Self Destruct Tour

Infobox concert tour
concert_tour_name = Self-Destruct Tour


image_caption=
artist = Nine Inch Nails
location =
locations = North America
Europe
type =
album= "The Downward Spiral"
start_date = 19 April 1994
end_date = 13 August 1994
number_of_legs = 4
last_tour = Pretty Hate Machine Tour Series
(1988)
this_tour = Self-Destruct Tour
(1994)
next_tour = Fragility
(1999)

"Self-Destruct Tour" was a tour in support of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral which took place in 1994. The tour took place over most of the United States and Europe, playing in various medium-sized ballrooms across the country. This was NIN's first tour since the early 90's tours for Pretty Hate Machine. During this time, NIN's music became angrier and more aggressive with releases like Broken and The Downward Spiral, which led to the concerts being often very aggressive and personal, with band members often injuring themselves by accident. The tour consisted of four legs, beginning with a basic tour of North America before going to Europe, then back to North America before ending the tour with Woodstock 94. The stage set-up consisted of grungy curtains which would pulled down and up for visuals which might be played during songs (such as Hurt), or pulled up for live performances of more aggressive songs. The back of the stage was littered with darker and standing lights, with very little actual lights.

Trent Reznor overhauled the band line-up and image for the tour; guitarist Robin Finck joined to play guitars while Danny Lohner joined on to play bass guitar. Chris Vrenna and James Wooley were brought back from the Pretty Hate Machine Tour Series, however. Image-wise, instead of the sloppy, low-budget style for previous tours, the band often dressed in black leather smothered in corn starch, band members often changing their hair styles to radical hair styles for every concert. Robin Finck used makeup to give hide his eyebrows, and often Trent Reznor would dawn his 'fishnet gloves' as they would come to be known as for the show. The band's showy but aggressive tour style gave the band comparisons to David Bowie, whom Trent Reznor was a big fan of. Later in the shows, David Bowie and his protege Marilyn Manson would often join Reznor on stage to sing his songs-as shown in the documentary Closure. Closure, a double-VHS set that documented the live performance of the tour as well as the band from 1989-1991, and an extra VHS tape which had the band's music videos featured on them. It was rumored to released as a DVD in 2005, but Interscope Records drug their feet and refused to release it, which led the performance to mysteriously leaked onto torrent sites in DVD format from Trent Reznor supposedly.

Band line-up

* Trent Reznor — lead vocals, guitar, keyboards
* Robin Finck — backup vocals, guitar
* Danny Lohner — backup vocals, bass guitar
* Chris Vrenna —- drums
* James Wooley — keyboards, programming

North American Leg

Reeling from the success of Pretty Hate Machine and Broken as well as the band's divorce from TVT Records, the nearly immediate success of The Downward Spiral led to NIN playing larger venues. This debuted the band's new grungy and messy image in which band members would often come out in ragged clothes slathered in corn starch. They would often destroy their instruments at the end of concerts, attack each other, and stage-dive into the crowd. This led to NIN's notoriety as a live act. The shows often consisted of songs from Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The Downward Spiral, as well as songs such as Get Down Make Love and Dead Souls, which were formerly staples of their live show.

Tour dates

*19/04/1994 flagicon|United States "Moore Theater" - Seattle, Washington
*20/04/1994 flagicon|United States "Moore Theater" - Seattle, Washington
*21/04/1994 flagicon|United States "La Luna Club" - Portland, Oregon
*23/04/1994 flagicon|United States "Warfield Theater" - San Francisco, California
*24/04/1994 flagicon|United States "Warfield Theater" - San Francisco, California
*26/04/1994 flagicon|United States "Hollywood Palace" - Los Angeles, California
*27/04/1994 flagicon|United States "Hollywood Palace" - Los Angeles, California
*30/04/1994 flagicon|United States "San Diego State University" - San Diego, California
*01/05/1994 flagicon|United States "Mesa Centennial" - Phoenix, Arizona
*03/05/1994 flagicon|United States "The Bomb Factory" - Dallas, Texas
*04/05/1994 flagicon|United States "International Ballroom" - Houston, Texas
*05/05/1994 flagicon|United States "State Palace Theater" - New Orleans, Louisiana
*07/05/1994 flagicon|United States "The Riviera" Chicago, Illinois
*08/05/1994 flagicon|United States "State Theater" Detroit, Michigan
*09/05/1994 flagicon|United States "Agora Theater" Cleveland, Ohio
*11/05/1994 flagicon|United States "The Cyclorama Building" Boston, Massachusetts
*13/05/1994 flagicon|United States "Webster Hall" New York, New York
*14/05/1994 flagicon|United States "Roseland Ballroom" New York, New York
*15/05/1994 flagicon|United States "Tower Theater" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*18/05/1994 flagicon|Ireland "SFX Center" Dublin, Ireland
*20/05/1994 flagicon|United Kingdom "Civic Hall" Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
*21/05/1994 flagicon|United Kingdom "Barrowlands" Glasgow, United Kingdom
*22/05/1994 flagicon|United Kingdom "The Academy" Manchester, United Kingdom
*24/05/1994 flagicon|United Kingdom "The Forum" London, United Kingdom
*28/05/1994 flagicon|Belgium "Vooruit" Ghent, Belgium
*30/05/1994 flagicon|France "Le Bataclan" Paris, France
*31/05/1994 flagicon|Netherlands "The Paradiso" Amsterdam, Netherlands
*02/06/1994 flagicon|Germany "Live Music Hall" Frankfurt, Germany
*03/06/1994 flagicon|Germany "Huxley's" Berlin, Germany
*07/06/1994 flagicon|Germany "The Docks" Hamburg, Germany
*08/06/1994 flagicon|Germany "Tor 3" Dusseldorf, Germany
*09/06/1994 flagicon|Germany "Charterhalle" Munich, Germany
*11/06/1994 flagicon|Austria "Summer Arena" Vienna, Austria
*12/06/1994 flagicon|Czech Republic "Lucerna Hall" Prague, Czech Republic
*29/07/1994 flagicon|United States "Fox Theater" Atlanta, Georgia
*30/07/1994 flagicon|United States "Fox Theater" Atlanta, Georgia
*03/08/1994 flagicon|United States "Hudson Civic Center" Poughkeepsie, New York
*06/08/1994 flagicon|Canada "Molson Park" Barrie, Ontario
*11/08/1994 flagicon|United States "Patriot Center" Fairfax, Virginia
*13/08/1994 flagicon|United States "Woodstock '94" Saugerties, New York

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