NIN

[Calm Like A Bomb]

I was at CSS when NIN played, and I don't regret it. NIN are a pretty dull band live (though great if I'm in the right mood) but CSS in the NME tent was like a giant party, it was the most fun performance of the weekend.

[Englishdragon]

Am I the only person who wasn't completely mesmerised by NIN in 2007? I mean, yeah, it was a good show but I'd seen them earlier that week and I was too excited about the Pumpkins to fully take it in.

[dan666]

Awful last time, barely anybody watched. Not worth a slot.

[VCK]

Sorry, I didn't mean I was questioning you and your very good taste

[thomasowen]

Gayest thing i have heard. Too say they are dull is bullshit. You was not there so how can you comment. There stage and light show was the best that weekend. Rather that than some Brazilian tart taking her clothes off and prancing about.

[eFestivals]

please stop with the homophobic use of 'gay'. It won't be tolerated on this website, end of.

[dakyras]

snigger.

Edited February 6, 2009 by dakyras

[dan666]

If having fun at a music festival is gay then so be it. I would rather be enjoying myelf than stuck at the far end of a muddy field watching some pretentious 'light show'. I saw NIN not that long before the festival and they were good, I did not feel like seeing them again so soon when a band I hadn't seen were playing elswhere.

They can be very dull. Their very much like Radiohead in the respect that they have some brilliant highs and some boring lows. I have seen all the bands you have mentioned and NIN are easily the most boring live. Pearl Jam and Rage are the best bands I've ever seen live, Smashing Pumpkins were good in 07, if a little disapointing and RHCP we're less than brilliant at Leeds, but awsome on another occasion.

[worm]

I have no interest in the debate. If they play, I'll go. Everything else can f**k off.

They've got Robin Finck back too. So it'll be a very different Nine Inch Nails to the last one. More likely to be this guise............

Edited February 9, 2009 by worm

[Simpo]

NIN took the screen idea from the European tour of 2007 and expanded it massively.

[t8yman]

they are looking VERY likely to play sonisphere. VERY likely indeed.

[worm]

they are looking VERY likely to play sonisphere. VERY likely indeed.

[worm]

NIN took the screen idea from the European tour of 2007 and expanded it massively.

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Edited February 10, 2009 by worm

[dan666]

Awesome videos there.

[eFestivals]

NIN are playing Sonisphere. Will be announced sometime soonish.

[dan666]

Noooooooooooo. I canne afford it

[ALLHALLOWS]

NIN are playing Sonisphere. Will be announced sometime soonish.

[rivalschools.price]

as the same company runs reading/leeds and download,it makes sense for them to put the best bands at download to sell more tickets as reading/leeds is guaranteed to sell out anyway.

[she bangs the drums]

NIN to tour with Jane's Addiction, but only in the US

Towards the beginning of my career in Nine Inch Nails, our biggest break came in the form of an invitation to perform a series of shows with Jane's Addiction. These performances essentially created and defined the term "alternative" rock in the US, created an ongoing festival franchise that is still thriving (Lollapalooza), set the stage for Nirvana to shift popular taste a few months later, and were really f**king FUN to play and attend - truly the best times I've had. The shows were epic. So epic, they propelled NIN to the "next level" (whatever that means), but caused Jane's to implode. The band broke up at the end of that tour.

Fast forward to the present. Corporate rock STILL sucks. A friend tells me they saw the original Jane's lineup play a tiny show in LA that was unbelievable. I break out my Jane's records and am amazed by how vital they sound. These guys were the real deal and in this current climate mostly dominated by poseurs and pussies it was refreshing to hear something that sounded dangerous, volatile, beautiful and SINCERE.

Emails were sent, phone calls were made, dinner was arranged, ideas were discussed and the next thing I know we're in the studio experimenting. We laugh, we get to know each other, we cry, we yell, we almost quit, we record LOTS of guitar solos, we discuss, we actually begin to all communicate, we yell some more, we become FRIENDS, we laugh again and we do some great things. I get to see first hand why they broke up all those years ago but I also get the chance to see four distinct personalities that become an INCREDIBLE band when they're in the same room.

