2007/08/16 Salzburg, Austria

Nine Inch Nails played at the Frequency Festival in Salzburg, Austria, on August 16, 2007.

Notes

On March 29, 2007 Nine Inch Nails were confirmed to headline Frequency Festival in Salzburg, Austria News Archive. Two months later, German fun-punk-band Die Ärzte, whose fans are known for their obsessive fandom, were also announced to play Frequency Festival News. It was soon discovered that they were to headline on the very same day as Nine Inch Nails.

The release of the timetable [1] caused some discontent amongst Austrian and German Nine Inch Nails fans as Nine Inch Nails were to play between Beatsteaks and Die Ärzte, two German bands who are very close.

During "Something I Can Never Have" parts of the crowd in the wavebreaker started chanting "Wir wollen Die Ärzte sehen..." (We want to see Die Ärzte)

In a rare case, "Hurt" was not played at the festival due to hecklers.

Trent Reznor called this concert "the worst performance and certainly the worst crowd of the whole tour by far." There are reports that people in the audience were on their phones while the band played, sat down in the wavebreaker and rude behavior in general from the crowd.

The following statement was posted in the Tour Journal at ETS:

The blame lies with us (NIN). We should never have been booked at that festival in that slot in the first place. The
responsible booking agent had been replaced a while ago but some of his shitty bookings remain. 
It seems from time to time we get stuck in a festival slot that is unwinnable - playing in front of an audience that doesn't AND SHOULDN'T like us. Just so
happens that seems to happen in and around Germany the most. We show up and see band names we've never heard of (nor has anybody else 50 miles
outside of Germany) and discover they're huge somehow. 
Lesson learned!

Extract of the organiser's review of Frequency Festival 2007 [2]:

Am donnerstag ging es dann von den fans heiss her und speziell der wellenbrecher war heissbegehrt und DÄ fans haben
sich dort den ganzen tag nicht mehr weg bewegt... was dann ja bekanntlich trent nicht "so getaugt" hat. ich hatte
gehofft das alle fans auch bei NIN mit gehen würden aber das war dann leider nur teilweise so, allerdings war auch das NIN set anfangs eher zäh... aber mir hat es gut gefallen.

Translation:

On Thursday it heated up between the fans, especially a place in the wavebreaker was wanted and Die Ärzte-fans
didn't leave it the whole day... which wasn't really to Trent's pleasure. I've hoped that all fans would be totally
into NIN as well, but unfortunately this was only partly like that, however: the NIN-set was a bit  tough in the beginning as well... but I liked it a lot.

Lineup

• Alessandro Cortini: Keyboards, programming, guitar, backing vocals
• Josh Freese: Drums
• Aaron North: Guitar, backing vocals
• Trent Reznor: Vocals, guitar, keyboards, tambourine
• Jeordie White: Bass, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals

Setlist

1. "Hyperpower!"
2. "The Beginning of the End"
3. "Sin"
4. "March Of The Pigs"
5. "Something I Can Never Have"
6. "Closer"
7. "Survivalism"
8. "Burn"
9. "Gave Up"
10. "La Mer"
11. "The Frail"
12. "The Wretched"
13. "Wish"
14. "The Good Soldier"
15. "No, You Don't"
16. "Suck"
17. "Dead Souls"
18. "The Hand That Feeds"
19. "Head Like A Hole"

Bootlegs

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External Links

• ETS Tour Journal
• Reznor talking to the audience