Photos of Nirvana’s first gig surface online

However, a teenage girl has just managed to uncover what could be the rarest Nirvana artefact discovered yet.

A Seattle teenager, Maggie Poukkula, has shared a couple of photos of Nirvana’s first gig ever.

The picture is captioned, “Pictures of my dad and Kurt Cobain playing together back in the day”, and shows a performance taking place in, most likely, a basement under shoddy lighting. She also explained her father went to school with Kurt Cobain and that they would jam together sometimes. “I have to ask my dad”. The photo is significant because it offers photo documentation of the first ever Nirvana show. At the time, Nirvana’s lineup consisted of Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Aaron Burckhard, though that night, Poukkula reportedly joined the outfit on guitar for, at least, two Led Zeppelin covers. However, considering it was a drunken house party, that’s understandable. Cobain himself claimed that band covered Flipper’s “Sex Bomb” for an hour straight – but this might have been one of the singer’s favoured fabrications. Before “Hairspray Queen“, Kurt sang a few lines of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound Of Silence”.

“Nirvana”, which included some of the band’s biggest singles (‘Smells Like Teen Spirit”, “Come As You Are”) as well as the then-unheard “You Know You’re Right’ upon its release, will be available in both standard and deluxe versions from August 28.