sharplittleteeth

They were excellent.

They were so good, that's the first concert at Festival Hall I've been to where I didn't leave complaining about the venue.

We got let in early, as part of the nin.com presale tickets. Jel had to check her studded blt, which was a nuisance, but we still had time to grab a spot on a barriers to the left of the stage.

Support band were Jaguar Love. Who would have been entirely forgettable, if it wasn't for the singer's Steve Tyler-esque falsetto, which pushed them over into being ridiculous. "HEEELLLOOOO MELBOURNE," he squealed between songs, slugging at a bottle of Jameson's.

Cringeworthy. I went and bought earphones during their set.

NIN hit the stage at 9:00pm, and they were tight and loud and ferocious. Trent had announced that NIN would be taking a break after this tour. During he show he said that ever since making that announcement, the shows had become a lot more precious to the band. This wasn't a greatest hits tour -- they were playing the songs they felt were right.

And the band did seem a lot more relaxed. Trent was the most chatty I've ever seen him. And there were none of the temper tantrums from 2007's Year Zero tour.

SETLIST:
Intro

1,000,000
Letting You
Discipline
March of Pigs
The Frail
The Wretched
Head Down
Burn
Survivalism
Gave Up
La Mer
The Fragile
Non Entity
Good Solider
Wish
Suck
The Hand that Feeds
Head Like a Hole

Reptile
The Downward Spiral
The Beginning of the End
Dead Souls
Hurt