LIVE NIRVANA TV GUIDE: 1991

Programme Title: Much Music
Broadcast Date/s: 09/22/91
Length: 3 Minutes
Notes: Contains a brief interview with the band (filmed before the show in the reception area of the Opera House) and edited footage from Nirvana's opening show of the American Nevermind tour 09/20/91 at The Opera House, Toronto. The interview footage was shown on the Much Music tribute 05/02/94.

Content: Endless Nameless* / Interview / Destruction*

Programme Title: Unknown
Broadcast Date/s: 09/91
Length: 4 Minutes
Notes: This is the same interview and live footage from 08/23/91 Reading Festival, Reading, UK shown in 120 Minutes only it features a shorter interview.

Content: Interview / School*

Programme Title: 120 Minutes (MTV)
Broadcast Date/s: 10/06/91
Length: 7 Minutes
Notes: Features a live clip from 08/23/91 Reading Festival, Reading, UK and a backstage interview from the same date.

Content: Interview / School* / Smells Like Teen Spirit (Promo)

Programme Title: Headbangers Ball, MTV
Broadcast Date/s: 11/02/91
Length: Unknown
Notes: Oddly enough although this interview appears on many specials Nirvana's whole appearance on this show is not currently circulating.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: The Word
Broadcast Date/s: 11/08/91,11/09/91, 04/22/92, 06/18/99
Length: 5 Minutes (Complete) 3 Minutes (Cut Versions)
Notes: Nirvana's infamous live world TV debut. Kurt opens by declaring that: "I want everyone in this room to know that Courtney Love, the lead singer of the sensational pop group Hole, is the best fuck in the world". Originally the song was cut short by the programme finishing before the song was complete (not uncommon with live TV shows). The song was broadcast in complete form on 4/22/92 and more recently on Channel 4's Best of the Word on 06/18/99. Complete versions feature the end of the song, a destruction and Kurt shouting "Roger Taylor, Roger Taylor" over and over. Footage from the songs finale was also used on Channel 4's programme on the 100 Greatest Albums shown in late 1998.

Content: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Programme Title: Unknown (Italian MTV Broadcast)
Broadcast Date/s: Unknown
Length: 60 Minutes
Notes: This is a broadcast of Nirvana's show on 11/19/91 at Castle Theatre, Rome, Italy. It is missing Drain You which appears on the bootleg Seattle Sound Sounds Great, which may possibly appear on another broadcast of this show.

Content: Aneurysm / School / Floyd The Barber / Smells Like Teen Spirit / About A Girl / Polly / Lithium / Sliver / Come As You Are / Breed / Been A Son / Negative Creep / On A Plain / Blew / Rape Me / Spank Thru / Territorial Pissings

Programme Title: Felix Show
Broadcast Date/s: 11/91
Length: 7 Minutes
Notes: This is a Belgian TV special on the band featuring an interview with the band and live clips from the bands show on 11/23/91, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium. The special also features various live footage from the concert with songs from Nevermind (Lithium, Territorial Pissings) dubbed over the top, including the destruction.

Content: Interview / Sliver* / Live Footage*

Programme Title: Top of the Pops
Broadcast Date/s: 11/28/91
Length: 4 Minutes
Notes: Kurt was apparently 'possessed' by the spirit of ex-Smiths singer Morrissey for this performance. The footage was also used in Live Tonight! Sold Out! and Kurt and Courtney. It has also been regularly repeated on BBC TV as well. The performance was recorded on 27th November, 1991.

Content: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Programme Title: Headbangers Ball
Broadcast Date/s: 12/03/91
Length: 8 Minutes
Notes: The interview is apparently taken from 08/23/91 Reading Festival, Reading, UK and is the band being interviewed backstage with Kurt's arm in a sling. Live footage comes from 09/23/91, Axis Nightclub, Boston, MA.

Content: Interview / Live Clips / Smells Like Teen Spirit (Promo)

Programme Title: Rapido
Broadcast Date/s: 12/18/91, 12/19/91
Length: 6 Minutes
Notes: The live clips are from Nirvana's 11/28/91 show at the Octagon Theatre, Sheffield, UK. It is likely that the interview was recorded the same day as the show in what appears to be bands hotel room.

Content: Interview / Aneurysm* / Lithium*

Programme Title: Tonight With Jonathan Ross
Broadcast Date/s: 12/06/91, 12/07/91
Length: 3 Minutes
Notes: The presenter, Jonathon Ross, introduces Nirvana as "probably the biggest band in the world right now". He announces that they were to play Lithium. Instead Nirvana perform a very powerful version of Territorial Pissings. Trashing their gear at the end of song causes the studio to have sound problems, to the confusion of the presenter. Also available in incomplete form on the official Nirvana video Live Tonight! Sold Out!.

Content: Territorial Pissings

Programme Title: Unknown
Broadcast Date/s: 12/07/91
Length: 2 Minutes
Notes: Features brief footage of Nirvana's final performance of the European Nevermind tour at the Transmusicales Festival in Rennes, France.

Content: Smells Like Teen Spirit* / Destruction*

Programme Title: Fa On Unrust
Broadcast Date/s: 12/22/91, 03/94
Length: 35 Minutes
Notes: This contains some live songs from 11/25/91 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland, some brief interview footage with Krist and Dave and interviews with fans of the band, record company people and journalists. A lot of this footage was featured in the official video release Live Tonight! Sold Out!.

Content: Lithium* / Interviews (with journalists, record company people) / Smells Like Teen Spirit (Promo) / Breed / Interview / Polly / Smells Like Teen Spirit* / On A Plain / Love Buzz / Territorial Pissings

Programme Title: VPRO Unrust
Broadcast Date/s: Unknown
Length: 5 Minutes
Notes: Another special featuring footage from 11/25/91, Amsterdam, Holland.

Content: On A Plain / Sliver


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