God, that sounds horrible! Sounds like I’d need a whole shit-load of drugs to even contemplate giving it a spin. Music has to appeal to the mind before it affects you physically.
I don’t know about the show, Gunnar; it depends.
It’s all good, Steve. If you decide to go, hit me up!
I have no problem listening to a metal band to release a dumb metal album. It would have to be tolerable to at least sit through. This album isn’t either.
I am, but in Ireland, i’m afraid.
I’ve already got my ticket for the Dublin show and if I can find a few people going from the Belfast gig to the 2nd I’m up for travelling/doing an all nighter with whoever.
I’ve got my Belfast ticket, still waiting for the Dublin one to arrive. A few friends who’v never seen Ministry are going to the Belfast show, i’ve had to tell them not to expect much of the old stuff, hahaha, they aren’t happy at all, i think they were hoping for a load of the old classics. I’ve also had to tell them they wouldn’t like Fix, i think if they saw that they may just not go to the show at all[:)].
Nice!
I heard or rather read on a statement from Al that they would be covering some material from all of their albums? (excluding their ignored “roots” I hope).
I can’t remember the exact source but from what I can remember it was an interview… let me have a look here…
Ok. I can’t find the interview… I really hope I didn’t imagine, dream or hallucinate it…
Still have to see Fix, might give it a go over the weekend if I can find somewhere that has it.
Doubt it, all planned setlists basically get thrown out last minute and they come to a general consensus leading up to the tour what to play. The planned Animositisomina tour setlist was something like 2 1/2 - 3 hours of material, which included “Shove” (!) and “Impossible” (!!)
Yea we’ve changed the setlist on-stage at times to make it fit better so for both nights I’m hoping at least for a few different tracks.
I really can’t find this article… I hate myself for it but still want it to be true.
The last time I seen them in Dublin was when they played Under My Thumb for the final song, fingers crossed it will actually be some of their own material.
EDIT
Ok, may as well drop my opinion on the new album.
I bought it day of release and while it wasn’t anything to compare to say… Land of Rape and Honey, Filth Pig or Rio Grande Blood, it was good in its own right.
Put it this way, if I’m walking somewhere or travelling I’ll stick on those albums mentioned above.
If I have a large amount of work, for instance editing a production or doing storyboards etc (something boring) I might just stick on Relapse.
I guess its just background noise but there is enough there to fill the void and keep me interested.
The planned Animositisomina tour setlist was something like 2 1/2 - 3 hours of material, which included “Shove” (!) and “Impossible” (!!)
Can you provied any more info on this? I read a setlist from that tour and it marks the last time anything from Filth Pig got played. Better setlist than the last few tours.
Honestly it may be one of those things lost to time, but it was posted on the old Piss Army BBS (a really bad one at that, so bad I can’t remember the URL), and there were email newsletters I think with that info in it…
It was a big one. Something like 15-20 tracks, two encores, etc.
yeah 2003 tour had best overall setlist
the ‘oldest’ track in it was “we believe” but it was played only 2 times in the whole tour or something like that
setlist had the obligatory staples of course (nwo/stigmata/thieves/etc) but had some interesting choices like Dead Guy (i think they didnt play it on sphinctour or clitour), Supermanic Soul and Breathe (!) tho jesus built my hotrod sounded as shitty live as always (judging by bootlegs)
setlist wasnt overloaded with ‘new’ album songs, only 3 of them but they were kinda obvious choices (animosity/unsung/piss) but overall i’d say for 7-album ~15-year spanning setlist it was balanced and good.
everything went wrong setlist wise after that tour 
When it comes to bands I follow regularly I actually like the format of a good handful of songs from the latest album followed by or mixed with a collection of oldies. Maiden does this regularly when they do their album tours. But they do a different set every tour and mix up what songs they pull from back catalogue.
Ministry in 04 was okay by me. Showcasing the new album and following with a potpouri of oldies (though most of them were totally obvious), but every subsequent tour would just cut more of the classics, never throw in any surprises, and make the set list strictly out of the three Bush albums. Man did that get tedious.
I really don’t know what to expect on this next tour. I think it is really stupid to give us 15 songs protesting a President that’s been out of office for 4 years and has been virtually invisible, or crying about a war that we’ve all but ceased involvement in (yeah, yeah, I know).
I’ve always preferred the more abstract Ministry material like Filth Pig and Dark Side, but Al seems to favor having it all spelled out nowadays.
yeah 2003 tour had best overall setlist
the ‘oldest’ track in it was “we believe” but it was played only 2 times in the whole tour or something like that
setlist had the obligatory staples of course (nwo/stigmata/thieves/etc) but had some interesting choices like Dead Guy (i think they didnt play it on sphinctour or clitour), Supermanic Soul and Breathe (!) tho jesus built my hotrod sounded as shitty live as always (judging by bootlegs)
setlist wasnt overloaded with ‘new’ album songs, only 3 of them but they were kinda obvious choices (animosity/unsung/piss) but overall i’d say for 7-album ~15-year spanning setlist it was balanced and good.
everything went wrong setlist wise after that tour
HA! it would be awesome to see/hear them play we believe in 2003! especially considering it was a mostly rock lineup of musicians. good tune.
Rehearsal teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdaog-VwYM
They’re playing “Worthless” and “Waiting”. Again.
Funny how those songs are older, now, than Dark Side of the Spoon was during the Rio Grande Blood tour. So I guess Al finally has broken his “only play the new stuff” habit, sort of.
I guess that’s good news…I like those 2 tunes.
I have two extra GA tickets for the LA show. If anyone is interested, send me a message.
^
You’re still going to the show, though, right Proto?
So far, it looks like the only ones representin’ the Prongers are:
Gunnar
Prototype SKB
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Pre-show loitering will be here, by the way:
http://lalive.com/eat/yard-house
Yeah, I’ll be there. Broke my finger yesterday playing basketball so no pit for me though. Hand specialist is going to try and set it tomorrow otherwise it is pins-in-the-fingerville. Great timing.
Yowza! Brutality! I’m a bit old and decaying now so I don’t do a whole lot of pit action either. I get winded way too easily and then it’s just embarrassing leaving a mere minute after jumping in. I’ll sometimes wait until I know there’s only a minute or so left in a song and then get my pit fix . . . then the song ends and I’ll be like, “Oh, no more? Dude, that’s lame! Ehh, what can ya do?” and then slide out all badass like.
buying my ticket from proto the day of the show so count me in.
Late,
grmpysmrf
YES!!! Grumps is in tha house!!! Are you gonna wear your Buck Santa hat?