On Mtv's Return of the Rock today, the host was talking about nin just coming back from their tour of Austrailia. And said that Trent was going to take a short break before the US tour to remix some songs off of Bowie's new album.

Good quality (naturally), but pretty average song selection. With so many brilliant songs on the setlist from Brixton, it was quite disapointing. I think it'd be the same as the video they played on MTV.

I was watching the Playboy channel and a program came on called "Sexcetra". At the very end of the opening sequence as the music came to a halt all that was left was Trent's scream from "the downward spiral" the big lasting one. I guess thats supposed to turn you on. Works for me! Incedently, the episode started out with the worlds biggest gang bang ("I want to fuck everyone in the world.")

The stupid girl brought up how she voted for mccain on the primaries. later in the show she went on to bash mccain for saying he liked nine inch nails. "how can we trust a president who likes a band who sings 'i wanna bleep you like and animal' and degrades women sings about violence..." etc etc... dennis responded with "then why the hell did you vote for him?"

the rest of the show was about mccain and nine inch nails and dennis making an ass out of that crazy girl. i got the impression that dennis might be a nin fan... he did a lot of defending. i also go the feeling that lars from metalica doesnt like nin 'cuz he kept trying to change the subject...

The stupid girl brought up how she voted for mccain on the primaries. later in the show she went on to bash mccain for saying he liked nine inch nails. "how can we trust a president who likes a band who sings 'i wanna bleep you like and animal' and degrades women sings about violence..." etc etc... dennis responded with "then why the hell did you vote for him?"

the rest of the show was about mccain and nine inch nails and dennis making an ass out of that crazy girl. i got the impression that dennis might be a nin fan... he did a lot of defending. i also go the feeling that lars from metalica doesnt like nin 'cuz he kept trying to change the subject...

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Sound Affects, a television show on VH1, is currently looking for Nine Inch Nails fans with good stories of what role NIN's music has in their lives. Is a NIN song profoundly associated with a powerful incident in your life? Did NIN help convince you to do something you wouldn't normally have done? Are you a different person today for being exposed to NIN? Then VH1 wants to hear from you.

They are primarily looking for people in Los Angeles or New York, since they will be interviewing people. However, if you live far away, but would be willing to travel at your own expense, feel free to contribute.

To contribute, send your stories to sound_affects@yahoo.com. If your story is chosen, you will then be interviewed in either Los Angeles or New York. Please note that all people who are interviewed may not be featured on the show. But those who do make it have a chance to be on a VH1 show that, if it does well in its first airings, will become a series.

They have already interviewed some famous people (Dave Mustaine, Henry Rollins) but by and large just want everyday people with strong NIN- or music-related stories.

First, Young Guitar magazine, Famous magazine (A fashion/music mag, see also:Details), and Sounds & Recording (aimed at audiophiles) all feature reviews of the Japanese live gigs and some photos from the Japanese shows. Apparently the reviews were pretty lame, Sound & Recording didn't even get the setlist right. Commy's got more pictures from Young Guitar and Sound & Recording here at her J-archives.

Buzz magazine also featured an interview with Trent, and gave daily stats on the five Japanese tour dates, as well as a small article on Nine Inch Nails performing at the Big Day Out in Australia. The picture we've thumbnailed above is from Crossbeat magazine, which featured an interview with Trent, as well as brief interviews with the rest of the live band.

"How's Tapeworm now?"

Danny:"We want to finishing it as more aggressive, up-tempo and heavy style now. 'The Fragile' was almost made with a groove, so it's a reaction, I think. And we want to making an up-beat and aggressive music with a lot of guitar sounds deliberately."

"You want to make some discrimination against NIN?"

Charlie:"Oh yeah. Actually Trent was singing in Tape Worm project, but we want to finish it which as listener never confuse it with NIN. We have about 4 songs with Phil Anthermo of Pantera and Maynard of Tool. There's such original identity different with NIN, it's very important thing. We want to releasing it till the end of this year."

"What's an identity of NIN or Tapeworm?"

Charlie:"NIN is connected closely with Trent's own impression. NIN just came from his heart, we didn't write any lyrics. But in Tape Worm project, there's a song which Maynard wrote some lyrics then Trent and us finished the lyrics. You can understanding from this example, Tapeworm is fairly different with NIN."
Danny:"Trent was understanding well that if he write all of the lyrics, all of theme and lyrics will be similar to NIN. So he deliberately working with other people."
Charlie:"I think Trent was spending the most hard time to break with his own style."

