Nirvana NEVERMIND 30th
Nirvana NEVERMIND 30th Anniversary Editions to be released beginning November 12, 2021
Configurations Ranging From 8LP+7-inch and NEVERMIND touched off a seismic shift in global youth culture
I can’t remember when and where I first heard the Beatles or Bob Dylan or the Stones, but I do clearly remember when I was introduced to Nirvana. I was living in a picturesque village in Cheshire called Christleton and we had not long completed the building of our house on land adjacent to a tiny cottage we owned. The land came with the cottage and after several attempts we finally secured planning permission, sold the cottage and lived in 2 well-worn caravans on-site. It was shortly after the house completion and during a late evening that one of Channel 4’s young trendy and shambolic entertainment shows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOdz0jpOIzg), The Word, was playing. Now it was a show I despised and it was a complete accident that I happened to be watching it that night. I was about to switch off and go to bed when a new American band appeared playing a song whose opening chords kept me watching. The band was Nirvana, the song was ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. I was awestruck by the performance and the song, something that very rarely happened to me, especially in the dreadful mediocre pop market that existed at the time. As soon as the song was completed I woke up my sleeping teenage son and tried to describe what I had just witnessed. In truth, Nirvana re-awaked my love of music which eventually led to this website, and many more wonderful musical discoveries. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 30 years, but if ever there was a record that need resurrection then it’s this one. NEVERMIND is a rock classic and I welcome the new forthcoming remastered editions which I’m pretty sure will find a ready and willing market. Ed
Rising to #1 worldwide over the next few months, its impact would elevate Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl from a promising Pacific Northwest cult band to one of the most successful and influential artists of all time. NEVERMIND returned rock ‘n’ roll integrity and passion to the top of the charts, and continues to be a singular inspiration to fans and musicians alike over the last three decades - as it no doubt will for generations to come.
Beginning November 12, 2021, Geffen/UMe commemorates the 30th anniversary of NEVERMIND with several multi-format reissues. A total of 94 audio and video tracks - 70 previously unreleased - will be made available across configurations ranging from Super Deluxe Editions to standard digital/CD and single disc vinyl with bonus 7-inch. In all formats, NEVERMIND is newly remastered from the original half-inch stereo analog tapes to high-resolution 192kHz 24-bit.
Among the previously unreleased material exclusive to various versions of the NEVERMIND 30th Anniversary Editions are four complete live shows that document Nirvana’s historic ascension on the concert stage - LIVE IN AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (recorded and filmed on November 25, 1991 at the famed club Paradiso); LIVE IN DEL MAR, CALIFORNIA (recorded on December 28, 1991 at the Pat O’Brien Pavilion at the Del Mar Fairgrounds); LIVE IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA for triple j (recorded February 1, 1992 at The Palace in St. Kilda); and LIVE IN TOKYO, JAPAN (recorded at the Nakano Sunplaza on February 19, 1992).
All four newly remastered live shows are included in the NEVERMIND SUPER DELUXE EDIITIONS, which will be available in both vinyl (8LPs - 180-gram black vinyl - all in premium tip-on jackets - plus the new 7-inch - A-side: ‘Endless, Nameless’ / B-side: ‘Even In His Youth’ and ‘Aneurysm’) and CD+Blu-ray (5 CDs plus Blu-ray - LIVE IN AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS complete concert video newly remastered audio & video in HD).
