liuw posted:

I bought the flight ticket and fly across the pacific ocean to see NIN play at my home country. Taiwan is not like Japan which many bands will visit ocassionally. And most importantly this is the VERY FUCKING LAST TOUR!!!

The probelm seems to be on the promoter's side, they did not know how to run a big festival and concert and almost broken after some events this year. Music fans in Taiwan love soft stuff. brit-pop/indie is the way to go for many independent music fans. For example, Mew just left Taiwan and they sold more tickets than NIN, in the same venue. So my guess is that perhaps they have to cancel the show to stop financial loss. That's the rumor I heard from some local people.

I Believe Trent is not a guy to cancel a show without any serious reason. The promoter did not specifically explain nothing so far. It's a pity that people in Taiwan don't have a chance see them play live. Some of my friends in Taiwan have been waiting for more than 10 years.

Maybe there're not too many Taiwanese here, but it totally sucks. I feel sooooo sad especially I scored nothing for the LA final shows......

I can't agree with you more....

This really sucks, and the promoter seems doesn't want to explain...

I'm so sad and angry right now. I've been a NIN fan for ten years. It makes me cry when thinking that I will never have a chance to see NIN in my life....



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/08/2009 07:51AM by kornydana.

I can't even begin to describe how depressed I am. I've been a NIN fan for 14 years (since I was 14!!) and have never seen Trent live I lived at the END of Canada (way out in the middle of nowhere east) and now I live in the middle of no where Asia. The news that NIN was coming here was the most incredible news ever. I'm so crushed that I'm never going to get to see NIN live. Why didn't I buy tickets for Singapore??????

I'm considering going broke to try to see the Seoul show. I found tickets for around 22,000NTD but I can't find a way to get tickets in English from the seller's website kljdflskdfjksdfjldskfjsldkfjlskdfjsdklf

C_DAIGLE:

22,000 NTD$ Do it dude. It will be worth it. (unless that show gets cancelled too...sigh...) Where in Taiwan are you now? I'm up in Jhongli... I'm Canadian also... I'm so bummed out by this too... but at least I had a chance to see them a couple of years ago... So dude, GO. TO. KOREA.

KTBee: The typhoon has already passed Taiwan and it wasn't such a bad one.

yvonne_1980 posted:

NOOOOO!!!!
I'm flying from Australia to Taipei for this! Have bought flights, accomm, just to see them. Have been SOO excited...and now this

...no other words to express :-(

I feel your pain from all the way over here.

God, guys, i'm so sorry for you - the people there and the people traveling.

Well shit happens. We love you Trent.

this must suck soooo bad for people with tickets :|

im sorry for you guys

yvonne_1980 posted:

NOOOOO!!!!
I'm flying from Australia to Taipei for this! Have bought flights, accomm, just to see them. Have been SOO excited...and now this

...no other words to express :-(

holy shit that sucks soooooo hard, i was thinking of doing something similar, couldn't afford it though. I don't even know what to say, such a shit situation for you or anyone

Damn, I had butterflies when I started reading that. Just had a show get canceled that I'd been looking forward to quite a bit...had a bad feeling that might be #2.

I'm very, very sorry for you guys. That absolutely sucks.

Damn. It's just beginning to sink in for me what a big deal this cancellation is. Not for me so much as I am already here in Taiwan (not that I'm not totally saddened by it) but for what it meant for other people.

The tickets went on sale in May. At the time, the August 12th show was listed as being the last live NIN show possibly ever. Now for people living outside of Taiwan, seeing not only the last NIN show of a tour but possibly the last NIN show ever, that's a pretty big deal. So, many people scraped together money to book hotels and flights to see something that would have been, to us fans, really special. I think, considering the following that NIN has, there should have been some anticipation that there would be people flying out for the final NIN concert. I'm sure people who were flying out for the concert didn't plan on flying out to Taiwan at the last minute... They would have had to have planned this probably months in advance. That's a lot of money for some people. At least, it certainly would be for me.

My point is, this is not just a matter which can be solved by refunding tickets and saying sorry for any 'inconvenience' because flying all the way to Taiwan for a show and to just have it canceled 4 days before the show is more than just an inconvenience. On the site where tickets can be purchased, (tickets can no longer be purchased within 7 days of the show..so they aren't being sold there) there is not even a posting as to the cancellation of the show. There are no add from Straight House Music, that I have seen, announcing the cancellation and unless you are checking nin.com regularly, it is unlikely people will be easily aware of the cancellation just as it wasn't easy for people to become aware of the concert when it was first announced. I really hope that Straight House steps up and really puts it out in the news so perhaps other people, who might still have the chance to cancel flights to Taiwan can do so.

