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“Reinvented” Nine Inch Nails to tour US this year

By | Published on Tuesday 26 February 2013

Trent Reznor

Three years ago Trent Reznor decided to put Nine Inch Nails on hiatus and retire from touring, a few months later telling his audience at the Bonnaroo festival: “It just dawned on me that this is our last show ever in the United States. Don’t be sad. I’ll keep going. But I think I’m going to lose my fucking mind if I keep doing this, and I have to stop”.

Well, if you weren’t able to stop yourself from being sad, now is the time to cheer the fuck up again, because Reznor has just announced the return of NIN.

New material from the project has been mooted for some time, but in a post on official Trent Reznor website, Pitchfork, the musician has revealed that the first new NIN activity since those “last ever” shows is actually a tour. Whether there will be new material as well isn’t clear. In fact, nothing is very clear, except that Reznor has decided to “re-think the idea of what Nine Inch Nails could be”.

In a statement, Reznor wrote: “I was working with [King Crimson’s] Adrian Belew on some musical ideas, which led to some discussion on performing, which led to some beard-scratching, which (many steps later) led to the decision to re-think the idea of what Nine Inch Nails could be, and the idea of playing a show. Calls were made to some friends, lots of new ideas were discussed, and a show was booked – which led to another, which somehow led to a lot of shows”.

He continued: “The band is reinventing itself from scratch and will be comprised of [Ex-Jane’s Addition bassist] Eric Avery, Adrian Belew, [previous NIN member] Alessandro Cortini, [Telefon Tel Aviv’s] Josh Eustis, [Angels & Airwaves, Paramore and Ex-Lostprophets drummer] Ilan Rubin, and me. The first shows will begin this summer, followed by a full-on arena tour of the US this fall, and lots of other dates worldwide to follow through 2014”.

Exactly how the band will be reinvented remains to be seen, as a new line-up isn’t exactly anything new for a project that has always been Trent Reznor and some other guys.

But anyway, for no specific reason, let’s all watch this studio performance of ‘Something I Can Never Have’:



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