He does the same thing on the memorable Lounge Act, well into side B, the place on an album where the filler is tucked away but Nevermind has none of that. Cobain’s definitive scream at the end of the first track has lost none of the power to stop you in your tracks even after all this time. Remastered from the original analogue, as soon as you hear the opening chords of Smells Like Teen Spirit you could be back head-banging like it’s 1991. I must admit disappointment when I saw it was a gatefold sleeve as the original wasn’t but this is one of the few times the record company got it right, the photo in the centre adds to the vinyl experience and it comes with an extra picture sleeve 7 inch featuring Endless Nameless, Even In His Youth and Aneurism. The record has been lost in the sands of time, but if you want a replacement you could do a lot worse than the 30th-anniversary edition of Nevermind housed in an impressive gatefold with pictures appropriate to the era, we are also spared from the dull sleeve notes that often grace anniversary releases. I remember buying the original vinyl edition of Nevermind and in truth, it’s hard to beat the sound of that particular version. Astonishingly two members of the Seattle trio played at the venue thirty years ago this month. At school, I began to hear tall tales of “I was at the Southern the night Nirvana played”. Nevermind would soon grip the imagination of teenagers across the land.

It recalled Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl’s visit to the Southern Bar, just around the time Smells Like Teen Spirit would peak in the top ten singles chart (back when these things mattered).

The recent BBC documentary When Nirvana Came To Britain was a reminder of the band’s relationship with Scotland.

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