Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Speaker A: Emergency episode. Nailed. Emergency episode.
This is an emergency. A tour has happened. No one knew, but suddenly there was a Nine Inch Nail show. No, we knew about this for a while.
So the first show on the Peel It Back tour just happened and we had to speak to someone who was there.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: That's right. You are going to be listening to a conversation that we had with Viv, who is our first Nailed field correspondent.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: That's right, our friend and listener, Viv, who's. We know her from being up in the Discord, if you want to get behind that paywall. Anyway, Viv tells us all about the show and it's a really good conversation. And I can't wait to go see the tour.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: I can't wait either. It made me excited to go.
[00:00:53] Speaker A: I can't wait to peel it back.
We know what peeling it back means now, and it's not as filthy as you might think.
[00:00:59] Speaker B: Disappointed? A little bit, but.
[00:01:02] Speaker A: So in lieu of Year Zero content this week, sorry, but you're getting something more exciting instead.
And then later, we'll resume in the main feed. The next one you'll see is capital G.
And in the bonus feed where you get episodes early, we're about to do My Violent Heart.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: That's right. And we have some bonus ups. I just haven't had time to put everything together for those yet, but I will be working on it this week. Right, so.
[00:01:32] Speaker A: But enough of that. People want to hear about Nine Inch Nails Peel It Back Tour.
[00:01:37] Speaker B: That's right.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: In Dublin, Ireland.
Thanks for listening, everybody. And without further ado, we go to our live correspondent on the ground.
Viv in Dublin.
[00:01:51] Speaker B: How could I have?
[00:01:55] Speaker A: It's funny how everything you swore would.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: Never change is different now. Like you said, you and me make it through. D so for the very first time, we have a nailed field correspondent. That's right.
[00:02:26] Speaker A: She doesn't even know.
She doesn't even know that she's working for us. But actually, I feel bad. I feel like that puts a bunch of pressure on. No pressure.
[00:02:34] Speaker B: No pressure.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: But yes, this is a special thing we've never done. But this is an emergency episode, basically, because we have to tell. We have to podcast about the tour that just started today.
[00:02:45] Speaker B: Yeah, the Peel It Back tour. We gotta know.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: So we have Viv on the show who finally knows what it is to peel it back.
So again, thanks so much for reporting to us, Viv.
[00:02:58] Speaker C: Yeah, that's no problem. I'm happy to help out.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: Where are you at right now?
What city are you in?
[00:03:06] Speaker C: I'm reporting from Dublin. City? Yeah, the north side.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: Okay. And are you far from the arena?
[00:03:16] Speaker C: I'm about a 15 minute drive, so.
[00:03:18] Speaker A: Oh, so not bad at all.
[00:03:19] Speaker C: Not too far at all.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: No.
[00:03:21] Speaker C: It's a pretty small place, Dublin.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: Oh really?
[00:03:24] Speaker B: That's what you were saying?
[00:03:25] Speaker A: But they have an arena.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: You were talking about some gossip and about how Dublin's pretty small. So now we gotta know what the gossip was. Can you tell us now?
[00:03:34] Speaker A: You said a special person was gonna be there.
[00:03:37] Speaker C: Not sure if I can tell.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: You still can't tell.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: Was it Tony Hawk or aware Tony Hawk was there?
[00:03:43] Speaker C: Oh yeah, it was Tony Hawk.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: It was.
[00:03:48] Speaker C: But he had like nothing to do with the show. He obviously just went to see it like. But yeah, I heard he was on the guest list a little while before he actually.
[00:03:57] Speaker B: Oh yeah, okay.
[00:04:00] Speaker A: Okay. So he flew over there just because he's a big fan. He just wanted to see the opening night, I'm guessing.
[00:04:06] Speaker C: Yeah. Or he just be friends with Trent as well or something.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean there was that video they made a while ago.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: Trent was in a Tony Hawk covered. Gave up or something Weird. No, wish it was.
[00:04:16] Speaker C: Wish.
[00:04:17] Speaker A: Yeah, that was weird.
But just like overall. What are your overall feelings on the show right now?
[00:04:25] Speaker C: That was really good, but it really just wasn't what I expected.
Like I had a few ideas in my head of the support and Nine Inch Nails of how it was going to go and it didn't go any way I was thinking, basically.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: So what was the way that you were thinking? Because I want to know if it's in line with like we were. Because I was expecting just from the. The name Peel It Back, that there was probably going to be maybe more acoustic type elements, more stripped down or something.
But what was your expectation?
[00:04:56] Speaker C: I suppose like even with Boys Noise, I just thought Boys Noise were going to play the Challengers remixes. Yeah, but they didn't. I and I. I don't even know if they were playing kind of their own songs because like, I honestly don't know their music and I haven't listened to them in like years and years. But it seems they kind of did like an industrial kind of dance musicy set before for like, for the support.
