Trent Reznor just posted this via nin.com:
“File this one under lost opportunities.
I’m very proud of the show we’ve put together for this tour and have been working hard the last few months to find a way to capture it. I had an amazing situation lined up that would have allowed me to film the show in 3D with James Cameron’s team for a theatrical release as well as DVD / BluRay, etc. We had an extra date added to the tour that we were going to give away all the tickets for and have a filming party / thank you show.
I made two critical mistakes. One was to approach a certain record company that owns some of the song rights about producing / funding. The second was to allow said company to fuck around as usual for months before saying um… no. We then achieved the impossible by finding alternate production / funding but the timetable is too rushed to get it filmed comfortably with the remaining time left on the tour. This tour and a lot of the personnel involved finish at the end of this leg, so we can’t push filming into Jan / Feb.
Deep breath…
This was an amazing tour and production – certainly the best thing I’ve ever been involved with and likely the final tour for NIN on this scale. Thank you to those who came out to see it and forgive me for having a Kanye West moment, but this was FOR SURE the best show of the year and any bullshit end-of-the-year poll you may read in the next few weeks that says otherwise simply has it wrong. Those of you who saw it know I’m right.
The shows we have announced in 2009 and any more that may be announced will be a completely different approach with some different personnel and will likely be the last for the foreseeable future.”
Does this mean What I think it means? NIN…is….done? No more touring? No more records? I knew when I spoke to Trent on the phone, he was just way too disgusted with the music industry to remain in its spotlight. all he could talk about was how shitty the whole thing was. Again, I will be posting my article when it is published next Thursday.
Now I feel honored to interview him. I caught him right before the end. This is a loss to be mourned. Good gawd…this will make me forget all about the Twilight saga for awhile.
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Rowan // December 4, 2008 at 3:37 am |
I don’t think this is the end, I just think that Trent is going to put things on ice for a while. Apparently it’s getting hard to tour with the same people for months on end without tearing each other’s heads off! Let’s just see this as time for him to sit back, re-evaluate the project and come back at a later date, better than ever before.