NIN To Tour With Jane’s Addiction, Then “Disappear”
Trent Reznor just announced on the NIN site that they would be touring with Jane’s Addiction in 2009, and then taking a hiatus.
In NIN world, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of our first releases. I’ve been thinking for some time now it’s time to make NIN disappear for a while. Last year’s “Lights in the Sky” tour was something I’m quite proud of and seems like the culmination of what I could pull off in terms of an elaborate production. It was also quite difficult to pull off technically and physically night after night and left us all a bit dazed. After some thought, we decided to book a last run of shows across the globe this year. The approach to these shows is quite different from last year – much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted. Fun for us and a different way for you to see us and wave goodbye. I reached out to Jane’s to see if they’d want to join us across the US and we all felt it could be a great thing. Will it work? Will it resonate in the marketplace? Who knows. Are there big record label marketing dollars to convince you to attend? Nope.
Does it feel right to us and does it seem like it will be fun for us and you? Yes it does.
Look for tour dates soon and I hope to see you out there.Trent
The news comes fresh off the heels of Jane’s secret show last night in LA, previously reported here. It looks like the co-headlining tour will bring about another banner year for NIN in 2009, who shook up the music world last year with an epic Lights In The Sky Tour, two independent digital releases (Ghosts I-IV, and The Slip), and introduced a new paradigm in content distribution by offering free torrent files of albums and video footage directly to fans. Then, book-ending their career with Jane’s Addiction in the beginning and the end, the band will fall silent for an unknown length of time.
You can read Trent’s full post at the NIN site.
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