Nirvana: Because Rome was so important for Kurt Cobain
Why was Rome so important for Kurt Cobain? This is a bit the question around which the narrative of the First concerts in Italy of the Nirvana At the center of the new documentary “Rome as you are“. Daniela Giombini, between 1989 and 1991 Promoter and tour manager of the “Nevermind” band in our country, has collected their personal testimonies together with those of many othersincluding critics, journalists, owners of clubs and fans, to retrace the first tricolor passages of the Cobain group. And above all, Daniela invited Bruce Pavittfounder of the Sub Pop record company, to visit the same places discovered together with the Nirvana over thirty years ago again.
Written by Daniela Giombini together with Tino Franco and Marco Porsia, produced with Space Off, “Rome as you are” is presented during a series of Projections scheduled in different cities of Italy. Here is the list of the next updated projections:
- From 6 to 12 February • Cinemancini – Monterotondo (RM)
- 07 February • Bloom Mezzago (MI)
- 08 February • Cinemino in Astra Genoa
- February 20 • Buonarroti Civitavecchia (RM)
- March 10 • Sala degli Artisti Fermo
- March 14 • Gloria Como space
- March 15 • Germi Milan
- March 23 • Gob Viareggio
- March 29 • Cinema Mignon Mantua
- 4 April • Metropolis Umbertide Cinema (PG)
In addition to interviews and testimonies, “Rome as you are“Includes fragments, photos, archival movies and images of the first two tours in Italy of the Nirvana. In November 1989, a few months after printing his debut album, “Bleach”, released in June of the same year for the Sub Pop Records, the band brought For the first time your music in our part. Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Chad Channing (Dave Grohl’s predecessor) made their debut live in our country the November 26, 1989 tothe Bloom of Mezzago. The second date, the next day, saw the Nirvana instead staged the Piper Club of Rome. It is here that, thanks to the memories of Daniela Giombini and Bruce Pavitt, much of the documentary is concentrated to understand how important the capital has been for Kurt. “A week before coming to Rome, they told us that Kurt was suffering from a nervous exhaustion“, Remember Pavitt in the documentary” Rome As You Are “, before telling that, after the Roman concert and before resuming the tour in Europe, he decided to take a tour of the city together with Cobain.”For a twenty -two year old like him, having a break and being able to see a deeper historical and artistic level, it was important. That day walking around Rome he regained his will. That day in Italy was crucial in the history of the Nirvana. After that day, he wanted to continue again. “
Like a sort of pilgrimage seen through the eyes of those who lived those places at the time next to the Nirvana, “Rome as you are” then passes to the testimonies of the Second step in Italy of the band, who coincided with the tour in support of “Snowmind“. With the arrival on the markets of the second album, released on September 24, 1991 and anticipated by the single “Smells like Teen Spirit”, the band was just the success that would have passed it in a short time. The Tournée supporting “Nevermind” stopped in Italy for four datesalways organized by Daniele’s Subway Production: after performing in Muggia (Trieste), Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic And Dave Grohl played on the stage of the Bloom in Mezzago, and then staged at the Castello di Roma theater and at the Kryptonight in Baricella (Bologna). As reported by the documentary, These new concerts attracted more public than expected.
