Nirvana's Final Concert With Kurt Cobain Terminal 1, Munich, Germany

Nirvana: The Tragic Story of the band's final show with Kurt Cobain

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Nirvana would release their final and third studio album in-utero in September of 1993. Unbeknownst to their fans, the band would be done 8 months later. Today I want to talk about the band’s final concert.

In the months after Nirvana released in-utero they’d play MTV unplugged in november of 1993 and the same month perform on mtv’s live and loud. In January of 1994 the band would reassemble in the studio, but those sessions proved unfruitful.

In February of 1994 the band traveled to europe for what would be their final tour together. It was originally planned to be a 3 month trek that would see them Playacross the entire continent and last until April 8th.. Cobain who had been struggling with heroin addiction for the past three years was finding it more difficult to find his drug on Europe resulting in him going through painful withdrawals. Only adding to the problems for him was that his wife Courtney Love and Daughter were back home and Kurt was feeling lonely.

On top of that Kurt the rigors of touring were taking a toll on Kurt’s voice and physical health.

Nirvana would play their final gig on March 1, 1994 at an airplane hangar called Terminal 1 in Munich, germany to a crowd of 3,000 people.This wasn’t the final scheduled date of the tour, but rather a midway point as according to Kerrang the band had also scheduled Manchester (March 27), Glasgow (28), Aston Villa Leisure Centre (30 and 31), Cardiff International Arena (April 1) and four nights at Brixton Academy in London (April 3, 4, 5 and 6) before finishing up the tour in Dublin Ireland on April 8th.

The band initially was only scheduled to play two shows at the brixton academy but two more shows would be tacked on after the first two shows sold out within hours, which was helped by the fact that in-utero topped the uk charts. In the run up to the band’s performance at Terminal 1, Kerrang magazine wrote a review of the band’s show in Paris as and i quote a “safe and conventional performance” and claimed the band looked and i quote “bored and tame”, A pretty accurate assessment. Esquire would publish excerpts from the book i found my friends the oral history of nirvana: The book would detail the shifting mood in the band during their final tour. Beginning in portugal in february of 1994 the mood shifted from excitement to and i quote By March 1, the mood of the tour was at a perilous low as Nirvana strolled through virtually the same ninety-minute sets they'd played every night for sixty shows over five months and Cobain complained of illness—"bored and old" indeed


Their final show in Munich would come nearly six weeks before Cobain would die at his home in Seattle. Their final show would take place on March 1, 1994 in Munich at an old airport hangar called Terminal 1. It wasn’t really a glamorous venue and the acoustics were terrible. Cobain would not attend the soundcheck and according to author charles r cross cobain instead went to the train station to score after asking his tour manager to get an advance on his daily per diem allowance. Ahead of the gig possibly after scoring Kurt allegedly got involved in a fight with his wife over the phone and then called his lawyer Rosemary Carooll reportedly telling her waned a divorce according to the book Nirvana FAQ


According to The Melvins Buzz Osborne who was supporting Nirvana on tour, Cobain claimed he was soon going to be ending the band.

The band would open up their munich show with a cover of the cars song my best friend’s girl, possibly a reference to the problems he was having with Courtney Love at the time. That song was followed by radio friendly unit shifter and drain you. . A few songs later in the set the band performed their hit single COme As You Are the power would go out. Once the power was restored teh next song on the set “Smells Like Teen Spirit” would be skipped. This resuled in Krist Novaselic either saying as a joke or foreshadowing the future telling the crowd

“We’re not playing the Munich Enormodome tonight. Because our careers are on the wane. We’re on the way out. Grunge is dead. Nirvana’s over. ... Our next record’s going to be a hip-hop record!” The power would eventu