List of Nine Inch Nails concert tours

Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock act, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1988, they have performed throughout the world, including tours in North America, South America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia. During its earliest incarnations, Nine Inch Nails as a live band acted as supporting acts on tours for bands and musicians such as Skinny Puppy, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Peter Murphy, and Guns N' Roses.^[1][2] Subsequent tours have featured Nine Inch Nails as the headlining act, with support from bands such as Unkle,^[3] Marilyn Manson, Atari Teenage Riot,^[4] and A Perfect Circle.^[5]

Tour posters from the Performance 2007 tour.

The group's live performances contrast with its in-studio counterpart.^[6][7] Reznor writes and performs nearly all Nine Inch Nails studio material, with occasional instrumental and vocal contributions from other artists. However, Reznor has typically assembled groups of backing musicians to interpret songs for tours and other live performances. The live-band lineup has changed constantly throughout the band's history, with frontman Reznor remaining the only constant on vocals and guitar, and long-time studio collaborator Atticus Ross officially joining in 2016. Notable musicians who have contributed to live performances include Chris Vrenna, Richard Patrick, Jeff Ward, James Woolley, Danny Lohner, Robin Finck, Charlie Clouser, Jerome Dillon, Alessandro Cortini, Josh Freese, and Ilan Rubin.^[8]

Pretty Hate Machine Tour Series (1988–1991)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup			Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Drums	Keyboard
Oct–Nov 1988	Skinny Puppy's VIVIsectVI Tour	—	Ron Musarra	Chris Vrenna	North America (8 dates)	Headliner: Skinny Puppy	[1][2] [9][10]
Oct–Dec 1989	Pretty Hate Machine promotional tour	Richard Patrick	Chris Vrenna	Nick Rushe[a]	North America (9 dates)		[11]
Jan–Mar 1990	Jesus and Mary Chain's Automatic tour			David Haymes	North America (30 dates)	Headliner: Jesus and Mary Chain	[1][2] [12]
Mar–Apr 1990	Peter Murphy's Deep tour				North America (26 dates)	Headliner: Peter Murphy	[1][13]
May–Aug 1990	Hate tour			Lee Mars	North America (39 dates)	Support: Meat Beat Manifesto, Die Warzau, Pure, Cold Front	[14]
Dec 1990– Feb 1991	Sin tour		Jeff Ward		North America (32 dates)	Support: Die Warzau, Chemlab	[14]
Jul–Aug 1991	Lollapalooza			James Woolley	North America (25 dates)	With: Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Living Colour, Ice-T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes	[14][15] [16]
Aug–Sep 1991	European tour				Europe (13 dates)	Headliner: Guns N' Roses, The Wonderstuff, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine	[17]

Self-Destruct (1994–1996)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup				Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Bass	Drums	Keyboard
Mar–Aug 1994	Self-Destruct	Robin Finck	Danny Lohner	Chris Vrenna	James Woolley[b]	North America, Europe (53 dates)	Support: Marilyn Manson, Type O Negative, Fem2fem, PIG, Die Krupps, Treponem Pal	[14][18] [19]
Aug 1994– Feb 1995	Further Down the Spiral tour					North America (82 dates)	Support: Marilyn Manson, Jim Rose Circus, Pop Will Eat Itself, Hole	[14][20]
Apr 1995	Alternative Nation Festival				Charlie Clouser	Australia (3 dates)	With: Faith No More, Ice-T & Body Count, Lou Reed, Violent Femmes, Primus, Tool, L7, The Tea Party, Ween, Live, The Flaming Lips, Pennywise, Pop Will Eat Itself, Powderfinger	[21]
Sep–Oct 1995	Dissonance/Outside tour					North America (26 dates)	With: David Bowie Support: Prick	[22][23]
Nov–Dec 1995	Club Tour					North America (7 dates)	Support: Helmet	[24]
Aug–Sep 1996	Nights of Nothing tour	Kevin McMahon				North America (3 dates)	With: Marilyn Manson, Meat Beat Manifesto	[25][26] [25]

Fragility (1999–2000)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup				Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Bass	Drums	Keyboard
Nov 1999– Jan 2000	Fragility v1.0	Robin Finck	Danny Lohner	Jerome Dillon	Charlie Clouser	Europe, Japan (16 dates)	Support: Atari Teenage Riot, Skingame	[4][27]
Jan–Feb 2000	Big Day Out 2000					New Zealand, Australia (6 dates)	With: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Atari Teenage Riot, Blink-182, The Chemical Brothers	[28]
Apr–Jul 2000	Fragility v2.0					North America, Europe (53 dates)	Support: A Perfect Circle	[5][29]

Live: With Teeth (2005–2006)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup				Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Bass	Drums	Keyboard
Mar–May 2005	Spring club tour	Aaron North	Jeordie White	Jerome Dillon	Alessandro Cortini	North America, England (30 dates)	Support: Carre Callaway, The Dresden Dolls	[30][31] [32][33] [34]
Jun–Aug 2005	Summer international tour					Europe, Japan, Australia (26 dates)	Support: The Dresden Dolls, Saul Williams, Eagles of Death Metal, The Bird Blobs, The Follow	[30]
Sep – Dec 2005	Fall arena tour					North America, South America (45 dates)	Support: Queens of the Stone Age, Autolux, Death from Above 1979	[27][35] [33][36]
				Alex Carapetis[c]
				Josh Freese
Feb–Apr 2006	Winter arena tour					North America (32 dates)	Support: Moving Units, Saul Williams	[37]
May–Jul 2006	Summer amphitheatre tour					North America (31 dates)	Support: Saul Williams, TV on the Radio, Bauhaus, Peaches	[38]