In Crossbeat magazine's reader's poll, TF ranked as "album of the year". Also Trent ranked number two of "the best song writer", number three of "the best male vocalist". In both category, Beck ranked number one. So interviewer ask about Beck to Trent.

"For example, Beck change all of his pressure into his pleasure or excitement. What do you think about his stance and Beck's music?"

Trent:"Beck, yeah, he's very smart. I don't know about Beck's music well... I feel a nimble humor in Beck's, it don't attract my mind and I'm not interested to it so much. I don't have any interesting in something joking and funny, or thought of 'don't worry, take it easy'...which Will Smith seems to say. I don't compare Beck with such thing, but in his music, there's something an ironical thing which I don't want to pay my attention.
In the recent music scene, there's so much thing which I don't want to pay my attention, Beck is one of them. To tell the truth, I don't like his style (and he changed his expression strictly). In the rock'n'roll world, there's too much laughing people. I dislike gag and humor, so I don't go to see a comedy movie...I never want to laughing because everything of the world going to ruin.
A dark and serious side of the world whets my interest more."

Last night on a special all-star request of VH1's Rock Show. There was a request from former Van Halen frontman, Sammy Hagar, who requested NIN's WITT video and he called the fragile one of the best albums he heard in years. He also said that the chorus to WITT gave him goosebumps and he works out to that song. Other artists who made requests are former Nothing Records client, Rob Halford, Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue, Alice Cooper, and Ozzy Osbourne.

Thanks to setec87 for this one.

A new article in the village voice evaluates the current situation between Mr. Reznor and Richard Patrick. Interesting. Towards the end of the article, there is the option of sending in what you think. Check it out.

Channel V in Australia will be repeating the Big Day Out special on the 4th and 5th of march, from 3.30pm AEST.

No word if they will be showing the full NIN show, but if enough people (even the overseas people, it'll shake them up a little) email and demand/beg/threaten, maybe the full set and full interveiw will be shown. Requests for NIN songs can also be sent through this email address. (and if people havn't seen the interveiw, its worth it for the 'win a prize' bit at the end... trent was given the choice of a shark, a crocodile or a kangaroo sticker. He chose the shark sticker and later got a chocolate bar for his trouble)

Bits from the channelV website that give times are as follows...

6:25 - 7:05: Atari Teenage Riot - approx 40 mins includes 10 minute interview

9:50 - 10:35: Nine Inch Nails - approx 40 mins includes interview.

The live stream of the show can be heard through here.

And as for the cut short interveiw/set, the reason from channelV is - "We know that some of the sets didn't go for as long as y'all would have liked, but I'm afraid our hands were tied in that instance. Some bands simply said 'No' to allowing us to film certain songs"

Images of Trent from the perth show, on the channel V site are here

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There is a RealAudio grab of Trent from New Zealand, entitled 'don't believe the hype'. It can be found here

Elsewhere on the site, trent reznor is voted by Jabba - the man who did the interviews - as being "the most approachable rockstar, believe it or not"

As I said before, there was a 'win a prize' segment of the interveiw.. this photo was taken just before then.

From the Jabba BDO Diarys... 'Up the road at the Hyatt, the chili peppers and NIN are ensconsed in a little more luxury, why do they always stay at a dearer place? Maybe it's a better tax write-off?'

None of this has been confirmed by Nothing Records/Trent Reznor, this is NOT official as of yet. But, radio stations have been known to let out information much earlier than they are supposed to.

Trent Reznor has never been motivated by convention or consumerism, and on his latest opus, The Fragile, he follows his artistic music down a dark, decayed labyrinth and emerges with the most passionate, cutting edge and challenging offering of his career...

Trent expressed his enthusiasm to come to Japan, and that he was "excited and surprised" by the favorable reaction of the Japanese fans. TR & the gang spent the day shopping around in Akihabara, a famous spot for electronics/computer shops), which is where Leo was during this shot. Japanese sense of civilization and respect also impressed TR. Terrie writes, "In Japan we have vending machines on every corner selling everything from beer and condoms to rice and batteries. Trent said that there would be 'no way that could happen in America because the first day they'd be knocked down and everything stolen.'"

