Twenty five years ago one of the world's most influential rock bands brought out their definitive and inspirational albums - and landed in Glasgow as they became household names.
Nirvana's Nevermind was released on September 24, 1991. It was the blockbuster that toppled Michael Jackson's reign on the album charts and created a cultural global revolution.
It made hair metal history and made a star of its lead singer Kurt Cobain, a reluctant voice of a generation, who was to take his own life three years later.
Codist, St Deluxe, American Clay and Pinact cover Nirvana at tribute night
Two months after its release they played the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow - kickstarting an association with Scotland that would last until Cobain's death in 1994.
To commemorate the anniversary four of Glasgow's fuzziest and grungiest Glasgow bands dared to tackle the classics from Smells Like Teen Spirit to Lithium in a 25 Years of Nirvana's Nevermind show at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut.
They include hugely promising three-piece Pinact, who cut free from recording their second album to contribute, including a faithfully manic cover of the Nirvana's biggest song Smells Like Teen Spirit in a night in aid of Scottish Association for Mental Health.
Joining them were American Clay who said they were "getting to live out a collective childhood fantasy" in playing Nirvana songs, a frenzied St Deluxe and Codist.
Cobain, who had battled depression and drug addiction for years was reputedly planning to set up home in a Scottish castle months before he killed himself and was a fan of the country's music scene.
He once Kurt Cobain called Teenage Fanclub “the best band in the world” and Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, of Glasgow’s The Vaselines, “the best songwriters in the world”.
Nirvana famously covered the Vaselines song Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam on their Unplugged album - Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam while doing version of Son of a Gun and "Molly's Lips on their Incesticide album.
Cobain once told a New York radio station that the only other band he wanted to join was the Bellshill-based BMX Bandits - a combo that featured members of Teenage Fanclub and The Soup Dragons.
The icon also had a more guilty Scottish pleasure... the Bay City Rollers.
Alison Gilchrist of SAMH said: “The night is set to raise money for SAMH and awareness of our vital work so it is great to have the support of such a well-known Glasgow music venue for the issue of mental health."
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