Research Catalog

Title

Experiencing Nirvana : grunge in Europe, 1989 / a microhistory by Bruce Pavitt ; edited by Dan Burke ; B & W photos by Steve Double.

Author

Pavitt, Bruce, 1959-

Publication

• Brooklyn, New York, United States : Bazillion Points, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Burke, Dan, 1971-
• Double, Steve

Description

207 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), map; 29 cm

Summary

A photo journal and a grunge rock microhistory--an inside look into a crucial eight-day period in the overseas touring lives of Nirvana and two other Seattle bands, as seen through the eyes of Bruce Pavitt, co-founder of Sub Pop Records, the Seattle indie label behind all three bands. Thes dramatic eight days in November and December 1989 were a turning point for Nirvana, then a young band from rural Washington state. In this brief period, the band went from almost breaking up in Rome to the biggest and most important show of their young career. In London, LameFest UK featured Nirvana, Tad and headliners Mudhoney. Although Nirvana opened the show, their heart-pounding performance won over the crowd as well as the powerful British press, who went on to proclaim that Nirvana was, "Sub Pop's answer to The Beatles." It was then that the world's attention began to focus on the band that would become the biggest rock act of their generation.--From publisher description.

Alternative Title

Grunge in Europe, 1989

Subjects

• Grunge groups
• Rock music
• Grunge music
• Mudhoney (Musical group) Pictorial works
• Grunge groups > United States > Pictorial works
• Grunge music > United States > History and criticism
• Grunge groups > Travel > Europe > Pictorial works
• Europe
• Nirvana (Musical group) Pictorial works
• Nirvana (Musical group)
• Rock music > United States > 1981-1990 > History and criticism
• 1981-1990
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Grunge music > United States > Pictorial works
• Mudhoney (Musical group)
• United States
• Pictorial works
• Tad (Musical group) Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes discography (pages [200]-201).

Contents

• Grunge in Europe, 1989 -- LameFest UK: Our turn, at last / Keith Cameron -- Nirvana ... was experienced / Bruce Pavitt.
• Day 1 (Piper Club, Rome: Monday, November 27) -- Day 2 (Coliseum and Vatican City: Tuesday, November 28) -- Day 3 (L'Usine, Geneva: Wednesday, November 29) -- Day 4 (Rote Fabrik, Zürich: Thursday, November 30) -- Day 5 (Lost in reflections, Paris: Friday December 1) -- Day 6 (Portsmouth Polytechnic, UK: Saturday, December 2) -- Day 7 (Astoria Theatre, London, Sunday, December 3) -- Toiling at the coalface of pop culture / Steve Double -- Day 8 (Rough Trade shop, London: Monday, December 4).
• Aftermath: the British Press -- Sub Pop 1989: select discographies -- Berlin is just a state of mind / The Rocket interview.

Call Number

JNF 20-84

ISBN

• 9781935950103
• 193595010X

OCLC

865176852

Author

Pavitt, Bruce, 1959- author.

Title

Experiencing Nirvana : grunge in Europe, 1989 / a microhistory by Bruce Pavitt ; edited by Dan Burke ; B & W photos by Steve Double.

Publisher

Brooklyn, New York, United States : Bazillion Points, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes discography (pages [200]-201).

Chronological Term

1981-1990

Added Author

Burke, Dan, 1971- editor.

Double, Steve, photographer.

Research Call Number

JNF 20-84