Tuesday, September 02, 2008

the sky is filled with light

Justin, Perry, Daniel and I headed up to Lexington last Sunday night for my second (and unless someone commits to going to one of the November shows with me, probably last) show of Nine Inch Nail's Lights in the Sky 2008 tour. Great show; right up there with the Cleveland one. The crowd was a little mellower than in Cleveland, which makes it strange that I got much clearer shots at that show. While Perry and I ended up a little closer to the stage than Jon and I had been at the first show, we also ended up on the right side of the stage (which you can clearly see from the pictures).

The band was on top of things yet again. A lot of the same great songs from the first show were just as good this time--"Head Down," "Reptile," "The Warning," and "God Given" especially. As always "Terrible Lie"
was another highlight of the night. After playing it for twenty years, Trent Reznor still pours everything into it. I couldn't believe we got to hear "The Great Destroyer"--best song of the night; "The Beginning of the End" and "Ghosts 14" were two new standouts as well. In fact, I liked the whole "Ghosts" mini-set even better this time. The only real disappoint was not only did we get "The Frail" without "The Wretched" but the exclusion of "The Big Come Down" left us without any real songs from The Fragile. Overall it was another unbelievable show and it left me eager for November. Seriously. Any takers?

All my photos from the concert can be viewed at my flickr page.


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Letting You

Discipline

March Of The Pigs

Head Down

The Frail

Reptile

Closer

Gave Up

The Warning

The Great Destroyer

Ghosts 21

Ghosts 14

Ghosts 19

Piggy (Ghosts version)

The Greater Good

Pinion

Wish

Terrible Lie

Survivalism

Ghosts 31

Only

The Hand That Feeds

Head Like A Hole


(encore)

Echoplex

The Beginning Of The End

God Given

Hurt

In This Twilight



Discipline

Closer


The Warning

The Great Destroyer

Wish

The Hand That Feeds

2 comments:

Justin Hall said...

solid pix, too bad there aren't any of the sheep sitting on the floor. oh wait, that's us.

i caved and picked up the blu-ray of Beside You In Time... it's gorgeous. on a side note, i have a regular DVD version that's obsolete now if anyone's interested in buying :)

Davie said...

Yeah, whenever I end up getting a high-def TV and blu-ray player, that's the first thing I'm buying. Except maybe if they have Star Wars by then (do they already?).

No dice in talking the lady into the Columbus show?