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VIDEO: Rare Footage of Nirvana’s Last L.A. Performance Released
Documentary filmmaker Dave Markey has uploaded footage he shot at American grunge band Nirvana’s last performance in Los Angeles. The footage, recorded in December of 1993, includes performances of “All Apologies” and other songs from the group’s repertoire, as well as a cover of David Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold The World.”
“20 years ago tonight (December 30, 1993) I stood on Kurt’s side of the stage at my hometown’s Los Angeles Forum and captured the last set I would see of this band,” Markey writes about the video. “A band that I had worked with, toured with; people that I would call my friends. A band that both the world and myself really loved (can’t really say this has happened since). Within just a few short months it would sadly all be over. I’m glad to have documented this show, as well as their pre-fame fun in 1991.”
Nirvana was in the middle of touring their third and final studio album In Utero when the video was recorded and just four months later, in April, lead singer Kurt Cobain would take his own life. Watch the rare footage of Nirvana playing their last ever gig in Los Angeles at Great Western Forum below.
Nirvana are set to enter the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame this year.
The full setlist from the show was:
- Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
- Drain You
- Breed
- Serve The Servants
- Come As You Are
- Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Sliver
- Dumb
- In Bloom
- About A Girl
- Lithium
- Pennyroyal Tea
- School
- Polly
- Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
- Rape Me
- Territorial Pissings
- Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
- The Man Who Sold The World
- All Apologies
- On A Plain
- Heart-Shaped Box
- Blew
