Ministry Press Clippings, early 80's

chout77 · December 20, 2023, 4:02am

Further searches…getting to the bottom of the barrel.

The Herald News, NJ June 4 1982

Daily Register Feb 11 1983

Lincoln Journal Sep 1 1983

Club Charts
May 28 1982

March 6 1983

April 11 1983

Aug 2 1983

Seattle Rocket July 1 1983

The Monitor McAllen Texas July 3 1983 originally published in June 5 Chicago Tribune, posted above, but the complete article was not included in this version.

dicecrusher · December 20, 2023, 6:48pm

Great work Chout! Thank you for sharing. If they ever invent a time machine, I am dialing up 1982-83 so I can go back and catch all these Ministry gigs.

realmdemagic · December 20, 2023, 9:53pm

Excellent work, thanks for sharing all of these!

queer_bait · December 21, 2023, 2:54am

Man,you With Sympathy era dudes are fucking hardcore…these pics are incredible…

dicecrusher · December 21, 2023, 5:27am

From Trouser Press magazine (Sept 1983)

chout77 · December 21, 2023, 2:58pm

Fascinating (to a few, at least) to dig up pieces of this buried era of the band.

chout77 · December 25, 2023, 12:03am

Revco · December 25, 2023, 5:05pm

LOL! You gonna put that in my xmas stocking?

chout77 · December 27, 2023, 2:47pm

Chicago Tribune Dec 20 1981
I hesitated to post this because it doesn’t mention Ministry, but it features some of the clubs they played in the early days.

rev_skarekroe · December 28, 2023, 1:53pm

Wow, Sha Na Na is playing six nights!

chout77 · December 31, 2023, 4:16pm

Found a few more things

LA Weekly Sept 8 83
Scat Club, Los Angeles

LA Weekly Sept 15 83
Shows a Sept 11 concert not listed on this site

Intelligencier Journal Aug 25 1983

Revco · December 31, 2023, 4:54pm

“Receive a free Ministry Badge”…wonder what that looked like!

dicecrusher · January 3, 2024, 1:54am

Al probably still has a box of them in his attic![

grmpysmrf · January 3, 2024, 2:41am

I heard they were shipped free with that part of the fence they sent out!

chout77 · January 3, 2024, 2:41am

dicecrusher · January 3, 2024, 4:28am

I can see why Al might have some bad memories from the Arista experience.

grmpysmrf · January 3, 2024, 4:35am

he looks pissed off in that photo.

dicecrusher · January 3, 2024, 4:46am

Al and Stevo’s limo service…

Looks like the same background as the shot of Al and Stevo that was used for the record sleeve. At least someone decided to pass on the tuxedos and go with black sweaters instead.

chout77 · January 3, 2024, 4:52am

I thought it looked like they were doing a puppet show. Wait, apparently they were.

I’d love to hear Stevo’s side.

queer_bait · January 3, 2024, 5:44pm

Yeah looks like a ventriloquist gig photo…