The Fragility Tour was a concert tour in support of

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band

Nine Inch Nails Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN and stylized as NIИ, is an American industrial rock band formed in Cleveland in 1988. Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Trent Reznor was the only permanent member of the band ...

' ''

The Fragile ''The Fragile'' is the third studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as a double album by Nothing Records and Interscope Records on September 21, 1999. It was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor ...

'' album, which took place in late 1999, running until mid-2000, and was broken into two major legs, Fragility v1.0 and Fragility v2.0 respectively. Destinations included Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and North America. The tour featured increasingly large production values, including a triptych video display created by contemporary video artist Bill Viola. The images displayed on the triptych focused on storm and water imagery. "I don't want to do the standard 'rock band in a hockey arena' show", said

Trent Reznor Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and composer. He serves as the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, wh ...

. "I want to up the par a little bit. I think our stage show has had a lot of thought put into it. It's not like a

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Rob Zombie Rob Zombie (born Robert Bartleh Cummings; January 12, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and voice actor. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes, and his live shows have be ...

show where they just go into the prop cupboard and pull out as much shit as they can. I hope, when people see our shows, they go, 'Fuck, that was smarter than that Korn tour I saw, but not in a pretentious way – it kicked ass.' On our previous tour the audience was our enemy but, this time around, we're best friends with the audience at the end of shows. Everyone's connected." ''

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'' magazine named Fragility v2.0 the best tour of 2000. The Fragility v2.0 North American leg was filmed and recorded for the

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and double

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tour documentary '' And All that Could Have Been'', which was released in 2002. On May 20, 2000, Nine Inch Nails performed their 500th gig (in count) at the

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.Nine Inch Nails Tour Dates (see Fragility v2.0 section)
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'' was played over the PA system. On July 9, 2000, the rest of the tour was cancelled due to "band illness". The most notable "illness" was eight days earlier when the band went to London for a concert, and Reznor almost died from a

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overdose, mistaking the heroin for

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, which he was addicted to at the time. He went into and completed rehab in 2001.

Personnel

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, Prophet VS synthesizer * Robin Finck – Guitar,

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, lap steel

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, backup vocals * Danny Lohner – Bass guitar, guitar, synthesizer, backup vocals * Charlie Clouser – Synthesizer,

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, backup vocals * Jerome Dillon –

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, samples

Tour legs

Europe ()

Typical set list

# " The New Flesh" / "Pinion" # "Somewhat Damaged" # "Terrible Lie" # "

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" # "

March of the Pigs "March of the Pigs" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their second studio album, ''The Downward Spiral'' (1994). It was released on February 25, 1994 as the album's lead single. Composition "March of the Pigs" has ...

" # "Piggy" # "The Frail" # "The Wretched" # "No, You Don't" # "Gave Up" # "La Mer" # "The Great Below" # "The Way Out Is Through" # "

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" # " Into the Void" # " Down in It" or "

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" # "

Head Like a Hole "Head Like a Hole" is a song by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the second single from the group's debut album, ''Pretty Hate Machine''. Although one of the more rock-oriented tracks on the album, many elements of ...

" # "

The Day the World Went Away "The Day the World Went Away" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released on July 20, 1999, as the lead single (music), single from their third studio album ''The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails album), The Fragile'' (1999). ...

" # "

Starfuckers, Inc. "Starfuckers, Inc." (known as "Starsuckers, Inc." in its censored form) is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails from their third studio album '' The Fragile''. Although the song does not have an official halo (the numbering s ...

" # " Closer" # " Hurt"

Support act

Atari Teenage Riot Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) is a German band formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fuse left-wing, anarchist and anti-fascist views with punk vocals and a techno sound called digital hardcore, which is a term band member Alec Empire use ...

Dates

Asia

Typical set list

Same as above.

Support act

* Skingame

Dates

Oceania ()

Typical set list

These shows featured shorter and more aggressive set lists.

Accompanying acts

* Red Hot Chili Peppers *

Foo Fighters Foo Fighters are an American rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Foo Fighters was initially formed as a one-man project by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. Following the success of the eponymous debut album, Grohl (lead vocals, guitar) re ...

* Atari Teenage Riot * Blink-182 *

The Chemical Brothers The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo formed by Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons in Manchester in 1989. They were pioneers (along with the Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, the Crystal Method, and other acts) in bringing the big beat genre t ...

A Perfect Circle A Perfect Circle is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan. A Perfect Circle has released four studio albums, the first three during the early 2000s: ' ...

Dates

North America ()

Typical set list

# "The New Flesh" / "Pinion" # "Somewhat Damaged" # "Terrible Lie" # "Sin" # "March of the Pigs" # "Piggy" # "The Frail" # "The Wretched" # "Gave Up" # "La Mer" # "The Great Below" # "The Mark Has Been Made" # "Wish" # "Complication" # "Suck" # "Closer" # "Head Like a Hole" # "The Day the World Went Away" # " Just Like You Imagined" or "Even Deeper" # "Starfuckers, Inc." # "Hurt"

Support act

Dates

Europe ()

Typical set list

These shows featured shorter and more aggressive set lists.

Dates

Canceled dates

References

External links

Official website
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