REM – MJCarty

Dec 6, 2025Dec 4, 2025Michael Carty

Nirvana live in London 1989 (#GigTicketMemories)

Nirvana live at the London Astoria Lame Fest, Sunday 3 December 1989: Gig ticket-inspired memories from my first ever grunge gig… plus my surprise discovery 36 years later that there exists a photograph with both Kurt Cobain and me in the same frame.

Apr 11, 2020May 30, 2020Michael Carty

All the life that lay ahead of us

Flea’s Acid for the Children beautifully evokes the endless possibility, discovery and danger of childhood, with a particular poignancy in these times of coronavirus lockdown.