Dear Alan

Thank you for your e-mail regarding our coverage of 'Glastonbury 2000'.

I am sorry that we showed a limited performance by the 'Nine Inch Nails'. We filmed most of the their set, and hoped to include some of their performance in the later programme. In our coverage we are committed to showing the maximum number of sets live and we were limited in time to squeeze in as many highlights as possible. With so many performances to choose from it was a difficult decision and we are sorry to have missed the majority of their set on this occasion.

Once again, I am sorry you were disappointed but hope I have been able to clarify the situation.

Thank you again for taking the time to write.

Hard as Nails

Trent Reznor, the real angry guy from industrial metal merchants Nine Inch Nails, may again score a game for id.

Trent provided the legendery "ambient" sound track (ie: a load of grunting noises) to the original Quake, but turned down the opportunity to provide music for Quake III for fear of "prostituting his talent".

However Trent is apparently considering an offer from ID boss John Carmack to score the forthcoming new version of Doom. "I would do something like that" he guffs.

It was also Charlie Clouser's birthday yesterday.

For the Hurricane Festival, the setlist was as follows:

Head Like A Hole /Terrible Lie /Sin /March Of The Pigs/The Frail/The Wretched / Gave Up /Reptile / Wish /Suck /Down In It / Closer /Starfuckers Inc. /Hurt

...I believe in "The Fragile" and I want to try and get the word out. This band just might make you realise that Limp Bizkit sucks."

Interviewer: "You're not a fan of Fred Durst?"

Trent: "It's one thing if you know your place, like, "Hey, I'm an idiot who makes shitty music but people buy it, f**k it, I'm having fun". But it's another thing when you think you're David Bowie after you've stayed up all night to write a song called "Break Stuff"", Reznor laughs, injecting contempt into every word, "I mean, Fred Durst probably spelt the word "break" wrong the first few times." Fred Durst might be a cool guy, I don't know him. But his "art" (in the word's loosest sense) sucks."

Bachman credits his eight children - including his oldest boy, Tal - for keeping him current. "My daughter started playing Nine Inch Nails over and over until I said, 'OK, I really like this.' They're amazing."

The Fragile serves as an invaluable model for how such artefacts could transmit their dreams and propagate their messages. For the hyper-alert listener, it will be the first step on a new journey. But sadly for the majority, it will be just another hysterical industrial album promoted as selection of the month.

"We'll probably do a DVD release of this tour later this year," says Reznor, "It's an experiment and an excuse to kind of dig into Final Cut and see what happens."

He first called me to advise on one track but, after three days in thestudio, we decided to record a track together, to see if we could makeit together a bit more... [laughs] Well, even if the result was reallybad, we discovered that we had complementary talents, and we'll be returningto the studio when his tour and my tour will be finished.

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Given the band's industrial bent, it's easy to overlook the subtlety in percussion and keyboards that give NIN's songs texture and nuance — that is, the thing that sets them apart from all the other raging howlers out there. Combined with startlingly clear sound, even in the upper reaches of the Pepsi Center, it was one of the most inspired shows at the arena yet, despite the unrelenting darkness of the show, which drew heavily from the band's latest album The Fragile.

A consummate performer skilled in theatrics, Reznor sexily writhed under silhouette lighting on the hit "Closer." On "Sin," from 1989's "Pretty Hate Machine," Reznor desperately clung to the back of lead guitarist Robin Finck, then shoved him off the stage and into the audience, where Finck crowdsurfed as fans roared with approval.

This may end up being a new thing on the NIN Hotline. We've gotten a lot of emails throughout the Fragility 2.0 tour of fans asking us to help find someone they met at the show. This very well may end up being a new section on the Hotline (not in the News Updates) if interest continues. If you think it'd be a good idea, tell me.

The last show was a blast :) A Perfect Circle did a specially modified performance of Diary of a Madman dedicated to the Nine Inch Nails crew, for being such a nice crew during the tour. I got trampled to a show that included Somewhat Damaged and Just Like You Imagined...some embarrasing pictures may arise soon of some corn-starch-drenched members of the crew who made it to the Denver get-together :) The whole thingcouldn't have happened so smooth without the graceful help of Dionysis from access :) Many thanks again, grrl :)

Di also sent in some links from Denver press regarding the last show on the tour. Pop Music critic Mark Brown wrote this excellent review of Sunday's show.

