(Soundboard FLAC)
Nine Inch Nails
September 07, 1991
Newcastle, England
Newcastle Riverside
http://www.ninlive.com/shows/1991/19910907.html
Soundboard Feed
Taper: DJ Gordon
Generation: Master Cassette
Lineage: Soundboard > Cassette > Unknown Transfer > Adobe Audition (Normalize to -0.1 db, hiss reduction, convert to 16/44) > Fission (track) > FLAC
01 - Now I'm Nothing
02 - Terrible Lie
03 - Sin
04 - Physical (You're So)
05 - The Only Time
06 - Suck
07 - That's What I Get
08 - Wish
09 - Get Down Make Love
10 - Ringfinger
11 - Down In It (aborted - with spliced in aud recording)
12 - Head Like a Hole
Notes:
Absolutely blown away by this. Someone had just sent me the setlist and event details sheet via email. I posted it to Instagram and someone who followed the page tagged the DJ (Big Gordon) and he commented, "great night, I have the mixing feed on cassette." I didn't know if he was being full of it or legit. So I messaged them. They said it was in storage and they have no way of transferring it. At this point, I just tossed it up as a loss. Probably to never be heard. Maybe a week or so later, I got another message that they had indeed transferred it years ago and it was on a hard drive! Gordon sent over the raw 24bit/44.1kHZ transfer. Here is some info Gordon could add from the night.
"Just to let you know the description says mics were cutting out ... They weren't. Trent and the boys were trashing the shit out of the equipment and the pops you hear etc are the mics being bounced about on stage - they also requested an industrial sized smoke machine which would have engulfed the room with one blast so the venue had to compromise with them. A lot of gear got wrecked with water being thrown about. Honestly, if they'd have gotten the spec they wanted of fog machine it would have probably rendered everyone unconscious. - 500 cap room but an arena sized machine, haha. After the show we took them all out to a local rock club which at that time was still big on all the 80s metal etc. The gig was just incredible. Like being in a gang fight to music.
Now getting to the board feed. This is the only board feed available of "Now I'm Nothing." With there being no studio version of the song, this may be the closest thing we get. The quality is incredible. I hope that one day I will have the opportunity to transfer the tape. There was a lot of hiss on the cassette that could be reduced if on a proper deck with azimuth adjustment. The set is complete. Down In It was aborted, which the soundboard recording stops during that time. I have spliced in the audience tape from this show in to this release for that break.
There is more stuff out there like this, I am sure. I do know of a San Francisco 1991 soundboard that I would love to preserve. Big thanks to Gordon for sharing this and allowing me to preserve this recording for the future. 30 years on, this finally sees the light. So amazing.
