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The Dissonance Tour: When Bowie met Reznor and redefined live music

In 1995, David Bowie and Trent Reznor embarked on the Dissonance tour, a unique live experience combining art rock and industrial metal, forever altering stage performances.

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Over his career, David Bowie lived many different lives. From his Goblin King mystique to Ziggy Stardust glamour, the Starman embodied reinvention. In line with his role as the rock world’s most coveted chameleon, Bowie’s tours were equally as unpredictable; from all-out theatrics to spellbinding outfit changes, the rockstar played a key role in redefining what a live show had the potential to be.

When Bowie crossed paths with Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor in 1995, the pair would conjure up an entirely fresh live experience for their Dissonance tour, yet again pushing forward into bold, innovative new grounds. 

Bowie and Reznor were an unconventional match made in heaven. The duo were two sides of the same coin; Bowie was the kingpin of art rock while Reznor pioneered the modern face of industrial metal, both undeniable trailblazers in their respective worlds of dazzling glitz and brooding grit. 

Speaking to MTV, Bowie recalls his immediate fascination with NIN, stating how he made a point of sourcing and watching 1992’s ‘Happiness In Slavery’ after hearing MTV had banned the video. Bowie was so impressed that he immediately wanted to work with Reznor. “I like to be adventurous in terms of what I do on-stage as well as with the music, so I phoned up Trent’s management to find out if there would be any interest in Trent working with me on the tour,” he recalls. 

Despite Bowie being Reznor’s artistic hero, Reznor was actually bigger than Bowie at the time – 1995 was the year following the release of NIN’s 1994 magnum opus The Downward Spiral . “We’re bigger than Bowie when that tour came up… but I say the only way we’ll play is if we open for him,” Reznor explains on a recent Rick Rubin podcast.

The pair decided to share the headline slot – almost passing on the baton mid-set. “I said, ‘I’ll give up my ending if you give up your entrance, and let’s make it so the show goes from us to you,’” Reznor explains. Bowie explained it to MTV as an almost ‘two-act play’, with NIN’s minimalism slowly edging into Bowie’s bombastic, multi-textural sonic flurry of larger-than-life art rock. 

Bowie would emerge midway through NIN’s set, and the pair would collaborate on a few tracks before Reznor would eventually slink into the shadows. Whether Bowie is sashaying to Reznor’s grooving sax playing for ‘Subterraneans’, or Bowie is crooning along to the devastating ache of ‘Hurt’, the duo complement one another perfectly. 

The yin and yang of the two acts is a total treat, elevating the atmospheric punch of NIN anthems or twisting funky Bowie cuts into something grittier and more hard-hitting. At times, it’s clear Reznor is in utter disbelief, grinning to himself as he soaks in every second.

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Unfortunately, certain crowds didn’t appreciate the art of the performance. With clashing fanbases and Bowie’s reluctance to play fan favourites, instead focusing on unreleased tracks from his forthcoming Outside album, reviews from the time state that NIN were “the band most people really came to see.” 

Bowie said there was an “almost 100% Nails audience,” and that he “had to adjust emotionally to the fact that we were going to be challenged every night to get in sync with what people were coming to the show for…. The more we did that, the more it communicated to the audience. That’s how it went from survival to being a good tour.”

The experience only cemented Reznor’s adoration of Bowie. “My whole adult life, I’ve looked at Bowie… as a guy fearlessly reinventing himself and unafraid of throwing away things that aren’t broken to fearlessly try new shit,” he explains to Rick Rubin. “And I was watching him do it, right in front of me.”

While Bowie has in the past described the tour as an act of “commercial suicide”, it’s a total success for art and live music. “I don’t know of any tour like it and I don’t know if you’ll see another one either,” he mused to MTV back in ‘95 – and, to this day, we still haven’t seen anything like it.

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David Bowie 1995-1996 Outside Tour

The Outside Tour, with David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails co-headlining, opened on 14 September 1995 at Meadows Music Theatre – Hartford, CT with Prick as support band. On selected dates Reeves Gabrels performed songs from his album, The Sacred Squall of Now in addition to performing with Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie. The opening of the concert tour preceded the release of the 1. Outside album which was released on 25 September 1995.

In a 2012 Rolling Stone reader’s poll, the tour (pairing Nine Inch Nails with Bowie) was named one of the top 10 opening acts in rock history.

