HARD x Mouth Taped Shut review [LA]

Dec 19th 2011
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Trent Reznor of NIN has gained some serious success with his work co-writing the score for ‘The Social Network‘. Trent and partner/producer Atticus Ross just finished another music scoring process for the highly successful novel turned movie ‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo‘ which is ALSO directed by David Fincher. Quite the team this trio as accomplished in their work so far.

Trent as predicted decided to promote this film unconventionally via a series of live electronic shows across some major cities such as Stockholm, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. He reached out to Gary Richards of HARDFEST to help execute these free shows (if you RSVP) to help promote the movie release. In all honesty, there was pretty much no information about the HARD x Mouth Taped Shut and why it relates to the film. I mean, the movie is probably pretty damn good considering it’s based on a highly popular Swedish crime novel and seriously what out of Sweden is NOT good these days – Swedish House Mafia at Madison Square Garden, anyone? DIRTYCHOONS is about to import some Swedish tap water to the states pretty soon.

Anyways, the bill for this show was pretty stacked and we personally believe what Trent decided to do was unusually awesome – certainly generated a buzz. They could have wasted boatloads of money on some lame Hollywood parties for industry folk but they decided to provide free entertainment to anyone who was interested.

Reznor figures the event’s a success. ”The end result is an event that anyone attending leaves and goes, ‘Wow, that was great. Oh, and it was free. Fuck, it was pretty cool,’” Reznor says. “That’s my only agenda here.”

(via Rollingstone.com)

DIRTYCHOONS covered the LA show and the talent included EYE, James Muphy, Proxy and Deadmau5(unhooked).

Tickets, despite being free, were pretty hard to come by because after the limited tickets were gone through RSVP, one would have to go to the venue on a Friday afternoon to pick up the tickets. However, I think the ones that went through that process were glad they did…

Complete photo set via the DIRTYCHOONS FACEBOOK.