[00:05:26] Speaker B: Yeah, but there were no Challengers. Nothing.
[00:05:29] Speaker C: No Challengers, no live mixing Challengers.
[00:05:31] Speaker A: That bums me out a little bit. I was really hoping for some Challengers, but that's probably gonna be at Future Ruins.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: I think so. Cause I mean Reznor and Ross, we know they're playing Challengers actually. They already Said that on the list of stuff anyway. Not talking about Future Ruins.
So Boys Noise did do an opening set.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:55] Speaker C: And then I suppose what I was expecting from Nine Inch Nails and just the name of the tour, because it was called Peel It Back, I just felt like they were only going to play maybe Downward Spiral songs.
[00:06:06] Speaker A: Yep. Me too.
[00:06:08] Speaker C: Yeah. I almost convinced myself that, like, they weren't going to play anything else. Yeah.
But I was really wrong about that.
[00:06:16] Speaker A: And I thought that too.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: I mean, they leaned most heavily towards that. There were seven tracks.
[00:06:21] Speaker A: Right. It's the album they played the most songs from. Whenever someone first posted the picture from the Merch Line, it looked like lots of Downward Spiral stuff.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: It did. So it looked like it confirmed our suspicions.
[00:06:34] Speaker A: This is a TDS tour. 30th 31st, definitely.
[00:06:39] Speaker C: And I just didn't really know what to expect. And then. I don't know if you saw. They had kind of two stages.
Really didn't know what was going to happen with that at all.
[00:06:50] Speaker A: Yeah. That's like the thing that's the biggest difference from the 2022 Tour or from.
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Has he ever had a little stage like that before on any tour?
[00:06:58] Speaker A: Not that I know of.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Were you at 2022, Viv?
[00:07:02] Speaker C: Yeah. I went to the second night in Cornwall.
[00:07:06] Speaker B: That was the fucking rainbow night. Right.
[00:07:08] Speaker A: Oh, holy shit. You saw the fucking rainbow.
[00:07:13] Speaker C: I saw it in real time.
[00:07:15] Speaker A: How did this set and presentation compare to 2022?
[00:07:22] Speaker C: I think there were certain things that I thought were similar.
I thought, like, a few of the songs kind of were in the same sequence.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:31] Speaker C: And, like, the lights were pretty blinding as well. But apart from that, I thought it was pretty different overall.
[00:07:41] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, just the second stage experience makes it seem a lot different.
[00:07:46] Speaker C: Yeah. Just the format of some of the songs as well. I know you've probably seen the set list at this stage.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Yep. We got it pulled up on set list.
[00:07:55] Speaker B: We do. And what's funny is it was kind of. It's changed some since we first started it because we. We didn't know. We thought right where it belongs when you thought. We thought somewhat damaged was a separate thing, but it was just like a little snippet that he performed of it. Is that right?
[00:08:11] Speaker A: How'd that happen?
[00:08:12] Speaker C: So basically, like, they started really early. I'm just gonna say that. So, like, everybody thought it was really weird when the set times came out because, yeah, Boys Noise was like, I think half seven and then it's at eight o' clock.
Nine Inch Nails were supposed to come on Now, Nine Inch Nails started. I think literally about.
It might have been about half past.
Half past eight. So, like. Or just before half past eight. But anyway, literally, Boys Noise ended their set. They were kind of. The DJ was over to the right of the stage. So they had two stages. They had, like, the main stage with a big curtain up, and then the small stage, which had, like, it was a square with a curtain all the way around it. So when Boys Noise finished, the place kind of went quiet. And then the stage in the middle, the.
The curtain just fell and it was just Trent with a piano and he was playing right where it belongs.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: It's insane.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: So I'm guessing he went under in a little understage tunnel to the B stage, came up and there were curtains around him. And then they dropped him dramatically, I think.
[00:09:15] Speaker C: So, like, they didn't really have a tunnel. It was like they had a barrier where the guys were walking.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:09:22] Speaker C: But I didn't notice him, like, at the start anyway. Like, nobody noticed anyone getting up onto that stage. But, like, yeah, for all we know.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: He was sitting there for like, three hours.
[00:09:33] Speaker C: Yeah, he might have been.
[00:09:38] Speaker A: The curtain, the four. It was like a. Four walls of curtains.
[00:09:42] Speaker B: That's what I'm guessing.
[00:09:43] Speaker A: It reminded me of the Brat tour, where there were the giant tall green curtains that said Brat on some of the Charlie XCX tour.
But, yeah, he could have been hiding in there for a while.
[00:09:54] Speaker B: Imagine just sitting there listening to all the conversations of the people around you.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: That's crazy.