2 CD EDITION
CD 1 - NEVERMIND (Original Album Remastered)
1 Smells Like Teen Spirit
2 In Bloom
3 Come As You Are
4 Breed
5 Lithium
6 Polly
7 Territorial Pissings
8 Drain You
9 Lounge Act
10 Stay Away
11 On A Plain
12 Something In The Way
CD 2 - Live on NEVERMIND Tour
1 Negative Creep (Live in Tokyo, Japan 1992)
2 Been A Son (Live in Tokyo, Japan 1992)
3 On A Plain (Live in Tokyo, Japan 1992)
4 Blew (Live in Tokyo, Japan 1992)
5 Aneurysm (Live in Melbourne, Australia for triple j 1992)
6 Drain You (Live in Melbourne, Australia for triple j 1992)
7 School (Live in Melbourne, Australia for triple j 1992)
8 Lounge Act (Live in Melbourne, Australia for triple j 1992)
9 Sliver (Live in Del Mar, California 1991)
10 Breed (Live in Del Mar, California 1991)
11 Come As You Are (Live in Del Mar, California 1991)
12 Lithium (Live in Del Mar, California 1991)
13 Floyd The Barber (Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam 1991)
14 Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam 1991)
15 About A Girl (Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam 1991)
16 Territorial Pissings (Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam 1991)
5 CD EDITION
Blu-ray - Live in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Paradiso, November 25, 1991)
1 Drain You
2 Aneurysm
3 School
4 Floyd The Barber
5 Smells Like Teen Spirit
6 About A Girl
7 Polly
8 Lithium
9 Sliver
10 Breed
11 Come As You Are
12 Been A Son
13 Negative Creep
14 On A Plain
15 Blew
16 Love Buzz
17 Territorial Pissings
CD 1 - NEVERMIND (Original Album Remastered)
1 Smells Like Teen Spirit
2 In Bloom
3 Come As You Are
4 Breed
5 Lithium
6 Polly
7 Territorial Pissings
8 Drain You
9 Lounge Act
10 Stay Away
11 On A Plain
12 Something In The Way
CD 2 - Live in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Paradiso, November 25, 1991)
1 Drain You
2 Aneurysm
3 School
4 Floyd The Barber
5 Smells Like Teen Spirit
6 About A Girl
7 Polly*m, Netherlands (Paradiso, November 25, 1991)
8 Lithium
9 Sliver
10 Breed
11 Come As You Are
12 Been A Son
13 Negative Creep
14 On A Plain
15 Blew
16 Love Buzz
17 Territorial Pissings
CD 3 - Live in Del Mar, California (Pat O’Brien Pavilion, Del Mar Fairgrounds, December 28, 1991)
1 Drain You
2 Aneurysm
3 School
4 Floyd The Barber
5 Smells Like Teen Spirit
6 About A Girl
7 Polly
8 Sliver
9 Breed
10 Come As You Are
11 Lithium
12 Territorial Pissings
CD 4 - Live in Melbourne, Australia for triple j (The Palace, St. Kilda, February 1, 1992)
1 Aneurysm
2 Drain You
3 School
4 Sliver
5 About A Girl
6 Come As You Are
7 Lithium
8 Breed
9 Polly
10 Lounge Act
11 In Bloom
12 Love Buzz
13 Smells Like Teen Spirit
14 Feedback Jam
15 Negative Creep
16 On A Plain
17 Blew
CD 5 - Live in Tokyo, Japan (Nakano Sunplaza, February 19, 1992)
1 Negative Creep
2 Been A Son
3 On A Plain
4 Blew
5 Come As You Are
6 Lithium
7 Breed
8 Sliver
9 Drain You
10 About A Girl
11 School
12 Aneurysm
13 Love Buzz
14 Polly
15 Territorial Pissings
16 Smells Like Teen Spirit
Metallica’s METALLICA Remaster
Metallica METALLICA (THE BLACK ALBUM)
In celebration of 30 years of THE BLACK ALBUM, welcome the definitive re-release: METALLICA (Remastered).
THE BLACK ALBUM is one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed records of all time, with global sales of over 35 million, and contains a series of unrelenting singles: ‘Enter Sandman,’ ‘The Unforgiven’, ‘Nothing Else Matters’, ‘Wherever I May Roam’ and ‘Sad But True’. Remastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering and overseen by executive producer Greg Fidelman. The 3CD Expanded Edition has an alternate cover handpicked by Lars Ulrich and includes 3 CDs of featuring the newly remastered album and previously unreleased, demos, rough mixes, & live tracks.
This reissue is remastered for ultimate sound quality and is available in several configurations to suit every music fan’s preference.
METALLICA is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on August 12, 1991, by Elektra Records, it is commonly referred to as THE BLACK ALBUM because of its packaging design. Its recording took place at One on One Studios in Los Angeles over an eight-month span that frequently found Metallica at odds with their new producer Bob Rock. The album marked a change in the band’s music from the thrash metal style of their previous four albums to a slower, heavier, and more refined sound.
