Start time: 8:17
End time: 11:09
Total time: 2 hours 52 minutes
Underneath The Stars (new)
Want
Fascination Street
A Night Like This
The Walk
The End of the World
Lovesong
The Big Hand (early b-side)
Pictures of You
Lullaby
The Perfect Boy (new)
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
The Figurehead
A Strange Day
Sleep When I’m Dead (new)
Push
Inbetween Days
Just Like Heaven
Primary
The Only One (new)
Hot Hot Hot
Wrong Number (Greatest Hits single)
Signal To Noise (Greatest Hits single)
One Hundred Years
Baby Rag Dog Book (new)
1st encore:
At Night
M
Play For Today
A Forest
2nd encore:
Boys Don’t Cry
Jumping Someone Else’s Train
Grinding Halt
10:15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab
Total songs: 34
Albums skipped:
The Top (1984)
Bloodflowers (2000)
Bonus - we weren’t subjected to “Friday I’m In Love”. The 1st encore was incredible. Their performance of “A Forest” (segued in from “Play For Today”) was amazing, and the green/white lights mixed with smoke and a loop of the b/w forest imagery from the original music video made this song the highlight of the night.
The band sounded great, some songs were slower than their original versions, but still good. There was no keyboardist, the sparse electronics and sequenced percussion were either on a pre-tape, or triggered off a sampler by the drummer. Fat Bob sounded great all night, and the best performance of the night came from Simon Gallup on bass - his levels were on top of the mix, and his playing was flawless. Very impressed with this show, and this was way better than the Curiosa gig I saw in 2004. The band can still deliver (esp. in the encores), and 3 of the 4 new songs are actually pretty good, a couple of tunes reminiscent of the faster tunes from Pornography and Head On The Door (think a new punk version of “Push”). The opening song, “Underneath The Stars”, is a bit dirgey (along the lines of the Disintegration LP), but very good. I have higher hopes now for the new album in September.
wow. “the big hand” - have they EVER played that? sounds fun. i’m not going to be able to make the ATL show. Love the first enchore stuff. it is long, but wow. thier whole last enchore is songs from their first album (1979).
will be seeing them in a little less than 2 weeks in cleveland. can’t wait.
i believe the song “sleep when i’m dead” was a demo from the pornography days or something that he redid. i’ll have to track down bootlegs of the new stuff before the show.
Go to a Cure concert and there will be some serious eye candy.
That’s for sure. There was a ton of hot chics last night. I got whiplash from all the double takes I was doing. The women my age don’t dress up like goth vamps anymore, now they just wear casual skirts and jeans, but they were looking really good. Second best part of the show.
I have gotten lots of chicks from being a panzy Cure listener. Just sayin’. Ministry is cool and all but you go to a Ministry concert and you are surrounding by a bunch of stinky redneck guys. Go to a Cure concert and there will be some serious eye candy.
So, anyone who doesn’t like The Cure is probably a redneck or likes sweaty men.
The Ministry show I attended in '06 was mostly populated by nerds with a few skinheads mixed in and some hideous drunk fat girl who was so obnoxious between sets that I put my earplug back in on the side she was on just to drown her bloated ass out.
I saw/taped them @Hollywood Bowl 5/31/2008
1 Underneath The Stars
2 Prayers For Rain
3 A Night Like This
4 The Walk
5 The End of the World
6 Lovesong
7 Sleep When I’m Dead
8 To Wish Impossible Things
9 Pictures of You
10 Lullaby
11 From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
12 The Perfect Boy
13 Hot Hot Hot
14 The Only One
15 Push
16 Friday I’m In Love
17 Inbetween Days
18 Just Like Heaven
19 A Letter To Elise
20 Never Enough
21 Wrong Number
22 One Hundred Years
23 Baby Rag Dog Book
Encore 1
24 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
25 The Kiss
Encore 2
26 At Night
27 M
28 Play For Today
29 A Forest
Encore 3
30 Lovecats
31 Let’s Go To Bed
32 Freakshow
33 Close To Me
34 Why Can’t I Be You
Encore 4
35 Boys Don’t Cry
Apples and oranges man…
A Ministry show, say at their peak, would involve putting alot more energy and effort into playing their FASTER HARDER songs then the cure’s would… No double bass blistering guitar solo’s in any cure songs (I think anyway). So they can pull off a longer show. Slower songs, easier on the body, leaves more energy to spare.