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.