If you didn’t go, don’t worry, you didn’t miss much. And as much of a Ministry fan as I am, this review will be especially hard for me to write! my life with the thrill kill kult sucked so hard it, it wasn’t even funny! they had this blonde bimbo as a back up singer, who was more worried about shaking her tits than singing her parts (which was just her repeating the same lines over and over again)… ..Not to mention all the band members were wearing sunglasses… .indoors, at night… ..cheesy if you ask me. I ll be honest, I was never very familiar about this band, and always heard good things about them, but this performance made me extremely glad I never wasted my time with them. the first band, hanzel und gretel, didn’t even show up… which i was so dissapointed, because i wanted to see them. Now Ministry… .they were cool and all, but the first 7 songs of the set were their first 7 songs off the new album House on the Mole back to back. Now don’t get me wrong, the new album is good and all, but when I go see a band play I kind of want to see them mix their set up. However, the one mildly humorous thing I can say that happened was that during the first song, the band had someone wearing a George W. Bush mask and a tuxdeo come out and act like an idiot… and Ministry frontman Al Jourgenson jumped on him during the first song and acted like he was beating the crap out of him. Ministry really didn’t do much to mix the set up… .and then after that, the band butchered New World Order (the very song that broke them big). The band had this annoying sample that made them sound like they are playing to a metranome. After that, I just bailed. I could hear Just One Fix being played as i was walking to my truck and it sounded good and all… but if this is the kind of performance Al Jourgenson and company plan on doing, then this band has clearly gone on too long and needs to hang it up! However on another funny note, the band had a T-shirt for sale that had the Rolling Stones lips and a hand doing a piece sign over the lips (basically doing an oral sex gesture), and on the back the shirt said Lick Bush 2004! Clever if you ask me, but also shows that Al really doesn’t like America’s current Commander In Chief. It’s his opinion and he’s entitled to it, not a political person either way! The bands lackluster performances made me glad I got into the show free and didn’t have to pay a $30 door fee to get in like the rest of the public. – said Joshua V. on Sep 09, 2004
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