When asked about his preference, Trent took more of a liking to working in the studio than performing live. In Terrie's words;

He said he won't do a remix of The Fragile but that he might do something like a "rethinking" of the album with some of the left out pieces put in. Or his second idea for the use of the extra songs would be to start another band with someone else as a singer. He wants someone soulful, "not a clone of me", that can put their own "input, interpretation, attitude" into the music. Someone like "a Sade personality". He is currently listening to tapes.

He told the camera it was flattering to come here and that he really felt appreciated. That the night before during the show he felt cheesy and wanted to say 'thank you!' (I saw that show and yes he was dangerously close to the T word). He said it means a lot to come this far away from his bedroom with his notebooks and to feel this much appreciation. He even said this was his favorite place so far!

And right before those fifteen minutes were up Daisuke Ide asked, "So do you think your gonna come back?" and Trent answered with a big smile, "I'm gonna move here!".

The entire interview was spliced with music and clips of The Fragile tour. [note: these were scenes from the Fragility 1.0 special aired in the States a few months back] Half way through, "Wish" was shown in its entirety. After the interview ended the VJ came on and said how he knows everyone wanted to see more of the live show and that while it was strictly prohibited to film anything at the Japanese shows that there was a concert taped in Europe that would be aired on Vibe in March.

Many thanks to Commy and Terrie for their in depth reports!

... when the Rams won the Super Bowl there were a ton of mini highlight shows. One of the biggest on the Fox network out of St. Louis used music from the fragile. Both "the frail" and "into the void" were used in these clips.

If they do play, it would mean that NIN might also play the "Southside Festival" Both festivals are on the same weekend and for the past few years, they always have nearly the same line-up.

I was in the living room while my mother was watching "As the World Turns" (a soap opera) and some girl was contemplating running away from home to be with her boyfriend, that her parents don't allow her to say. Anyways, in the background during this scene they played "The Way Out is Through" off of "The Fragile."

The article went on to talk about the change in music concert styles and how popularity has shifted away from huge rock bands playing arena style shows, to concerts with a wide variety of bands some of whom are far less popular then others, the article also mentioned how well recieved NIN we're by the crowd and how they vershadowed the chilli peppers performance due to their fantastic show, this was linked to the changes in concerts and was an example of a hugely succesful band (commercially) being outshone by a far less popular band. (although I would say that NIN are a very successful band)

Open up either Real Audio 7 or WinAmp (hit Cntrl+L in Winamp). In the prompt, type in 166.90.143.142:10460 . The stream comes in at 32kpbs. Right now theres Plaid, Prick and Squarepusher rotating. Within the hour, I'll have some Meat Beat Manifesto, NIN, and Pig.

Today we're cycling in some material by Prick, Pig, plus some more Autechre, a little less of Squarepusher's noodley moments, shuffling the MBM... Once we have everything settled, I plan to finish the script that gets an active playlist for the station directly on NothingRadio.net! Also, if you link to NothingRadio.net, be sure to send the staff an email so we can check your site. More on that later :) And also feel free to email any general comments or questions, suggestions and the like - we know that the best way to please our fellow fans is to hear you out, not ignore you and do our own thing ;) If you haven't heard about NothingRadio.net, check out the news from Monday evening.

the australian interview that you have previously mentioned on theninhotline was aired at the same time as the melbourne bdo-webcast, but luckily is available at the triple j website in realmedia format.

in the interview trent says some nice things about alan moulder, speaks about production and the general state of music today. but nothing new really. still, it is the sexy sound of trent's voice so its mandatory listening.

the page:
http://abc.net.au/triplej/2000/default.htm
the stream:
http://abc.net.au/triplej/2000/audio/9nailspt1.ram

This is only part one so expect more soon!

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Artist of the year:
3- Nine Inch Nails

Artist Website of the year:
3- Nine Inch Nails

Album of the year:
2- Nine Inch Nails "The Fragile"

Electronic Album of the year:
2- Nine Inch Nails "The Fragile"

Most Underrated Album of the year :
2- Nine Inch Nails "The Fragile"

Producer of the year:
2- Trent Reznor