Glasgow King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut as a venue known across the world as the place were Oasis were discovered in May 1993, but the venue itself is so much more than as it has a rich past as well as an exciting future.

You only have to walk up the steps to the venue after walking through the bar to get a feel for some of the major names who have graced the stage in the St Vincent Street space since 1990 with nods to previous performers taking pride of place on the steps. The likes of Radiohead, The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys are some of the big names who cut their teeth here back in the day.

One of those early standout gigs which is worth a particular mention is when a certain band from Cleveland, Ohio played their first-ever Glasgow show at King Tut’s on September 6, 1991 during their ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ European Tour. That band were of course Nine Inch Nails, and to mark 35 years since that gig, tribute band NIN UK will take to the stage on the exact same date over three decades later.

To get a snapshot of the gig, we took a look back through the archives and came across a review by Fiona Shepherd which said: “From the word go, it’s clear that Nine Inch Nails’ Scottish debut is regarded as An Event. Tickets sold like bog roll at the Reading Festival and a large blackboard at the venue entrance proclaims that this gig is most definitely sold out. Nevertheless, some crusty diehards attempt to wheedle money and/or tickets out of the smug legions with the foresight to invest early.

“Inside the renovated Tut’s, anticipation hangs in the air, as overbearing as the humidity. The spread of punters indicates the breadth of the band’s appeal; the obligatory NIN T-Shirts compare sweat stains with the likes of The Senseless Things, Donington, Nirvana, 1000 Homo DJs (yo!), Primal Scream and er, Voice of the Beehive garments. And so it goes with Nine Inch Nails’ music,.

“The current single, ‘Head Like A Hole’ is testament to their capability in side-stepping the easy pigeonhole. This is not cyberpunk Eurobeat terrorism. This is not heavy funk metal. It’s... a bit of both actually. When Jane’s Addiction’s Lollapalooza cavalcade hit smalltown USA, Nine Inch Nails were one of the first to burn the stage - a terrifying overture to your worst nightmares and wildest dreams. But tonight there’s none of the danger we’ve been led to expect. The moshing multitude might as well be watching Mega City for all the fear and loathing and they throw back onto the stage.

“Good grief, a few people on the sidelines appear to be enjoying the themselves. To a band who base their whole oeuvre on negative energy, this must be frustrating, but the fact is Nine Inch Nails are surprisingly safe, only mildly disturbing at their most extreme. Frontman Trent Reznor is no more bilious than a basset hound with bunions, daubed randomly with fluorescent paint, a first class graduate from the Jaz Coleman school of pantomime make-up and rent-a-tantrum performance. I suspect, I hope, this is an off-night. The sheer brutality of Nine Inch Nails’ records has to translate better than this.”

It’s hard to imagine what King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut was like over 35 years ago in the early days of the venue, but to get an idea about it all I recently caught up with Stuart Clumpas who founded the venue in 1990.

He told me, “The Nine Inch Nails one is a very good example. we were over in Los Angeles and listening to a station called K Rock and ‘Head Like A Hole’ came on. I was like, that’s f****** brilliant! I wanted to find out it was, so when we got back to London and I did a bit of phoning around and found out that the agent was a guy called Martin Horn. I got in contact with him and told him we wanted to book them. He then told me that he only took them on last week and that I was the first person to phone him. Your gig if you want it.

“My memory was that it did very well, I’m not sure if it sold out but it was certainly a busy one. We didn’t have a barrier at that time and I was down at the front. People always ask me what is one of the gigs I can remember, and that is definitely one of them because it was mental. Everyone was at the front flailing away, and I was down at the front trying to hold all the monitors at the front of the stage. The place was literally jumping. It was a really mega sweaty gig.

“The bit I remember vividly as well is Trent coming zooming off. Bursting through the doors and going lying on his hum in the corner at the fire exit saying ‘what a gig’.

If you were lucky enough to be at this gig 35 years ago, and want to relive it or experience the music of Nine Inch Nails at Tut’s, tickets for the gig are still on sale here.