Live: Nine Inch Nails - Page 3

*Potatojunkie* · 8th July 2005, 12:01am

Nice Inch Nails are really good. I’m fairly convinced of this fact, and I clung to it throughout the night. Like a raft, it bore me from island to island of great songs, scattered haphazardly in a sea of shitty tracks from With Teeth.

To be fair, this is the first time that I’d heard anything off the new album, so I hadn’t really had a chance to get to know any of these dreadful, dreadful songs. They are rubbish, though, when performed live. I can’t imagine that being on record helps them to suck any less.

Of course, no one was there to hear the band play stuff off of With Teeth. Contradict me all you want—you’re lying. About halfway through the set Ninchy Nails realised this and got on with their good songs. And how were they? Well, they were good.

Mostly good. Occasionally things got kicked up into fucking excellent, but never for very long. Somewhere along the way NIN seem to have forgotten how to rock, which is terribly...

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mysterio · 8th July 2005, 11:12am

Didn't think to move to a different part of the floor, no?

Syxx · 8th July 2005, 11:14am

Look back, it didn't happen to me. I just said i'd have a problem too if it happened to me.

*Potatojunkie* · 8th July 2005, 11:15am

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Originally Posted by syxx19

The screeching, however, i have a problem with. Especially if you can't actually hear the music you paid to hear.

"Hmm...some guy flailing his limbs and punching the air, and an obnoxious screeching woman? Why, this looks like the perfect place to stand. No sense in moving ten feet to my left when all the excitement is happening right here."

Keef Monkey · 8th July 2005, 11:25am

Thought the gig was amazing, sound was excellent, band was tight, set list was nice and long and really varied. I'm in the apparant minority in thinking that "With Teeth" is fantastic and I've heard so many live recordings of the old stuff that I was really looking to hear more new stuff to be honest, and the only songs I left wishing they played were from the new album. Saul Williams was really intense too, definately going to be hunting his stuff out soon.

*Potatojunkie* · 8th July 2005, 11:39am

Do you have the chap in your avatar tattooed on your right arm? Because someone who was there last night does.

elrrek · 8th July 2005, 1:17pm

After being pleasently surprised at how good the new NIN record is I was somewhat disappointted at how flat the show in the Barrowlands was last night.

The guitars were weak, the choice of songs was haphazard, inevitably "Hurt" was rolled out, which is one of the worst songs that has ever been written and even disregarding that I would thought Reznor would have got the message when Johnny Cash managed to do it better than NIN can.

The new "band" was pretty much faceless and the new guitarists "guitar as light sabre" move was really beginning to get annoying.

And clearly I'm poor because I seemed to be the minority as one of the few people in the crowd who didn't have a digital camera

Mostly though I thought the performance let the gig down and compared to the last time I saw NIN in the Barrowlands it really was a poor show. Certainly didn't make up for the non-appearance at the Lost Weekend.

Wreakin_Havok · 8th July 2005, 6:00pm

Here, sack all the whinging about people gettin in the way or screechin... its a gig. We've all been to lots of them and all the little things that peev everyone off always happen.. get over it, enjoy the gig - "but i cant enjoy the gig if someone's screec..." - SHUTIT! enjoy the gig.

Mos Def · 8th July 2005, 6:09pm

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Originally Posted by mysterio

Didn't think to move to a different part of the floor, no?

Exactly what I was going to say.

If she was pissing you off so much then move and stand behind someone else.

Rev Scapegoat · 8th July 2005, 11:10pm

I should point out, by the way, that we were standing over by the bar, and this tit was doing all this shit in the midst of the queue FOR the bar!

I wouldn't have been bothered had we been down on the dancefloor / moshpit!

Syxx · 9th July 2005, 6:13am

On the topic of NIN, has anyone seen the video for Only yet? Fucking superb.

mysterio · 9th July 2005, 10:00am

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Originally Posted by elrrek

And clearly I'm poor because I seemed to be the minority as one of the few people in the crowd who didn't have a digital camera

Fuck, everyone had a camera apart from me, 'cause it was confiscated at the doors! Apparently i had to arrange a special pass from the tour manager - how the fuck do i do that?!

It was quite funny seeing everyone record Hurt on their mobile phones.. What's wrong with a zippo?

bikuki · 9th July 2005, 10:11am

My camera was checked thoroughly (I guess they thought it might be smuggling something, or a bomb

) but they let me have it for the gig in the end...

I wonder why yours was confiscated...

Brodie-Bruce · 9th July 2005, 10:27am

Didn't get to go and my grumbles are already well noted on another thread. I think the "Goth Prick" who was picking fights may be the same guy who battered lumps out of my girlfriend.

Rev Scapegoat · 9th July 2005, 11:20am

Is your camera particularly good, Mysterio?
Usually thet let the relatively shit ones in, but anything that looks pro or semi-pro is banned.

mysterio · 9th July 2005, 11:37am

Aye it was a big digital SLR with a fairly long lens. Bit gutted 'cause i love taking photos at gigs. Is it hard to get permission, do you know?