If all goes well tonight, you’ll be able to see a few pictures during the concert.

Also check my Flickr for large individual shots.

Edit: the Kyte thing below was a little difficult to manage during the show but uploading from iPhone to Filckr is super easy. Thumbnails below.

Incredible concert, well worth the drive. This was a stripped-down club show, much different from most of the rest of the tour with the amazing light show they’ve been doing. This was standard club lighting and a small stage. Reminiscent of the 2005 With_Teeth club tour, which had been scheduled due to worries by Trent Reznor that NIN couldn’t sell out large venues anymore after having 5 years go by since the last album (double-album masterpiece The Fragile) and TR writing for the first time completely off drugs and alcohol. Ha, that was an issue he should have not bothered himself at all with. If they did another club tour I think people would convert to the religion of whatever god got that to be set up.

Trent was on fire and/or had chugged espresso for hours. He seemed extremely happy to be up there and his voice had no sign of the recurring throat problems he’s been having, which has caused several show cancellations. He looked great and didn’t appear to stop giving it everything for a second. Robin Finck was a joy to watch and listen to as usual. He really knows how to make it a visual experience as well as an aural one. I somehow made it to the rail just to bassist Justin Meldal-Johnsen’s right, which was unexpected because I was in the regular GA line for this one. This was the first time I’ve seen him performing since he joined NIN and he was definitely the right pick for the job. Peter Murphy (Bauhaus), who gave Trent one of his first breaks in choosing NIN to support him during a 1990 tour was a surprise guest and did a fantastic rendition of Reptile, duetting during part of it with Trent. I unfortunately could hardly see Alessandro Cortini or Josh Freese from where I was. I hope tonight to get on stage left instead of right so will have different angles. I have people waiting in line already and will join them pretty soon. Yes I suppose that’s a little crazy but I keep saying, this could all end tomorrow. For Worcester I am going in on the list so I don’t need to be there early, thankfully.

A nice end to the day while driving back was the … um *really nice scenery* on the Garden State Parkway. Use your imagination.

Pictures were okay considering I was being jostled by 1,000 people. I didn’t use flash for any of them but I think I’m going to start (only when using my little cameras, of course, never when shooting from the pit) because it is maddening to see people who barely know how to turn a camera on getting better less-noisy shots.

Just a few thumbnails here; click on any of them to go to Flickr and see the whole set.

Go to Flickr tonight and live vicariously by watching for Manchester’s as-it-happens pics!