Tour history

This tour was Bowie’s first since he retired his hits with his previous Sound+Vision Tour (1990). Bowie said, “We’re going to play some older material, sure, but not obvious things. I found, while rehearsing for the [Outside] tour, that older songs I haven’t played for years suddenly fit in with this new material quite well – things like … “Joe the Lion.” So I’m quite looking forward to it.” Other songs from Bowie’s back catalog that he performed during the tour include “Scary Monsters”, “Look Back in Anger”, “Andy Warhol” and “Breaking Glass”.

Bowie spoke on why he chose to tour with Nine Inch Nails:

I personally did like the combination of NIN and me, but my fans didn’t. Bad luck!! It also was an extremely young audience, between about 12 and 17 years old. My starting point was simply: I’ve just made an adventurous album, what can I do now to turn the concerts as adventurous. Looking at it in that way, it seemed logic to confront myself with the NIN audience. I knew it would be hard to captivate them by music they never heard, by an artist whose name was the only familiar thing.

Trent Reznor has gone on record numerous times as being heavily influenced by David Bowie,[5] and further collaborated with Bowie by remixing “The Hearts Filthy Lesson” and later on 1997’s “I’m Afraid of Americans” single. When asked in 1995 if his album Outside was influenced by Nine Inch Nails, Bowie answered, “the band that I was actually quite taken with was three guys from Switzerland call The Young Gods … I’d been aware of them previous to knowing about Nine Inch Nails.”

For the tour, Bowie went with a modest stage design (“some banners, some mannequins”) and avoided the theatrical presentation like his previous Glass Spider Tour in 1987 and Sound+Vision Tour in 1990.

Performance note

Bowie opened an interview for the tour with USA Today on the opening day of the tour, on 14 September 1995 with the question “How do you commit commercial suicide? Well, you do this: play songs from an album that hasn’t been released yet, and complement it with obscure songs from the past that you’ve never done on stage.”

During the tour, as Nine Inch Nails reached the conclusion of their performance, the two bands played together with both Nine Inch Nails and Bowie and his band performing “Subterraneans”, “Hallo Spaceboy” and “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)”, followed by two Nine Inch Nails songs “Reptile” and “Hurt” after which Bowie continued with his own set alone.

Early in the tour, the “almost 100% Nails audience” provided a challenge to Bowie, who said “In those first weeks, we had to adjust emotionally to the fact that we were going to be challenged every night to get in sync with what people were coming to the show for. But then you start to recognize that if you’re going to continue, you’d better enjoy what you’re doing. The more we did that, the more it communicated to the audience. That’s how it went from survival to being a good tour.”

Other opening acts

For the European leg of the tour, Morrissey was enlisted to provide support until his disappearance before the Aberdeen Exhibition Centre performance on 29 November 1995. The support slot was filled on later dates by The Gyres, Echobelly, Placebo and a variety of local bands.

 Live recordings

The 13 December 1995 performance at the National Exhibition Centre (Hall 5) – Birmingham, England, billed as the Big Twix Mix Show with Alanis Morissette, Lightning Seeds and Echobelly supporting was filmed by BBC TV with excerpts broadcast at a later date.

• David Bowie – vocals
• Reeves Gabrels – guitar

Carlos Alomar – guitar

• Gail Ann Dorsey – bass guitar, vocals

Zack Alford – drums

Mike Garson – piano

Peter Schwartz – synthesizer, musical director

George Simms – backing vocals, keyboards

 Tour dates

 Date – City – Country – Venue

North America

Trent Reznor has gone on record numerous times as being heavily influenced by David Bowie, and further collaborated with Bowie by remixing “The Hearts Filthy Lesson” and later on 1997’s “I’m Afraid of Americans” single. When asked in 1995 if his album Outside was influenced by Nine Inch Nails, Bowie answered, “the band that I was actually quite taken with was three guys from Switzerland call The Young Gods … I’d been aware of them previous to knowing about Nine Inch Nails.”