Metallica promoted METALLICA with a series of tours. They also released five singles to promote the album: ‘Enter Sandman’, ‘The Unforgiven’, ‘Nothing Else Matters’, ‘Wherever I May Roam’, and ‘Sad but True’, all of which have been considered to be among the band’s best-known songs. The song ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ was also issued to rock radio shortly after the album’s release but did not receive a commercial single release.
Metallica received widespread critical acclaim and became the band’s best-selling album. It debuted at number one in ten countries and spent four consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard 200, making it Metallica’s first album to top the album charts. METALLICA is one of the best-selling albums worldwide, and also one of the best-selling albums in the United States since Nielsen SoundScan tracking began. The album was certified 16× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2012, and has sold over sixteen million copies in the United States, being the first album in the SoundScan era to do so.
Metallica played METALLICA in its entirety during the 2012 European Black Album Tour. In 2020, the album was ranked number 235 on Rolling Stone’s The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. In December 2019, Metallica became the fourth release in American history to enter the 550-week milestone on the Billboard 200. It also became the second longest-charting traditional title in history, and the second to spend 550 weeks on the album charts.
https://www.youtube.com/metallica
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic piece of Metal history
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2021
“This has to be one the few albums that even after years of listening to it I still find myself impressed with every time I hear it. This was Metallica’s move from the underground to a more mainstream audience. The black album as it’s known has been a part of my life through the good times and the bad times and has delivered countless hours of head banging over the years. This 3 disc remastered edition is a must have for fans and people who just want to purchase a physical edition. Disc 1 is the remastered album while disc 2 is mostly demos and rough mixes and disc 3 is live stuff. It’s really nicely packaged in a thick digipak. This is definitely aimed at the hardcore fans like myself and if you are a metal head and love Metallica then you should own this.“
The Charlatans 30th Year
THE CHARLATANS 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR DATES THIS WINTER
+ NEW BEST-OF COMPILATION A HEAD FULL OF IDEAS, OUT 15 OCTOBER
AVAILABLE AS: CD, 2CD DELUXE, 2LP, 3LPX EDITIONS +
THE CHARLATANS proudly announce their (Covid) delayed release of their 30th Anniversary tour and a career spanning best-of entitled: A HEAD FULL OF IDEAS.
Released on Then Recordings through Republic Of Music, A HEAD FULL OF IDEAS will sum up their remarkable progress from 1990 Manchester scene hopefuls to one of the UK’s most enduring and best-loved bands.
Over the years, the band have notched up 13 Top 40 studio albums - three of them number ones - alongside 22 hit singles, four of them top 10. The rollercoaster highs have been accompanied by some shattering lows, any which one of them could have felled a less resilient band, from nervous breakdowns to near bankruptcy and the deaths of two founder members.
Somehow, they have not just carried on but adapted and transformed. The classic Charlatans sound - driving Hammond organ, Northern Soul and house-influenced rhythms, swaggering guitars and Tim Burgess’s sunny yet somehow yearning vocal - is instantly recognisable. And in spite of everything they have been through their music is now more relevant than ever, The Guardian described their last album, Different Days as “one of their best ever.”
The A HEAD FULL OF IDEAS album will also be available as a 6 vinyl LP Box Set. This limited edition set, is a diverse collection portrayed over five Transparent blue vinyl LP’s, spanning their hits, classic live performances, unheard demo’s and rarities and remixes. Within the box will also be an exclusive Original Demo’s 7″ featuring ‘Indian Rope’/'The Only One I Know’, as well as a signed print of a tour poster from the early 90’s, a booklet featuring unseen photographs and sleeve notes by friend and journalist Dave Simpson. Their iconic and hugely adored live track One To Another (circa 1997) provides the titles for the individual vinyl collection within the box set. Each piece of vinyl is named after a lyric from the song.
There will also be triple vinyl LP version and 2CD deluxe version featuring the hits albums, plus a bonus live album TRUST IS FOR BELIEVERS, and finally a cd or vinyl of just the hits albums.
