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simonn
Had an excellent day and night. Great to meet some fellow ETs-ers for the first time pre-show.
Got myself a Bad Witch t-shirt - surprised at how cheap all the merch was - £20 for a t-shirt is unheard of in this day and age!
The show was superb, basically the epic Vegas night 3 with Even Deeper and I Do Not Want This in for Parasite and the Joy Division cover - I'll take that!! I thought GBDTD in particular of the new songs worked brilliantly. Great Destroyer breakdown with AR/AC rather than AR/TR. Fragile heavy set was an absolute dream come true - SD, TW, BCD and ED being amongst my favourites of the whole catalogue. Being up higher, we got to see Trent apparently trip over something on his way between Ilan and Ally, so he kicked over some water, roadie then spent the best part of the next song drying the stage area. He also did a keyboard tip as his keyboard wasn't working during Metal and said something like 'technical problems huh?'. It was weird hearing Trent singing Metal, not a song I gravitate to often from the NIN catalogue. I've seen Numan sing it a lot over the years, so to hear it in a different register/style was odd, but still enjoyable.
Great to know that Moulder was in the room. Most of the people around were really up for a good time, the guy two down from me in GG31 who's name I've forgotten (sorry!) - you rocked your ass off! Fragile stuff went down the best - and the age range was surprising - teens up to sixties. And I loved Trent's matter of factness about the new album 'apparently' we've got a new album out today!
Some great memories to take away from that, and I look forward to doing it all over again on Sunday. As the three Vegas shows were clearly constructed for multiple nights, given the choice, I'd take night 2 - Branches/Bones is a storming opener, I love Sanctified, and I really want to see Background World and Burning Bright live. Greedy fucker, I know!
Katara- the What's a NIN t-shirt was Sheepdean!
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