Krystal posted:

and here's the photo you've all been waiting for....hahaha

frgt_10 posted:

pyromance posted:

^ Aha thats cute...

Just realised the only one song each from Year Zero and The Slip got played... None from Ghosts... Oh well...

yep and only one from with teeth as well

shrewkat posted:

What's this Trent on a chair business thing? That picture isn't loading.

And I'm alternating between smiling inanely in public and grieving.
Thank you ii53, whoever you are, you are helping tremendously.
Thank heavens for Youtube.

ellehcim89 posted:

Relistening to the show via Youtube. Sometimes I just hate it when bands play better live; I can't have the same sound at home.

shrewkat posted:

See? See!? This is getting to be a problem, this compulsive posting and googling in an attempt to relive it.


Anyway, I present to you... an online review of the gig. A few pictures from LAMC of the gig are on the site.

Link

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Online Only - Nine Inch Nails concert review

Trent Reznor nails it on the head
by Christopher Toh
08:10 PM Aug 11, 2009

I MUST admit to not being a big Nine Inch Nails (NIN) fan. I know what I like - five songs - and I like what I know. That's about it. And NIN was a band I liked half a lifetime ago.

I'm usually wary about watching bands perform after their so-called heyday, because it might just spoil that mental image that I have of them. And you can't avoid comparing their present with their past.

For instance, when we saw the pictures of Trent Reznor now - beefy and built-up - as compared with his scrawny frame a decade ago (he was Marilyn Manson before Marilyn Manson) we couldn't help but wonder if his music would also change from being scathing and slashing to chunky and clunky.

But if there was one thing that stood out gig at Fort Canning Park on Monday night, it was how Reznor was seemingly incapable of tiring. Especially since the concert consisted of the band performing song-after-song with nary any space to breathe.

A couple of "thank you"s was all he said throughout the show. But that was fine by the crowd on the hill, who lapped up every distorted syllable, every deafening beat and every dissonant note. After all, they'd come to hear Nine Inch Nails perform, not watch a chat show.

Reznor led the band through a set-list that contained their hits Closer, Hurt, Head Like A Hole and their collaboration with David Bowie, I'm Afraid Of Americans. The stage lighting was set to "blinding", and it seemed able to light up a HDB block, I think.

People bopped their heads, had their arms raised, and cavorted where they could. Not even the nearness of the speakers - set to "deafening" - deterred the crowd at the front of the stage from enjoying themselves. Such that, when the concert ended just over two hours later, the fans still demanded more.

It was fun to see people letting loose and just prancing about uninhibited. It was fun to see both middle-aged admirers and tweeny-bopper fans enjoying themselves. And the sheer energy transmitted by the band was obviously catching - I wouldn't have stood up for two hours at a stretch otherwise.

Now, if I only can stop my ears from ringing.

Great pic, Mel and Stu!

FreeFallin posted:

dwcw posted:

pyromance posted:

The show is now history!

I feel so bittersweet.

Anyway. How often does Trent take off his shirt on stage?

Yeah, was surprised when he took off his shirt. Haha, first time I saw a half-naked TR.
Nevertheless, it was a spectacular show.

I'm pretty sure he actually threw his shirt into the crowd, as well. . .

wayne310 posted:

i also felt very bittersweet after i came back home last nite.....i termed it as 'post-NIN concert syndrome'

after u feel so high..u can only feel low.

ellehcim89 posted:

Krystal posted:

It's amazing to read such a detailed review of a concert that I couldn't agree less with. The crowd was so bloody mellow that I thought we had all arrived a day early for Lady Gaga or some crap! It's hard to believe that an out door concert could be deafening and blinding. We all have to grow up at some stage in our life and I for one respect what Trent has become.... the music still rocks

I guess it can't be helped that majority (probably) of the locals don't grow up listening to rock, let alone industrial rock.