 | | | | AFTER NIRVANA - WE NEED YOU
Show airs on Saturday 3rd April 2100 - 2200
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'I was a really big Nirvana fan, it was just part of the youth culture at school. I remember the first time I heard Nirvana's music was when our baby sitter played me some from the Album Nevermind, I was one of the first people I new to listen to their music, and I even remember being mocked at school... a few months later and everyone was listening to it! What I loved about the music was the soul behind it, the crying out for help and misery behind Cobain's lyrics. It really hit a note with me at the time being a foul little teenager with a penchant for rebellion.'
Anthony Fleming
'I was only ten years old when Kurt died, but his music and spirit have been a huge influence in my life. He is my idol, I only wish I was around at the time to have seen Nirvana live.'
Lisa
'I was 17 when Kurt killed himself and in the sixth form at an all girls school... Two weeks after Kurt died it was my forms turn to take assembly and I volunteered myself to talk about Kurt... I was really nervous because of the audience I was about to face - but somehow I managed to catch their attention and for once, 1000 Romford rude girls listened to what was being said instead of fidgeting and whispering their way through the speech. I even got to play two Nirvana songs at the end. Unfortunately the Headmistress of the school was not impressed - and made some speech involving the words black clothes, drugs, noisy rock music, mental illness and selfish etc etc, therefore belittling most of what I had said. I was pleased to find that teachers and pupils alike kept coming up to me throughout the rest of the day, wanting to talk about Kurt and what he and his the music meant to them. My favourite tracks are Territorial Pissings from Nevermind, About a Girl from Bleach and Rape Me from In Utero.'
Custard Baxter
'Kurt was a poet who conveyed great feeling and emotion in his songs, this sums up why is great to me. Nirvana were musically something different anCobainne's hatred of being famous and in the limelight, just make him an even more interesting character, the fact that he killed himself in the peak of his career will always make people ask questions. The only comparable person to Cobaine is Jim Morrison, another man who was a true modern poet.'
Anthony Fleming
'During University [in 1992] I would see live acts a couple of times a week at the Canberra ANU Uni Bar - some relatively well known, some not. I'd heard a couple of Nirvana songs, but not alot about them, but at $10 a ticket you can't really go wrong, so I bought me ticket and went. I think it was probably one of the best live shows I've ever seen. The place was packed - not hard - the Uni Bar is a tiny venue - condensation was dripping from the ceiling! I think that when the tour was arranged they were just begining to 'break' on Oz, and by the time they got to Canberra they'd really taken off. There were over 1000 people outside trying to get in - doors were pushed in, fights broke out, Police turned up in riot gear - and it all just added to the amazing atmosphere. After the show I bought a tour t-shirt (merchandise set up on a card table at the door) and I was recently offered £200 for it! I feel proud to be able to say that I saw Nirvana live.'
Rachel, Canberra
'You said that Nirvana single-handedly dragged rock out of the hair metal age, but this is not true. The Pixies were responsible for this, and Kurt Cobain has been quoted as "trying to rip off the Pixies" with his musical style. Please give the Pixies their due credit...'
Jim Brooks
'Kurt Cobain is a legend, and the proof of this is how later generations still adore the music Nirvana produced. I was 7 when he died so I belong to the later generations that love the music he made, and it wasn't for another 6/7 years after his death I heard Nirvana, and from then on I realised why everyone held him to such high regard.'
Tom Hewins
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