Here are the rest of my Sendspace uploads of video taken at last Thursday's brilliant Wolverhampton gig.

Only
Head Like A Hole
Down In It

Don't forget my earlier entry, with many more downloads, here

Cross-posted to reznor_daily and ninnuendo, and my own journal.

I've been reading loads of opinion on this gig, and the general consensus is that it was one of the best ever/this tour. I'm glad it waasn't just me that thought so, and I'm glad I was able to capture some of it on my camera. Sitting on the front row balcony meant that there is little to no camera shake. :-)

I uploaded some of the video to Google and Youtube. There is more, but they're taking forever to upload, so here are the links so far;

Trent Reznor talks about fun gigs
Down In It
The Day The Whole World Went Away

See my older videos here


Also, here are some Sendspace links for videos of the concert (Sendspace is being a complete bastard at the moment too... more to follow, eventually);

The Day The Whole World Went Away
Hurt
Trent Reznor talks about fun gigs
Burn
Me, I'm Not
Hyperpower!/This Is The Beginning

Cross-posted to reznor_daily and ninnuendo, and my own journal.

I uploaded the 25 best photos from last night into a gallery.



You can see them all here

I'm in the process of uploading the videos to Sendspace, and will also put them on Google and/or Youtube. It's taking a while!

Cross-posted to ninnuendo, reznor_daily, and to my own LJ.

I am delighted to announce that I am supporting Google's Gatesian quest for world domination by uploading all my concert videos to its new and rather spiffy alternative to Youtube, here. Unlike Youtube, there is no size limit, so I've been able to upload many clips that I haven't been able to share until now.

Head Like A Hole
Hurt
Trent Reznor speaks about gigs on Tuesdays
Only
Something I Can Never Have
Trent Reznor introducing song
Closer
March Of The Pigs (part)
La Mer/into the Void

What a fantastic gig! I especially loved Sin and La Mer/Into the Void, though it was all absolutely brilliant. They were really on form last night.

The lack of any meet and greet/soundcheck for Spirallers was a disappointment, however much I keep telling myself that those are perks, not rights.

We managed to avoid standing in line for hours, though, since we were staying in the Premier Apartmerts right next to the venue. VERY nice! Oh, and seeing the lunar eclipse after the show was cool too!

Anyway, here's a link to the photos I took. Enjoy!

Here's a photo I took, and a link to my LiveJournal gallery with 20 more (of varying quality). Enjoy!



More photos here

I also uploaded three video clips to You Tube, but I'm still trying to upload Hurt and Something I Can Never Have.
Head Like A Hole (part)
Only (part)
Trent talks about Tuesdays

Manchester Apollo, Feb 25th
ABSOLUTELY FANBLOODYTASTIC!!!

We arrived at the venue soon after four, and saw the Spiral board outside. We went straight there and were ushered inside and given our Spiral tickets, and asked for our cameras and cell phones! They were sealed into an envelope and we were told we'd get them back 'after five o'clock'. Then we were directed to wait in the foyer, where about fifty other people were already waiting. I was gutted at having to give up my camera, but appreciated why later on. ;-)

After a few minutes, we were told to go up to the balcony, where there would be pizza and soft drinks for all! Sure enough, everyone was given a pizza in a box, and a can of Coke, lemonade, water, whatever, and we all took seats in the balcony.

After a short while, someone said "Hi, guys!" and we all turned round with a collective gasp - Trent was in our midst, standing halfway down the balcony! We applauded, and he said that today he wondered if we'd all like to hear the new album!! We cheered, he said he hoped we liked it, and then it kicked in through the (rather good) PA system, at which point he left. :-(
Now I could see why we'd had to hand everything in. His marketing strategy is to 'leak' a song at a time, and if anyone had been able to record and upload it they would have spoiled it.

As for the album itself, I've heard all of it now and it's good. There are some songs I love already, a few are growers, but to be perfectly honest (maybe it was just because the pizza had gone cold!) the last few tracks seemed self-indulgent. Just because he's a techical and instrumental genius and a whizz at production doesn't mean he has to labour the point, you know? Yeah, yeah, heresy. Just my humble opinion. The one track that really stands out for me is Capital G. Ver, very catchy, and reminds me of Marilyn Manson.

Anyway, that took an hour, and we were all told to leave the building and re-join the Spiral line for entry at 6:45.
Incidentally, I met some really nice people in the Spiral line, and had a good chat. It was fun. :-)

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The gig itself was amazing. I didn't like Ladytron, just not my thing. NIN came on at 9pm. For five minutes prior to that, the smoke machines had been on and the whole auditorium was covered in fog. Really thick fog. It was so thick that we couldn't see the stage or the band for the first three or four songs at all, and then every time it started to clear, the bloody smoke machines came on again! It was very ,very annoying, especially when many people there had cameras at the ready.
The sound was excellent. Very clear. Whoever was on the mixing desk did a great job. Here's the set list;
Pilgrimage
Mr. Self Destruct
Last
Sin
March of The Pigs (including the lyrics: 'and everything, is definitely not, alright')
Something I Can Never Have
Closer
Ruiner
Wish
Help Me I Am In Hell
Eraser
No, You Don't
La Mer
Into The Void
Burn
Only
The Day The World Went Away
Hurt
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole

I managed to shoot some video on my camera, and the sound's pretty good, so I'm going to upload them to Youtube today. I'll post links later. Ditto the photos; some are rubbish, firstly because of the smoke and then because for some reason the camera kept trying to refocus all the time. I do have a few pretty good ones, though. And I have two more gigs to get it right! ;-)

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Merchandise; I got a longsleeved tee for £22, a black tee for £18, two NIN bumper stickers and a book of photos from the 2006 tour. We scoured three separate ladies rooms, but didn't stumble across any flash drives, although as you'll now know, one was found, with another new song and a web link on it. :-)))

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Here's a real shitter.....I renewed my membership to Premium back in September of this year so I should still have like almost a full year til expiration (still have yet to get my renewal package by the way). Well I go to log onto the Spiral last week & it says my membership has expired as of December 15, 2006. WTF?!?! Needless to say, I'm uber pissed! I've tried sending messages to SparkArt & can't get a damned response. And since I can't log on, I can't find a phone number to call & get this shit fixed. Anyone know what the phone number is?

Thanks!

Does anyone know what Trent is talking about on here: http://www.nin.com/tr/default.aspx

Has anyone been having trouble using the new Spiral's blog feature? I'm using firefox, and it seems to not want to post my post. :(

The email about the nin.com email addresses and needing to back up the emails in the account arrived this morning. I immediately try to login and save my emails... I can't. Closed already.

Is anyone else able to log in to it any way at all?

I'm pretty pissed off.

Is anyone else having problems signing on to the Spiral board?

I posted in the ticket swap thread and the respective threads for both of these shows, but I thought I'd post here, too.

Looking for two pit tickets for either or both of these shows. Right now I have seats, which I'm willing to trade, but would really prefer to buy the pit tickets outright (we want to have the option to sit in our seats if the pit gets crazy).

If you have any, please let me know!

i must say, my spiral tshirt that finally came after 11 months is might comfy.