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- New Documentary Coming out fixtheministrymovie.com. Download a free Barker track.
- Paul Barker's Flowering Blight project has been released in Nov. 2008. Read more.
Viewing pictures has been fixed over on the Pictures Gallery. You can use the arrow keys to navigate through the pictures.
Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life As A Revolting Cock, the book authored by Chris Connelly, is back in print and can be ordered from amazon.com for $12.
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Seems the RSS feed was broken but this has been fixed. There will be more page updates coming soon including a revamped pictures section.
There is also another unofficial Ministry forum that has just been started by members of another forum. You can check it out over at ph4pb.com. It is not affiliated with this site in any way.
In addition to that, there is the Ministry subsection on the Litany forum. What this site is to Ministry, Litany is to Skinny Puppy. The site, which resides on prongs.org, is run by a friend of mine, Corey Goldberg, who I had the privilege of hosting when he dropped by Chicago when on tour with Skinny Puppy, a few months ago.
In case you did not know, the oldest Ministry forum is right here on this site.
When you collect live shows, sometimes surprises show up in unexpected places. Most of the post-Lollapalooza 92/93 tour had a pretty standard setlist. Sure, there were occasonal variations, but they were mostly of the "change the song order" variety. I was recently given a copy of the first date of the US leg of the tour, and while the main show had nothing out of the ordinary, the band breaks out 2 songs in the encore that hadn't been played live for several years - one of which has never been played live again. The first of these, Man Should Surrender, is up for download on the sound page. Other than this performance, this song was only played on the 1990 tour. The vocals on that tour were done by Joe Kelley. Three guesses who it is this time. Not sure if this was played again this tour, but this was the first US date, so it was probably not played before this and definitely wasn't played for at least the next 3 shows. Anyway, hope you enjoy this rare gem!
It has come to our attention that Wax Trax! Records co-founder Dannie Flesher has passed away. It goes without saying that his great contribution enabled us all to see and hear bands such as Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Front 242, and much, much more.
Dannie died on Sunday night from pneumonia, he was 57 years old and was living in Hope, Arkansas.There is an article by the Chicago Tribune on this.
Firstly, I hope the site redesign is to your liking. The design was done by myself while the logo was done by Lawton. In fact, Lawton and I worked hard together on the official site for fixtheministrymovie.com.
This is a documentary to be released in 2010 and features old footage of Ministry backstage and onstage. The documentary includes interviews with the likes of Trent Reznor, Dave Navarro, Jonathan Davis, and much, much more.
From fixtheministrymovie.com, you can not only watch the trailer, but you can also download an exclusive new track released by Flowering Blight (Paul Barker) by registering. The track is called Heroine's Habit and is superb.
We will keep you posted on here regarding the documentary as more news comes out.
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New song up for download on the sound page. This is a live version of What He Say from the same show as the version of Work For Love featured not to long ago. The date and location of the show are unknown, but it's most likely from early 1984 and is oneof the early shows after the departure of several members of the With Sympathy tour lineup. It's from a soundboard source and is by far the best sounding recording of a show from 83/84. Enjoy!
Seems that Ministry's Bridge School Benefit appearances back in '94 are about to get an official release tomorrow, on November 24th 2009, via iTunes. Included on this compilation are the two Ministry tracks, Here They Come and Paisley both from their November 2nd 1994 performance. Tracks also of interest include Fragile and Hurt, both of which were performed by Trent Reznor on October 22nd 2006.
The non-profit Bridge School Benefit is hosted by Neil and Pegi Young and benefits the unique learning complex which assists children with sever physical impairments and challenging communication needs. The proceeds from the iTunes digital downloads will be donated to the Bridge School.
There is a complete tracklisting over on the official website for Tegan and Sara.
For today only, Al has put up a new song called It's Always Christmas Time on Ministry's official MySpace page.. The song was a collaboration with Mark Thwaite and is a tribute to the late Paul Raven. The song will supposedly be available for purchase as a download at a later date. Definitely a return to his synthpop roots - for better or worse, depending on the listener. Based on interviews with Al, this is probably indicative of the sound for his upcoming planned solo release.
New song up for download on the sound page. This one is from the 12/28/81 Blackouts show - one of many Seattle dates played by the band during the late 1981-early 1982 stretch when they were just a local band. This was shortly after Paul Barker joined. Given the small studio output of the band during this period, it's not surprising that several tracks in the live setlist never saw a proper studio release. This is one of them, and until someone from the band is able to give us a title, this one remains untitled.
Out this week is the new Dessau album "The Truth Hurts". The first Dessau release since 1995, this album is a compilation featuring outtakes from Details Sketchy, a couple compilation tracks including a cover of Ministry's Revenge, tracks from the first two 12" releases previously available only on vinyl, a couple live Joy Division covers and several tracks from 1990 sessions recorded with Paul Barker. The tracks with Paul were recorded after Exercise In Tension (and The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste). Rather than a second full album, the tracks were scrapped and most were later released on the self-titled Dessau album. These are the long-awaited final unreleased tracks from these sessions.
It's available at most online retailers and directly from WTII Records (along with lots of other great releases).
Not entirely Ministry related but I'm sure many of you are fans of Cevin Key's work.
cEvin Key will be spinning a Tokyo Decadence DJ set with classic and new music from Download, Skinny Puppy, PlatEAU, Tear Garden, Doubting Thomas and more!
Subconscious merchandise booth and autograph session. Closing set by DJ Jeff Moyer
This is going on at Neo in Chicago, IL, USA. This is where Paul Barker also DJed in 2006.
I have finally added the News archives to this site. On the right hand menu you can choose the years you wish to read the archives from. It was interesting to see that January 29th 1999 was our first news posting for this site. Enjoy browsing.
And now the highlight of the recently unearthed 1984 demos is up for download on the sound page. It's a completely unreleased song from early 1984 called "Wait". It's definitely from the post-With Sympathy period and could easily have been included on one of the Wax Trax 12"s from this era. Unfortunately it never saw the light of day. Hope you all enjoy! Supposedly there are another half-dozen or so songs from this timeframe that also never saw release. Hopefully someday we'll get to hear more.
Late on the Lollapalooza tour in 1992, Ministry performed TV Song a handful of times. It wasn't on the standard setlist, but on most of the September dates, the band added it to their sets with Gibby Haynes from the Butthole Surfers on vocals. Every performance was different, as the band played TV Song while Gibby ad-libbed, screaming whatever profanity came to his mind. I recently realized that we've never had a version of this up for download, so you can grab one on the download page now. Rather than putting the common version from the 9/4/92 New Orleans show up, I decided to go for the version from the 9/12/92 Irvine show - so this should be something new for just about everyone. This is also one of a handful of shows late in the tour with Casey Orr from Rigor Mortis replacing Paul on bass, as Paul's wife had a child a few days earlier. Enjoy!
Next time, a new unreleased song for the first time in a long time.