[00:10:02] Speaker B: So, and then Ruiner, which was not listed. That's bonkers.
[00:10:06] Speaker A: First time since 2009. Played an acoustic that was really, like.
[00:10:12] Speaker C: Some of the songs they played. I was a bit. A little bit shocked. Yeah, I suppose. Like, I think. I'm not sure if it was somewhat damaged or ruined, but I think Alessandro joined him then on the little square stage and not sure if it was Runer or Piggy, but Atticus and then. And Robin Fink then joined him, Frita as well.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: So it just kind of built up, like Trent and then add another member. Yeah, it's just like that. For real.
[00:10:45] Speaker A: How does Ruiner sound? Acoustic?
[00:10:48] Speaker C: Yeah, it was like, you know the lyrics, but it's. It's different.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:53] Speaker C: Like, at one stage, like, because they play four songs, like, kind of pretty acoustically. Like, Piggy was a bit more built up with, like, everybody else on the stage there. But I kind of was thinking, is the whole gig going to be like.
[00:11:08] Speaker B: This, just on the tiny stage?
[00:11:11] Speaker C: Yeah, I really just. I didn't Know what was going to go on. And then I was like, is this why it's called Peel It Back? Because, Right, it's going to be totally acoustic or whatever.
[00:11:21] Speaker A: Yeah, I kind of thought something like that may be the case. But it wasn't for the whole show, which I think it's probably good that they're doing kind of the best of both worlds. But Piggy was. Nothing Can Stop Me now remix. I think the Rick Rubin remix, which is crazy. And that first time played since 2009 also, I think.
[00:11:39] Speaker B: And how often has Nine Inch Nails played in Dublin? Isn't this the first time in a really long time that they played there?
[00:11:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I think for their own Tour it was 1994, so.
[00:11:51] Speaker B: Wow, a proper tour.
Like, it hasn't been since Downward Spiral.
[00:11:57] Speaker C: I think around 2007. I'm not sure. Foo Fires played here and they supported them. And then next, I think the following year they played a festival that was here called Oxygen.
And I think they've played in Belfast at a couple of festivals. But, like, they never really came back to do their own tour in Dublin. I think they might have played on. They did an 88 tour, didn't they? Um, I think they played 88 or 89 and then 94, so.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: Interesting. Don't worry, they haven't come back to Springfield since 94, so.
[00:12:33] Speaker A: Yep, that's the last time they were here. 1994.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Probably the only time.
[00:12:38] Speaker A: So what. What Setlist FM calls Act 2 back on the main stage. That looks very standard. Nine Inch Nails live Wish, March of the Pigs and then the Frail into the Wretched.
[00:12:52] Speaker C: I suppose when they were moving back from the small stage onto the big stage, like they had the curtains up and they had like, I suppose, some visuals, but you could see, like, Ellen playing the drums. Like he was just kind of playing a little drum solo after Piggy. And then they make their way back to the stage and then, like, it goes into Wish and it was cool. And I think Wish and then March of the Pigs and I think they played those both kind of in sequence the last time I seen them in Cornwall.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: Oh, speaking of the vision, what were the visuals like? Were they really minimal and similar to 2022 or did they do different stuff?
[00:13:36] Speaker C: I think they had more than 2022. Like, they had kind of.
So when the. I think the big curtain went up, like the kind of the. The one that's not see through. And then they had a kind of a see through one still visuals being kind of projected on those when they were Playing and then they also like kind of had a few screens around the stage where like they had different visuals of each of the members just.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Like as they were playing. Like live camera. Yeah. Okay.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I think maybe the, the screen, like the gauze screen, the see through made. Do you think it was meant to hearken back to like downward spiral tour where they had that, the white, white transparent screen over them?
[00:14:23] Speaker C: Yeah, like I think they did have some like downward spiral spiral visuals on, on the, on the curtain. So I wasn't really aware of that, what you just said, but yeah, that sounds like fun.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: So. Oh, so there were like pre prepared visuals, not just live camera feed.
[00:14:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Okay. Well that's something different because I don't think there were any.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: I mean there was cool lighting, but I don't remember like.
[00:14:50] Speaker A: But not as far as projections. Well, that's cool.
[00:14:52] Speaker C: They had the standard nine inch nails, like blow your face off lighting as well.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:14:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
The shit that makes me like I have to close my eyes periodically because the white strobe is going to blind me. And of course the police red and blue when they play gave up.
[00:15:09] Speaker B: Oh yeah. Yeah.
[00:15:11] Speaker C: Oh yeah.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: It feels like you're being arrested.
[00:15:14] Speaker C: I was like right at the railing in Cornwall. So like I thought I might have done some damage to my retinas or something.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: Oh no.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: Oh yeah. It's so intense. What was, what where were you? Were you up on the rail today?
