From the outside, being in Nirvana looked like pretty heavy business. Have you read Charles R Cross’ ace biography of the band, Heavier Than Heaven? Everyone knows there’s not a happy ending, but there’s not a happy beginning or middle either. In a feature published in Classic Rock, though, Kurt Cobain told journalist Everett True about the time Nirvana got involved in that old staple of infantile high japes – a food fight.
The band were on tour in Belgium, and preceded the battle of edibles with some warm-up juvenile behaviour, swapping the name-tags set up for a backstage dinner at a festival that meant 12 Ramones and friends were placed at a table of four and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan was left on his own. “He was being spoon-fed Gerbers baby-food, because he couldn’t chew,” said bassist Krist Novoselic. “So we gave him a plate of apples.”
