![]() Several bits of the night stand out in between pouring lager on my feet and picking up glasses. Nirvana was a good example of quite busy, but not so bad that we were stuck behind the bar all night washing glasses and filling them again in exchange for people’s hard earned cash. Andy and I always tried to work the music nights as it meant we got to get paid for seeing bands or bits of bands depending on how busy it was. NAC is a place with a long history, not just the institution, the building as well, Not many venues are converted medieval churches, nor ones where the tower collapsed that have been regenerated countless times, NAC or Premises as it was known to a lot of us in the early eighties is one. I worked along with Andy Bailey and various others behind the bar at Norwich Arts Centre for about six years, it all turns muddy with time. I can’t remember a huge amount about the night. In the physical sense of the past for me and a few hundred others they were born in Norwich the 30th of October 1989, their first appearance in the city double headlining with Tad, supported by a local fun loving beat-combo Brain Drain 69 who didn’t play because they’d just split up, which is slightly unfortunate for them. Retrospectively 25 years on almost to the day it’s still quite nice to know you were present at the stuttering birth of a new squalling brat, and that’s where my relationship with them small though it really is begins. ![]() ![]() Nirvana never were particularly the former for me, but are very much part of the latter. ![]()
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