[00:15:28] Speaker C: No, no, I had seaton. So like I was kind of in the first tier of seat and I was kind of like. So if I was facing the stage, I was over to the right a bit and I was kind of in our section. I was at the back seat. So I was kind of like. I had a really good view of everything going on.
[00:15:45] Speaker A: That's good.
[00:15:46] Speaker C: But I just avoided standing this time around.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: Okay, gotcha.
As a 40 year old man with a bad back, I'm feeling that Jess was saying earlier how now we have assigned seats, but now she was saying we should think about trading them in for originally.
[00:16:04] Speaker B: I'm not going to lie because I got in fairly early and I seriously contemplating getting four seats by the tiny stage or a ga admission, whatever the ticket type was for that. Like I seriously contemplated it but I knew Blake would be mad so I didn't.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: Well, yeah, I have a bad back and everything, but I do like, I do want to still have life experiences. I think that the hard thing about getting like rail up at the B stage would be that as you were saying earlier, we'd have to get there at like 7:00am Yeah, I mean, I.
[00:16:36] Speaker B: Think it's all ga. Right on the floor.
[00:16:39] Speaker C: Yeah. Like, I think. Yeah. Like there's no VIP section. Nothing like that. Which is actually. I. I still like that. You know, if you get there early, you can't actually get up to the front, but.
[00:16:49] Speaker A: Right.
[00:16:50] Speaker C: Yeah. It's like you definitely. I know there were people queuing there from like early this morning anyway, so.
[00:16:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm too old for that.
[00:16:58] Speaker A: There's no. Yeah, we. Well, first of all, we have job and.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: We're never gonna be there earlier than these young people.
Sorry.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: I mean, if I were like, you know, 19 to 27. Totally. 19 to 30 even. Or, you know, younger than that even. But when you get older, you're just kinda like. I don't wanna fight with these kids.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: Lately, I feel we're always missing the openers when we go to shows because we're so behind and old. But I do wanna see boys noise.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: Well, part of that was just because we're in cities we don't know very well. So we're underestimating how long it takes us to get to places and park and everything.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: We don't put a fire under our own ass to get there on time when we know there's an opener who we may not know anything about anyway. Oh, I do have one important. I need to do a fashion watch because I haven't seen anybody talk about this.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: I did ask, and I asked the discord about Trent's Luke for the tour, and I believe I. There was a response about a leather duster.
Maybe like a long jacket vid. Please confirm.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: Leather duster.
[00:18:04] Speaker C: Oh, my God. I think. I don't even think I made any sort of, I don't know, mental note of what he's wearing.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: Like the world needs to know. Were there bozo boots?
[00:18:16] Speaker A: Oh, the boots.
[00:18:18] Speaker B: I mean, that'd be perfect.
[00:18:18] Speaker C: The boots were there.
Yeah, I remember the boots.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: Were they the tall soles? The tall clear soles?
[00:18:26] Speaker C: Well, I was quite far away, so I couldn't.
[00:18:28] Speaker A: Yeah, okay, fair enough.
[00:18:31] Speaker C: I don't know, it's just something I didn't really like, even think about at the time.
[00:18:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I get it that the excitement of the show, you're not really thinking about that.
We are too shallow and vain people though. So we're always looking at clothes.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it is true.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: And I like to know if he's still sporting Rick Owens. I'm sure he still is.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: Probably. Yeah.
Okay, so Act 3, once again on the B stage. Right. We've got some crowd favorites during Act 2 on the main stage. You know, a lot of stuff from Wish March of the Pigs, the Frail, the Wretched Reptile, Copy Eva and Gave Up. And then act three, there was Vessel.
[00:19:13] Speaker A: So that's the big bombshell of this one, I think.
[00:19:16] Speaker B: Were you excited to hear Vessel?
[00:19:19] Speaker C: I really was because I was like, I suppose I really wanted to hear something from Year Zero.
Me and my friends were talking about, and they were saying, what song would you like to hear? And I just thought, I'd like to hear something off Year Zero, because I've been listening to it a lot lately and you guys are talking about it. Well, you're in your Year Zero era, so.
Yeah, I will say it's not Vessel as you will know it.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like a.
Like with Boy's Noise remix.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: Yeah, the Came Back Haunted remix with Boys noise was from the tiny bit I heard was sounding kind of cool. It had like a vocoder and shit in it.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Yeah, that was crazy.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: But, yeah, we were just recording an episode about Vessel not very long ago, and we were just saying how they need to bring that back for the live show.
[00:20:33] Speaker B: I think they need to bring more back. I would love to hear Capital G. I would love to hear.
I don't know. I really love, like. I love Zero Sum. I don't know how popular that is, but I like it a lot.