In NIN world, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of our first releases. I've been thinking for some time now it's time to make NIN disappear for a while. Last year's "Lights in the Sky" tour was something I'm quite proud of and seems like the culmination of what I could pull off in terms of an elaborate production. It was also quite difficult to pull off technically and physically night after night and left us all a bit dazed. After some thought, we decided to book a last run of shows across the globe this year. The approach to these shows is quite different from last year - much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted. Fun for us and a different way for you to see us and wave goodbye. I reached out to Jane's to see if they'd want to join us across the US and we all felt it could be a great thing. Will it work? Will it resonate in the marketplace? Who knows. Are there big record label marketing dollars to convince you to attend? Nope.

Does it feel right to us and does it seem like it will be fun for us and you? Yes it does.

Look for tour dates soon and I hope to see you out there.

[ALLHALLOWS]

as the same company runs reading/leeds and download,it makes sense for them to put the best bands at download to sell more tickets as reading/leeds is guaranteed to sell out anyway.

Edited February 17, 2009 by ALLHALLOWS

[worm]

In NIN world, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of our first releases. I've been thinking for some time now it's time to make NIN disappear for a while. Last year's "Lights in the Sky" tour was something I'm quite proud of and seems like the culmination of what I could pull off in terms of an elaborate production. It was also quite difficult to pull off technically and physically night after night and left us all a bit dazed. After some thought, we decided to book a last run of shows across the globe this year. The approach to these shows is quite different from last year - much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted. Fun for us and a different way for you to see us and wave goodbye. I reached out to Jane's to see if they'd want to join us across the US and we all felt it could be a great thing. Will it work? Will it resonate in the marketplace? Who knows. Are there big record label marketing dollars to convince you to attend? Nope.

[worm]

NIN are playing Sonisphere. Will be announced sometime soonish.

[beLIEveR]

I get to see them either way so I'm happy.

Haven't completely ruled them out of R&L, purely because we know they're in Europe in August. We'll have to wait and see I suppose.

[she bangs the drums]

Want Josh Freese to join your band? Got $75,000?

Chatting with Josh Freese on the phone for five minutes: $50.

Floating in a sensory-deprivation tank with Josh Freese, followed by dinner at Sizzler: $500.

Getting a signed snare from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour + dinner with Marilyn Manson bassist Twiggy Ramirez at Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n’ Waffles + you get to drive off with Josh Freese’s Volvo station wagon: $10,000.

Taking shrooms and cruising Hollywood with Danny Carey of Tool in his Lamborghini, then having Josh Freese join your band for a month: $75,000.

Josh Freese’s hilarious list of supposedly legit limited-edition packages for his next solo album, Since 1972: priceless.

“Uhhh … dude … who’s Josh Freese?”

OK, so most people probably don’t know Josh Freese, even those who live in his various Southern California stomping grounds.

Freese, a native Floridian who came of age in Orange County and currently resides in Long Beach, is a drumming virtuoso who has risen from being a 12-year-old prodigy backing a Top 40 covers band on the Tomorrowland Terrace at Disneyland to becoming one of the most sought-after session sticksmen in the biz.

He’s an official member of three bands: the Vandals (since 1989), Devo (since 1995) and, should it ever reconvene, A Perfect Circle (since 2000). (Since 1972, by the way, refers to when he was born, on Christmas Day.)

But he has played on more than 250 albums for almost as many artists, and of every stripe: Chris Cornell, Clay Aiken, Rob Zombie, Avril Lavigne, Rhett Miller, Puddle of Mudd, the Offspring, Kelly Clarkson, Good Charlotte, Daughtry, Ween, Gavin Rossdale, Katy Perry.