In celebration of the new best-of album, an accompanying Winter Tour will begin at Belfast, Limelight 22/11/21 and finish in Aberdeen on 20/12/21. With tickets on sale now, full dates and details are as follows:
30TH ANNIVERSARY - LIVE DATES:
November 2021
22nd Belfast, Limelight
23rd Dublin, Olympia
25th Buckley, The Tivoli
26th Bristol, O2 Academy
27th Birmingham, O2 Academy
29th Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion
30th Bournemouth, Academy
December 2021
02nd Oxford, O2 Academy
03rd Cambridge, Corn Exchange
04th Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse
06th Lincoln, Engine Shed
08th Liverpool, Invisible Wind Factory
09th Newcastle, City Hall
10th London, Brixton Academy
14th Exeter, Great Hall
16th Nottingham, Rock City
17th Leeds, O2 Academy
18th Glasgow, O2 Academy
20th Aberdeen, Music Hall
21st Edinburgh, Corn Exchange
Tickets are on sale now, available from: https://www.thecharlatans.net/gigs
Politics is Failing
Malala Yousafzai - The Day I Was Shot By The Taliban - From Her Autobiography 1 AM MALALA
The school was not far from my home and I used to walk, but since the start of the last year I had been going with other girls in a rickshaw and coming home by bus. It was a journey of five minutes along the stinky stream, past the giant billboard for Dr. Humayun’s Hair Transplant Institute, where we joked that one of our bald male teachers must have gone when he suddenly started to sprout hair. I liked riding the bus because I didn’t get as sweaty as when I walked, and I could chat with my friends and gossip with Usman Ali, the driver, whom we called Bhai Jan, or “brother.” He made us all laugh with his crazy stories.
I had started taking the bus because my mother worried about me walking on my own. We had been getting threats all year. Some were in the newspapers, and some were messages passed on by people. I was more concerned the Taliban would target my father, as he was always speaking out against them. His friend and fellow campaigner Zahid Khan had been shot in the face in August on his way to prayers.
Our street could not be reached by car. I would get off the bus on the road below, go through an iron gate and up a flight of steps. Sometimes I’d imagine that a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I’d take off my shoes and hit him. But then I’d think that if I did that, there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, “Okay, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I’m not against you personally. I just want every girl to go to school.”
I wasn’t scared, but I had started making sure the gate was locked at night and asking God what happens when you die. I told my best friend, Moniba, everything. We’d lived on the same street when we were little and had been friends since primary school. We shared Justin Bieber songs and Twilight movies, the best face-lightening creams. Moniba always knew if something was wrong. “Don’t worry,” I told her. “The Taliban have never come for a small girl.”
When our bus was called, we ran down the school steps. The bus was actually a white Toyota truck with three parallel benches. It was cramped with 20 girls and three teachers. I was sitting on the left between Moniba and a girl named Shazia Ramzan, all of us holding our exam folders to our chests.
Inside the bus it was hot and sticky. In the back, where we sat, there were no windows, just plastic sheeting, which was too yellowed to see through. All we could see out the back was a little stamp of open sky and glimpses of the sun, a yellow orb floating in the dust that streamed over everything.
Then we suddenly stopped. A young bearded man had stepped into the road. “Is this the Khushal School bus?” he asked our driver. Usman Bhai Jan thought this was a stupid question, as the name was painted on the side. “Yes,” he said.
“I need information about some children,” said the man. “You should go to the office,” said Usman Bhai Jan. As he was speaking, another young man approached the back of the van.
“Look, it’s one of those journalists coming to ask for an interview,” said Moniba. Since I’d started speaking at events with my father, journalists often came, though not like this, in the road.
The man was wearing a peaked cap and had a handkerchief over his nose and mouth. Then he swung himself onto the tailboard and leaned in over us. “Who is Malala?” he demanded. No one said anything, but several of the girls looked at me. I was the only girl with my face uncovered. That’s when he lifted up a black pistol. Some of the girls screamed. Moniba tells me I squeezed her hand.
My friends say he fired three shots. The first went through my left eye socket and out under my left shoulder. I slumped forward onto Moniba, blood coming from my left ear, so the other two bullets hit the girls next to me. One bullet went into Shazia’s left hand. The third went through her left shoulder and into the upper right arm of Kainat Riaz.
My friends later told me the gunman’s hand was shaking as he fired.
Afghanistan: Dominic Raab insists ‘no one saw this coming‘ after Taliban takeover of Kabul
“All of those factors have been very fluid, but no one saw this coming. Of course we would have taken action if we had.”
