June 30: NIN and Bauhaus

[Michael J. Salo]

At 07:16 PM 3/14/2006, Kelly Ashkettle wrote:
>http://www.nin.com/tour/index.html
>
>   Nine Inch Nails will be stopping at the Post-Gazette Pavilion on June 30.
>   Support act: Bauhaus
>
>   Tickets go on sale April 1.

very interesting & exciting I would say, congrats to yinz that 
Pittsburgh gets Bauhaus at last.

yet I can't help but wonder how well this lineup will work.  Openers 
for stadium shows tend not to get much respect.  What percentage of 
the NIN fans at the concerts will know & appreciate who Bauhaus is?  Maybe 1%?

It has me thinking back to when the Damned opened for a Rob Zombie 
tour.  It may sound like a cool lineup, but what happened is you have 
thousands of confused, unsophisticated commercial radio listeners 
downing Buds, getting angry and shouting "get off the stage!"  The 
Damned dropped out of the tour after a couple shows, I guess they're 
a little too old for that.

Bauhaus may be able to sell out midsize venues in cities like NY & 
LA, but now this tour will have them going through places like Boise 
ID, Birmingham AL, and Pittsburgh.  I'm quite curious how it will go 
over.  I hope it works, so I can catch the tour myself.

It's also funny because NIN was the opening act for Peter Murphy on 
the "Deep" tour around 1990.

Michael J. Salo
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