LIVE NIRVANA Concert Chronology September 01, 1991 - De Doelen (Ein Abend in Wien), Rotterdam, NL
Artist
- NIRVANA
- Kurt Cobain (vocals, guitar)
- Krist Novoselic (bass)
- Dave Grohl (drums, backing vocals)
Crew
- Alex MacLeod (tour manager)
- Craig Montgomery (sound engineer)
- Ian Beveridge (monitor engineer)
Buyer
- Mojo Concerts
- Willem Vennema
Schedule
- Load In
- …:…
- Soundcheck
- …:…
- Doors
- 19:00
- Loose Showtime
- 20:15
- Chapterhouse Showtime
- 21:25
- Paradogs Showtime
- 22:25
- NIRVANA Showtime
- 23:30
- Caspar Brotzmann Showtime
- 01:00
Soundcheck
- No Info
Set
- Polly
- Drain You
- School
- Floyd The Barber
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Come As You Are
- About A Girl
- Breed
- Sliver
- In Bloom
- Been A Son
- Negative Creep part of
- Limbo Rock bass jam
- jam
Set Range
Circulating Recordings
AUD #1
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Aiwa HS-1202
- Lowest Generation:
- ANA(M) > FLAC
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 47:39 min / ??
- Notes:
- • In June 2002 the master was circulated. An upgraded master transfer was circulated on December 1st, 2024.
AUD #2
- Equipment:
- Sony PC-62 > Sony WM-D3
- Lowest Generation:
- ANA(M) > FLAC
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 48:41 min / 9.0
- Notes:
- • A master transfer was circulated December 20th, 2017
AUD #3 incomplete
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- ANA(M) > FLAC
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 19:12 min / ?
- Notes:
- • Circulated in December 2020
- • Includes only the intro, "Polly", "Drain You", "School (cuts out), "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (cuts in) and "Come As You Are".
AMT #1
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- VHS(1) > DVDR/FLAC
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 49:22 min / 7.0
- Notes:
- • Circulated in March 2008.
- • Amateur video, shot from an elevated position, back left of the venue (side shot).
- • This source has very bad audio since the taper was having microphone issues.
AMT #2
- Equipment:
- Unknown > Unknown
- Lowest Generation:
- Video8(M) > MKV
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 44:18 min / 9.0
- Notes:
- • Circulated on September 24th, 2021.
- • Amateur video, shot from an elevated position from the back of the venue (front shot).
- • "Polly" cuts in and "In Bloom" is cut within.
PRO CLIP #1 incomplete
- Equipment:
- Beaulieu Boom Microphone > Beaulieu 1028 XL60 (Super 8)
- Lowest Generation:
- Official DVD [1991: The Year Punk Broke]
- Length / Sound Quality:
- 5 min / 8.5
- Notes:
- • Includes only "In Bloom", which cuts in.
- • Appears on the (This Is Known As) The Blues Scale bonus video included on the official video release, in some parts they used footage from other concerts of the same tour.
- • Clips of "Polly" (with audio from 10/25/91), "School" (with audio from 08/20/91), and the end-of-show destruction appear on the same official video release.
- • Clips appear on a rough edit of the official video release 1991: The Year Punk Broke that Dave Markey posted on YouTube.
- • A clip of "In Bloom" has been broadcast on TV.
- • Clips appear on the official video release Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! and in the "Lithium" music video.
Uncirculated Recordings
SBD #1
The entire show was recorded by the Dutch broadcasting company VPRO.
PRO #2
A second video crew from the Dutch broadcasting company VPRO filmed the entire show.
Notes
- Because Nick Cave was reading poetry in the venue below this one, Nirvana had to wait onstage so they would not interfere with his performance. After being asked twice to not play yet, Kurt started playing "Polly."
- The band was very drunk by the end of the show.
- Kurt's guitar went out during "About A Girl", while the guitar was out, Kurt sang in falsetto for part of it and Dave jammed a tiny bit.
- Sound problems, combined the band's drunkenness, resulted in false starts of "Sliver" and "In Bloom."
- Kurt threw his guitar down, then started destroying the set after just one verse of "Negative Creep." After extensive destruction, Kurt got into a fight with people from the venue, but the fight was promptly broken up.
Press Reviews
- No Info
Memorabilia
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