Dave, Donna, and I had a blast in Indy on the 3rd. Bauhaus and NIN played a great show. The Bauhaus sound didn’t translate well outdoors in the daylight (dusk), but it was still awesome to see Peter Murphy (for the first time) and Daniel Ash (again since I saw L&R; 16-17 years ago). They closed with a cape-swirling rendition of Bela Lugosi’s Dead which was freakin perfect.
Then Trent and company came on and rocked for close to two hours. They played a lot of old favs (probably just 4 shy of the entire Pretty Hate Machine album) and the new singles (e.g. Only, Hand that Feeds, Every day…). They also played a number of great song I’d completely forgotten about– like the Piface project’s “Suck” and “Burn” from the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. Quiet moments like “Something I can never have” and “Hurt” (performed solo) gave us some rest through the otherwise exhausting set. He closed with bringing Peter Murphy back on stage for “Final Solution” and lastly “Head Like a Hole”.
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