God Given would be cool.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: Yeah, God Given would go hard.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:49] Speaker C: Don't just be me. I'm not. I just think it would be a vibe.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, I'm not gonna lie. I'm kind of bummed that there was just one song from Year Zero that was played and one song from Pretty Hate Machine.
[00:21:00] Speaker A: Yeah, Pretty Hate Machine needs a little terrible. We need Terrible Lie. I hope we see that.
[00:21:04] Speaker C: Yeah, that's my number one. My friends were asking me, what song would you like to see? I just said, Terrible Lie, but it's not going to happen.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: Same here. Because the two nights we saw them, we didn't.
[00:21:17] Speaker B: There was no Terrible Lie Parasite, though. Did you know what that was? As soon as it started to play, were you aware or like, are you a big how to Destroy Angels?
[00:21:26] Speaker C: Oh, not really. Like, I have listened to them a little bit, but not a lot. Now, I did hear. When it's. I did hear Trent saying the word parasite. I'm pretty sure. So, yeah, I was kind of like, parasite. And then I was, like, trying to think about it, and then it hit me on the way home. I was like, that's how to Destroy Angels. Because, like, that was probably the only song in the set. I was kind of like, what is that? And I was like, it's familiar, but I just don't know what it is.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's cool and all, but I don't think it's my favorite from that episode. It would have been cool to hear, like, Fur Lined or bbb.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: Well, people are kind of wondering if some of the Tron. Maybe this is just my assumption that I was making, but because the Tron airy soundtrack is under 9 inch nails and not under, like, Reznor Ross. Right.
Do we think it's gonna be some reworking of Nine Inch Nails tracks at all?
I don't know. Just a question I'm putting out there.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: Maybe with boys noise.
[00:22:23] Speaker B: Well, I don't know. I was just saying, like, maybe it's just new versions of some of the.
The NIN songs. Just, you know.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, I have. I wanted to know, was there an encore?
Oh, that's crazy to me.
[00:22:39] Speaker C: Yeah, like, oh, I think everybody was like, what the hell? Because, yeah, you know, they played Hurt, like, and Hurt was really nice. And the kind of the lighting and stuff was changed to kind of almost like the, you know, the album art, like, the colors kind of. It was more similar.
[00:22:58] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:22:59] Speaker C: The lighting on the big bright white lights and so on. But yeah, they. They played Hurt and like, the crowd are really loving it and stuff. And then I suppose they went off after Hurt, like, left the stage and everybody was kind of looking around. But then the house lights came on and people started eating.
[00:23:18] Speaker B: No, no.
[00:23:20] Speaker C: And then, like. But people kind of started boo. And I don't know what that was for. Like, I don't know if people were booing that there was no encore or what. Now. It wasn't the whole place. It was kind of like on the floor you could hear booing. So I don't know if it was something because, like, it came out and started handing out set lists.
So I think it might have been more to do with that than the lack of encore, but. Ah, okay.
[00:23:44] Speaker A: Yeah, maybe. I think people got spoiled in the last tour with these big five song encores every single night.
People came to expect that.
[00:23:54] Speaker B: Yeah. Mr. Self Destruct, though. Interesting. That's what they start with when they came back on the main stage again.
[00:24:01] Speaker C: Yeah, that sounded really good.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: I'm excited if that seems like a.
[00:24:04] Speaker A: Hard one to pull off at age 60 to me.
[00:24:07] Speaker B: No, I'm just. My big. I'm kind of excited for the Manchester show just to see how they. If they switch up the playlist, like, their set list at all.
Because some of this they might not because it's with boys, noise and lighting cues, et cetera, but some of it, they might. Maybe the main stage stuff will be easier to switch around. I don't know.
[00:24:28] Speaker A: I hope there's big variations.
[00:24:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it would be nice that way every, you know, couple of shows or whatever, get something different. Especially if you're following the band around. I know some people are, Asher.
At least around the North American, you know, dates.
[00:24:42] Speaker A: Right.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: So.
But that would be a nice little thing because when we saw Depeche Mode, I mean, they were great. I'm not complaining about the show at all, but the tracks. The set list did not change. Basically. I think they swapped out one song. One song.
And so it was kind of a bummer.
[00:25:00] Speaker A: But the last Nin tour they were doing, they had 50 plus songs.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: Yeah, they were definitely.
[00:25:08] Speaker A: They were switching around.
[00:25:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:10] Speaker C: Wouldn't be surprised if they did add different songs to the set list because kind of, I just feel with the whole show, like, it kind of. A lot of it took me by surprise, like, the format of it, the songs they played. So, like, I kind of feel like Trent likes to keep people guessing and do the opposite, maybe.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:25:31] Speaker A: I was not expecting a lot of this. And, like, opening the show with Right Where It Belongs is fucking crazy.
