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 announced to play Frequency Festival News. It was soon found out that they were to headline on the very same day as Nine Inch Nails.

The release of the timetable [1] caused some disconcertment 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!

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. "Dead Souls"
17. "Suck"
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