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NIN On The Road Again After Five Years

© Carolyn S. Hillard

The sound is more mature, and so are the players apparently. The first leg of the 1999-2000 Nine Inch Nails tour has generated very little offstage gossip of the sort that fascinates some fans and horrifies others.

After the Downward Spiral tour packed up their broken and battered instruments and went home, talk of rumored backstage shenanigans or depravity was rampant, and contributed to by none other than "Hole" leader and touring mate Courtney Love. This time around it's apparently pretty much all business and everybody's keeping a pretty low profile, except for one publicized incident of band members Danny Lohner and Jerome Dillon and a couple of over enthused girls at an informal after the gig gathering who reportedly were called down by NIN management.

What does this apparent new serenity mean for the fans? Does it even matter? On-stage some of the old songs are being played mixed with the new. And there's still a spark of the theatrical violence that was a hallmark of a NIN stage performance half a decade ago. Instruments still getting a little battering and some tossed water bottles here and there. But miraculously, no reports this go around of injured NIN band members! The days of beaning one's drummer in the head with a mic stand while in the musical throes of his own personal demons on-stage are apparently over for Mr. Reznor. His new drummer and the rest of the seasoned crew could concentrate on their music this time around without the necessity of being ready and able to duck quickly at any moment to dodge flying objects thrown by their leader.

The emotional intensity is still in the music. But the violence is slowly, surely and quite masterfully being siphoned out of the mix. It's a brand new NIN for a brand new century. We can't wait to see what new transformations 2000 brings.

NEWS BRIEFS...

FRAGILE GOES PLATINUM: It's a precious commodity to NIN fans, we already knew that. But "The Fragile" was officially certified Platinum recently, after debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard charts before experiencing a drop in recent weeks.

NEW SINGLE HITS THE AIRWAVES: "Into the Void" has been playing on alternative rock radio stations across the U.S. and it's thought that the latest single to come from the new NIN album may spark a resurgence in album sales.

NIN FILLS THE VIDEO VOID: A music video for "Into the Void" was being lensed in London this week, as NIN concluded the European leg of their touring. The sold out tour started November 14th in Barcelona, Spain, and concluded at Brixton Academy in London on December 1st.

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