ETS Tour Journal

Too drunk...Down In It. The Fragile. TBOTE. Starfuckers and various other tunes.

Shit pic.

fuckin great gig... The beginning of the end was played again.

wicked gig. will post something better tomorrow. starfuckers was epic.

One of the best gig I ever saw in my concert-life!

Night guys!

Pinion
Terrible Lie
You Know What You Are?
Sin
March Of The Pigs
The Frail
The Wretched
The Beginning Of The End
Heresy
Closer
Burn
Gave Up
Help Me I Am In Hell
Eraser
The Fragile
Wish
Survivalism
Down In It
Hurt
The Hand That Feeds
Starfuckers, Inc.
Head Like A Hole

I'm pretty sure that was the setlist. Was awesome. Got a lot of stuff I didn't hear on Wednesday.

And I got an A4 Art Is Resistance poster that was hanging on the outside of the technical area. Cool shizzle.

EDIT: ooh, beaten by a minute!

Another excellent show, although I don't think it was quite as good as last night's.

Setlist
The New Flesh mixed into Pinion (as was done in the Fragility era - I don't recall hearing the TNF bits this loudly the other nights, or Pinion getting so slow and distorted)
Terrible Lie
You Know What You Are? (Aaron suffered a guitar malfunction near the end and got pissy and didn't finish the song)
Sin
March of the Pigs (Trent seemed really lively to me during this)
The Frail
The Wretched
The Beginning of the End (reportedly better than the other night, but still a rather boring song live, I thought)
Heresy
Closer (w/ Only Time breakdown)
Burn
Gave Up
Help Me I Am In Hell
Eraser
The Fragile
Wish
Survivalism (they fucked up the intro, stopped, Trent said, "Sometimes we fuck up," and they restarted)
Suck
Down In It
Hurt
The Hand That Feeds
Starfuckers, Inc.
Head Like a Hole

At the end, Trent said, "We'll see you in the summer."

Timinator wrote:
At the end, Trent said, "We'll see you in the summer."

WHOO!

So all in all, Which was the best show out of the 4 man? Since you went to all?

Taped expect it in a week or so

Now on to Wolverhampton I just cant stop !!!!!!!

Even changed my plans for paris

Subliminal wrote:

Timinator wrote:
At the end, Trent said, "We'll see you in the summer."

WHOO!

So all in all, Which was the best show out of the 4 man? Since you went to all?

I did not see Thursday's show, but everyone except first-timers said that was poor.

I'd say Saturday's was best, followed by Wednesday, followed very closely by tonight's, and then probably Thursday's (which, again, I didn't see) after that.

ScreamingSlave wrote:Taped expect it in a week or so

And I spotted at least one old guy with a mic on his hat.

Thursday wasn't my first NIN gig and by no strech of the imagination would I say it was poor. The setlist suffered from bad pacing but I'd say they were giving Trents voice a rest. Out of the three I saw (Thurs, yesterday and tonight) I'd say yesterdays was best.
They did the New Flesh/Pinion mix Thursday too, letting it slow right down.

Anywoo, tonight was a great end to the London dates I thought. Was a great little set. I thought The Beginning of the End sounded much better tonight, maybe because I'd heard it once though. Bass was LOUD tonight. Aarons guitar seemed a little quiet at times but never in points where it took to much away, so maybe it was just good mixing. The Fragile sounded great (apart from the conversation happening in my left ear...) as did Burn. Starfuckers was a real suprise, mostly because by the time they played Hurt I thought I knew the rest of the set. Seemed to go down pretty well. Love this band. Amazing.

Did the bootleggers outside get busted again, I saw one guy suddenly run off but saw no police. There were definatly less of them though!

Always a great gig when it's NIN!!! [s]Just need to sober up to think about it.....[/s] Have now sobered up and calmed down. Sunday was great but I must admit I always expect a bit more when it's the last show of a set in a city and I don't feel like we got that little bit extra with it. I'm not complaining though, still had a great time! Was surprised he tried The Beginning Of The End again.

ForWhom wrote:Starfuckers was a real suprise, mostly because by the time they played Hurt I thought I knew the rest of the set. Seemed to go down pretty well.

Heh yeah a nice surprise as it meant the show was one song longer than I thought we had left.

My photos this time have suffered from choosing to go in the middle. I had fun and a good view myself, but the pictures are awful.







Blah.

ForWhom is right again, the bass for The Beginning of the End was loud! Sounds awful in this video clip I took (err my camera cut out just when it started to get good. BOO!!)

i thought it was weirdly pace !some song were great surprise !i was "again"in the circle,boo! DID someone got a guitar or a mike in the face last night???
Anyway, miss them already!

Was there anything for the Spiral members?

RedDeath you got some sick shots again man! You're right though, The odd hand is abit lame when you're in the center!