That definitely wasn't on my bingo card.
[00:25:38] Speaker B: Yeah. I love Right Where It Belongs. So I do kind of hope that they keep that as an opener, at least for the show. I see.
[00:25:44] Speaker A: Anyway, I haven't heard any of the footage yet, but I'm hoping it sounds like the Right where it belongs version 2.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: That would be my guess, but I'm.
[00:25:53] Speaker A: Hoping, because I love that one.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: And then it ends. I'm kind of. It's just like the usual hand that feeds Head like a hole in Hurt.
[00:25:59] Speaker A: The Triple H. Yeah.
[00:26:01] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:02] Speaker B: I mean, guaranteed crowd pleasers, so I guess you can't go wrong.
[00:26:06] Speaker C: But, yeah, definitely. I felt like it was a kind of a much older crowd than I'm used to seeing at concerts.
[00:26:12] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:14] Speaker C: So I'd say a lot of people just, you know, we're kind of hoping for a lot of free Hate Machine or Downward spiral.
[00:26:21] Speaker B: Yeah. How are the vibes? Were, like, people really excited or, like, was it a good crowd? Good energy, definitely.
[00:26:30] Speaker C: But I just feel like open seating. Like, as I said again, it seemed like there were kind of people with their kids as well, like.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:26:38] Speaker C: Yeah. There Were people there with kids and kind of older people that were sitting down, enjoying the vibes and stuff. You know, it was pretty chill, but also like. Like, people were standing up and dancing and things like that. But no bad vibes. Anyway, I would say that's good.
[00:26:54] Speaker A: I love a show where there's no assholes around.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: I think the last good show. Well, Charli XCX is great. No assholes, just a lot of fun.
Yeah, but there were no assholes when.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: We saw Nin either time, really.
[00:27:09] Speaker C: And now I can't say how people were down on the floor, but. Because I wasn't down there. But I had no issues.
[00:27:17] Speaker A: Maybe it got chaotic. People trying to get close to Trent on the B side, the little stage.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: The magic Michael Trent Reznor stage.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: Right.
[00:27:26] Speaker C: I'd say it was, like, really funny for the people who had queued all day to get to the front of the rail and then when the show started.
[00:27:36] Speaker A: Yeah, that's hilarious. They have to turn around to see the show.
Were there songs that you're really hoping to hear but didn't?
[00:27:47] Speaker C: Not really. I think I really would have loved to see Terrible Eye. Yeah, that's like, kind of. I know they don't play a lot all the time.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: I know that you've seen them multiple times. Is that a song that you still have not seen live?
Terrible lie.
[00:28:03] Speaker C: No, I haven't seen it. Now, I. That this was only my second time seeing them. So, like.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:28:08] Speaker C: Yeah. I'm not like some of the hardcore people in our discord that have been like 30 times.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Right, right. So, yeah. And not like us either.
[00:28:18] Speaker B: Like, look, it's not our fault we live in Missouri. I'm sorry.
[00:28:21] Speaker A: Yeah. We are not the. We're not the most Die Hard fans. We're just the most podcasting fans.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: We still have the money or time to be that Die Hard.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: We're not going to try to flex on any fans ever. That's not what we do here.
[00:28:34] Speaker B: No.
[00:28:36] Speaker A: Oh, did you go to the merch line?
[00:28:39] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:28:40] Speaker B: All right, what did you get?
[00:28:42] Speaker C: So I got, like, two T shirts. I got a hurt T shirt, and it says.
I think it says, I'll let you down. I will make you hurt. And then on the back, it has, like, a hurt lyric or something, but it was black. It's kind of cool. And then I got a tour T shirt just. Well, that just has the red Nin on the front. And then the TUR dates. I did want a white TUR T shirt that was kind of like, had a really Cool design on it. Like, it was kind of piniony.
[00:29:14] Speaker B: And.
[00:29:15] Speaker C: Then with the tour dates on the back. And then it kind of had cool design as well, but they didn't have that in my size, so.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: Boo.
I'm just glad it wasn't the merch that's on the site. If Trent's listening. Dude, I'm sorry, but that shit sucked.
[00:29:31] Speaker A: So everybody hated that early. The early. Like one shirt and one hoodie. But there were like, way more. Those weren't even at the table.
[00:29:38] Speaker B: No, I think because they were like. These do kind of suck it. Honestly, it looked like it was made by AI. And I'm sorry, people are gonna hate me for it, but it's like.
[00:29:45] Speaker A: Trent.
[00:29:47] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like someone was just like, can you make something that's like, kind of blurry and weird and then like space out the letters and make it kind of like alt and grunge cool? I don't know, it just didn't look very good.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: And I'm not in love with everything I saw at the merch. I need to see him.
