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Amnesia - Issue 09 (1993-02-01)(Eclipse)(Disk 2 of 2).adf
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Nirvana Gig
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DARC at NirvanaN age Fanclub, who played really well.
Even though I had a seat I stayed up
That title looks a bit crap, doesn't near the front of the standing area,
it? Anyway,it was a hot Sunday after- where there were loads of small,mini-
noon and at 5.40 I was sitting in the moshes going on. I attempted to slam-
Central hotel persuading Dyonisis and dive in the middle of teenage fan-
Dr. Half Ass not to leave ECLIPSE IRL club's set,but as there were a lot of
and join Suppository..sorry, Summonn- flower sniffin', kitty pettin', baby
er's new (ELITE) group. Anyway, I was kissin', corporate rock whores in
supposed to meet a friend of mine at front of me,and none of them could be
Virgin at five,but what the hell.Any- bothered to catch anyone, I fell
way,I turned up at 5.50.So,we arrived pretty much immediately. After about
at the Point, where thousands of half an hour my friend (Yo Darragh!)
people wearing the "Flower sniffin, gave up as he isn't very tall,and was
kitty pettin',baby kissin', corporate suffocating.
rock whores" t-shirt, and were herded I kept going, until about ten minutes
in the entrance. The first (and least before the end of Teenage fanclub, I
famous) support band, The Breeders, had to make my way back to my seat,
started playing soon after seven, but totally moshed out. I then and queued
as I was looking around for Erika up to use a sink in the bog, (the one
McKerrow (schwing!) I didn't really beside it was full of blood...hmmm...
get into them. They weren't very Polaris must have been there) and
heavy, so I wasn't really listening covered my face with water. Shit, it
(Yeah, Metaaaaal!).Next on were Teen- evaporated straight away. At this
point my hair and T-Shirt (a Megadeth within a year unless he lowered his
one,oops) were soaking with sweat,and range. They played much heavier than
Nirvana hadn't even come on yet.Well, on Nevermind, although I haven't ac-
I waited in my seat for a while, and tually heard bleach. Everyone was
then............Nirvana came on. They singing along with all the songs from
played a couple of songs which were I Nevermind and I think that overall
think from Bleach, and then Drain you they were really good, except that
from Nevermind. I can't actually re- they were supposed to play until
member what exact songs they played. 11.15, but they went off at around
Well at one point,someone threw a bra 10.40, so that was a bit of a bummer.
at Kurt Cobain (It was definitely a At this point my T-shirt was totally
guy,'coz I saw him walking around saturated so I was fucking cold
with it earlier on) he said "Wow, my getting the DART home. Then I watched
first bra. Yeah,I'll wear it, or hey, Headbanger's Ball until 1am (I think)
Chris do you wanna wear it?" (or
something to that effect) and he put Afterword: Apperently Erika was
it on. supposed to get on the guest list, so
They also slagged the Village People was I, so I know there wasn't one.
and Tory Amos (well, they weren't (Dennis Desmond is a capitalist scum)
really slagging Tory Amos , they just so maybe she didn't get in. Bummer.
said she was there).
Kurt was singing much lower than on
Nevermind, apparently because he was
told that he would lose his voice