Performance notes

Live recordings

Date – City – Country – Venue

14 September 1995  Hartford,Connecticut,United States,Meadows Music Theatre

16 September 1995 Mansfield,Massachusetts,Great Woods Arts Center

17 September 1995 Hershey,Pennsylvania,Hersheypark Stadium

20 September 1995 Toronto,Ontario,Canada,Skydome

22 September 1995 Camden, New Jersey,United States Blockbuster Center

23 September 1995 Burgettstown,Pennsylvania,Star Lake Amphitheater

27 September 1995 East Rutherford,New Jersey,Meadowlands Arena

28 September 1995 East Rutherford,New Jersey,Meadowlands

30 September 1995 Cuyahoga Falls,Ohio,Blossom Music Center

01 October 1995 Tinley Park,Illinois,New World Music Theatre

03 October 1995 Auburn Hills,Michigan,The Palace of Auburn Hills

04 October 1995 Columbus,Ohio,Polaris Amphitheater

06 October 1995 Bristow,Virginia,Nissan Pavilion

07 October 1995 Raleigh,North Carolina,Walnut Creek Amphitheatre

09 October 1995 Atlanta,Georgia,Lakewood Amphitheatre

11 October 1995 Maryland Heights, Missouri,Riverport Amphitheatre

13 October 1995 Dallas,Texas,Starplex Amphitheatre

14 October 1995 Austin,TexasSouth Park Meadows

16 October 1995 Denver,Colorado,McNichols Sports Arena

18 October 1995 Phoenix,Arizona,Desert Sky Pavilion

19 October 1995 Las Vegas,Nevada,Thomas & Mack Center

21 October 1995 Mountain View,California,Shoreline Amphitheatre

24 October 1995 Tacoma,Washington,Tacoma Dome

25 October 1995 Portland,Oregon,The Rose Garden

28 October 1995 Inglewood,California,Great Western Forum

29 October 1995 Inglewood,California,Great Western Forum

31 October 1995 Hollywood,CA , Hollywood Palladium

14 November 1995 London,England,Wembley Arena

15 November 1995 London,England,Wembley Arena

17 November 1995 London,England,Wembley Arena

18 November 1995 London,England,Wembley Arena

20 November 1995 Birmingham,National Exhibition Centre

21 November 1995  Birmingham,National Exhibition Centre

23 November 1995 Belfast,Northern Ireland King’s Hall ( The Belfast Show Was Postponed as he played the MTV EMA awards show instead – The rescheduled date was 05/12/95 and the opening / support act was local band Peacefrog )

24 November 1995 Dublin,Ireland,Point Depot

26 November 1995 Exeter, England,Westpoint Arena

27 November 1995 Cardiff, Wales, Cardiff International Arena

29 November 1995 Aberdeen, Scotland,Exhibition Centre

30 November 1995 Glasgow, Scottish Exhibition  Conference Centre

03 December 1995 Sheffield, England,Sheffield Arena

04 December 1995   Sheffield ,Arena (Cancelled)

05 December 1995 Belfast , Northern Ireland King’s Hall

06 December 1995 Manchester England (Re-scheduled) Manchester Arena

07 December 1995 Newcastle,upon Tyne Newcastle Arena

08 December 1995 Manchester,Manchester Arena

13 December 1995 Birmingham,National Exhibition Centre (Hall 5)

(Big Twix Mix Show)

17 January 1996 Helsinki Finland,Helsinki Ice Hall

19 January 1996 Stockholm,Sweden,Globe Arena

20 January 1996 Gothenburg,Scandinavium

22 January 1996 Oslo,Norway,Spektrum

24 January 1996 Copenhagen, Denmark,Valby-Hallen

25 January 1996 Hamburg,Germany Sporthalle

27 January 1996 Brussels ,Belgium, Vorst Forest Nationaal

28 January 1996 Utrecht, Netherlands, Prins Van Oranjehall

30 January 1996 Dortmund, Germany, Westfalenhalle

31 January 1996 Frankfurt, Festhalle

01 February 1996 Berlin, Deutschlandhalle

03 February 1996 Prague Czech Republic, Sportovni Hala

04 February 199 6 Vienna, Austria, Stadthalle

06 February 1996 Ljubljana ,Slovenia, Hala Tivoli

08 February 1996 Milan ,Italy, Palatrussardi

09 February 1996 Bologna Palasport

11 February 1996 Lyon,France ,Halle Tony Garnier

13 February 1996 Geneva, Switzerland Arena

14 February 1996 Zurich,Hallenstadion

16 February 1996 Amnéville ,France, Le Galaxie

17 February 1996 Lille, Le Zénith

18 February 1996 Rennes,Salle Expos-Aeroport

20 February 1996 Paris,Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy

Outside Summer Festivals Tour

Tour by david bowie, start date       4 june 1996, end date        21 july 1996, number of shows     27.

Following on from the earlier,  David Bowie   Outside Tour  which ended on 20 February 1996, the  Outside Summer Festivals Tour  opened at the  Budokan Hall  in  Tokyo , Japan  on 4 June 1996. With a slimmed-down tour band from the previous  Outside Tour  excursion, the  concert tour  embarked to Japan, Russia and Iceland, followed by a string of performances on the  European  Summer festivals circuit.

