Oh, come on! ( . . There must be a reason, maybe has to do with the 12 kittens Trent sacrificed on stage that day. Maybe. )
I could see how having a big production could make some difference, but I don't really see how having an impressive arena show would attract a large group of people to see a festival show without that production. I mean, it's possible, but it wouldn't exactly be something to shoot for.
How many times this year has TR mangled the lyrics to TGD? I know it started in Tokyo, but I just heard the Zurich recording and he completely tripped over nodding your head and watching with those shiny satellites.
Looking at the IG, it seems the Rock im Park cameras were active during NIN's set. Perhaps a recording might sneak out on the bootleg circuit.
Last edited by FULLMETAL; 06-07-2014 at 11:22 PM.
He does not hate the 800 million people in Europe or hate Germany (which is probably the coolest country in the world in 2014) and has not brutally condemned our culture, Georgraphy, way of life or civilization, (only our food and bipolar weather) stop being over dramatic. his team have found it hard to judge NINs size here, which fluctuates yearly. Its grueling touring Europe definitely especially if its for two months like the 2007 tour. And then you have to play all those awful heavy metal festivals which stink of shit and piss and the food gives you cancer, and where only 10 percent of the people want to see NIN.
I think his European experiences would have been better had he been able to have a better communication with the continent, in the UK over the past 25 years it has been easier than say France or Germany or Italy or Russia but then booking 6 Arenas in the UK for NIN to play was absurd, when most of them were around 50 percent capacity. Something is not right. Its always been a weird situation with NIN, they have a cult following here are big in the U.S across the pond but with terrible record labels, shady managers, long absences from the industry, general bad communication with whats going on here its hard to judge what to do.
Plus, pretty much the majority of Trent's musical influences seem to be British, Bowie, Queen, Joy Division, Numan, lots of the synth pop stuff, Throbbing Gristle, the Cure, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd etc etc. I know this is nothing to do with success over here, but suggests lack of hatred for Europe?
They seemed to really randomly go down a storm at the RocknHeim German festival last year, like everyone just seemed up for it. Reading 2007 seemed a pretty successful billing, personally I don't see why they didn't headline then over Smashing Pumpkins
Last edited by WorzelG; 06-08-2014 at 01:11 AM.
Does anyone have the set list for the second show in Germany?
I like Ilan because he really seems to appreciate the culture, food, and touring in Europe. He walked all day around in Vienna today and took a ton of instagram pics.
Beside You in Time got some nifty new visuals.. different from the stripped down previous shows:
(THANKS TOIOU)
Last edited by LOVEANDZOMBIES; 06-09-2014 at 02:19 AM.
My biggest gripe with this tour is that they haven't performed BYIT as often as they should have. I found myself rolling my eyes whenever I heard Eraser kicking in at my last two shows.
Also as previously established, those visuals aren't a patch on the ultra-creepy Psycho lights of 2007
I hope he plays Reptile tonight.
What song is this from?
Small commercial break: I have uploaded an improved version of my 2014 European "tour documentary" / "patchwork show" in the Download Archive thread.
If you can ignore the patchwork nature in terms of visuals and audio - and live with YouTube quality - it is IMHO quite enjoyable as a document of this tour's production.
http://www.echoingthesound.org/commu...353#post190353