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[[Image:Wavegoodbye.jpg|thumb|200px|Tour logo from [[nin.com]]]][[Image:Wavegoodbye2.jpg|thumb|200px|Logo from bottom of tour page]]The '''Wave Goodbye Tour''' was a [[Tour|tour]] that took place between February and September 2009 in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia as a series of farewell shows, though NIN would be revived for touring again in 2013. Opening acts for this [[Tour|tour]] were [[Related bands and artists#Alec Empire|Alec Empire]], [[Related bands and artists#HEALTH|HEALTH]], [[The Horrors]], io echo, [[Related bands and artists#Jaguar Love|Jaguar Love]], [[Mew]], The Naked And Famous, Queen Kwong and [[Street Sweeper Social Club]].
==Announcements==During the [[2008/12/13 Las Vegas, NV|Las Vegas, Nevada]] show on December 13, 2008, [[Trent Reznor]] announced [[Alessandro Cortini]], like [[Josh Freese]], would be leaving the line-up at the end of the tour, making the show the last for both Freese and the last for Cortiniuntil 2013. It was also announced that after the Australian leg of 2009 dates there would be a selection of US Amphitheater dates and some European shows later in the year in the same format as Australia, following festivals.
Reznor also stated that 2009 would see Nine Inch Nails performing as a four-piece act, opting to not replace Cortini, suggesting the shows would not be of the same aesthetic visually or musically during the 2009 dates. This was confirmed a matter of days later via an entry on the nin.com homepage, confirming that the [[Lights In The Sky Tour]] ended with the departure of Josh and Alessandro, possibly indicating an entire new theme and motif for 09 tour, much like the changeover from 2006's [[Live: With Teeth]] to [[Performance 2007]]:
On February 16, 2009, Reznor announced that the 2009 tour would be NIN's last "for a while." On April 30, 2009, the tour had been renamed from "NIN 2009" to "Wave Goodbye." On May 5, 2009, Reznor disclosed in an interview that this would be the last NIN tour for at least several years.
==Backstage Passes==
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<blockquote>"This is for something important. Eric De La Cruz is dying and needs a heart transplant. He keeps getting turned down for a transplant list because he’s on Nevada Medicaid, and there are no transplant centers in Nevada. We want to get involved and hopefully so do you, so we’re extending a hand. His sister Veronica (former Anchor and Internet Correspondent for CNN) has started a campaign to save his life.
Eric’s situation shines a bright light on a broken health care system, and his particular set of problems are being addressed on the political front, aiming for reform in addition to the need for immediate financial help to keep him alive TODAY. I think we can help with the latter.
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<blockquote>"Thank you so much for you help with this cause. Due to your generosity, we've raised OVER $800,000 FOR ERIC IN JUST SIX DAYS!
This response has been overwhelming - so much so we sadly have to stop accepting any more VIP package donations for the North American NIN/JA shows. We simply can't accommodate any more people! We are still accepting multiples of $10 donations and all VIP packages for the headlining shows in the rest of the world. Starting hopefully tomorrow, we'll be offering a limited package of 1,000 collectable / signed complete skateboards generously donated from my friend Tony Hawk. For a donation of $1,000, you will receive one of these and a signed-by-me copy of NIN's rarest CD release, STILL.
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| Vector Arena
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| [[2009/02/21 Brisbane, QLDAustralia]]
| RNA Showgrounds (Soundwave Festival)
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| [[2009/02/22 Sydney, NSWAustralia]]
| Eastern Creek Raceway (Soundwave Festival)
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| [[2009/02/24 Sydney, NSWAustralia]]
| Hordern Pavillion
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| [[2009/02/25 Melbourne, VICAustralia]]
| Festival Hall
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| [[2009/02/27 Melbourne, VICAustralia]]
| Melbourne Showgrounds (Soundwave Festival)
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| [[2009/02/28 Adelaide, SAAustralia]]
| Bonython Park (Soundwave Festival)
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| [[2009/03/02 Perth, WAAustralia]]
| Steel Blue Oval (Soundwave Festival)
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This leg of the tour saw the reintroduction of "[[Closer]]" back into the set, despite Trent Reznor previously saying in a fan interview that the song was not going to be performed in 2009. This was the typical setlist on this leg:
#"[[Somewhat Damaged]]"#"[[Terrible Lie]]"#"[[Heresy]]"#"[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]"#"[[Piggy]]"#"Closer"#"[[Reptile]]"#"[[The Becoming]]"#"[[I'm Afraid of Americans]]"#"[[Burn (song)|Burn]]"#"[[Gave Up]]"#"[[La Mer]]"#"[[The Fragile (song)|The Fragile]]"#"[[The Frail]]"#"[[The Wretched]]"#"[[Non-Entity]]"#"[[Gone, Still]]"#"[[The Downward Spiral (song)|The Downward Spiral]]"#"[[The Big Come Down]]"#"[[Wish (song)|Wish]]"#"[[Survivalism (song)|Survivalism]]"#"[[Echoplex]]"#"[[The Day The World Went Away (song)|The Day The World Went Away]]"#"[[Dead Souls]]"#"[[The Hand That Feeds (song)|The Hand That Feeds]]"#"[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]"#"[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]"
===Tour Dates===
==External Links==
*[http://portraitofdecay.net/www.ninja2009.com/ NIN/JA 2009 Official site(archived at Portrait of Decay)]*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/nineinchnails/sets/72157618913100680/ Wave Goodbye photos by Rob Sheridan]
[[Category:Tours]]