The Kremlin Palace Concert Hall performance on 18 June 1996 was recorded and a 50-minute broadcast was later shown on Russian Television. Other television coverage included the entire 22 June Loreley Festival performance on German TV ( Rockpalast ) and excerpts from the  Phoenix Festival  performance on 22 July broadcast on  British TV with  BBC Radio  broadcasting a six-song selection from the performance. The  Tel Aviv  and  Balingen  dates were both broadcast on  FM Radio  in their respective countries.

Wardrobe for Bowie and his band on this tour was designed by celebrated British designer  Alexander McQueen .

• Zachary Alford – drums
• Mike Garson – keyboards

04-06-1996 Tokyo ,Japan ,Budokan Hall

05-06-1996 Tokyo ,Japan ,Budokan Hall

07-06-1996 Nagoya ,Japan ,Century Hall

08-06-1996 Hiroshima ,Japan ,Koseinenkin Hall

10-06-1996 Osaka ,Japan ,Castle Hall

11-06-1996 Kokura ,Japan ,Kyusyu Koseinenkin Hall

13-06-1996 Fukuoka ,Sun Palace

15-06-1996 St. Petersburg ,Russia (Cancelled) ,White Nights Festival

16-06-1996 St. Petersburg ,Russia , White Nights Festival

18-06-1996 Moscow ,Kremlin ,Palace Concert Hall

20-06-1996 Reykjavík ,Iceland ,Laugardalshöll

22-06-1996 St. Goarshausen ,Germany ,Loreley Festival

23-06-1996 Lisbon ,Portugal ,Super Rock Festival

25-06-1996 Toulon ,France ,Le Zénith

28-06-1996 Halle ,Germany ,Outside Festival

30-06-1996 Roskilde ,Denmark   ,Roskilde Festival

01-07-1996 Athens ,Greece ,P.A.O. Stadium

03-07-1996 Tel Aviv ,Israel ,Park HaYarkon

05-07-1996 Torhout ,Belgium ,Torhout Festival

06-07-1996 Werchter ,Werchter Festival

07-06-1996 Belfort ,France ,Eurockéennes

09-07-1996 Rome ,Italy ,Stadio Olimpico

10-07-1996 Fontvieille ,Monaco  ,Chapiteau Espace

12-07-1996 Escalarre ,Spain ,Escalarre Festival

14-07-1996 St. Polten ,Austria ,St. Polten Festival

16-07-1996 Rotterdam ,Netherlands ,Sportpaleis Ahoy

18-07-1996 Stratford upon Avon ,England ,Phoenix Festival Long Marston Airfield

20-07-1996 Balingen ,Germany   ,Ballingen Festival

21-07-1996 Bellinzona ,Switzerland ,Bellinzona Open Air Festival

6 thoughts on “David Bowie 1995-1996 Outside Tour”

I also would like to know the lighting designer as it was very interesting and had very rich color schemes….the best since 1978

thank you ,I changed it

The Belfast Show Was Postponed as he played the MTV EMA awards show instead and was 23/11/95 not 24/11/95

The rescheduled date was 05/12/95 and the opening / support act was local band Peacefrog

As I could never attend a Diamond Dogs show being 15 years old and living in the UK the Outside tour was truly the next best thing. A show encompassing all the best of Bowie: offbeat choice of more unusual tracks, powerful performance, quintessentially weird and “My Death”. “What else do you want. And I managed to get some great photos on this one off occasion in an under the radar show at Exeter. A memorable show and tour for those fans that preferred the unusual.

Does anyone know who was the lighting designer for this tour? Never thought to find out, but this person’s skill had a profound affect on me and my photographic work. Wanted to give them props for their skill and craft 🙂 thanks – Chris ( http://www.MISTERLYNCH.com )

Please add to Live Recordings: 18 October 1995 Phoenix, Arizona,Desert Sky Pavilion and 21 October 1995 Mountain View, California,Shoreline Amphitheatre and 31 October 1995 Hollywood,CA, Hollywood Palladium

Multi-camera live recording of each show by Directed by Jim Gable and Producer Ned Doyle or Graying & Balding, Inc.

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Nine inch nails & david bowie: dissonance.

