero. Of the 25 songs, all but two have ever been previously released. Reading also marked the first public performance of “Tourette’s.”

To fans, the Reading performance is legendary for being the concert where Kurt Cobain was rolled onto the stage in a wheelchair and played the entire show wearing a white hospital gown and has since become one of Nirvana’s most sought-after, unreleased concerts. The career-spanning concert reached back to the band’s SubPop debut album, 1989’s Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep” and their first single, Shocking Blue’s “Love Buzz,” and even further back to the mid-‘80s for “Spank Thru.” Other songs would appear on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl also laid down a cover of “The Money Will Roll Right In,” a song by the punk band Fang.

Yet the centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist: the anthemic “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “In Bloom,” “Come As You Are,” “Breed,” “Lithium,” “Polly,” “Territorial Pissings,” “Drain You,” “Lounge Act,” “Stay Away” and “On A Plain” (only “Something In The Way” was not reprised).

With Nirvana Live At Reading, the world finally sees and hears the concert that shook the world.

Nirvana Live At Reading DVD:

1. Breed

2. Drain You

3. Aneurysm

4. School

5. Sliver

6. In Bloom

7. Come As You Are

8. Lithium

9. About A Girl

10. Tourette’s

11. Polly

12. Lounge Act

13. Smells Like Teen Spirit

14. On A Plain

15. Negative Creep

16. Been A Son

17. All Apologies

18. Blew

19. Dumb

20. Stay Away

21. Spank Thru

22. Love Buzz

23. The Money Will Roll Right In

24. D-7

25. Territorial Pissing

Nirvana Live At Reading CD:

1. Breed

2. Drain You

3. Aneurysm

4. School

5. Sliver

6. In Bloom

7. Come As You Are

8. Lithium

9. About A Girl

10. Tourette’s

11. Polly

12. Lounge Act

13. Smells Like Teen Spirit

14. On A Plain

15. Negative Creep

16. Been A Son

17. All Apologies

18. Blew

19. Dumb

20. Stay Away

21. Spank Thru

22. The Money Will Roll Right In

23. D-7

24. Territorial Pissing