Programme Title: Pure Rock
Broadcast Date/s: 01/31/92
Length: 20 Minutes
Notes: This was a BBC special that was made especially for Japanese TV. It features live clips from 12/03/91 at Nottingham Rock City, Nottingham, UK, as well as an interview with the band and with fans present at the show.

Content: Interview / Smells Like Teen Spirit* / Drain You* / Sliver* / Been A Son* / Come As You* Are / Lithium*

Program Title: 1991: The Year Punk Broke
Released: 1992
Length: 90 Minutes
Notes: Not a television broadcast, but a home video release. However, footage from it has been featured on TV broadcasts.

Content: Click here to read our second-by-second guide to this video.

Programme Title: MTV Headbangers Ball
Broadcast Date/s: Sometime in 1992
Length: 8 Minutes
Notes: There are 3 different interviews on this Special: interview (1) is Kurt and Krist on Headbangers Ball 11/02/91, interview (2) is just Krist recorded 03/09/92 in Olympia, WA, interview (3) is Krist and Dave recorded 09/23/91 at the Axis Nightclub, Boston, MA. Aneurysm is taken from 09/23/91, Axis Nightclub, Boston, MA (though mislabeled as 09/30/91 on this video). Territorial Pissings is taken from 01/10/92, MTV Studios, New York, NY and features some clips of the destruction.

Content: Interview (1) / Interview (2) / Aneurysm* / Territorial Pissings* / Interview (3) / In Bloom (Promo 1990 version)

Programme Title: Hard N' Heavy
Broadcast Date/s: Sometime in 1992
Length: 15 Minutes
Notes: This interview can be found on the official video Hard N' Heavy Volume 16 & 18. It is possible that this was not broadcast on TV at all and copies are taken from the video, but this improbable.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: ABC In Concert
Broadcast Date/s: Sometime in 1992
Length: 7 Minutes
Notes: An interview with the band recorded and most likely shown sometime in 1992.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: Backtrack
Broadcast Date/s: Sometime in 1992
Length: 2 Minutes
Notes: Contains a interview with the band shot in a bathroom while Dave is taking a bath! Also contains brief video clips. Excerpts from this interview including different alternate footage was used in the Raw Power TV show.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: Saturday Night Live
Broadcast Date/s: 01/11/92
Length: 8 Minutes
Notes: Subsequent re-broadcasts have edited credits and only feature Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Content: Smells Like Teen Spirit / Territorial Pissings

Programme Titles: MTV News
Broadcast Date/s: 01/29/92
Length: 1 Minutes
Notes: Taken from a recording of Nirvana in MTV studios on 01/10/92, MTV Studios, New York, NY.

Content: Territorial Pissings*

Programme Titles: MTV 120 Minutes
Broadcast Date/s: 01/29/92
Length: 3 Minutes
Notes: Polly is taken from 01/10/92, MTV Studios, New York, NY.

Content: Polly

Programme Title: Channel 10 News
Broadcast Date/s: 02/06/92
Length: 3 Minutes
Notes: This is a report on one of Nirvana's concerts in Australia possibly 02/05/92 ANU Bar, Canberra, Australia (although that is just a guess).

Content: News Report / Live Footage*

Programme Title: Unknown
Broadcast Date/s: 02/92
Length: 2 Minutes
Notes: Shown on Japanese TV.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: Unknown (TV Report)
Broadcast Date/s: 02/14/92
Length: 2 Minutes
Notes: The author does not have this one but it apparently features footage of Nirvana's concert 02/14/92 Kokusai Koryu Center, Osaka, Japan.

Content: News Report / Live Footage*

Programme Title: Noise
Broadcast Date/s: 02/16/92
Length: 9 Minutes
Notes: Features brief live footage from 01/25/92, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, Australia as well as an interview with Krist.

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

Programme Title: Unknown
Broadcast Date/s: 02/29/92
Length: 1 Minute
Notes: An interview with Krist about the situation in Croatia.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: Videomusic Special
Broadcast Date/s: 3/92
Length: 25 Minutes
Notes: The live footage is sourced from 11/19/91, Castle Theater, Rome, Italy. Interview (1) was most likely recorded at the show possibly backstage at the venue. Interview (2) is taken from 11/02/91 Headbangers Ball.

