Nine Inch Nails - submitted by : Claire Randle

Nine Inch Nails
Other Stage
23:00 Friday 23rd June 2000

If I hear one more person say - well he wasnt on for very long or - he didn't do much of an encore I will have to spear them with the very nice lip spike that I recently perchased from a cracking festival (now what was it
called...?) For all the people Lucky enough to be there - you witnessed the first UK concert in over five years that NIN have actually done!! I dont know - maybe the reason they rushed off so quickly probably had something to do with the gig they were doing the very next day in Germany (and the next and the next etc) - or who knows - maybe they never sleep ?

The build up was absolute hell music form comparitivley second rate bands poisened our ears.But eventually our patience was rewarded. From the second NIN stepped onto the stage (coverd in what looked like corn flour?! -
accidents happen I suppose!!?) I was enthralled by the sheer amount of stage prescence one man alone could have - the man of course Trent Reznor. Often labelled the moodiest wanker in rock I dont think one person in the whole 'spiky collared' audience gave a toss what had been said - this man was a God !! Thumping pumping heart bursting industrial rock beats teamed with that haunting (occasionally gravelly) perfect pitched voice we all know and love. he introduced 'head like a hole' as an old song - perhaps forgetting that songs like closer are now nearly 7 years old ! ( I personally made no comment !)

In addition to 'Close' (whos lyrics incidentally were pumped out loudly and with precision) they played terrible lie, march of the pigs err piggy and the new single (as usual only to be released in the USA) Starfuckers inc. All songs played were soaked in effort and energy. One things for sure Nine inch nails enjoy there music and do not take it for granted.The whole set was played with as much jest and life as each and every memeber of the band
could muster - and in turn, I thank them for a concert that will forever be in my memory.

review sent in by
Claire Randle