Nine Inch Nails are currently in the middle of a UK tour, including a 4-night stint at Brixton Academy. It’s Thursday and we’re outside the Academy for the 2nd night of the 4-night run - a show which was in doubt up until Wednesday after Trent Reznor damaged his voice at a previous show in Birmingham.
At 9pm, the intro tape starts rolling and the familiar sound of ‘Pinion’ starts rumbling through the speakers. The band plough into a 90 min set which covers their entire career, older tracks such as ’Wish’ and ’Sin’ are dusted off and there’s also a couple of new tracks from the forthcoming ’Year Zero’ album. The lighting is superb on this tour and the sound in the Academy crisp, the drums especially sounding incredible.
The set suffers slightly from the odd pacing, slow quiet tracks are played together and tonight’s set-opener ‘Love Is Not Enough’ is a poor choice.
At 9pm, the intro tape starts rolling and the familiar sound of ‘Pinion’ starts rumbling through the speakers. The band plough into a 90 min set which covers their entire career, older tracks such as ’Wish’ and ’Sin’ are dusted off and there’s also a couple of new tracks from the forthcoming ’Year Zero’ album. The lighting is superb on this tour and the sound in the Academy crisp, the drums especially sounding incredible.
The set suffers slightly from the odd pacing, slow quiet tracks are played together and tonight’s set-opener ‘Love Is Not Enough’ is a poor choice.
Classic tracks, ‘March Of The Pigs’ ‘Head Like A Hole’ and ‘Closer’ are received rapturously by the crowd and the highlight of the night is ‘Hurt’ - sung by the whole of the Academy. A very good show considering the unusual stop/start setlist.
Nine Inch Nails are rumoured to be returning to the UK in August for the Carling Weekend.
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