You won’t go to the police if I tell you?

I enjoyed the Mudhoney article [MOJO 342]. I first came across them supporting Sonic Youth in 1991 at Leicester University. Such was their incendiary rock power – a coruscating, homoerotic conflagration of Led Zeppelin and the Sex Pistols (I kid you not) – Sonic Youth’s more avant pretensions were somewhat crushed. Unable to follow the molten power inflicted on the audience, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo tried to court controversy and invited the fans up onto the stage, which they duly proceeded to do. It caused structural collapse and near riot, which at the time was a headline in NME. Thankfully nobody was hurt, but the point was made: Mudhoney, like a proto-Nirvana, had arrived and the foundations of rock music in Britain and America were shaken to the core.