ETS Tour Journal

Setlist was:

Pinion
Mr. Self Destruct
Sin
Terrible Lie
March Of The Pigs
Something I Can Never Have
The Frail
The Wretched
Closer
Burn
Wish
Help Me I Am In Hell
Eraser
La Mer
Into The Void
No You Don't
Survivalism
Only
You Know What You Are
Gave Up
Hurt
Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole

Great show! Trent's voice was amazing. Very hard start, people went wild! Still have some bruises! Nice sound in Columbiahalle. Aaron was flying as usual. I'm sure I saw him playing up side down! His legs were in the air!

I also saw some filming up the whole thing, so I hope there will be some bootlegs. Outstanding concert! I was blown away! Anyway, Im tired and I'm going to bed.

was in first row dead center and experienced perhaps the best nin show i ever saw! don't want to write much in english, but here's some pictures a friend of mine made from the balcony of the venue:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7572085@N0 ... 027717088/

some pics out of 65:

Amazing show, though some technical problems, it was even better than saturday. I'm sure, someone will upload Trent's speech about "beating us into submission", soon

That show was great too, but on Saturday the crowd was more freaky than tonight. In the middle of "Something I can never have", the lightning went on. That was strange and all the guys on Stage looked a bit confused to each other.
After the song Trent said that smth like "The crew fucked up" He was def. pissed but fortunately the concert and show rocked on.
Also Trent said, that they had the possibility walking around in Berlin and it's is a cool place. I guess that was before they played Survivalism.

He also said (but may I'm wrong) that he will be back soon and now help me "There will be another record coming out end of the year????

Great show!
My personal highlight was Burn. It was just insane.
Didn't even realized the problems with the light during 'Something I can never have'.
I guess I was to much in to it.

A problem with the lights during 'Something I Can Never Have"? Really? I didn't noticed anything... But then I was half-dead of happiness, so maybe I just didn't pay attention to technical problems.

Anyway, there were three fuck-heads under the stage, all very drunk - the things that they did up there weren't nice. Assholes! Sure, lets rock on a concert, but please a little respect for other people!

Ow, and there was a polish flag on the balcony with a note: "Year Zero: the time has come for Poland" or something like that.

Trent threw his tambourine. The guy in front of me got it. They tried to break it into pieces, so more people could have something from it. -_- But they couldn't.

Emi wrote:A problem with the lights during 'Something I Can Never Have"? Really? I didn't noticed anything...

he had to light himself with a small flashlight until the usual lighting came back to work:

i was at the balcony with a group of my friends from poland. we actually had two flags, one that was mentioned here, year zero time for poland, and the second, with art is resistance logo on it. they were meant to do sth about nin's refusal to come to poland. probably won't work anyway

really great show, better then 24.03. i got a backstage pass, but none of nin showed up, only aaron passed me by on his way to a bar. i congratulated him and he said thank you very much. i talked to one of the popo guys, he was quite nice and funny. it is quite frustrating that backstage is not what it used to be, in eg astoria march 30 2005.

How did you get the pass? Oo

i smiled

>How did you get the pass?

in 2005 they were giving aways backstage passes also... a friend of mine got one, I went with her to the entrance of the backstage to check out how it was...

by incredible coincidence all people with passes were good looking girls, including my friend.

She did not even ask for a pass, she was just given one by a guy at the entrance...

hope this solves the mistery

Kickass show. Very energetic. Some technical problems.
You german guys are insane crowders.
North sucks.

A really great concert!


i made a video of Burn+beginning of Wish with digicam:

http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=Q81DYWQ4

"...kick you to submission..."

This is Trent's speech in Berlin. A big THANK YOU to Ella!!!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YMUPHRFT

If you want to be really pissed off, read this article on NIN which was published in "Die Welt Online". It's one of the worst articles I've ever read and most of it is just not true.

http://www.welt.de/fernsehen/article777 ... Nails.html

Please feel free to flame me if you think I should have posted it elsewhere.

thanx for posting this link - i've never seen such a bullshit before and left a big "Fuck You" on their page!!!

"If you want to be really pissed off, read this article on NIN which was published in "Die Welt Online". It's one of the worst articles I've ever read and most of it is just not true."

Do you think you could sum it up briefly for someone who doesn't understand German? Cheers

its a review for nin.
"you don't need much to be unhappy"
"reznor got beaten up as kid"
"too late for the end of industry"
"a picture of wailing"
"apocalypse again with nine inch nails"
just some headlines, not in order.

to wrap it up a little bit:
intro:
"pop concerts used to be a bright spectacle, but colorful stage shows were never considered as right by reznor.
reznor seemed terrified on stage, he appeared as a crow when only one light was on him."

a commet about the album:
"it doesn't need much to be unhappy. his new record is titled "year zero". the world will end in 2022 AGAIN.
if you follow the trails (ARG) of the album on the net, you might find ridiculous conspiracy theories."

commet on the crowd:
"if you look at the crowd, you might find a lot of tied up women and guys with strange clothing. the musical style came too late for the popculture of today.
nine inch nails used to play in industry-halls back in the 90s"

comment on music:
"the music sounds like industry-noise. 5 light blubs above the five bandmembers show a picture of wailing creatures. (never met north boy, eh?) reznor, 41, still seems like a very talented, angry teenager. "

outro:
"he spent his early life getting beaten up and playing the piano. he produced the antichrist- MM, lived in the house sharon tate was murdered and did the music for the shooter "Quake" and for the movie "Natural Born Killers". from the 90s the picture of kurt cobain remains. trent did stay alive. there are no buses filled with goths in front of his house anymore, and his music doesn't get played at S&M meetings anymore. but he did what was the hardest thing in his life: he did continue."

i pointed out the most insulting passages.

i transcribed that for this thread, if somebody incorporates that transcript in his post, i would be a happy guy. because i didn't attend at this show, i want you to do that, then you might delete my funny little post.

my comment: fuck welt fucking online.

