Celebrating Nirvana’s music with Dublin band Negative Creeps

Nirvana are a band whose music continues to intrigue music fans.  An exhibition of Kurt Cobain memorabilia in Newbridge was opened recently by his mother, Wendy O’Connor, sister Kim Cobain and daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, and fans of the band flocked to the Kildare town.

Nirvana’s music will be celebrated by Negative Creeps in Monroe’s on Friday, August 24, with the Dublin band playing the hits and album cuts that Kurt Cobain penned.

Nirvana were at the forefront of the grunge scene which sprung from Seattle in the early 1990s. The trio became reluctant superstars when Nevermind was released in 1991 – the album went on to sell more than 30 million copies and gave the world classic songs like Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come as You Are and In Bloom.

But it was the follow-up that cemented Nirvana’s place in rock lore.  In Utero was released in 1993 and Negative Creeps will be celebrating the album’s 25th anniversary. The record is full of squall and feedback and isn’t as immediate as Nevermind. In Utero was recorded in just two weeks and is fairly free of studio trickery. It’s Nirvana at their most raw and it contains some absolute gems like Heart-Shaped Box and Pennyroyal Tea. It would be the final record Nirvana ever made, with Kurt Cobain’s death coming the year after its release.

Negative Creeps will be replicating the sounds achieved on In Utero and giving Nirvana fans plenty of sing-along moments.

■ Doors 9pm, admission €12.

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