Watch surviving Nirvana members reunite for a night of classic tracks

By Scott Munro
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Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear play five-track set in Hollywood - where they were joined by Dave Grohl’s daughter Violet, St. Vincent and Beck

Pat Smear, St. Vincent, Dave Grohl, Beck, Violet Grohl and Krist Novoselic onstage
Pat Smear, St. Vincent, Dave Grohl, Beck, Violet Grohl and Krist Novoselic onstage (Image credit: Kevin Mazur - Getty)

The surviving members of Nirvana (opens in new tab) reunited over the weekend to play a special set at the Hollywood Palladium.

Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear performed at Art Of Elysium's Heaven Is Rock And Roll benefit show on Saturday evening and tore through five classic tracks, with help from St. Vincent, Beck and Grohl’s 13-year-old daughter Violet.

They kicked off with Lithium and kept the pace up with In Bloom, Been A Son and Heart-Shaped Box, before winding down with a cover of David Bowie (opens in new tab)’s The Man Who Sold The World.

Video footage of the set has now appeared online and can be watched below.

Other artists to play at the weekend event were Cheap Trick (opens in new tab) and Marilyn Manson (opens in new tab).

Grohl, Novoselic and Smear last took to the stage together back in 2018, where they played The Vaselines track Molly’s Lips, which Nirvana covered in 1991.

The concert in Seattle saw Novoselic’s Giants In The Trees open for Foo Fighters (opens in new tab) at the city’s Safeco Field – the home of MLB’s Seattle Mariners.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.