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Nine Inch Nails Wave Goodbye to New York With Bauhaus’ Murphy

8/27/09, 12:52 pm EST

Photograph by Matthew Drazin

Nine Inch Nails played their last ever New York concert last night at Terminal 5, ending a brief four-show run in the Big Apple. At both of their Terminal 5 shows, Trent Reznor and his soon-to-be-unemployed band welcomed Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy to the stage to perform a handful of songs. The last shows also featured set lists packed with dozens of Nine Inch Nails’ best songs and favorite covers as Reznor waved goodbye to his East Coast die-hards.

Rather than ending his venue-spanning NYC residence with hits like “Hurt” or “Head Like a Hole,” Reznor, with Murphy onstage, capped off his stay with covers of Bauhaus’ classic “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” and, finally, Pere Ubu’s “Final Solution.” The August 25th show also featured Murphy guesting on Bauhaus’ “Kick in the Eye” and NIN’s fan-favorite cover of Joy Division’s “Dead Souls.” At last night’s show, Murphy descended from T5’s belfry vampire-style, hanging upside as a chain lowered him to the stage, all while singing “Reptile” (Brooklyn Vegan has video of Murphy’s Dracula feat, which he memorably pulled off at Coachella several years ago, too).

As Reznor has mentioned several times in the weeks since announcing the retirement of the live Nine Inch Nails, he reiterated to the T5 crowd that NIN will continue to make music, but that his concert days were over. As Rock Daily previously reported, Reznor’s NYC stand also featured a performance of the entire The Downward Spiral at Webster Hall.

Next up on Nine Inch Nails’ Wave Goodbye tour is a pair of concerts at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom this Friday and Saturday before Reznor performs Sunday, August 30th at Toronto’s Virgin Festival. Reznor will officially put his live performance days to rest with a four-day, four-venue stand in Los Angeles. Rock Daily will be at the final (ever?) Nine Inch Nails concert on September 6th at Los Angeles’ Echoplex, so check back for our full report.

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Rusty Nails | 8/27/2009, 2:42 pm EST

Would have killed to see the Downward Spiral performed live!!!

A | 8/27/2009, 2:59 pm EST

The time I saw NIN at Lollapalooza (way back when), their instruments weren’t even plugged in. Just sayin…

Marilyn Manson | 8/27/2009, 4:54 pm EST

Trent ain’t shit.

Rachelly | 8/27/2009, 6:43 pm EST

Awright Trent, see you back in tour when you hit 55.

echoplex33 | 8/27/2009, 7:17 pm EST

im gonna see nails tomorrow at the aragon. sitting at a hotel in chicago waiting right now…

KM | 8/27/2009, 7:23 pm EST

Trent and Peter are awesome together

Carlos Rosette Vazquez | 8/27/2009, 8:38 pm EST

This NY Shows looks really cool, Peter Murphy and NIN Nice it’s a Shame i live on the west cost and in Tijuana Mexico. NIN will rule the Industrial back grounds from the 90’s , NIN was an is the main stream band that made the goth and Underground Scene more main stream!! I give best greetings and luck to NIN! NIN Rules

Carlos Rosette Vazquez
From Tijuana B.C. Mexico

the great destroyer | 8/28/2009, 2:55 am EST

im sure there instruments where running of a wireless system. back then it would have been expensive so you know they were doing it.

the great destroyer | 8/28/2009, 2:59 am EST

I think we’ll see more of Trent and Peter in the future. Hopefully the movie for Year Zero.

David Bleu | 8/29/2009, 8:28 pm EST

i am sooo sick of this fake Idiot. Go the fuck away….but please do some epic fuckery before you do.. Reznor is fucking fake and ridiculous.

ReneeP | 8/30/2009, 4:17 pm EST

I was at this show and it was uncredible..the fact that i may never see NIN again sucks!! but at least i saw them twice and if you dont like trent get the hell of this page.

Amanda | 8/30/2009, 4:48 pm EST

You’re not exactly top genetic material yourself, Reznor… an aging ex-junkie has been? You’re lucky any woman finds you interesting. Oh yeah, since your sexuality is so sacred and you’re above such fat ugly women and have decided they are worthless, then here’s some advice for when you’re so old that no one wants to fuck you…. take a razor, slip into a warm bath, take a wee hit of the old “junk” and mercifully slit your wrists.

hypocrisy | 8/30/2009, 6:40 pm EST

I agree..what else is Reznor going to pull. He’s turning into a joke. From talking s*** about people to pulling a silly pr stunt “marrying” a woman who is only concerned about getting promotion for her crappy band and spending his money–oh, and they met on Twitter 3 weeks ago–…all for PUBLICITY. He is an attention seeking Fool. Never thought I’d say that, but it’s true. He’s lost a lot of fans…and he’s getting laughed at.

Pkerown | 8/30/2009, 7:56 pm EST

this article doesn’t shed light on the fact that he told the haters to basically kill themselves and thinks they’re all fat and ugly. and he’s walking away from any criticism, knowing he and his fiance started the whole thing.

he can dish it out but he can’t take it.

he’s become a manipulative hypocritical hollywood cliche.

Mason | 8/30/2009, 11:01 pm EST

Haha you fuckers are trying to talk down to one of the greatest musical minds of our time from the rolling stone website… I guess the readers are as pretentious as the magazine. Enjoy your radiohead lol

Yonk | 8/31/2009, 9:27 am EST

Its funny I tend to find the most deluded and moronic comments from pricks either on NME or here. You know who you are. I mean, look at the stupid crap those magazines can write and its no wonder their readers do the same. Must run off on them…

Jermaine | 8/31/2009, 3:32 pm EST

Word on the street is Trent Reznor is a fake.

E. Sanchez | 9/4/2009, 10:44 am EST

I found it so appalling that a guy that sings of isolation and pain suffered from the insensitivity of others can tell people to go hurt themselves, that they are fat and therefore undesirable and what ever else he said. Unbelievable.

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