Can i ask what camera you use? Cause the lighting on that thing is excellent.

it was worth going just to hear Fragile - not quite as good as Sat but still class.

I'm sure anyone reading this knows anyway but from Wolv Civic site:

"Nine Inch Nails - POSTPONED
Please note that due to circumstances beyond the band's control, the Nine Inch Nails show, due to take place tonight has been postponed.
The show will now take place on Thursday 30th August 2007.
All original tickets will remain valid for the new date.
We are very sorry for the short notice of this announcement."

- so that it for the UK til August - a chuffin' great tour

good show. not as good as last night's, but then little could be. i was far more preoccupied with going to old street after the gig to be honest!

the fragile live was very good, though i would have liked for trent to be facing the audience during it, so that we could get some of that eye contact action, and the beginning of the end was better than on thursday.

This was my second NIN show and it just rocked.

I was hoping to hear "We're in this together" but have since gotten over it.

Highlights:

-Survivalism
-The Fragile
-The Wretched (as usual)
-Wish
-Starfuckers (nice addition)

Great gig and I'll be around for the August shows.

Edit - I completely forgot to mention Josh Freese's awesomeness. On the way home I just couldn't stop talking about him. I've met him a few times but am pretty sure I've never seen him live. Fuckin' mental drummer.

Also, Aaron North is a complete nutter. Too cool for me. Legend.

I GOT THE FRAGILE LIVE. That is all that needs to be said for how much I rate that show. That was a piece of genius and tied this tour off perfectly for me.

Addendum: I do NOT want to hear your conversations during quiet songs/quiet passages of songs. SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DISRESPECTFUL DICKHEADS. If I could have bitten one of you during The Fragile last night, please believe me when I say that I would have. This also applies to all the fucktards who wanna scream out messages/heckle Trent during Hurt. PISS OFF.

**Long Post Alert**
Great show!! Everyone pretty much explained everything. Hearing The Fragile and DIT(finally!!) made up for not hearing TBCD and WITT. If that's such as strain on his voice, I wont be surprised if its not played for a while. Did anyone notice the gestures and faces Jeordie was doing near the end of Sin? I was like WTF? Hahahahaha.

Before survivalism, Trent stepped from the mike for a bit and came back and said something to the effect of something or security's been fixed. He went on to say he was gonna tell us something cool, but he forgot what it was and fuck it, then went into the first intro of Survivalism.

I was on the right front with some pretty cool girls. I felt bad for one cause her halter kept falling down cause of the pit crush. There was one drunk Scottish guy that kept getting in front of us, and then was eventually pulled out by security. The security up front keep giving us poor souls water facials for all four nights were great.

My fave night of four was Wednesday, hands down. That was a DS night. Saturday and Sunday were just as good. The stage was like five six feet from the crowd and Aaron can still manage to jump in the pit with his guitar. Thursday was the least fave for me, not that it sucked, it was just that the setlists for the other nights blew Thursday out the water, the band messed with us less, and there were some true DICKS on the floor.

Bummer I didnt get the chance to meet up with a few on this side. VMobile screwed me with mobile coverage here, so I couldnt really call anyone. Still this trip has been great. My first time ever in London. Oh and

∅ wrote:Worst NIN show I've EVER seen! They didn't play ANYTHING I wanted! What were they thinking????

Bahahahaha!!!!

i had an amazing time, some of the songs which didnt appeal to me as much in cd form, for example star fuckers translated really well live, amazing amazing show. I cant wait to see them again, Favest song that night had to be The Hand that Feeds.

I didnt like Ladytron at all, they were like half dead puppets to be honest.

well it was my first NIN show and i loved it. seriously blew me away. i was surprised they opened to terrible lie, but it was very welcome! sounded awesome. trent;s a funny one eh...ive never seen such a sexual/dirty frontman! amazing. the fragile was INCREDIBLE. but yeah, why do people have to talk during that and hurt? anyways i was right at the front, got crushed and soaking wet.

oh i read someone mentioned the crazy guy who got pulled out, was he in the red shirt? he was a fucking psycho. i told him to fuck off but i thought he was gonna stab me.

