LIVE NIRVANA TOUR HISTORY:10/25/90 - Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds, UK
Transcript:
BLEW
Novoselic - "It's Tony"
BEEN A SON
NEGATIVE CREEP
[The band jam for a short while]
STAIN
Novoselic - "Thanks a lot"
LITHIUM
Cobain - "Thanks"
SPANK THRU
BREED
[The band jam again for a short while, slowly]
FLOYD THE BARBER
[The song fails a bit at the start]
BIG CHEESE
[Cobain shouts the vocals and they're all out of tune for the first verse]
Novoselic - "That was a wonderful display"
ABOUT A GIRL
Cobain - "This is a new song, it's called In Bloom"
IN BLOOM
SCOFF
Grohl - "Oh, oh wow! Jeez, I get to sing! This song is by a band called Minor People (?) actually it's by the Vaselines"
Cobain - "We get to play with the Vaselines tomorrow, you know who they are? What? Whatever!"
MOLLY'S LIPS
Grohl - "Oo, feed, feed him, feed him! He's so thirsty, ooh spit on me, shit on me!" [talking about an audience member lying on the stage holding his head in his hands]"
Novoselic - "It only takes two weeks and a couple of follow up treatments and you'll be cured and it's covered by most insurance policies"
Grohl - "Yeah, but he's got nice teeth hasn't he?"
Voice - "We've got the National Health Service Voice - "Get off the stage you dick! Grohl - "Oh, he doesn't wanna go off the stage! Cobain - "OK, who's heard of the Wipers? Anybody? Donita Sparks (of L7) - "Hot dog Uncle Jed!"
Jennifer Finch (of L7) - "Hot dog Uncle Jed!"
Cobain - "I wanna be a double nought spy, uncle Jed!" [referring to Jethro in a Beverly Hillbillies episode]"
Grohl - "Uh oh!
LOVE BUZZ
Cobain - "How much time do we have? And we're not gonna do a fucking rock star encore, OK? So, we're just gonna play like four more songs. Dive, OK? Yeah our single will be out pretty soont"
Cobain - "Is this Alice Cooper? How do you get this? Ronald McDonald. We have ten minutes. This is a cover song, this is another cover song. Don't worry, we'll get to it soon ... OK, this is a song by the Wipers, it's called Dimension 7"
D7
Cobain - "Thanks"
DIVE
SLIVER
Cobain - "Good night"
SCHOOL
[with improvised lyrics during parts]
Cobain - "Thanks"
Grohl - "You're the best stagedivers I've ever seen!"
Novoselic - "One of these days, you're gonna break your neck and then you're gonna have to write, you're gonna have to type with a stick in your mouth, you know that?"
Transcribed by Michael Sanderson, April 2003
Updated/amended: January 2006 (thanks to Merv Gavin and Brian Johnson)