[00:30:03] Speaker B: No, listen, I'm into this March of the Pigs Muscle tea.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: I want one too. I want that.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: I'll let you get it, but I'll borrow yours.
[00:30:09] Speaker A: Okay. We can both get it. I've already said in the discord, I'm working out my arms all summer, so I can really show that off.
[00:30:15] Speaker B: Maybe they'll put it on the. On their website. You can get it early and wear it to the show.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: Oh, that'd be cool.
[00:30:21] Speaker B: Show off your guns.
[00:30:23] Speaker C: I'm glad I didn't buy anything before the show anyway.
[00:30:26] Speaker A: I just say that I am too.
[00:30:28] Speaker B: And I'm also not a fan of this trend of putting tour merch up because I feel like, go to the fucking show, that's what made it special, you know?
And so I'm not a big fan of. And I guess if you have leftover merch, that's one thing, but I'm just not a big fan of bands putting up this pre tour merch. It just seems like it's kind of cash grabby. It's cash grabby.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: I'm just gonna say it makes the merch less special.
[00:30:53] Speaker B: It does. Because I've always loved buying tour T shirts when I go to a show. But if anyone can get it, you know, and I don't care if people order them like used or whatever too, that's fine. But it's. I don't know, it's just kind of. It bums me out that Bands are starting to do that. And like Billie Eilish did it and a bunch of people do now.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: They all do it now.
[00:31:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: Were there tour posters?
[00:31:14] Speaker C: Oh, I didn't see any tour posters. Like, they had key rings, hats. I think they had airtag holder.
[00:31:21] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:31:22] Speaker B: I want that air tackle.
[00:31:23] Speaker A: I don't have an air tag, but I want it.
[00:31:27] Speaker C: They had like, they had hoodies. They had a few, I think.
Yeah. The poncho, it was actually only 20 Euro, which is like a bargain. I should have bought that.
[00:31:41] Speaker A: We're getting the poncho.
[00:31:43] Speaker C: I think my favorite thing was like, the.
Which was free, which was the carrier when I bought the merch.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I hope they have that in the States. That was cool. Did you see the bag that Viv had? It was just the bag they gave her to put her merchant, I'm guessing, right?
[00:31:57] Speaker A: That's awesome.
[00:31:58] Speaker C: Yeah. And it's kind of like the handle was kind of like a material handle. So it's like you could definitely reuse it.
[00:32:04] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:32:05] Speaker A: Love a tote.
[00:32:06] Speaker B: I think everyone should do that. Do you remember whenever we saw Depeche Mode and that evil troll that worked at the United center made me get rid of my tiny see through bag because allegedly it was too big, right? And I was like, well, number one, it's not too big. And number two, it's see through.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: Right.
[00:32:19] Speaker B: You can obviously see I don't have a gun or a knife. Like, anyway, I had to buy a Depeche Mode tote that cost like $30 to put like my wallet and sunglasses and crap in. And I was so mad. I think you should all get like a little tiny free tote, especially with how expensive concerts are now.
[00:32:36] Speaker A: Or sell it. I'll buy it at a nominal price, you know, like, I'm cool with that.
[00:32:40] Speaker B: Yeah, it's fine.
[00:32:41] Speaker C: But I actually thought you had to buy it. And I said it to the guy, I said, can I get one of those? And he goes, oh, you just get them when you buy merch. So I was like, grant, hell yeah.
[00:32:52] Speaker A: No, nobody's doing that as far as.
[00:32:53] Speaker B: I know, so I'll take it. But I hope that is a thing that continues in the States. That's pretty cool.
[00:32:59] Speaker A: Were the prices in general kind of average on merch prices now or were they more or less?
[00:33:06] Speaker C: I think they're pretty average.
Like, the T shirts here were €55, so, yeah, I don't know. I'd say it's probably similar to dollars. And then pounds might be like a bit more. Like they might be 60 pound, a t shirt or something.
[00:33:21] Speaker A: Right.
[00:33:22] Speaker C: But the hoodies were €120, which I think is steep. And I wouldn't pay for.
[00:33:30] Speaker B: You know, that's way too much for a hoodie. But don't ask how much I paid for a Depeche Mode hoodie.
[00:33:35] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:35] Speaker B: But that hoodie was very special and beautiful. Like, the. The angel wings on the front are really cool, you have to admit.
[00:33:41] Speaker A: You ever wear that one?
[00:33:42] Speaker B: It is. Well, it's white, so it's like I'm gonna ruin it.
[00:33:47] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I think it is kind of like if you do want to spend that much on a hoodie, like, you're better off doing it at a gig then.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: True.
[00:33:55] Speaker C: Buying online for that price.
[00:33:57] Speaker A: Right.
[00:33:57] Speaker C: So.
