NIN piccy

Here's a picture taken from last night's Nine Inch Nails gig (Manchester Apollo, Sunday 25th February 2007)


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Quite chuffed, considering we were standing way back (moshpits are not for the over 30's), these have come out pretty good..

A grand night out

Nine Inch Nails last night were awesome.

It was the fourth time I'd seen them live, but I can honestly say it was one of the best setlists I've been treated to. It was proper "old school", Nine Inch Nails, with the majority of the tracks coming from "The Downward Spiral", "Pretty Hate Machine" and the "Broken" E.P.
My head's still a bit battered so I cannot recall every track, and the exact order but Trent opened with "Mr. Self Destruct" (yay!), and then ripped through (amongst others) "Last", "Sin",
"March Of The Pigs", "Only", "Terrible Lie", "Gave Up", "Closer" (with "Down In It" in the middle), "Help Me I Am In Hell", "Burn", "Eraser", "Ruiner", "Something I Can Never Have", "No You Don't", "The Day The Whole World Went Away", before finishing with "Hurt", "The Hand That Feeds", "Head Like A Hole"..

We did wonder if a tribute act had been sent onstage at first, as for the first fifteen minutes you really couldn't see the band at all due to the amount of dry ice that had been pumped into the venue.

Ladytron were also very, very good - glad they're getting the sort of exposure that a NIN tour should generate.

In short, very pleased, and half tempted to see them again tonight..

Hmm..

There's lovely

Tool tickets went on sale today..

..se you at the Manchester Evening News Arena

Gigs and Tours

Forgot to mention..
Was feeling a bit jittery after the Foo Fighters gig the other day as I no longer had any gig tickets, no concert to look forward to.  This was the first time in years that I had no gig to look forward to and it felt odd.  Thankfully we have now booked (for comedy value) to see Lordi in the Academy this October.  Ticketsheister (http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk) tried to tell us that it was sold out, but thankfully TicketLine (http://www.ticketline.co.uk) had tickets ready to buy.  So cry "Hard Rock Hallelujah!". We're off to see the mad Eurovision winners.

Also realised this is the first gig I shall be going to as a married man - a weird thought indeed!!

A Foo, pour vous?

I have two spare tickets for the Foo Fighters gig at Lancashire Cricket Ground on Sunday 18th June 2006 (I believe The Killers are supporting as well as other, as yet unconfirmed, acts). 

Now, I could put these on eBay but I'd rather sell to someone who's a friend and a fan so I'm giving the peeps who pop in here every now and then first dibs on the tix (at face value, of course). 

If you buy them we could meet up for a beer whilst Dave Grohl does his thing on stage, but this is not a condition of sale.. ;)