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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... )
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... )
