[quote mikeheenan]Those of you moaning about the O2, you have obviously never been to Wembley Arena, or in fact any other large venue. The O2 was by far and away the best arena venue I've been to. Yes the food and drink was expensive (but it is London after all) however there were no queues, speedy getting in and out, and most importantly the sound was incredible.

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I agree, London arena was a shocking venue, warm beer, ran out of food when you got to the counter, wembley, it's only in the last few years they have let you take drinks into the standing area!!! I'm not an arena fan at all but the O2 i have been to a few times now and it is the best arena london has for gigs.

NIN were amazing last night. Went to Manchester the night before which was awesome, but the london show was immense.

Got some really good photos i'll upload somewhere next week. My credit card hurts a lot from spending loads on merch, all i can say now is roll on sonisphere, i need more nin.

mikeheenan posted:

Those of you moaning about the O2, you have obviously never been to Wembley Arena, or in fact any other large venue. The O2 was by far and away the best arena venue I've been to. Yes the food and drink was expensive (but it is London after all) however there were no queues, speedy getting in and out, and most importantly the sound was incredible.

been to wembley arena plenty of times. it has never taken me (from the advertised door opening time) over two hours to get in there. wembley put that curtain up when not all the tickets are sold. you'll probably find the O2 do a similar thing if they don't sell all their tickets. have to admit the sound at the O2 was better than wembley by a mile. i just don't like arena gigs. there were people up the sides sitting down. what the hell's that all about? who can anyone sit down when nin are playing?

I had no idea that so many awesome tracks could be squeezed into 2 hours - a phenomenal set list for sure. It was also good to hear the music stripped back to basics: less emphasis on synthesis and more raw instrumantals - JMJ's romping bass on 'The Becoming' being a fine example. How 4 guys can make so much awesome noise is just plain mindboggling. Still a tad sore from the pit, I agree it was pretty 'violent' but I didn't see anyone swinging for eachother - gladly!

Some more pics of that night, It was hard to take pics and rock on in my seats in block 111 but i managed it!

Check out the Gary shots

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Fucking wow. Amazing setlist. Thanks Trent.

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mikeheenan posted:

Those of you moaning about the O2, you have obviously never been to Wembley Arena, or in fact any other large venue. The O2 was by far and away the best arena venue I've been to. Yes the food and drink was expensive (but it is London after all) however there were no queues, speedy getting in and out, and most importantly the sound was incredible.

Went to Wembley Arena earlier this year for a Prodigy gig, although the queueing was on a par with last night (you obviously didn't have a ticket for entrance F, that queue was just stupidly long) I'd say Wembley won hands down for everything else. None of this change-your-ticket-for-an-armband-and-then-back-for-a-ticket bollocks. I seem to remember the drinks being slightly better for price (and a better selection), and there were considerably cheaper ways of getting summat to eat at Wembley.

Having been to the same Prodigy gig, I've gotta say I saw things from a totally different angle; The bar we went to there only sold warm bottles of beer for the same price as pints and the queueing system outside was utter rubbish (my mates who went to the other side of the building got in a half hour before us)

Conversely, the 02 was a great venue, apart from the slight delay at pre-sale (not too bad really, apart from the rain), got to keep our tickets (glad too, the pre-sale ones look a helluva lot nicer), got in quickly and easily via the nin.com fast-track queue (a masterstroke if ever there was one), and a great choice of food available (although we didn't go for any)



Shows that no matter how good or bad a venue is, you can still make a great time of it, or come out hating it



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Thank you so much for the night of a lifetime!

It was absolutely incredible! I was 3 rows from the front and everyone was amazing - a really great crowd (if a little rowdy at times!!!)

Jane's were superb - I've never seen them live before and Perry is quite the lil' tooshie wiggler isn't he?!?

I am still in absolute awe that Perry came down to the crowd, smiled at us, and then reached out and grabbed my hand, looked me right in the eye,

and smiling, he shook my hand...!!

***insert fangirl squeal here***

I also managed to reach out and touch Dave Navarro's sweaty bicep.
***fangirl shudder of delight***

I loved the opening video to Jane's (clip from The River Wild "wish I could've seen them before they broke up"...) and then Three Days with the dancing girls.

AWESOMENESS!

And if that wasn't enough!

Nine Inch Nails with an incredible setlist! Trent going wild in the first few minutes and knocking the keyboard off the stage! What a start! Including later further throwing microphones and guitar!!!!

And then... GARY FUCKING NUMAN!!! OH YES!!!!

Metal was amazing and then just when you think the crowd can't possibly go any wilder - Cars begins!

I couldn't breathe during The Hand That Feeds and Head Like a Hole because the crowd were going absolutely crazy jumping about and singing!

And finally Hurt. I cried, I couldn't hold it in any longer. The crowd sang along beautifully, lighters and phones held high, emotions rife.


Thank you so much for this experience.

I will treasure this memory forever.

Love always,
bruised and happy
x x x x x x x x

MsLucy posted:

Thank you so much for the night of a lifetime!

It was absolutely incredible! I was 3 rows from the front and everyone was amazing - a really great crowd (if a little rowdy at times!!!)

Jane's were superb - I've never seen them live before and Perry is quite the lil' tooshie wiggler isn't he?!?

I am still in absolute awe that Perry came down to the crowd, smiled at us, and then reached out and grabbed my hand, looked me right in the eye,

and smiling, he shook my hand...!!