[00:33:59] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:34:00] Speaker B: So overall, did you enjoy this as much as the previous time you've seen them or more or. It's just different. And.
[00:34:10] Speaker C: I think it was just different. Like, I think the last time I went to see them, like, it was my first time to see them. I was at the rail. Like, I was literally blown away. And this time I kind of not knew what to expect because I really did. Like, the whole show kind of like knocked me for six.
It was.
But yeah, I. I still thought it was brilliant. Like, I still had a great night. Like, I really wish I could go to more dates. Like, one of my friends is going to London this week and she's going to Germany as well. I'm so jealous, like.
[00:34:45] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. And Manchester is in a couple days. That's the next date, I think.
[00:34:51] Speaker C: Yeah.
Very jealous, like, or just. I'm sad that I didn't plan ahead better and get.
You know.
[00:35:00] Speaker B: It'S hard when you work and stuff though, because it's hard to get time off and to schedule around it.
[00:35:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:35:06] Speaker B: I'm trying to think if there's any. I just. With moving and stuff. There's no way we're gonna have time to see multiple shows. Like.
[00:35:12] Speaker A: Yeah. And where.
[00:35:13] Speaker B: And there's. I don't think There are any St. Louis or KC shows. Were there.
[00:35:17] Speaker A: Right. We just don't have any.
We only have one that's gonna be feasible to get to.
[00:35:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:23] Speaker A: So it's probably all we're gonna do.
[00:35:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Unfortunately, I would love to have the opportunity to see more, but what can you do?
[00:35:32] Speaker C: It does. It does have a lot of substance in one show. I suppose. So, like, you know, you're not going to be disappointed with one either. I'm just being greedy.
[00:35:41] Speaker A: Yeah. For sure.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:44] Speaker A: Okay. Is there any. Anything we forgot to ask Jess I'm.
[00:35:48] Speaker B: Sure I could think of a zillion more questions. Oh, did anyone run into the bathroom.
[00:35:52] Speaker A: First thing looking for USB drives?
[00:35:56] Speaker B: Just wondering, are there any on the merch? Is there anything that stands out that could be a secret code? We're just wondering that kind of stuff.
[00:36:06] Speaker C: Like you're asking the wrong person.
[00:36:09] Speaker B: I know. I told Blake if the year 0arg depended upon my ass to discover any clues, there's no way we would have even gotten the first clue right.
[00:36:20] Speaker C: If I found a USB somewhere, I'd be like, do not plug that into the computer. That's probably a.
[00:36:26] Speaker B: Especially if it's, like, unlabeled and it's just a normal usb. Like, if it had the NIN logo on it, I'd be like, that's probably okay.
[00:36:33] Speaker A: I hope they have to make it unsuspecting.
[00:36:35] Speaker C: Yeah, no, I think that goes right over my head. So I'm not that kind of person.
[00:36:43] Speaker A: Whoever's listening to this, if you're going to the show, scour the bathroom floors.
[00:36:47] Speaker B: For USB sticks and then stick it in your computer. Who cares? Let's see what happens.
[00:36:50] Speaker A: You only live once. Just stick it in there.
[00:36:53] Speaker C: Get into your friend's computer.
[00:36:55] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:36:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Go to a public library and put it. I work for a public library. Our computers will be fine. We'll just. If it gets a virus, we'll just wipe it and start over. So try it there.
[00:37:06] Speaker B: Yeah. There you go.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:37:09] Speaker B: Okay. Well, I know it's late there. What time is it there?
[00:37:13] Speaker C: It's just half 12.
[00:37:14] Speaker B: Okay. Yeah. So it's pretty late, and I know you have to work tomorrow.
I do want to thank you very much. Yes. Thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us. I know people are excited to hear about the show and your experience, and also congratulations on being our first NAILED field correspondent.
[00:37:31] Speaker A: The first of many. I hope.
[00:37:34] Speaker B: So.
[00:37:35] Speaker A: Yeah, we really appreciate it. I can't wait to upload this.
[00:37:38] Speaker B: Yeah, it's gonna be fun. And I'm sure Blake will put some beautiful little clips in there from the show, and it's gonna sound great.
[00:37:44] Speaker A: Well, don't promise them that. I want to get it up fast, but it's been very fun, and that was great reporting.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: Yes. Thank you so much, very much.
[00:37:54] Speaker C: It's been. Yeah. I really enjoyed this chat, so. Yeah. And I'm very honored to be on nails.
[00:38:03] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:38:06] Speaker A: Love to hear that.
[00:38:08] Speaker C: Bye, guys.
[00:38:09] Speaker B: Bye.
Me now.
[00:38:22] Speaker A: Nothing can stop me now.
[00:38:27] Speaker B: Nothing can stop me It.
