Guitarist Pat Smear would tell The Guardian, looking back at that show, “Kurt’s voice became noticeably more trashed with every song. The show in Munich clocked in at about 80 minutes, the shortest show of the tour, as the band finished up the set with “Heart Shaped Box”. Nirvana’s over… Our next record’s going to be a hip-hop record.” “Kurt’s voice became noticeably more trashed with every song.” – Pat Smear This resulted in bassist Krist Novaselic saying as a joke, or foreshadowing the future, “We’re not playing the Munich Enormodome tonight because our careers are on the wane. Once the power was restored, the next song on the set, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was skipped. Nirvana’s over.” – Krist NovaselicĪ few songs later in the set, the band performed their hit single, “Come As You Are” but the power went out. The song was followed by “Radio Friendly Unit Shifter” and “Drain You”. Nirvana opened their show in Munich with a cover of The Cars’ song, “My Best Friend’s Girl”, which was possibly a reference to the problems he was having with his wife, Courtney Love at the time. Cross, he instead went to the train station to see if he could score, after asking the group’s tour manager to get an advance on his daily per diem allowance.Īccording to the book, Nirvana FAQ, ahead of the gig, possibly after scoring, Kurt allegedly got involved in a fight with his wife over the phone and called his lawyer, as he reportedly wanted a divorce.Īccording to The Melvins’ Buzz Osborne, who was out on tour with Nirvana, Cobain claimed he was soon going to be ending the band. Cobain didn’t attend the soundcheck and according to author Charles R. The Terminal 1 Airport Hangar, where the band played their final show, wasn’t glamorous and the acoustics were terrible. The mood shifted from excitement to, “By March 1, the mood of the tour was at a perilous low as Nirvana strolled through virtually the same 90-minute sets they’d played every night for 60 shows over 5 months and Cobain complained of illness-’bored and old’ indeed.” The book detailed the shifting mood in the band during their final tour which began in Portugal in February of ’94. “…the mood of the tour was at a perilous low…” – I Found My Friends: The Oral History of NirvanaĮsquire published excerpts from the book, I Found My Friends: The Oral History of Nirvana. In the run up to the band’s performance at Terminal 1, Kerrang Magazine wrote a review of the band’s show in Paris as “a safe and conventional performance” and claimed that the band looked “bored and tame”. The band had upcoming dates in late March for Manchester, Glasgow as well as 4 nights at Brixton Academy in London before finishing up the tour in Dublin, Ireland on April 8th. This wasn’t the final scheduled date of the tour. Nirvana would play their final gig together on Maat an old airplane hangar called Terminal 1 in Munich, Germany to a crowd of about 3,000 people. Nirvana’s Final Show at Terminal 1 in Munich, Germany The rigors of touring were taking a toll on his voice and physical health. Adding to the problems for him, his wife and daughter were back home and Kurt was feeling lonely.
Kurt Cobain had been struggling with heroin addiction for the previous 3 years and he was finding it difficult to find his drug of choice in Europe which resulted in him going through painful withdrawals while on tour.
It was originally planned to be a 3 month trek that would see them play across the entire continent until April 8th. In February of 1994, the band traveled to Europe for what would be their final tour together. In January of 1994, the band reassembled in the studio, but those sessions proved unfruitful. In November of 1993, Nirvana played MTV Unplugged and later the same month, performed on MTV’s program Live and Loud. Unbeknownst to fans and even the members of the group, they would be done only 8 months later. Nirvana released their third and final studio album In Utero in September of 1993.
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