During the Fragility 2.0 tour, Reznor suffered a heroin overdose in London in June 2000, forcing a gig which was to be played that night to be cancelled. The incident pushed Reznor into entering rehab, putting Nine Inch Nails on hold while he attempted to become sober.
Oz Music Project ‘ s Delilah Dede caught their performance at The Playroom, Brisbane in March 2000 on a bill with Magic Dirt and Pretty Violet Stain . Dede observed, “it’s hard not to like Toogood, with his Bobby Gillespie rock-star looks (without the pretensions), and the passion and blistering…
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the 2000 Fragility tour
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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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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Their second album, the science fiction-themed Vapor Transmission , was released in 2000, with “Fiction (Dreams in Digital)” and “Opticon” as singles.
After Visual Audio Sensory Theater , Elektra pressured Crosby to go back to the drawing board and craft an album that was accessible to more listeners, but still retaining the distinct sound of the last album. After two years of recording, VAST returned with 2000’s Music for People . The…
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In 2000 Taime made an awful remix cd.
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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The album’s lead single, “My Mind’s Sedate” (September 1999), reached the New Zealand top 10. Australian radio station, Double J ‘s programme Classic Albums revisited the album in September 2019 and its reviewer responded, “[it] roars out of the blocks with an onslaught of vitriol in the song ‘My Mind’s…
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