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In 1995, [[Nine Inch Nails]] co-headlined the Outside tour with [[David Bowie]]. Although NIN were supposedly more popular than Bowie at the time, Trent felt uncomfortable having his idol open for him. So NIN played after the opening band [[Prick]] and before Bowie. Their set was named '''Dissonance'''.
After NIN played a re-worked instrumental version of "[[Eraser]]", Bowie's band gradually came onto the stage to play 5 songs with NIN. Reznor and Bowie sang duet throughout this dual mini-set, with Reznor leaving the stage at the end for Bowie's band to perform their own set. NIN and Bowie's individual set lengths ended up being roughly equal.
The concept was innovative for its time, and received low sales and mixed reviews. Generalizing here, the young crowd did not stay for Bowie's set despite the segue, and the old crowd did not get industrial. Nowadays, these shows are treasured by the bootleg community.
== NIN set ==
# '''[[Terrible Lie]]''' – pre-emptively begun without warning (no pre-recorded build-up such as [[Pinion]])
# '''[[March of the Pigs]]'''
# '''[[The Becoming]]'''
# '''[[Sanctified]]'''
# '''[[Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)]]''' – the remix
# '''[[Burn]]'''
# '''[[Closer to God]]''' – the remix, which probably confused the audience
# '''[[Wish]]'''
# '''[[Gave Up]]'''
# '''[[Eraser]]''' – re-worked instrumental
== NIN and Bowie set ==
<ol start="11">
<li> '''Subterraneans''' – over top the synthesizers, Trent performed a saxophone solo whilst Bowie intoned the first verse of "Scary Monsters" </li>
<li> '''Scary Monsters''' </li>
<li> '''[[Reptile]]''' </li>
<li> '''Hallo Spaceboy''' </li>
<li> '''[[Hurt]]''' – with a unique synth part; a performance of this version is included in [[Closure]] </li>
</ol>
== Trivia ==
* Later, Bowie would attempt a similar tour in Europe with Morrissey. This also received mixed reception from the public, with Morrissey dropping out after refusing to segue his set into Bowie's as Reznor had done.
== YouTube videos ==
Low quality videos of the 1995/09/17 show:
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOYkGw24Llo Eraser]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg0yLIsNa_w Subterraneans]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FmjzFjtuo Scary Monsters]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXy3CSTmHws Reptile (part 1)]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1p4tsWEuOU Reptile (part 2)]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyFLTRfhNlw Hallo Spaceboy]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtfsgGFSR_I Hurt]
[[Category:Tours]]
After NIN played a re-worked instrumental version of "[[Eraser]]", Bowie's band gradually came onto the stage to play 5 songs with NIN. Reznor and Bowie sang duet throughout this dual mini-set, with Reznor leaving the stage at the end for Bowie's band to perform their own set. NIN and Bowie's individual set lengths ended up being roughly equal.
The concept was innovative for its time, and received low sales and mixed reviews. Generalizing here, the young crowd did not stay for Bowie's set despite the segue, and the old crowd did not get industrial. Nowadays, these shows are treasured by the bootleg community.
== NIN set ==
# '''[[Terrible Lie]]''' – pre-emptively begun without warning (no pre-recorded build-up such as [[Pinion]])
# '''[[March of the Pigs]]'''
# '''[[The Becoming]]'''
# '''[[Sanctified]]'''
# '''[[Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)]]''' – the remix
# '''[[Burn]]'''
# '''[[Closer to God]]''' – the remix, which probably confused the audience
# '''[[Wish]]'''
# '''[[Gave Up]]'''
# '''[[Eraser]]''' – re-worked instrumental
== NIN and Bowie set ==
<ol start="11">
<li> '''Subterraneans''' – over top the synthesizers, Trent performed a saxophone solo whilst Bowie intoned the first verse of "Scary Monsters" </li>
<li> '''Scary Monsters''' </li>
<li> '''[[Reptile]]''' </li>
<li> '''Hallo Spaceboy''' </li>
<li> '''[[Hurt]]''' – with a unique synth part; a performance of this version is included in [[Closure]] </li>
</ol>
== Trivia ==
* Later, Bowie would attempt a similar tour in Europe with Morrissey. This also received mixed reception from the public, with Morrissey dropping out after refusing to segue his set into Bowie's as Reznor had done.
== YouTube videos ==
Low quality videos of the 1995/09/17 show:
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOYkGw24Llo Eraser]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg0yLIsNa_w Subterraneans]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FmjzFjtuo Scary Monsters]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXy3CSTmHws Reptile (part 1)]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1p4tsWEuOU Reptile (part 2)]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyFLTRfhNlw Hallo Spaceboy]
# [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtfsgGFSR_I Hurt]
[[Category:Tours]]