***insert fangirl squeal here***

I also managed to reach out and touch Dave Navarro's sweaty bicep.
***fangirl shudder of delight***

I loved the opening video to Jane's (clip from The River Wild "wish I could've seen them before they broke up"...) and then Three Days with the dancing girls.

AWESOMENESS!

And if that wasn't enough!

Nine Inch Nails with an incredible setlist! Trent going wild in the first few minutes and knocking the keyboard off the stage! What a start! Including later further throwing microphones and guitar!!!!

And then... GARY FUCKING NUMAN!!! OH YES!!!!

Metal was amazing and then just when you think the crowd can't possibly go any wilder - Cars begins!

I couldn't breathe during The Hand That Feeds and Head Like a Hole because the crowd were going absolutely crazy jumping about and singing!

And finally Hurt. I cried, I couldn't hold it in any longer. The crowd sang along beautifully, lighters and phones held high, emotions rife.


Thank you so much for this experience.

I will treasure this memory forever.

Love always,
bruised and happy
x x x x x x x x

3 rows from the front? Grabbed Perry's hand? You must have been right next to me...

I didn't enjoy all the pushing and shoving from the crowd at the begining, but it actually became less and less as the show went on (I started 3rd row from the front, got slowly pushed to 6th, then ended up on the 3rd row again ) but it's what I signed up for when I beelined straight to the front.

I really enjoyed Janes Addiction too, they are brilliant performers, although I diodn't know half the songs and event he ones I did know I couldn't recognise :/

I enjoyed Mews performance too. Everything weas just brilliant!

Best song performance? Non-Entity and La Mer.

AzazelMC posted:

There was a song that sounded like there was a woman o women in the chorus what was it? I can't find it so I'm guessing it sounds completely different in concert than it does on video

Could it have been the "uh-uh uh uh uh-uh uh-uh-uh" during the verse of I'm Afraid Of American's?

Can't think of any chorus's that it could be. Trent sings at a higher octave in Heresy, but again it's the verse.

This is lovely reading everyone's exprssions of excitement and joy ^^ is there anyone here from the indigo2 parties? and where was everyone here during the concert? I LOVED my place.. my friend being scared of heights got us moved the lowest balcony right next to the stage, with backstage views of everyone wandering on and off.. I got very excited when I realised that, but silly Trent face went on and off from a entrance behind the stage I'm very happy that they did La Mer, although it has come up often in the previous setists for this tour, I think, has it? haha. Was praying for In This Twilight, but, we got Gary Numan!

mab92 posted:

I put all the different recordings I took in the night into one video and stuck it on YouTube. It's not great and there's no complete songs, but it's better than nothing I suppose.

[www.youtube.com]

I'm going to check these out now..all you can hear in my recordings is me crying and singing along throatily ¬_¬

ncpl posted:

Did anyone get any footage of the Intro that TR gave to Numan ? Talk about COOL !!!

I second this. Would realy like to get my little hands on a recording of it.

DavePakaPali posted:

[got in quickly and easily via the nin.com fast-track queue

that'll be the queue that didn't move for best part of an hour and a half? there were a lot of pissed off people in that queue where i was.



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wow! i am home now in northamptonshire but went to both Manc and LNDN and wow both were amazing in there own way! mostly of setlists! i am a huge lover of the fragile and to see alot of songs i have never heard before was truly awesome!

London last night however was stunning i cant explain why or how but it was amazing! i could have cried multiple times! Gary newman was awesome! i dont know his work to wel but was amazing to see him!

highlights:
MEN- Way out is through, piggy, la mer,suck, burn,heresy
02- Burn, la mer, BIG COME DOWN, DOWN IN IT, now im nothing, 1000000,

Thank you so much and i will see at knebworth for what could be the last UK/European show! 02 is the best show i am sure i will ever see!

p.s. post show depression is kicking in!

mikeheenan posted:

Those of you moaning about the O2, you have obviously never been to Wembley Arena, or in fact any other large venue. The O2 was by far and away the best arena venue I've been to. Yes the food and drink was expensive (but it is London after all) however there were no queues, speedy getting in and out, and most importantly the sound was incredible.

To put it in perspective, Wembley arena used to curtain off the last third of the hall because it was too big, and roll the seating on the back wall forward. The roof was twice as high, so they compensated for the shocking acoustics by turning the volume up, causing the seated people to go deaf in one ear.

Yes it would be better if the band were playing in an academy 1/4 the capacity, or in your living room, but then people would have had to missed out, annoying if that was you right?

NIN presale line moved pretty quick, shame there were 3 ticketmaster booths open doing nothing. Certainly had much worse experiences trying to pick up tickets on the door. They let me keep my presale ticket when I got my wristband, although it does seem a rather odd system.

Jane's put on a good show, however it was a shame Perry used the echo effect thing on his voice for the entire set, kindda garbled the verse parts to make the words indecipherable to anyone that doesnt know their stuff by heart.

NIN = Perfect of course.

Incredible night. Thanks.

to comment further on mikeheenan bit on why they werent in a smaller venue, maybe it is because we dont get the epic productions over here and so arenas can have that production. im sure brixtons roof cant hold all those lights....

so u get intimate or production cannot have both!?

2xtdg5 posted:

to comment further on mikeheenan bit on why they werent in a smaller venue, maybe it is because we dont get the epic productions over here and so arenas can have that production. im sure brixtons roof cant hold all those lights....

so u get intimate or production cannot have both!?

its also probably down to scheduling - they probably couldn't fit 4 nights at brixton in. despite my moaning about the venue and getting in to it, i guess at least lots of people were able to enjoy the performance.