I've been out all day exploring - our last day here in NY - but want to write this before I forget.
Amazing night. I feel just a teensy bit bad for how much I paid for those tickets. If I had been less anxious, I could have waited a couple hours, as I saw the prices on Stubhub fell once it was closer to the time of the show. I never did get an email from the NIN camp, though, and as was documented in the other thread, I only opened up my phone and found out about the show around 1 PM - well after they had gone on sale and already sold out. Oh well. Life is short. I don't regret money spent on great memories. I'm very happy my husband and I got to be there. This was my sixth time seeing NIN live.
I did worry myself stupid all afternoon about the tickets being fakes - even though there was the supposed protection in place with StubHub for my money back, I obviously wanted to go more. When we got in line there *was* a girl going through the line with a printed out list, asking for names. There was no name printed on my tickets. She was not reassuring at all, and told me flatly "well, there's only a 50/50 chance these are real and you'll be getting in." I wanted to punch her in the face right then. Haha. She also said there would be an ID check against the tickets at the door, but there never was! So a lot of confusing back and forth info. We got to talking to the couple behind us in line, super nice, and they at least took my mind off the worry until we got in. When the tickets scanned and they waved me on through to be patted down, I almost cried from relief. The couple we'd been talking to started cheering.
Absolute highlights of the night for me were Somewhat Damaged as an opener (AWESOME), She's Gone Away, and BURN! I'll have to check, but I don't think I've seen that one played since the first time I saw NIN - in 2005! Everyone in the crowd was cheerful and seemed incredibly excited to be there. I did talk to two different couples and one girl that all said they knew about last night's show almost a week in advance. All were NYC locals, and all of them had a friend, or a friend of a friend tip them off ahead of time, saying to "be ready Monday morning."

I loved Webster Hall, and I'm glad I got to experience it before it's renovated. But that floor did scare the shit out of me! We were dead center, about 8 people back when SD started, and moved over to the right after 1M. It was strange not to get Hurt, though. I still love it as a closer. It's the first time I've seen them that they *didnt* play it.

Awesome night that I will never forget.


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