1995 Directed by Jim Gable

Live performance of Nine Inch Nails & David Bowie on their 1995 Outside Tour

David Bowie Trent Reznor Robin Finck Danny Lohner Chris Vrenna Charlie Clouser Gail Ann Dorsey Carlos Alomar Reeves Gabrels Mike Garson George Simms Peter Swchartz Zacharry Orphan

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Giles Dunning David Rudd

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Review by Luke

When I die, look for me in the crowd in this video. If you see me there, I made it to heaven

Review by bill bond ★★★★½

born too late to explore the world born too early to explore the stars born at just the right time to see bowie and nin perform the hearts filthy lesson and hurt

loses 1/2 star for no closer

Review by Anto🎬 ★★★★★

Trent Reznor playing the saxophone while David Bowie stares at him in awe is something that can actually be so personal

PD: lo feliz que se veía Trent cantando Hurt con Bowie 😭🥺

Review by mia 🦇 ★★★★★

so grateful that this is in fact an actual moment in history 🙏❤️🙏

Review by Mel ★★★★★

on stage full of swinging instruments, sweat dripping, and roaring vocals, david bowie graces the stage gloriously clad in white; as if nothing can touch him. he looks grounded and never lost. i cannot imagine how it must've felt for trent to see bowie performing a song he once wrote in his bedroom.

Review by mags ★★★★½

i love reptile so much top 5 nin songs omg.. i exploded when they played that. ...dream blunt rotation. ...woa😭😭

Review by Phoebe ★★★★½

Hearing the opening to Reptile and seeing Bowie walk up to the microphone... ohhhh so cool, it sounded amazing, so wonderful and spooky and his stage presence alongside the band was so awesome. Hearts Filthy Lesson was really mad live as well, but need more Downward Spiral Bowie covers and it makes me so annoyed he didn't do that. Camera work was nice yeah and Trent Reznor whatever

Review by JT ★★★★★

The way they did their show with NIN opening and Bowie joining for last couple songs while NIN stayed for first couple Bowie songs is SO COOL to me and that would b incredible if other artists / tours could pull it off, too

Review by johnfreiler ★★★★

Vocal duets with Trent Reznor, ranked:

-David Bowie ("Reptile," Dissonance, 1995) -Peter Murphy ("Head Like A Hole," various radio appearances, 2006) -Tori Amos ("Past the Mission," Under The Pink, 1994) -My mother (The "bow down" part of "Head Like A Hole," with the car stereo when I was 14, 1997)

Review by Willis787 ★★★½

Just being able to see Bowie on stage singing Hurt, scary monsters, Hallo Spaceboy and a bunch of  other songs with Trent Goddamn Reznor is absolutely wonderful. It’s definitely a pretty typical concert recording however NIN and Bowie are both forces of nature when it comes to stage presence. There’s a lot of magic to the 90s flair that the editing has and I can’t help but enjoy myself when two of my favorite things in music are performing together.

Outside is one of the most underrated albums of all time and Reznor is absolutely crazy on stage and I love that for him.

7/10 Great stuff

Review by VhsDVDandbeyond ★★★★½

David Bowie, young in his own industrial foray comes to creatively meet with NIN, pioneers in this heavy but new mid 90s movement, also inspired by his earlier works. The energy of the show would really characterise not either artist, but the music of the time that they both, from such different angles would feed into - Industrial sound is centre-stage here, and it's a pained, exhausting output of raw emotion that draws some late 20th century defining art from the pair. It's a well put together back and forth of each's music, and how Bowie plays into the NIN material, and how NIN plays into the Bowie material, that's the beauty of these collaborative performances - the stage is…

Review by theexplodingboi ★★★★★

I will be an old man one day and still be like, “remember when David Bowie sang Reptile?”

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Subterraneans

"Subterraneans" is a song by David Bowie , performed live by Bowie and Nine Inch Nails frequently on the Dissonance Tour in 1995. The song was resurrected for the Cold And Black And Infinite Tour and the NIN 2022 tour.

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• 2.1 Subterraneans

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• The version of this song live with NIN has never been released

When performed live with NIN, Bowie sang lyrics from his song "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" slowly and in his lower register instead of the album lyrics. Trent Reznor played saxophone during these performances. This song was always lead in by " Eraser " and followed by "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)."

In 2018, a version of the song was performed during the Cold And Black And Infinite Tour, still with a saxophone, incorporating lyrics from " God Break Down The Door " and " Over And Out " into it, and notes from " The Frail " at the end.

When performed live with NIN on the Dissonance Tour, these lyrics were replaced with lines from "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)," which always followed this song:

During the Cold And Black And Infinite Tour, lyrics from "God Break Down The Door" and (slightly modified) lyrics from "Over And Out" were sung in a similar way as the above "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)":