It’s Trent Reznor’s birthday today — he’s turning 46 — and to mark the occasion, we’ll turn the clock back all the way to the very earliest days of Nine Inch Nails with this 11-song performance during the band’s December 1989 tour in support of the then just-released Pretty Hate Machine.
YouTube user ac1dfr3ak1zback doesn’t give a date on this grainy, VHS-ripped performance, but it likely is the widely bootlegged Dec. 9, 1989, show in Newark, N.J. You can watch the whole concert — which is obviously heavy on Pretty Hate Machine material, plus it includes NIN’s cover of Queen’s “Get Down Make Love” — in the playlist embedded above, or check out the individual chapters at Slicing Up Video.
See Nine Inch Nails’ 12/9/89 setlist after the jump…
Setlist: Nine Inch Nails, Pipeline, Newark, NJ 12/9/89
1. “Terrible Lie”
2. “Sin”
3. “Something I Can Never Have”
4. “Sanctified”
5. “That’s What I Get”
6. “The Only Time”
7. “Kinda I Want To”
8. “Get Down Make Love”
9. “Ringfinger”
10. “Down In It”
11. “Head Like a Hole”
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ reissued with ‘improved sonic experience’
- 33⅓ book on Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ to be published in March
- Video: David Bowie and Trent Reznor perform Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hurt’ in 1995
- Nine Inch Nails’ final concert filmed by fans for free download
- Video: Trent Reznor, Peter Murphy perform Iggy Pop, The Normal
Was this from one of the Mary Chain or Peter Murphy tours? NIN opended for both of them that year. Or was it 1990?? I just don’t remember.