Nine Inch Nails‘ 2025 Peel it Back tour kicked off in Dublin on Sunday night at the city’s 3Arena, which was the band’s first show there in 18 years and first show anywhere in three. The production of this tour features two stages, a smaller stage set up in the middle of the arena and featuring unique visuals, collaborations and rarities, and the main stage featuring NIN’s hits and cinematic projections.
The Dublin show began on the smaller stage with three songs that hadn’t been played in 16 years. Trent Reznor was solo at the piano to kick things off with “Right Where it Belongs” and a snippet of “Somewhat Damaged,” followed by the rest of the band joining for a partially acoustic “Ruiner” and then a full-blast “Piggies.”
Things then switched over to the main stage where they performed against multiple sheer video screens that enveloped the band for “Wish,” “March of the Pigs,” “The Frail,” “The Wretched,” “Reptile,” “Copy of A,” and “Gave Up.” The focus then returned to the smaller stage, which was also incased in sheer video screens, as they did a techno-forward set with openers Boys Noize. That included “Vessel,” “Parasite,” and “Came Back Haunted,” which all got their first play in at least seven years.
The Dublin show ended back on the main stage with some of their biggest songs, including “Closer,” “Head Like a Hole,” Bowie’s “I’m Afraid of Americans,” and “Hurt.”
Check out full video of the Dublin show and the setlist below.
The Peeling it Back tour hits North America later this summer, with shows at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on September 2 and 3.
NINE INCH NAILS @ 3ARENA, DUBLIN 6/15/2025
Act 1 (B-Stage)
Right Where It Belongs
Ruiner
Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)
Act 2 (Main Stage)
Wish
March of the Pigs
The Frail
The Wretched
Reptile
Copy of A
Gave Up
Act 3 (B-Stage with Boys Noize)
Vessel
Parasite
Came Back Haunted
Act 4 (Main Stage)
Mr. Self Destruct
Heresy
Closer
I’m Afraid of Americans
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like a Hole
Hurt