I read Malala’s autobiography (which described at length and in detail the horrendous and inhumane treatment of people by the Taliban), and was then shocked to see that Donald Trump’s government was negotiating with this extreme terrorist group who were guilty of so many crimes against humanity. I will never forget the scenes of women being beaten and stoned to death when the Taliban governed Afghanistan. It became clear to me that Trump’s aim was to quit the country at any cost, regardless of the implications for the country’s people. It should be emphasised that the USA forces were not engaged in fighting but in supporting the country’s government and army. But an even greater shock to me was Biden adhering to Trump’s deal and timetable which inevitably led to the Taliban’s easy and rapid takeover of the country.
My shock turned to anger and disbelief when both Boris Johnson and Biden’s representative have just declared that both the UK and the USA had succeeded in their joint aims in Afghanistan, and at a point when the Taliban had almost completed their takeover of the country, with thousands of Afghans desperate to leave their homes. And ISIS actively murdering hundreds of Afghans from bases located in the country. At the same time support for the Afghan people has been removed, the UK and the USA have sent thousands of troops to assist their own citizens leave the country. One former allied soldier who served in the country has responded with “I hang my head in shame” - a typical response from other soldiers who served and lost friends in the conflict.
It beggars belief that the two key armed forces of the USA and the UK were pulled out so quickly when many months were available to execute a far more considered withdrawal, while continuing to provide logistical support for the Afghan army and government. After twenty productive and hard fought years Afghanistan is back to where it was - at the mercy of a brutal and extreme regime.
Martha Wainwright’s LP Review
Martha Wainwright LOVE WILL BE REBORN. Cooking Vinyl FACTOR
“With an undeniable voice and an arsenal of powerful songs, Martha Wainwright is a beguiling performer and a refreshingly different force in music. Martha began building a buzz with her well-noted EPs, prior to her 2005 critically and commercially successful debut LP, MARTHA WAINWRIGHT. In 2008, Martha followed with her sophomore album, I KNOW YOU’RE MARRIED BUT I’VE GOT FEELINGS TOO, which showed her great musical maturity and talent as a songwriter. In 2010 she toured the world promoting her third album, SAN FUSILS, NI SOULIERS A PARIS: Martha Wainwright’s Piaf album. This extraordinary album, an homage to the great Edith Piaf, was received with glowing reviews, leaving audiences stunned by Martha’s incredible range and talent. Her last album, COME HOME TO MAMA, produced by Cibo Matto’s Yuka Honda, was heralded by Mojo Magazine as a “substantial and brilliantly sung career best.”
Review
As the silly awards season ends and the mediocre dominates I’m occasionally reminded just how good music can really be. Back in 2005 I received an Martha Wainwright’s debut record (MARTHA WAINWRIGHT) and was taken aback by its emotional intensity and the lady’s very distinctive voice. I then discovered her musical heritage and began to understand how…Desperate to witness a live performance I managed to secure an invite to a Rufus Wainwright show in Liverpool where Martha was providing backing vocals. I remember it so clearly because it was the night before Bush was elected and Rufus communicated to a capacity audience that he hope it wouldn’t happen…It quickly became clear that in addition to performing in the studio, Martha was dynamite live. There then followed more studio albums and three further occasions when I had the absolute pleasure of watching and reviewing live shows. To-date, Martha has consistently released great records and on listening to LOVE WILL BE REBORN several times count this one as one of her very best.
‘Middle Of The Lake’ immediately reveals that unique and expressive vocal that ebbs between anger and soft reflection in a way that few can hope to match. ‘Love Will Be Reborn’ is next and sheds much of the misty production of the former. Together with a strong melody and passionate, soaring vocal the song’s lyrics scream openness and quality: “I cried only one tear for us today and I will wipe it away before the day breaks…” - Simple, direct and moving.
An artist can have the greatest voice, instrumental, production and marketing support but, for me, if the songs are mediocre I’m only hearing a portion of the story. Tracks like this next one place Wainright up there amongst some of the best female singer/songwriters around:
GETTING OLDER
I’m getting older, I need your shoulder
I need your love and I need your blood
I want your honey, I’ll take your money
I’ll pay you back, I’ll get the cash
With you my life has begun
I was on the run
We’ve got the time it takes to burn out the sun and the hearts
desperately undone
I’ve been so afraid. My body’s burnt and laid out on a table at my wake
And the radio’s on
It’s playing my song
It’s the one that will take us to the end if we defend our love and our
souls to mend
Can you hear my words? Can you feel my worth?