Content: Interview (1) / Negative Creep / Breed / Aneurysm* / Interview (2) / School* / Smells Like Teen Spirit*

Programme Title: MTV Week In Rock
Broadcast Date/s: 03/92
Length: 2 Minutes
Notes: Features interviews with Jonathan Poneman, Grant Alden and Krist Novoslic. Krist is briefly interviewed about his opinions on the proposed erotic music bill (that Krist satirised in the 'broken hymen of her highness' line in Heart-Shaped Box) and is shown signing a petition against the proposed bill.

Content: News Report / Interview

Programme Title: Rapido
Broadcast Date/s: 03/18/92, 03/19/92
Length: 2 Minutes
Notes: This is an excerpt of a feature on Shonen Knife, the Japanese punk band. Nirvana is sat opposite Shonen Knife and Kurt briefly explains his reasons for liking the band.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: Raw Power
Broadcast Date/s: 03/21/92
Length: 7 Minutes
Notes: This interview features the band in a bathroom. Krist is sitting on the toilet seat (fully clothed), Kurt is sitting on the edge of the bath and Dave is actually in the bath washing his hair! Excerpts from this interview including different alternate footage was used in the Backtrack TV show.

Content: Interview / Come As You Are (Promo)

Programme Title: Week in Rock
Broadcast Date/s: 03/22/92
Length: 1 Minute
Notes: An interview with Krist about the situation in Croatia. Krist talks about the origins of the conflict and the difficulties many Yugoslavians faced under communist rule when 75% of the countries GDP was used to fund the military.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: MTV News
Broadcast Date/s: 06/23/92
Length: 3 Minutes
Notes: This features an interview with Krist and Dave and footage from 06/22/92, Kings Hall, Belfast concert.

Content: News Report / Interview / Stay Away*

Programme Title: Top
Broadcast Date/s: 06/24/92
Length: 8 Minutes
Notes: Features an Interview with Krist and Dave. The interview questions are in French overdubbed by a presenter in the studio, however, the replies are not dubbed but feature French subtitles at the bottom of the screen.

Content: Interview / Come As You Are (Promo)

Programme Title: Headbangers Ball
Broadcast Date/s: 6/92
Length: 4 Minutes
Notes: Lithium is taken from 06/26/92, Roskilde Festival, Denmark.

Content: Interview / Lithium*

Programme Title: MTV Festival Week
Broadcast Date/s: 06/92
Length: 4 Minutes
Notes: Lithium from 06/26/92, Roskilde Festival, Denmark.

Content: Lithium

Programme Title: XPO (MTV)
Broadcast Date: 06/28/92
Length: 5 Minutes
Notes: Features a very short piece of interview footage from 06/22/92, Kings Hall, Belfast, UK.

Content: Interview / Lithium (Promo)

Programme Title: Stockholm Rocksommoren
Broadcast Date/s: 06/30/92
Length: 3 Minutes
Notes: The live clips are taken from 06/30/92, Sjöhistoriska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. The Program also features interviews with fans.

Content: The Money Will Roll Right In* / Aneurysm* / Drain You*

Programme Title: PM Intensiven Special
Broadcast Date/s: 07/92
Length: 10 Minutes
Notes: This program features an interview with the band, footage of which was shown in Live Tonight! Sold Out! and a live clip from 06/30/92, Sjöhistoriska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden concert.

