With Gotobed back in the line-up (now using his birth name, Robert Grey), the group initially reworked much of their back catalogue for a performance at Royal Festival Hall in 2000. Wire’s reception during a short tour in early May of the US, and a number of UK gigs, convinced…
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In 2000, Benning left the band to focus on filmmaking. As the band was already into a month-long tour, they asked Samson to fill in during live performances. The band had already been considering increasing the involvement of Samson as possibly a backup singer or dancer, so they asked them…
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In 2000, the band began recording their seventh album, Evil Heat , released in 2002. Though the political content was not as strong as the previous album, there was a song originally slated for the album entitled “Bomb the Pentagon”, which was reworked into the song “Rise” after the 11…
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the 2000 Fragility tour
Before the album’s release, the song ” Starfuckers, Inc. ” provoked media speculation about whom Reznor had intended its acerbic lyrics to satirize. Cinesexuality critic Patricia MacCormack interprets the song as a “scathing attack on the alternative music scene,” particularly Reznor’s former friend and protégé Marilyn Manson. The two artists…
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The first single from XTRMNTR , ” Swastika Eyes “, was released in November 1999. The song’s overtly political content, Gillespie said it was about “American international terrorism”, made it controversial. Nevertheless, it was a hit, charting at No. 22 on the British charts. XTRMNTR itself fared well, reaching No.…
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The band’s first album, Le Tigre , was released in October 1999. The band’s original live performances consisted of Hanna, Fateman and Sadie performing music, along with JD Samson, a roadie they had met in September 1999, who manually operated a slideshow as a visual component to their music, as…
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Five years elapsed between The Downward Spiral and Nine Inch Nails’ next studio album, The Fragile , which arrived as a double album in September 1999. The Fragile was conceived by making “songwriting and arranging and production and sound design … the same thing. A song would start with a…
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followed by a final ceremony on May 31, 1999.
KMFDM disbanded, albeit temporarily, on January 22, 1999, with only Konietzko and Skold remaining together. Konietzko said the split was due to “lots of stress and pressure, as well as differences in vision and drive”. Esch said “There was a lot of negative energy between Sascha and Günter Schulz and…
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