Tonight a group of about 50 Art is Resistance members, including the select few from last week’s A.I.R. gathering in LA, were gathered using a series of cellphone calls and directed to an abandoned warehouse in Los Angeles for a private resistance meeting and intimate live Nine Inch Nails show.

The entire meeting was caught on video and is now streaming live on Open Source Resistance.

Last week they received calls on their issued cellphones (read the report on that first meeting here) telling them to be available tonight for another resistance meeting.

Tonight they received calls again instructing them to go to Echo Park (north of LA) and await further instruction. A few minutes later another call came through directing them to this location where they met several resistance crew members who promptly frisked them of any electronic device and hoarded them into an unmarked van.

The van took them to an abandoned clothing warehouse. A few of the attendees, xaphor and cynicmuse, recited the experience on the Echoing the Sound forum:

Chairs were lined up facing a small makeshift stage.. We were confined to the left side with three sheets or red, white and black sprayed with the AIR logo broke the room in two. On both sides of the chairs about 5 crew members stood ominously overlooking the proceedings. Once everyone filled in our guide went behind a metal sliding door and a minute later a man in camo gear came out and took the stage.

He called roll and then lectured us on our stupidity in being seen at the mural meet receiving subversive material, willingly carrying the cell phone at all times allowing us to be tracked and herding on to a blacked out bus to an unknown destination. Had he been a government agency we all would have been dead. He then proceeded to mention our loss of rights and that we should wake up and use our voice…

He said “Let’s move” and left behind the same metal door. We were then herded through the same door and up a tight wooden staircase and across to either a freight elevator or another steep staircase that took us to a darkened landing with the only light being that which filtered through the dust from above. Once everyone was down, there were lights in a room up ahead and to the left and then screaming and sudden rush as people jockeyed for front and center position as Trent and Co. broke into The Beginning of the End directly in front of us.

This entire sequence was captured on video. Some screenshots:







According to another attendee, this was the setlist:

* The Beginning of the End
* Survivalism
* Last
* March of the Pigs
* Were in This Together
* The Frail

Then, just as Trent began to get into “The Wretched”, a loud siren went off and tons of heavily armed and armored SWAT-like troops busted into the warehouse. This is all caught on the resistance video feed, where the last images show a SWAT member busting down the video camera and the picture goes blank.

link to the video: www.opensourceresistance.com

fucking amazing. i love that they got the video up so quickly, too.

i should've been there.

evenstar3 said:

DAMN ! It's official ... Trent Reznor is better than sliced bread.


I'm currently in New Zealand weighing up wether or not I should fork out the dollars to go see NIN play the Metro nightclub in Melbourne next month, I think this just sold me ! Bye bye bank balance !


I'd still be pissed at Trent for not coming to NZ .. but ... how can you hate that !!! Now if MeatHead would post his Year Zero review this would be the best week ever.

delicious said:

Yes! He really must.

And good on you. NIN comes before money.

NIN rules so hard right now ! Parts of Year Zero are like all my musical wet dreams come true. I'll be travelling alone .. so if anyone form Melbourne is heading to the gig on the 15th and doesn't mind standing next to me so I don't look like a total tard ... let me know !

new video of the show's up, with some new shots (including Aaron getting beaten down by SWAT): http://files.opensourcere...gLarge.mov

delicious said:

YES, he is!