This morning, I went down to the train station and 2 record stores still had posters up for the show. And yes, they were both open yesterday, so this wasn't a matter of them having not being open yesterday because of the typhoon ( I asked.) I went in and had them check straighthousemusic.com ... They weren't even aware that the show had been canceled. I can't speak for NIN, but I would put money down that they are not pleased with how this has affected a lot of people.

C'mon Straight House, get off your asses and put the word out!

I am up to anything you guys want to do, when arriving to Taipei.
I've been living in this shitty country for 7 year, and I can tell I was expecting something like this from the promoter company.

I have sent email messages directly to the people involved on this concert, here in Taipei, and we didn't receive any answer from them. Another funny thing, the company in charge of selling the tickets, doesn't work during weekends and their 0800 number is down...

I did a research on StraightMusic, and they had a history of loosing money on concerts and then doing this kind of shitty tactics for some shows. The question is, not that they are giving back the money, but how they used that money for other purposes until now.

For the people who has to come to Taipei, let's arrange something that day and celebrate as true NIN fans!

marodi posted:

Tyrone_Slothrop posted:

That totally sucks... My friends and I were so looking forward to seeing you guys in Taipei on Wednesday. We had been planning for this concert for months. I am so glad that I flew out to Hong Kong a couple years back to see you... But this would have been the perfect end to the summer. I guess Taiwan will never have their chance to see you guys perform.. Good luck in the future, Trent!

I like you. This totally sucks for you guys but instead of coming in here shouting insults at everyone, you're taking this like a reasonable person. A lot of people could learn from you!

I'm very sorry for those who had planned to see this show, though!

Timely...!

Just signed up to say somethin.

I am jack's disappointed nutsack, that just got kicked instead of licked.

This was thee most depressing news possible this weekend. Like someone just said in a larger post, my girlfriend and I have been planning this since June and barely scraped the money together in time to get tickets and everything set! I even had to make her pay half. But she was totally willing! When I met her she was already a big Deftones and Marilyn Manson fan, for some reason she'd never heard of NIN and so needless to say she's fallen in love and NIN has been a big part of our relationship. When I told her about this, she was as excited as me. We've been giddy about it this the past week as it's gotten closer. *sighhh*

I've only seen them once. Almost ten years ago. After that they didn't tour forever and when they started back up I started moving around and ended up in ASIA. So I've been missing all these amazing tours of my favorite fucking band and it's been killing me. When I found out this was going to be the "last" tour, there was nothing that was going to stop me. I made it happen and I was pretty proud of myself.

We're in Bangkok, Thailand. We could've gone to the Singapore show, would rather have gone to Singapore for lots of reasons, Taiwan has never been on my list of places to GO, BUT the Taipei concert just HAPPENED to coincide with the beginning of a long weekend here. So rather than miss work and get docked, it was cheaper to fly a little father away. And fuck it, it's Nine Inch Nails! I would watch em at the TAIPEI Landfill if I could get there!

Anyway. The super shitty part of this is--I don't know yet if we'll be able to get a refund on our tickets. Probably not, but the agency wants to talk to the airline first about "conditions." But right there you have a paradox: BECAUSE we go for the cheapest tickets possible (implying we don't have much money), we leave our asses hanging out the most making us liable to be screwed, whereas if you buy full price then your ass is covered and you'll get a refund no problem, when for you "money's just a thang!" Oh the Irony. That's not the super shitty part. The super shitty part is the agency can't talk to the airlines til tomorrow and IF they did give us a refund, we probably wouldn't get the money back in time to say Fuck Work and book the flight to SINGAPORE and do that show INSTEAD! If they had announced this travesty a day or two earlier, it might've given me enough fucking time to get my shit worked out and NOT HAVE A COMPLETE LIFE-SUCKING LOSS ON MY HANDS. RRRRRRRRRGH!

God this sucks the big one. Anyway, if we can't get a refund on flights/accommadtion and all that, it looks like we'll be flyin out there on Wednesday. If you guys wanna meet up...you can probably count us in. It could be fun. We've been moping ALL Weekend here, having some smidgen of a positive experience come out of this might be nice.

Thanks for reading this if you did. I really wish Trent, Straight House, whoever knew what a big blow this was to the hearts and minds of some of us and could do something to make us feel better. I really really wish it. It physically hurts to think this was our one (last) chance. Too bad to be true. Too bad to be true.

peace

kj

Yesterday, August 8, was my mother's funeral in Tainan, yes, day of the typhoon. Now we are in the south, Kaohsiung and Kenting, for four days of "vacation", howling winds and torrential rains...We just found out the NIN concert( six tickets bought in March sent to Paris, France where we live) is cancelled for Wednesday...this absolutely SUCKS. We were looking forward to this last concert as fans and as an exceptional event for Taipei and Taiwan. For those who decided to cancel the show, if this is a question of money over music, SHAME ON YOU.