That was him.

he was a fucking nutjob.

awesome gig... ladytron were weird.. the music might have been ok... but they looked so damned bored to be there, so i didnt enjoy them.

the pinion/the new flesh intro was amazing, so powerful and a bit different to other times ive heard it... longer and it also seemed to hang on more at the end, great stuff.

highlights were

the fragile (very suprised by this, not heard it like this before)
the frail/the wretched
MOTP
help me i am in hell
aaand
heresy.

did anyone notice the noises that came from the speakers at the end of hurt but also during one of the songs? i think maybe it was survivalism or near the end of a song in the second half.... sounded like the US wiretap convo. couldnt make anything out though, because of the people next to me going mad, hah.

met up with some cool people with the guy with the stripey red hat on in the 'next gig, brixton' photo from nin.com, hah that was amusing

also got hold of one of those A4 AIR posters that has appeared on the AIR section.. didnt spot it before i got back though because i had it in my pocket

great gig, best song... hm.. either the fragile or the wretched

i forgot to mention that i'm now a part of the Aaron North has booted me in the head club. We should start a charity.

the_man361 wrote:awesome gig... ladytron were weird.. the music might have been ok... but they looked so damned bored to be there, so i didnt enjoy them.

yeah...and they didn't get any better after the 10th time seeing them. it's really hard to remember that there are 6 whole members in that band. and they were rude to the queue

Amazing gig. So glad I raided the copper jar to go again. One night was not enough (we went on Wednesday too). Big up my lovely husband who stayed home with our little girl, and let me go with a mate who needed cheering up.

I am rather gutted at the lack of trent-arms on show, but I reckon I'll get over over it.

Best bits:

The Fragile (first time I've heard it)
Starfuckers Inc.
Terrible Lie
Hurt (no fire alarms this time)
Heresy

I'd include Closer in the list but it was slightly spoiled by the big old bloke squashed behind me getting rather excited in the trouser department. Not The One.

Roll on August baby.

I meant to ask someone who may know better, but did Ladytron seriously play the same setlist as Wednesday (or maybe even Thurs & Sat?!) It seemed it ... fucking lazy.

I was standing directly in front of Aaron North on that side of the stage. I felt like a giant compared to everyone else I was resonably tall and had shoulder length black hair.
Unfortunately during hurt there was someone next to me was accusing some guy of taking his cellphone and at the same time some girl was biting another girl on the arm.
Does anyone know the deal with that person biting the other one on the arm?

Hahaha when Trent started singing the line "will you bite the had that feeds you" I thought yeah that girl will!

There was soo much talking going on during hurt because of that it was distracting from watching the show and finally some blonde girl leaning up on the rail got the idea and told them to shut the fuck up.

I think that's really disrespectful when people start carrying on like that during a song.

The crowd for a mosh pit didn't really seem to be as lively as I thought, I got waved around a few times but that was it. People weren't really singing along to the songs as much as I expected they would have. I think possibly that's because quite a few of those people were probably children when some of those albums came out.

All and all I thought it was a great show. The band couldn't have been any better, but the show I saw in Nashville TN Halloween 2005 was a better all around show the crowd was way more into it, but I liked the song selection at Btixton a lot more.

Unfortunately I think it's something you have to put up with is these venue's sell alcohol, and you get a lot of goons that consume way more than what they should, and they don't even know what's going on during the show. What's the point of taking a pill and drinking a lot of booze and going to a show? How can you appreciate it?

If you want to get drunk go out to a club or a pub!

No matter how expensive the drinks are people still manage to afford a way to get smashed and start barfing or becomming violent and wanting to start fights.

I thought I caught a few Canadian or American accents up there did anyone else?

RedDeath wrote:I meant to ask someone who may know better, but did Ladytron seriously play the same setlist as Wednesday (or maybe even Thurs & Sat?!) It seemed it ... fucking lazy.

They have played the same set list EVERY SINGLE DATE of the European tour

AaronNorthsSock wrote: I thought I caught a few Canadian or American accents up there did anyone else?

i felt like the only brit there!! there were a lot of foreigners. guess NIN have a very dedicated fan base

oh yeah - i thought ladytron were awesome. sure, they were a little stiff, but i thought it went well with the music. some songs were boring, but generally i really liked them. i saw the keyboardist walking round a lot outside before hand.

damn trent is dirty.

cerise wrote:

AaronNorthsSock wrote: I thought I caught a few Canadian or American accents up there did anyone else?

i felt like the only brit there!! there were a lot of foreigners. guess NIN have a very dedicated fan base

because of the london shows i'm tempted to be of the opinion that the majority of hardcore american nine inch nails fans care more about going to the greatest number of shows than caring about/enjoying the gigs or the music.

icklekitty wrote:

cerise wrote:

AaronNorthsSock wrote: I thought I caught a few Canadian or American accents up there did anyone else?

i felt like the only brit there!! there were a lot of foreigners. guess NIN have a very dedicated fan base

because of the london shows i'm tempted to be of the opinion that the majority of hardcore american nine inch nails fans care more about going to the greatest number of shows than caring about/enjoying the gigs or the music.

You know what? You're an asshole..

God, there were so many annoying ones, though Batshit Insane Lady FTW.

EH EH EH!!!

Most of the Americans or Canadians that I noticed were being respectable.

They appeared to be young girls that weren't making a fuss really.

It doesn't matter to me what the disruptors nationality was. I just think if you want to get drunk or fuck yourself then do it elsewhere and not at a show because it ruins it for the senseable respectable fans who have a dedication to the band and actually like them and aren't jumping on the band wagon because it's fitting this year's trend.

