Live at Reading was released on November 2, 2009. This classic live double album features the band's headlining performance at the Reading Festival in Reading, England, on August 30, 1992. Bootlegged for years, this official release presents the performance for the first time properly mastered.
Nirvana's appearance at the 1992 Reading Festival was the band's 2nd performance at the annual music festival and their first since the success of their second album Nevermind had elevated them to the position of what Pitchfork called the "biggest" rock band in the world. It was also their final concert in the United Kingdom.
The 30 August 1992 concert in Reading occurred shortly after the birth of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of Nirvana's vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love, vocalist and guitarist of the American rock band, Hole.
It was also performed amid press reports of Nirvana's possible dissolution, due to rumors of Cobain's addiction to heroin and tension within the band. Cobain discussed the rumors in the 1993 Nirvana biography Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad, calling them examples of "classic, typical English journalism. Sensationalism." As Nirvana's drummer Dave Grohl recalled in a 2018 interview with Kerrang!, “I remember showing up to Reading ’92 and there being so many rumours that we weren't going to play, that we had cancelled. I walked backstage and some of my best friends in bands that were opening would see me and say, ‘What are you doing here?’ And I'd go, ‘We’re fucking headlining!’ And they’d be like, ‘You're actually going to play?!’ I didn't realise there was any question that we were going to play."
Black Double Vinyl Pressing
Tracklisting
Side A:
1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
Side B:
1. Come As You Are
2. Lithium
3. About A Girl
4. Tourette's
5. Polly
6. Lounge Act
Side C:
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. On A Plain
3. Negative Creep
4. Been A Son
5. All Apologies
6. Blew
Side D:
1. Dumb
2. Stay Away
3. Spank Thru
4. The Money Will Roll Right In
5. D-7
6. Territorial Pissings
