Nine Inch Nails shake up setlist as ‘Peel It Back’ UK tour rolls into Manchester

    Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails perform live

    Nine Inch Nails mixed up the setlist when they brought their ‘Peel It Back’ tour to Manchester last night (June 17). Check out footage below.

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    The show took place at the Co-op Live arena, following on from an opening night in Dublin over the weekend. The gigs mark their first tour dates since 2022 and have been seeing frontman Trent Reznor and co. break out rarities across two stages.

    Unlike the opening night at 3Arena, which opened with back-to-back renditions of ‘Right Where It Belongs’, ‘Ruiner’, and ‘Piggy’, the show in Manchester commenced with rare performances of ‘A Minute To Breathe’, ‘That’s What I Get’ and ‘The Fragile’.

    The former is a cover of the 2016 track made by Reznor and bandmate Atticus Ross outside of NIN, and the performance marked the first time it had been played live at the band’s shows.

    The performance of ‘That’s What I Get’ marked the first time the song was played live since 1991 and saw the band put a 2025 spin on it. The same was done for ‘The Fragile’, which hadn’t been included in the setlist since 2009.

    The opening three tracks were performed at the smaller B-stage, located in the middle of the audience, while the second act took place on the main stage. Here, NIN played ‘Eraser’, ‘Wish’, ‘March Of The Pigs’, ‘Copy A’ and ‘Gave Up’, before heading back to the B-stage and joined by opening act and longtime collaborator, Boys Noize.

    As seen in Dublin, the DJ and producer joined the band for renditions of ‘Vessel’ and ‘Came Back Haunted’, before also introducing a new addition to the list, playing ‘Branches/Bones’ for the first time since 2018.

    The fourth and final act saw the metal icons play 1999’s ‘Somewhat Damaged’, 2007’s ‘Survivalism’, 2017’s ‘Less Than’ and 1997’s ‘The Perfect Drug’ all for the first time this tour, before ending the night with classic tracks ‘Head Like A Hole’ and ‘Hurt’.

    Check out more footage of the show below, as well as the full setlist.

    The Nine Inch Nails’ Manchester setlist was:

    Act One – B-stage
    ‘A Minute to Breathe’ (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross cover, live debut)
    ‘That’s What I Get’ (first live performance since 1991; 2025 rework)
    ‘The Fragile’ (first live performance since 2009; 2025 rework)

    Act Two – Main Stage
    ‘Eraser’
    ‘Wish’
    ‘March of the Pigs’
    ‘Reptile’
    ‘Copy of A’
    ‘Gave Up’

    Act Three – B-Stage
    ‘Vessel’ (with Boys Noize, techno remix)
    ‘Branches/Bones’ (with Boys Noize, first live performance since 2018; techno remix)
    ‘Came Back Haunted’ (with Boys Noize, techno remix)

    Act 4 – Main Stage
    ‘Somewhat Damaged’ (tour debut)
    ‘Less Than’ (tour debut)
    ‘Heresy’
    ‘Survivalism’ (tour debut)
    ‘The Perfect Drug’ (tour debut)
    ‘Head Like a Hole’
    ‘Hurt’

    “Holy moly NIN were sick as heck. Great staging, great music,” one fan wrote on X/Twitter after the Manchester gig, while another shared that the “production for Nine Inch Nails was so insane”.

    “So the Nine Inch Nails gig was crazy and I loved it,” added a third, while someone else agreed, describing the gig as “outstanding”. Find more fan responses below.