3 September

It’s one of the wet dreams of all modern popular music culture. The walk to the stage to be screamed at adoringly by tens or even hundreds of thousands of fans. In reality few will notice anything particularly musical about being there. They’re there because it’s a place where everybody wants to be, because everybody else wants to be there. It’s a circular loop. The musicians are just fodder for the crowd, as all leaders of large crowds are. Here we are now. Entertain us. Kurt knew. Smells like teen spirit to me too. Any artist who feels flattered by this adulation is a simpleton.