Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails, the Cleveland industrial band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, played The O2 arena on the Peel It Back Tour.
Nine Inch Nails, the Cleveland industrial band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, played The O2 arena in North Greenwich on Wednesday 18 June 2025. Boys Noize opened the night.
Trent Reznor formed the band in 1988 while working as an assistant engineer and janitor at a recording studio. He used its empty hours between bookings to record demos, playing every instrument himself.
Pretty Hate Machine followed in 1989, and The Downward Spiral made the name in 1994. Its song “Hurt” found a second life when Johnny Cash covered it in 2002. Reznor and the Londoner Atticus Ross, now a full member of the band, have since scored films including The Social Network.
The London date of the Peel It Back Tour was the band’s first live outing since 2022. Reznor, who had turned 60 the month before, opened alone at a keyboard on a central stage in the crowd with “Right Where It Belongs”.
Eight songs from The Downward Spiral followed, and the 20-song set ended on “Hurt”.
Boys Noize, the producer Alex Ribha, rejoined the band in the third act for remixed versions of its songs.