Nine Inch Nails announce NZ show

Reuters

NAILED IT: Trent Reznor will perform a one-off New Zealand show in February with Nine Inch Nails, it has been confirmed.

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Industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails will perform a one-off New Zealand show in Auckland this February, front man Trent Reznor has confirmed.

The band will perform at Auckland's Vector Arena on February 17 before travelling to Australia to headline the Soundwave rock music festival for five shows.

The show is likely to be popular among fans, as Nine Inch Nails haven't visited New Zealand since touring with the Big Day Out music festival in 2000.

Since then, Reznor has released several Nine Inch Nails albums, including 2005's With Teeth, 2007's Year Zero and a companion remix CD, and a double album of instrumental tracks called Ghosts I-IV.

Reznor has also embraced new methods of distributing music. Earlier this year, he made the 10-track album The Slip available for free download on the band's website, www.nin.com.

He is also known for hiding items for fans at concert venues, selling T-shirts with code embedded on them and creating online treasure hunts based around concepts for albums.

Nine Inch Nails' most well known album is 1994's The Downward Spiral, featuring the controversial single Closer.

The band's Australasian shows will be among the first with new drummer Ilan Rubin from Welsh nu-metal act Lost Prophets, who replaces the departing Josh Freese.

Tickets for the show go on sale on December 10.

Nine Inch Nails
February 17: Vector Arena, Auckland
Tickets: www.ticketmaster.co.nz

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