Performance 2007 (2007)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup				Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Bass	Drums	Keyboard
Feb–May 2007	Spring tour	Aaron North	Jeordie White	Josh Freese	Alessandro Cortini	Europe, Australia, Japan (52 dates)	Support: The Popo, Ladytron, Serena Maneesh	[39]
Aug–Sep 2007	Summer / Fall international tour					Europe, Asia, Australia, Hawaii (28 dates)	With: Foo Fighters, Silversun Pickups[I] Support: Intacto, Theodor Bastard, Serena Maneesh, The Dandy Warhols, Ladytron, Alec Empire, Unkle, The Lovesong, White Rose Movement ^ I Dublin, August 22, 2007.	[3]

Lights in the Sky (2008)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup				Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Bass	Drums	Keyboard
July–Dec 2008[I]	Over North America	Robin Finck	Justin Meldal- Johnsen	Josh Freese	Alessandro Cortini	North America (60 dates)	Support: A Place to Bury Strangers, Boris, The Bug, Crystal Castles, Deerhunter, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Health, White Williams	[40][41]
October 2008[I]	Over South America					South America (3 dates)	Support: Vigilante	[40]

^ I The North American and South American legs overlapped in mid-October.

Wave Goodbye (2009)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup				Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Bass	Drums	Keyboard
Feb–March 2009	2009 Tour	Robin Finck	Justin Meldal-Johnsen	Ilan Rubin	—[d]	Australia & New Zealand (8 dates)	Support: The Naked and Famous, Jaguar Love	[40]
May–August 2009	NIN | JA 2009					North America, Europe, Asia (59 dates)	With: Jane's Addiction Support: Street Sweeper Social Club	[42]
August–September 2009	Wave Goodbye					New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto (11 dates)	Support: The Horrors, Mew, Alec Empire, Health, Queen Kwong, io echo	[43]

Twenty Thirteen Tour (2013–2014)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup					Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Bass	Drums	Keyboard	Backing vocals
July–September 2013	Twenty Thirteen	Robin Finck	Josh Eustis	Ilan Rubin	Alessandro Cortini	—	North America, Europe, Asia (16 dates)		[44]
September–November 2013	Tension 2013	Robin Finck Josh Eustis	Pino Palladino			Lisa Fischer Sharlotte Gibson	North America (34 dates)	Support: Godspeed You! Black Emperor/Explosions in the Sky (31 dates) Autolux (2 dates)	[45]
February–August 2014	NIN 2014	Robin Finck	—[e]			—	North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Latin America (69 dates)	With: Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden Support: Brody Dalle, Cold Cave, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Dillinger Escape Plan	[46][47]

The Trilogy Tour (2017–2018)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup				Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitars	Bass	Drums	Keyboard
July–December 2017	I Can't Seem to Wake Up 2017	Robin Finck	Alessandro Cortini	Ilan Rubin	Atticus Ross	North America (8 dates)	Support: Tobacco (2 dates)	[48]
June–December 2018	Cold and Black and Infinite 2018					North America, Europe, Asia (59 dates)	Support: Queen Kwong, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Kite Base, Jesus and Mary Chain	[49]

U.S. 2022 & U.K. 2022 (2022)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup				Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Bass	Drums	Keyboard
April–May 2022	U.S. Spring Tour	Robin Finck	Alessandro Cortini	Ilan Rubin	Atticus Ross	North America (8 dates)	Support: Boy Harsher and 100 gecs	[50]
June 2022	U.K. Summer Tour					Europe (6 dates)	Support: Nitzer Ebb and Yves Tumor	[51]
September–November 2022	U.S. Fall Tour					North America (12 dates)	Support: Nitzer Ebb and Yves Tumor	[50]

Peel It Back (2025-2026)

Duration	Tour leg	Band lineup				Location(s) (dates)	Other acts	Ref.
		Guitar	Bass	Drums	Keyboard
June–July 2025	Peel It Back Europe	Robin Finck	Alessandro Cortini	Ilan Rubin	Atticus Ross	Europe (16 dates)	Support: Boys Noize	[52]
August–September 2025	Peel It Back US			Josh Freese		North America (26 dates)
February-March 2026	Peel It Back US					North America (22 dates)		[53]

See also

• List of Nine Inch Nails live-band members
• Nine Inch Nails live performances

Footnotes

1. Prior to Rushe's joining, Gary Talpas, the band's art director, filled the keyboardist role for a few shows, mostly acting as an extra body on stage.^{[citation needed]}
2. In the midst of the Further Down the Spiral tour, Charlie Clouser replaced Woolley on keyboards, in late December 1994.^{[citation needed]}
3. Prior to Carapetis' joining, Josh Freese was briefly the drummer for a few shows, but he was not intended to be a full-time member. Freese later replaced Carapetis and joined the band as a full-time member however.^{[citation needed]}
4. Various members shared the role of keyboardist during the Wave Goodbye 2009 tours.^{[citation needed]}
5. Various members shared the role of bassist during the NIN 2014 tour.^{[citation needed]}