Sep 06, 2008 00:05
Tonight was NIN night and it was a beauty. Trent did a little bit of everything from each of his albums, including some stuff from both his new ones. The instrumental Ghosts and the kind of shallow and loud The Slip.
It was basically a straight 2 hour set with one of the most amazing light shows ever. There were a ton of tricks using screens and two major instances where a person did some interaction with the lights. One was someone spraying away the lights, and the other was during echoplex, where someone tapped on the screen to turn on the background beats one by one for the song. Another fun trick was going between the front screens and back. At times they had screens that made people hidden behind them followed by seemlessly switching the lights to a back screen that made everyone visible.
March of the pigs was insane as usual. For a crowd that was rather non-mosh type, people got a little crazy there. I got a little beer spilled on me even! They did a little instrumental set of ghosts behind some various visuals and they did the tour namesake instrumental "lights in the sky" with a giant red NIN sign. There was also something sneaky that I've never seen Trent do. He played the piano for The Frail...and followed it up with Closer. Usually that's the intro to the Wretched. Anyways time to relax and rest up from the madness.