Watch Nine Inch Nails Cover Two David Bowie Songs at Tour Opener

9 Inch Nails performed their first dwell present in additional than three years final night time, kicking off a tour on the Purple Hat Amphitheater in Raleigh, N.C.

The live performance featured lots of their classics, plus back-to-back performances of two David Bowie songs which you’ll watch under, “I am Afraid of People” and “Vogue.”

A whole set checklist (through setlist.fm) can also be accessible under.

9 Inch Nails toured with Bowie in 1995, the identical yr frontman Trent Reznor co-produced “I am Afraid of People,” one of many singles from Bowie’s 1997 album, Earthling.

Watch 9 Inch Nails Carry out David Bowie’s ‘I am Afraid of People’ Dwell

A very shut bond, each musical and private, shaped between the 2 singers. Reznor has even credited Bowie with encouraging him on a path to sobriety.

“His music actually helped me relate to myself and work out who I used to be,” Reznor stated to Rolling Stone, shortly after Bowie’s loss of life in 2016. “He was an amazing inspiration by way of what was doable, what the position of an entertainer might be – that there aren’t any guidelines.”

9 Inch Nails are at the moment scheduled to perform just a few extra U.S. concert events earlier than heading abroad in June for a run of reveals within the U.Okay.

Watch 9 Inch Nails Carry out David Bowie’s ‘Vogue’ Dwell

9 Inch Nails, Purple Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, N.C., 4/28/22, Set Record
1. “Considerably Broken”
2. “The Day the World Went Away”
3. “The Frail”
4. “The Wretched”
5. “March of the Pigs”
6. “1,000,000”
7. “Survivalism”
8. “Piggy”
9. “Nearer” (with “The Solely Time” breakdown)
10. “The Good Drug”
11. “The Changing into”
12. “This Is not the Place”
13. “Each Day Is Precisely the Identical” (first efficiency since 2006)
14. “I am Afraid of People” (David Bowie cowl)
15. “Vogue” (David Bowie cowl) (dwell debut)
16. “Solely”
17. “The Hand That Feeds”
18. “Head Like a Gap”

Encore:
19. “Reptile”
20. “And All That May Have Been”
21. “Damage”