I don't think this shitty critic attended the show either. I say NOT TRUE to every single line in the article.

Just got back to life after the show :)

Great one! Managed to get places at first row circle just vis a vis the stage and spread polish flags that were mentioned earlier :)

He also said (but may I'm wrong) that he will be back soon and now help me "There will be another record coming out end of the year????

Wasn't that said on 24.03? I remember to talk about it with my friends which wasn't on the concert at 25.03. But yea, i remember my thought: "WTF is he talking about" :D :D

Yes - it's totally true that Aaron was playing upside-down :) Additionally he kicked water bottle so strong it got to hit circle railings!

Anyway, there were three fuck-heads under the stage, all very drunk - the things that they did up there weren't nice. Assholes! Sure, lets rock on a concert, but please a little respect for other people!

I was very surprised to see so many stone-dead drunken people... When we were waiting for imagedumonde I've seen ambulance and girl being carried out from the venue. She was unconscious and covered in blue bruises - don't know if she was so drunk or so destroyed by the crowd - probably both - but that's the best way to describe Berlin crowd - fucking insane - in the bad way...

Personally I'll never attend NIN gig in Berlin and probably in Germany - got one hardcore crowd war 2 years ago and another 24th - I was happy to stand on the circle at 25th and was enjoying the show - not trying to stay alive... I'm not a small little man, and I've got no problems standing 3rd row whole concert in London 07.03, so there's Berlin crowd picture - IMO fucking HOGS!

EDIT:
Aww, and greetings to guy in red t-shirt that was trying to convince me to jump from the circle after the show ended. He was so surprised to hear that is was my 4th concert of this tour and even more surprised to get to know there are lots of ppl attending 10 or more shows :)

I'm a small, thin guy who hasn't been to many concerts. I'm not some hardcore-violent-dancing-freak (in fact I prefer to stand still during most concerts). I stood in the third row, center. I survived. So the crowd obviously wasn't that bad.
It's your choice: Go to the first rows and expect some pulling and pushing or stand somewhere in the back of the venue and enjoy the concert in a more relaxed way. No one's forcing you anywhere.
Nevertheless right at the beginning one girl was really in panic and started to make her way out running - from the second row (instead of being pulled out by security). That really wasn't funny. Luckily some guy grabbed her and sent her stagediving to security.

well, it is not very possible that you were in the 3rd row center, because we were there. so it was either not center or not the 3rd row. i strongly doubt that it was easy to survive there since the girl bigos mentioned.

e_Nigma wrote:It's your choice: Go to the first rows and expect some pulling and pushing or stand somewhere in the back of the venue and enjoy the concert in a more relaxed way. No one's forcing you anywhere.

That's right BUT...
pushing and pulling is a one thing and beating people up cause you're to drunk to know what you're doing and you just want to smash somebody's face up is something completely different...

I was in the pit and you can believe me - it was hell. But then I survived somehow. I even got burned with a cigarette, some bruises, one cut, but hey - it was worth it!

image: I thought you were one of the guys who were near the poland flag? oO Well, maybe I was in the fourth row then .. it depends on how you count, as they are not really *rows* I was wearing a tool shirt with the Net Of Being artwork from the current tour, you probably saw me.

Emi: Sounds terrible. I haven't seen things like that. Worst thing I've seen was a group of maybe three guys who pushed and pulled a little too hard. But several people told them to stop and they did. (After the show I heard them complaining about how lame the crowd was, but they were just stupid.)
A friend of mine who stood at the side told me that he saw one guy who was obviously drunk and/or stoned and nearly started a fight with security after getting pulled out for the fourth time. Another friend got beer all over his shirt because some stupid emopunk chic was clever enough not to drink it before the show.

e_Nigma: well, i could be mistaken about this 3rd row, because the discussion got a bit OT - some were saying, that 24th was hard to stand in the front and i was there that day - i'm sorry for the mess i've made my bad. but it's also strange that 25th was quite ok to be in the front rows and 24th wasn't.

Plumpbeutlerchen wrote:If you want to be really pissed off, read this article on NIN which was published in "Die Welt Online". It's one of the worst articles I've ever read and most of it is just not true.

http://www.welt.de/fernsehen/article777 ... Nails.html

Please feel free to flame me if you think I should have posted it elsewhere.

Want something even "better"? "Welt Kompakt" (a tabloid of Welt) listed some short facts about NIN. It's german, but I guess you can all find the fauxpas...

http://www.i-jeriko.de/2007/03/27/453/

Wow, it was a great show...

I can still hear the crowd yelling "Burn!" in my head

And I have my own bruises from March of the Pigs!

Survivalism... Never thought that I will like it so much! Fantastic song for a gig! Energetic!
And some people already knew the lyric, so we could shout it loud and clear!

Columbiahalle is quite small (which is cool) and I was pleasantly surprised with the sound.