As Nirvana toured the world in the aftermath of Nevermind’s success, everybody wanted a piece of the trio. Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl arrived Down Under for an Australian tour in 1992 battered and bruised from a gruelling year on the road in which they’d become rock superstars. This mammoth success had not been on the agenda whilst recording their now-classic second record, as Cobain told Select’s Jessica Adams. “It didn’t seem that much different than the Bleach album at the time that we were recording,” he said. “We just went into the studio every day and tried our best.”
Their best had been good enough – perhaps as Cobain saw it, too good. The frontman was not in good shape during their first and last Australian jaunt, skipping interviews and record company meet and greets and eventually cancelling a few shows because of what the label put down to stomach problems.
