Quicken Loans Arena - Upcoming Event

Upcoming Quicken Loans Arena Event

Date: Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Seating: End Stage Setup

Ticket Prices: Tickets are priced at $36.50 and $56.50 and includes a $2.00 facility fee.

On Sale: Tickets are on sale now.

Purchase Online: Ticketmaster.com

Phone Orders: Call Ticketmaster Charge-By-Phone at one of the following numbers:
(216) 241-2121 Cleveland
(330) 945-9400 Akron
(330) 747-1212 Youngstown
(814) 456-7070 Erie
(614) 431-3600 Columbus

In Person: Purchase tickets at the Quicken Loans Arena Box Office or at any Ticketmaster location.

Advance Parking: Passes are available for the Gateway North Garage at the Quicken Loans Arena Box Office, Ticketmaster Ticket Centers, Ticketmaster Charge-by-Phone and Ticketmaster.com. Parking passes purchased through Ticketmaster.com are only available for up to 10 days prior to the event date.

Nine Inch Nails
with special guest Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Friday, August 22nd at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 10th at 10:00 a.m.

Nine Inch Nails 2008 touring lineup has been completed and includes a stop at The Q on Friday, August 22nd at 7:00 p.m. Returning member Robin Finck and new addition Rich Fownes will join Trent Reznor, Alessandro Cortini and Josh Freese for a world tour beginning in July in North America.

Finck has served in numerous touring configurations of NIN, from tours supporting The Downward Spiral (1994-1997) to The Fragile (2000-2001). More recently, he played in Guns N Roses. Fownes has been performing with UNKLE, and has been a member of With Scissors and The Eighties Matchbox BLine Disaster.

The upcoming tour will feature the live debut of material from the recently released Ghosts I-IV alongside songs spanning the entire NIN catalogue.

Nine Inch Nails were the most popular industrial group ever and was largely responsible for bringing the music to a mass audience. It isn't really accurate to call NIN a group; the only official member is singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Trent Reznor, who always remained solely responsible for NIN's musical direction (he was, however, supported in concert by a regular backing band). Unlike the vast majority of industrial artists, Reznor wrote melodic, traditionally structured songs where lyrics were a focal point. His pop instincts not only made the harsh electronic beats of industrial music easier to digest, but also put a human face on a style that usually tried to sound as mechanical as possible.

While a band like Ministry crossed over to heavy metal audiences, NIN built up a large alternative rock fan base right around the time of Nirvana's mainstream breakthrough. As a result, Reznor became a genuine star and his notoriously dark, brooding persona and provocateur instincts made him a Jim Morrison-esque sex symbol for the '90s. A long period of inactivity and writer's block followed, which gave virtually every alternative metal band of the late '90s a chance to rip off elements of NIN's sound. By the time Reznor's five-year hiatus finally ended, he was still a popular figure but his commercial momentum had slowed somewhat. Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 10th at 10:00 a.m. For more information on Nine Inch Nails, please visit www.nin.com.

Related Link:

Nine Inch Nails Official Site