Scene & Heard
Mojo magazine has resurrected an old Observer interview with Kurt Cobain in which he talks about his links with Cork, the county from which his ancestors emigrated to America. The late singer talks about the sense of family history he felt on Nirvana’s first visit to Europe in 1991 when he wandered around Cork around the time they opened their tour at Sir Henrys. “The entire day I walked around in a daze. I’d never felt so spiritual in my life,” said Cobain in an interview originally published in 1993, the year before he took his own life. Various pictures are available of Cobain in Cork, both in Sir Henrys and standing on the concrete bollards on the Grand Parade, from the time they played the now-defunct venue as support to Sonic Youth. The entire interview can be read in the August edition of Mojo.
Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age has hit out at Jay-Z after playing the rapper’s Made In America Festival. According to NME, Homme objected to the way his band were subjected to an attempted search by security at the event, and were also asked to pose for a picture with a bottle of Jay-Z’s branded champagne. Pharrell Williams continues his inexorable march to a thousand chart hits with the news that he’s back working with his N.E.R.D bandmates Chad Hugo and Sheldon Haley, and also in discussions with One Direction about helping to produce their next album.