Given the band's industrial bent, it's easy to overlook the subtlety in percussion and keyboards that give NIN's songs texture and nuance — that is, the thing that sets them apart from all the other raging howlers out there. Combined with startlingly clear sound, even in the upper reaches of the Pepsi Center, it was one of the most inspired shows at the arena yet,

It was a really great weekend, I got to meet some more of my pals whom I'd known for quite a while, and met some very nice people whom I've only been talking to recently :) Very nice to meet up with fans of the site at the show [while doing our shameless flyer distribution], and I know I can't wait until the next US tour rolls around.After nine shows, meeting countless people whom I never expected to ever be in the same room with, much less all at once, after seeing the show evolve between Cleveland and Denver, and so much more blathering I could do, I'm a very happy fella. These past few months have been unforgettable... I owe a tremendous thanks to Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for so many things, for so much fun and adventure :)

Best of luck on the European festival shows! And next time take more of a break in between tours to catch your breath :)

Thanks to Gary The Retard for pointing this out.

But hell, we've got more for ya :) This weekend, I revamped most of the Halo Profiles, so if you still don't have all the Fragile-era releases, check out what they look like. I'll probably stock more fun-facts with the images when I'm again motivated, and there's a lot to put up for The Fragile so that's on hold right now.

Because we've got so much neat stuff that doesn't get much exposure from the navigation system we currently have, expect a major revamp to that aspect of the page. Stuff like the Lyrics Search Engine, our exclusive interviews with Alan Moulder, Keith Hillebrandt & Kim Prevost, our site search engine, and lots of other buried crap.

Also, in coordination with the great people at nin.com.ar, we're opening a Spanish edition of the NIN Hotline - the graphics are done, the CGI is about complete, I just have to put the final steps in motion (and buy more space) to get this project live.

If everything goes as planned, the tour journal is due back up this Wednesday, with a new look and feel. If you've got photos, stories, or anything to that effect, keep sending them - we've got a lot, but never enough :)

Know someone who'd make a good features columnist? I'm looking for something new and NIN related that I can read on a weekly basis. I'd like to put it on the Hotline so other people can read it too. Let me know if you've got any ideas.

Thanks TuRnoffTheSuNN@aol.com.

Reznor knows the importance of demonstrating the continued vitality of his music, and he and the four musicians in this edition of Nine Inch Nails delivered that music with a relentless force that conveyed the genuine thrill of electrifying rock 'n' roll.

The balance of material and energy produced NIN's most mature and entertaining live experience yet, proving that the group can do more than undo themselves at a blistering pace

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Accordingly, Reznor and company performed with liberating power and finely calibrated precision Saturday. Taking to the stage after a promising opening set by the moody Tool-offshoot band A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails delivered even its most pulverizing numbers with finesse and a masterful command of dynamic tension and release.

The Arizona Republic had plenty of good things to say about the Phoenix performance on Sunday. Larry Rodgers writes

A chaotic combination of cutting lyrics, slashing guitar and droning keyboards launched the 90-minute show with Reznor telling God that "you owe me a great big apology" in 1989's "Terrible Lie."

The San Jose Mercury News features a snippet of interview with the ever-expressive guitarist Robin Finck about halfway down this page. Robin touches on playing for the Cirque, recording with Axl Rose, taking Arvo Pärt on the road with him, and plenty of other topics across the board. Brad Kava's article for the Mercury News can be found right here. A kind thanks to nokomis for pointing us to that article.

On a similar note, while you can't vote for Starsuckers anywhere on MuchMusic's website, you -can- vote on Canada's Edge102, at this page, right here, in all its orange glory. It's currently on the count-down, but you can help raise it's popularity by voting a couple times at this page. Thanks to Sandra for the reccomendation there.

"Record companies are owned by major corporations, who have lots of accountants with quarterly profit margins. So who do you think gets pushed on the back burner? Britney Spears, who' s pop (expletive)? Or somebody like me, who puts out a bloated double CD, and is cranky and is particular about the quality of the packaging, and who is desperately trying to maintain that it' s art, and not just a plastic project? "And that' s been a tough battle to fight. It' s depressing when you see that everything has become image, and everyone is a clone of everyone else .... I realize I' m in business to sell records. But I approach it from the point that I want to make music that challenges the world -- and changes me. "And my famous last words are: ' I' m dropped' (from my record contract).