Join us for Happy Hour as we screen the new concert DVD, Nirvana's Live At Reading!

Ranked #1 in Kerrang Magazine's "100 Gigs That Shook The World" and voted as "Nirvana's #1 Greatest Moment" by fans in an NME poll, Nirvana's historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at the UK's Reading Festival is one of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock n roll. Now you can see that performance in color-corrected video from the original film with audio sourced from the original multi-track masters.

While the show's centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn't be released until 2 years later on In Utero: "All Apologies," "Dumb," and in its first ever public performance, "Tourette's."

The career-spanning setlist also reached back to the band's 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for "Blew," "About A Girl," "School," "Negative Creep" and first single "Love Buzz," and even further back to the mid-80s for "Spank Thru."

Other songs from the Reading set would appear in studio form on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: "Aneurysm," "Been A Son" and "Sliver." Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound — "The Money Will Roll Right In" by Fang and "D-7" by The Wipers.


"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)


To add to the party, we'll be giving away tickets, t-shirts, CDs, and more!


Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 5pm-7pm | Upstairs Live

FREE EVENT!


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