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Gesamt-Übersicht

Jahr 2007

 

Kerrang

  

No.1147

24.02.2007

 

Tour - Nine Inch Nails

 

Autor: Dan Slessor

 

 

Whetting their fans’ appetite for new material, Nine Inch Nails are back to blast us with their dark-hearted anthems – including a phenomenal four nights at Brixton Academy. Frontman Trent Reznor is looking forward to hitting the road and giving the people what they want.

Considering the gaps between tours in the ‘90s and early ‘00s, it feels like you were just here…

Trent: “Yeah, we were in Europe comparatively recently and we’ve done another tour in the States since then, so we’ve been on the road a lot. Overall we’re more popular in the States than anywhere else and that’s partly because we’ve never properly toured abroad, for a number of reasons. So when this opportunity came up, we thought it was time to start doing some legwork and not make it just every five or 10 years, which isn’t fair to the fans we have over there.”

Is the live show still as important to you as when you were a younger band?

Trent: I don’t like to think about things from a marketing perspective, but when a record’s done I have to think about how we’re going to alert the world to its existence. We don’t get played on MTV or the radio anymore, and I don’t even care about that, but the live show is something that I really think is good and I just want to get out there and work on it.”

Is the new material going to lend itself well to a live setting?

Trent: Probably not (laughs)! The tour that we have coming up will have a little bit of new stuff but it’s not the focus of it and there’s a couple of reasons for that. The first one is that the record won’t be out yet and ultimately, I do want to give people what they want. As a fan who goes to see bands, certainly when I was growing up, it’s kind of a bummer when it’s all just new album stuff. There are songs people expect to hear and I want to give them that.”

With the new record recorded pretty much on your own, is this the right line-up for playing it live anyway?

Trent: “After the summer, when we continue this thing I may put together a different kind of band or different instrumentation that might incorporate a better way to play the new stuff. I’ve always thought of the record and the live band as separate things and it’s been rewarding for me to treat the studio as an instrument and do it that ways this time around. The next step is for me to see if the songs are strong enough to reinterpret into a live setting – we don’t just try to sound like the record, we try to make it it’s own thing, it’s a visceral, engaging experience.”

Do you have to build in an extra budget to cover all the damage you wreak?

Trent: “I guess we do, I don’t like to think about that but someone figures those things out. Accidents happen, so we try to plan for the accidental bumping of a guitar here and there.”

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