Can you read my mind and share the rest of time
I was making my own bed, I was picturing my death
I was lost in a fire and you saved me with your desire
Can you hear me know? It’s time to take a bow out of this last life born
of sacrifice
Not only is this a superb song but I instinctively feel that it’s the emotional and open truth; it’s personal, poetic and passionate. ‘Being Right’ arrives with minimal instrumental treatment and allows that distinctive and passionate voice to dominate above a strong melody and another set of compelling lyrics. ‘Report Card’ is a ballad made so special with a vocal that wanders across the range like a stream travelling over diverse sizes of stones; gentle at times, crashing at times, climbing at times. It’s an extraordinary performance. ‘Body And Soul’ travels along an alt-country path while ‘Hole In My Heart’ reminds of songs from her debut album with their powerhouse rhythmic vibe and angry vocal deliveries.
‘Justice’ exposes a slower more contemplative ambience while ‘Sometimes’ offers a more jaunty, optimistic flavour with the strongest melody on the record. ‘Rainbow’ is one of my favourite tracks with its adventurous instrumental arrangement and initial almost ecclesiastical feel that eventually explodes into the rockiest of sounds before reverting to something akin to folk. Lyrically, it’s also a stunner: “Why can’t I Be a rainbow? And live for seconds and die forever young/Why do I have to go on? For the kids and the neighbours, for love and for song.”
‘Falaise De Malaise’ concludes the record with a song that combines a few English language lyrics with mainly French ones. It’s a beautiful song with another strong melody and another example of how Wainwright adjusts her vocal tone to a song’s message. There’s also a welcome diversity of pace and mood with a few sonic surprises. For Wainwright fans, this is an essential buy. For those who have yet to sample this singer/songwriter it represents a good start point.
4.5/5
New Dave Grohl Book
SIMON & SCHUSTER TO PUBLISH NEW BOOK FROM LEGENDARY MUSICIAN DAVE GROHL
Trailer Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3OqQvCClNY
Simon & Schuster (UK) Ltd, announced today that they will publish THE STORYTELLER by Grammy-winning musician, documentary filmmaker and fledgling author Dave Grohl. Deputy Publishing Director, Non-Fiction, Ian Marshall negotiated the deal for UK & Commonwealth rights with WME. Grohl is managed by Silva Artist Management. The book will also be published in the USA (Dey Street Books), Finland (Bazar), Germany (Ullstein), Holland (A.W. Bruna) and Italy (Rizzoli).
“Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (‘It’s a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!’), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child.”
“This certainly doesn’t mean that I’m quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it’s like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters…the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.“
Dave Grohl has been one of the most beloved and respected figures on the international music scene since his recorded debut with Nirvana on 1991’s generation-defining NEVERMIND. Grohl took centre stage with Foo Fighters’ 1995 self-titled debut, the first of 10 albums in a massive 12-Grammy-winning streak, most recently including the No 1 album sales charting MEDICINE AT MIDNIGHT. Grohl has travelled the planet doing the thing he loves most – playing rock ’n’ roll marathons for tens of thousands of ecstatic Foo Fighter fans. But when the pandemic necessitated going into lockdown, Grohl took stock of how he might use this moment of pause. Channelling his creativity into writing and using his remarkable skill for storytelling, in May 2020 he wrote a moving reflection for The Atlantic on missing the thrill of live music during the Covid era that went viral. Then, ending a longstanding self-imposed exile from social media, Grohl’s new Instagram account @davestruestories was born. This new platform became a way for Dave to share his extraordinary (and funny) stories with fans and fellow music nuts, and now Grohl is set to build upon that momentum with his first book.
Grohl’s new book is as much a celebration of music as it is about the moments that have moulded him into the man he is today. From hilarious childhood mishaps, touching family moments, leaving home to see the world at eighteen, to spectacular stories about Nirvana, Foo Fighters, David Bowie, Joan Jett, Iggy Pop, Paul McCartney, playing drums for Tom Petty on Saturday Night Live, performing at the White House, and even swing dancing with AC/DC, with all love, laughs, loss and embarrassments along the way, THE STORYTELLER is a fascinating look at a life lived loud.
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