He was Nine Inch Nails‘ drummer for the past three years. He was (technically) Guns N’ Roses‘ drummer for three fairly inactive years at the end of the ’90s, and he contributed to Chinese Democracy, including co-writing the title track. He provided drums for the two new Replacements tracks on the 2006 compilation Don’t You Know Who I Think I Was? He backed Sting at Live 8.

Now, nine years after his solo debut The Notorious One Man Orgy, he’s adding a sophomore title to his resume. Like its predecessor, Since 1972 once again finds Freese playing virtually everything. Unlike its predecessor, it will come in 11 different incarnations.

Digital downloads are available starting March 24 exclusively at Freese’s site, for $7. The $15 CD/DVD combo arrives in stores April 14.

And then there are all these crazy special editions … some of which are wisely limited to just one very wealthy purchaser … while others are kinda crazily conceived. For $250, in addition to the combo, a T-shirt and a signed drum head and drumsticks, 25 different buyers will get to have lunch with Freese at either PF Chang’s or The Cheesecake Factory.

And there seems to be no limit on how many people can buy a five-minute call.

Here’s the complete rundown:

$7

Digital download of Since 1972, including 3 videos

$15

CD/DVD double-disc set

Digital download

$50

CD/DVD double-disc set

T-shirt

“Thank you” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like “Is Maynard really THAT weird?” or “Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?” or “Are Devo really suburban robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of dads from Ohio?” or “Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?” It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.

$250 (limited edition of 25)

Signed CD/DVD and digital download

T-shirt

Signed drum head and drumsticks

Go on a lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you’re into)

$500 (limited edition of 15)

Signed CD/DVD and digital download

T-shirt

Signed cymbal and sticks

Meet Josh in Venice, Calif., and go floating together in a sensory-deprivation tank (to be filmed and posted on YouTube)

Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 steak and “all you can eat” shrimp on)

$1,000 (limited edition of 10)

Signed CD/DVD and digital download

T-shirt

Signed cymbal, drum head and drumsticks

Josh washes your car OR does your laundry … or you can wash his car

Have dinner with Josh aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif.

Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on YouTube, of course)

$2,500 (limited edition of 5)

Signed CD/DVD and digital download

Get a private drum lesson with Josh, or for all you non-drummers, have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)

Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or Devo (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the Spearmint Rhino

Signed DW snare drum

Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)

Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)

$5,000 (limited edition of 3)

Signed CD/DVD and digital download

T-shirt

Josh writes a song about you and makes it available on iTunes

Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the YouTubes

Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland

Get drunk together. If you don’t drink, we can go to my dad’s place and hang out under the “Tuba tree”

Stone Gossard from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on Since 1972

$10,000 (limited edition of 1)

Signed CD/DVD and digital download

T-shirt

Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour

Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)

Twiggy from Marilyn Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n’ Waffles in Long Beach for dinner

Josh takes you and a guest to Club 33 (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above Pirates of the Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterward (preferably the Tiki Room, the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror)

At the end of the day at Disneyland, drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours … take it. Just drop him off on your way home, though, please.

$20,000 (limited edition of 1)

Signed CD/DVD and digital download

T-shirt

A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour

Maynard James Keenan, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on YouTube)

Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd Street where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining Nirvana. See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted at using a Fake ID when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals’ old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg’s high school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live. For another $25 he’ll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut.

Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the “Ghosts and Legends” tour. (Separate rooms … no spooning.)

Josh writes 2 songs about you and both are made available on iTunes and appear on his next record (you can sing back up on ‘em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever)

Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again … couples welcome and discreet parking available)

Pick any 3 items out of Josh’s closet

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)

Signed CD/DVD and digital download

T-shirt

Go on tour with Josh for a few days

Have Josh write, record and release a 5-song EP about you and your life story

Take home any of his drum sets (only one, but you can choose which one)

Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from Tool’s Lamborghini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while

Josh will join your band for a month … play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.

If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4-day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)

Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)

If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a U.S. resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks

Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna