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January 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Plugging Back In To Nirvana: Revisiting MTV Unplugged In New York
So I just watched Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York on DVD. This is a classic concert – an important concert to me. I’m not sure how great it is as I have a rather biased view towards Nirvana. I’m not their biggest fan. I think Kurt Cobain was often a bit of a twit. […]Archive
March 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck – The Home Recordings
Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings Ume The barrel has been scraped. Here, masquerading as “the soundtrack” to a grave-robbing, bones-picking, totally unnecessary documentary of the same name, we have Kurt Cobain’s “home recordings”. We’re meant to process them as if seeing behind the machine, hearing early versions of Nirvana songs, Beatles covers […]Archive
June 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Soaked in Bleach: Film
Soaked in Bleach Benjamin Statler Montani Productions/Daredevil Films It took just shy of a decade for this film to come to fruition. Another new Kurt Cobain documentary, but this is essentially the opposite of/opposite to Montage of Heck. Where that was a tribute – albeit creepy and voyeuristic and lacking in real grit or substance […]Archive
May 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 71– Kurt & Courtney, Wellington, 1998
When I started Stubs I hadn’t intended to include film-stubs – and I don’t collect (all) my movie tickets. I might be a freak. But I’m not a fucking freak…or however that song goes… I kept a bunch of Film Festival tickets – and I’m including this one, from the movie Kurt & Courtney this […]Archive
May 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Kurt Cobain – Montage of Heck: Film
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Director: Brett Morgen HBO Documentary Films/Public Road Productions The first official, authorised documentary of Kurt Cobain, it’s been assembled lovingly, painstakingly, some eight years in the making…but it doesn’t feature Dave Grohl at all (elephant in the room) and it probably never needed to happen. The idea that this is […]Archive
December 8, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Good On Him!
when Kurt Cobain put his brains to the wall with a shotgun shot, he got a better response than at any concert. It was indeed the final Curtain Call, but before the final curtain did fall, he found some extra fans, people too young to know what Nirvana did. And so I presume that’s what […]Archive
August 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Kurt Cobain – In His Own Write
I take pride as the king of literature what else should I be? I’m a healthy student, you’re my vitamins sell the kids for food most babies smell like butter starve without your skeleton key there are countless formulas for pressing flowers never met a wise man, if so it’s a woman choking on the […]Archive
September 10, 2011 by Simon Sweetman