Me again, if you remember who I am, since Hobbits closed I feel like I am in limbo for a bit until my life can continue properly (sad isn’t it)… Because of this the following may be a little out of date but I don’t give a tinker’s cuss.

Did anyone watch the programme on TV the other day about the last 48 hours of Kurt Cobain.? No.? Well why not, it was marvellous…

Took me back a bit, it did. As a music maker I have never been one of the biggest fans of Mr Cobain’s, not due to him, his unendearing wife or his music. Just Nirvana, such as they were, were “just another band” to me at the time and stole the limelight from my personal favourites at the time (when I was an indie boy) such as Blur, Pulp, Oasis, OCS, etc, etc.

But looking back, maybe there was more of an influence on my way of thinking and links to the world of grunge and rock music than I thought. Nowadays it is obvious that most of my musical love is splayed forth in front of big men in leather with tattoos and bits of metal dangling from their bits (wow is it homo-erotic in here or is it me.?). I have a couple of Nirvana albums which contain those old classics such as Smells Like Teen Spirit and Heart Shaped Box but I feel no extra need to delve any deeper into their back catalog (and hating the Foo Fighters, no further forward either).

Ultimately, though, I am glad that Kurt existed. His music seemed to lead a revolution that dragged rock music out of the doldrums of the 1980’s poodle rocker and up to the fore front of main stream audio. Throw in Pearl Jam and Soundgarden and half the world would be ready to throw the horns, leap on a set of drums and marry iffy looking blonde women. On top of all that, it was bloody good music wasn’t it.!

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