Content: Aneurysm* / Interview

Programme Title: Unknown
Broadcast Date/s: 07/92
Length: 10 Minutes
Notes: This is a special on the band featuring an interview with the band that unfortunately is spoiled (for those of us not fluent in Spanish) by the translator talking over the top of the interview. The live footage is from 02/22/92, Pink's Garage, Honolulu, HI. The destruction clips are shown with On A Plain dubbed over the top

Content: Been A Son* / Interview / On A Plain* / Destruction*

Programme Title: Unknown
Broadcast Date/s: 07/92
Length: 15 Minutes
Notes: Krist and Dave are shown briefly taking part in a photo shoot at the start of the video. The interview section is largely useless for those of you not fluent in Spanish as it is dubbed over. The live clips are from 07/03/92 Palacio de los Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Content: Drain You* / Interview / Aneurysm*

Programme Title: Headbangers Ball
Broadcast Date/s: 07/05/92
Length: 10 Minutes
Notes: This features a rather amusing interview with recorded the band and On A Plain from 06/26/92, Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark. The interview is recorded backstage at the same date.

Content: Interview / On A Plain / Lithium (Promo)

Programme Title: MTV Roskilde Festival
Broadcast Date/s: 08/23/92
Length: 3 Minutes
Notes: Features an interview with the band and live clips from 06/26/92, Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark. The interview is the same one featured in the Headbangers Ball special on 07/05/92, but features different footage.

Content: Interview / On A Plain* / Lithium*

Programme Title: Week in Rock
Broadcast Date/s: 08/30/92
Length: 3 Minutes
Notes: Features an interview with Krist recorded at 08/30/92, Reading Festival, Reading, UK.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: Live at the Reading Festival (MTV)
Broadcast Date/s: Sometime in 1992
Length: 12 Minutes
Notes: This was shown as part of a wider special featuring most of the bands performing at 08/30/92, Reading Festival, Reading, UK. Mainly worthwhile for the Come As You Are performance that is missing from other specials.

Content: Come As You Are / Lithium / In Bloom

Programme Title: MTV Festival Week
Broadcast Date/s: 9/92
Length: 5 Minutes
Notes: Contains brief interviews with other bands on the bill including Mudhoney's Dan Peters (Ex-Nirvana). The interview is done with Krist and the special features interviews and live clips of the other main acts on the bill.

Content: Interview / Lithium*

Programme Title: Raw Power
Broadcast Date/s: 09/05/92
Length: 6 Minutes
Notes: An interview with Krist taped backstage at 08/30/92, Reading Festival, UK.

Content: Interview

Programme Title: Metal Express
Broadcast Date/s: 09/06/92
Length: 9 Minutes
Notes: The interview was recorded on 11/28/91, Octagon Theatre, Sheffield, UK. It is recorded at the same time as the Rapido interview (12/18/91) but appears to be a completely separate conversation. The live footage is taken from 12/07/91, Transmusicales Festival, Rennes, France.

Content: Interview / School* / Smells Like Teen Spirit* / Come As You Are (Promo)

Programme Title: MTV Video Music Awards
Broadcast Date: 09/10/92 (US), 09/11/92 (UK), 9/92 (Channel 4 UK)
Length: 9 Minutes
Notes: The band performs live on the show recorded on 09/09/92. The UK version does not apparently contain the pre-show interview present on the US version, but features different camera angles to the American broadcast. The British broadcast contains more shots of stage-divers and Dave can be seen more clearly throwing Krist's bass into the drum set. The Rape Me intro is not shown on subsequent broadcasts of the show. The interview is Krist and Dave being interviewed in a field with some tents in the background. They talk of their plans to record a new album and the Smells Like Nirvana parody video.

Content: Interview / Rape Me (intro) / Lithium / Accepting Awards

Programme Title: Bohemia after Dark
Broadcast Date/s: 9/92
Length: 27 Minutes
Notes: This show is something of a mystery to Nirvana traders as no one seems to have any information on either the group that taped the performance or the channel it was broadcast on. The live performance is taken from the No on 9 Benefit show at The Portland Meadows, Portland, OR, on 09/10/92. The clips were recorded on the stage right by Krist, this means that it has monitor sound, making sound quality very poor, this is compounded by the fact that all current circulating copies are of a very high generation and mainly in black and white. The interview was recorded outside the venue with Kurt and Krist, the sound isn't great here either and it is hard to make out the interviewers' questions.

Content: Interview / Breed* / Drain You* / School* / Sliver* / In Bloom* / Come As You Are* / Lithium* / About A Girl*