Can you imagine if Topman put out a trendy "gothic" collection of clothing out what kind of hal-fwitted twats you'd get attending events like this.
The same people that buyto whatever's in the top 20 for the week because it's what this years trend tells you to do.

However I can tell you they were British.


I just want to know why the hell a girl was biting another's arm hahahaha.

the americans i'm on about were sober, in their 30s, and retarded.


i'd be thoroughly ashamed of myself if i'd left my 6 year old and 18 month old for two weeks to point dildos at trent reznor during closer. :/

icklekitty wrote:the americans i'm on about were sober, in their 30s, and retarded.


i'd be thoroughly ashamed of myself if i'd left my 6 year old and 18 month old for two weeks to point dildos at trent reznor during closer. :/

i was directly behind americans pointing dildos at trent :/ the woman also wore a granny wig, yes?

i was right next to the woman with the dildo! and christo was next to me. small world...

if you're talking about the one with the black bob i think that's her haircut.

icklekitty wrote:i was right next to the woman with the dildo! and christo was next to me. small world...

if you're talking about the one with the black bob i think that's her haircut.

oh i mustve been right next to you, but i only remember hearing american accents!! i was the girl in black vest and covered in water and sweat...narrows it down eh>?

My videos:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jwhhsi (86MB)

(including YKWYA,TheWretched,TBOTE,Burn,HMIAIH,TheFragile1,TheFragile2, Survivalism,Suck,DownInIt,HLAH + True Mathematics and Fighting In Built Up Areas by Ladytron)
[no full songs]

Great show! Plus a drumstick!

Yeah I know this thread is only for those who attended the show, but I want to ask you if the sound in this venue (Brixton Academy) is good or bad. I'm thinking of making a travel to London in the future so that would be interesting info for me

Sorry for this, I didn't want to create a new post only for this question.

And thanks DaisyMay for the video

Hi DaisyMay

Is there any way that you can put it on Megaupload. its not working for me?

Is there possibly an audio bootleg of the gig, please?

Closer wrote:Yeah I know this thread is only for those who attended the show, but I want to ask you if the sound in this venue (Brixton Academy) is good or bad. I'm thinking of making a travel to London in the future so that would be interesting info for me

Great at the front, awful at the back (probably bad upstairs too)

apparently the sound is best at the soundboard, which sits at the middle of the room

icklekitty wrote:apparently the sound is best at the soundboard, which sits at the middle of the room

I stood there when I went to one of the London shows, with my back to the soundboard and it did proove to be the best sounding show I went to on the tour and had quite a good view (not the best but fine).

Christo wrote:

RedDeath wrote:I meant to ask someone who may know better, but did Ladytron seriously play the same setlist as Wednesday (or maybe even Thurs & Sat?!) It seemed it ... fucking lazy.

They have played the same set list EVERY SINGLE DATE of the European tour

you. have. got. to. be. kidding.............................. cor bejesuuusss!!

It's cause they know noone is really interested in them.

well i'm glad saul williams and the dresden dolls didn't have that attitude!

RedDeath wrote:

Closer wrote:Yeah I know this thread is only for those who attended the show, but I want to ask you if the sound in this venue (Brixton Academy) is good or bad. I'm thinking of making a travel to London in the future so that would be interesting info for me

Great at the front, awful at the back (probably bad upstairs too)

I've never been upstairs, but the sound anywhere downstairs in the Brixton Academy is excellent.

If anyone has any full videos they took via digi cam or anything else let me know i am trying to make a comp video of the 10th and 11th shows for fans along with my audio of the shows if you can help me out with raw footage pm me thanks

#1

The Beginning Of The End - Full Video

Brixton, UK 03-11-2007

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vty0lt


Enjoy

#2

Eraser - Full Video

Brixton, UK 03-11-2007

http://www.sendspace.com/file/z29rix

Enjoy

Video #3

Survivalism - Full Video

Brixton, UK 03-11-2007

http://www.sendspace.com/file/n1rjqn


Enjoy


Video #4

Down In It - Full Video

Brixton, UK 03-11-2007

http://www.sendspace.com/file/d3shwn


Enjoy


Video #5

Starfuckers Inc. - Full Video

Brixton, UK 03-11-2007


http://www.sendspace.com/file/jaunkz

Enjoy

Wow those what good quality vids. Thanks for uploading!

Down In It was such a great performance

This show is available for download at www.ninlive.com

horchata wrote:This show is available for download at www.ninlive.com

Like the site and thank you for keeping my show in flac

ScreamingSlave wrote:

horchata wrote:This show is available for download at www.ninlive.com

Like the site they you for keeping my how in flac

No problem, thanks for recording it! I figure the least i can do is help you share the show.