Wishing a super Happy Birthday to Robin!  ❤ 

Here’s a few awesome photos from Riot Fest / Las Vegas / Aftershock Festival.  

(Credits: 1 & 3: James Richards IV for Brooklyn Vegan; 2: brxanphoto; 4: stardog_photos_; 5: Corinne Schiavone for NIN Official [more photos on FB]; 6: chicagojake)

NIN played a surprise show yesterday at Webster Hall in New York (a few photos above), after playing the Panorama Festival on Sunday night.  The livestream from the festival is currently uploaded: here.  Congratulations to anyone who made it into Webster Hall, which looks like it was an amazing show–you’re the chosen ones! (I’m super jealous!)  

(Credits: 1 & 3: nicholasvalenzuela; 2: sirchadofwick)

Photos from FYF Fest by Michelle Shiers Photography.

I was there but wasn’t fully able to be into it as much as usual as I was trying not to collapse of exhaustion, and am still trying to recover from that, but just wanted to say that Robin was really great at this show!

Early shots from NIN’s warm-up show prior to the festival tour: July 19, 2017 in Bakersfield, CA.  

Also video of Robin: taken during the debut of “Burning Bright (Field on Fire)”.

(Credits: 1: skullsinbloom; 2 & 6: robotsvsrobots; 3: kfpftw; 4: jessi_zos23; 5: bxspinks)

A few photos from various recent shoots have surfaced over the past several weeks (in addition to Robin updating his photo on Twitter with a new one).

Top left image via Toontrack’s site: [toontrack.com/midi-month]

Top right image credited to Brooks Ayola, another photo from the same shoot on his site here: [Robin 1] and [Robin 2-original photo]

Also an additional image from his shoot with Jennifer Rovero/@camraface on Instagram: [here]

Only just over a month to go until the NIN festival dates start! I will be at FYF Fest, so if anyone wants to say hello/meet up at the fest please be in contact.

Another set of photos from Robin’s talk at Reboot Develop a couple weeks ago (via their Facebook page here). 

Robin even brought his Instagram @robinfinck back to life to post some cool photos during his trip there, if you didn’t catch that already.

A couple other photos from those who met him that week: [1] [2]

Also, a little interview was posted up on a Croatian news site which I’ve posted an English translation of here (original text: jutarnji.hr).  It seems like it may have been notes from part of his talk, but not sure as it doesn’t specify.  

Robin was one of the speakers today at the Reboot Develop Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia with the subject for his hour being “On Composers Crossing Over”.  It looks like things went well–no doubt it would’ve been interesting to be in attendance!

These are a few photos that have gone up from during and after his talk.  Also, there are a couple photos with Robin from yesterday before the conference began which you can view here: [1] [2]

(Photo credits: 1: @joeyprink; 2: @rangermann; 3: @europeangamesgroupag; 4: @nitachaa)

Now it’s officially been confirmed: Robin will be back touring with NIN in 2017! So far that’s only two festivals confirmed now, but I’m sure more dates will be added coming up.  Lineup above posted by @nineinchnails on Instagram (and elsewhere).       

Also, Laced Records posted a new interview with Robin looking back at the Noct soundtrack and video game composition.  He goes into more depth in describing his experience composing for Noct, and what he enjoys about the process:

“I’m into melody and progression. That sound wares stuff sorta happens by accident along the way, or during some experimental knife-throwing lab toward the end of a thing. Fun. Critical. Significant. Indispensable. But I like the bones best of all.”

You can read the full interview here (photo of Robin posted above taken from the interview is credited to Jennifer Rovero): From NIN to NOCT: Guitarist Robin Finck on composing for video games

Caught a couple tiny Robin cameos in the Gary Numan documentary “Android in La La Land”–finally was able to watch it online (you can watch it in full on BBC online here for approx. the next month or purchase on Region 2 DVD if you’re in the UK only; it’s been uploaded it on YouTube as well, but it may go down so if you’re interested in watching the full doc, catch it however you can!).

The reviews when it was premiered mentioned Robin appeared, though I thought it would just be a tiny bit of footage of him onstage, since he played only a couple shows and they were only filming at the one in Santa Ana, CA in September 2013.  There is a few seconds of backstage action from Santa Ana that made the cut as well, along with the short blink-and-you-miss-it guitar action–the actual footage was from when he was playing “A Prayer for the Unborn” (watch here) but in the documentary they’ve dubbed “We’re The Unforgiven” over it (one of the songs Robin played on on Splinter).  

Anyway, it’s cool to see they included Robin in there! For convenience you can watch Robin’s brief moments here:

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It’s someone’s birthday again–in celebration here’s a happy onstage photo from earlier this year (from the Hellcat Saints show, credit: ayumi-logan). Hoping the next year will bring many more good moments!

Pretty quiet times, in the past weeks there’s been a couple new/old photos with Robin up on Instagram posted around from Alessandro Cortini: [1] [2] and an old one from the GN’R recording days from Josh Freese: [1] (I believe Josh posted this a couple years ago with PF Changs written all over it? Haha, here it is in it’s original form!).  Other than that, there’s not too much to say that would be newsworthy right now.  

Anyway, send some Happy Birthday love to Robin if you wish! 

[Update 10/05: additional two bottom images added c/o Voodoo Lab]

Via Lava Cables on their Instagram & Facebook pages: 

“Piston wired new rig for Robin Finck!” / Robin’s comment: “Thanks very much for the solder-free kit. Works perfect. All fits well, sounds good, was easy. Zen.”

[Update 10/05: Additional gear listed thanks to article on EffectsBay.com: click here]

Eventide H9
Carl Martin AC Tone-S
JHS Super Bolt Overdrive
JHS Kilt Overdrive
JHS Firefly Fuzz

Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork
Voodoo Lab Proctavia Fuzz
Creepy Fingers Ramalama
Catalinbread Belle Epoch
AMT Electronics O2 Preamp

Voodoo Lab PX-8 Plus Pedal Switching System
Voodoo Lab Dingbat MD-PX pedalboard
Voodoo Lab MONDO Power