Reviewed by
LuX


Last Edit/Update
13 March, 2000

MINISTRY
With support band
Vandal X

Venue: 013, Tilburg (The Netherlands)
July 6th, 1999
ticket price: 40 FL

    In Tilburg a brand new concert hall was built last year, based on the former Noorderligt, an which organisation is now integrated in the concept. It's great to have such a place at hardly 30 km, even if it is in an other country.
    Vandal X opened, and they come from my side of this border, Belgium. It's just two guys with bass abnd guitar, but they make some great noise. I don't know why they were chosen, as they are not an industrial act, but the dutch people liked them.
    Ministry played their 6th concert of their new tour, after releasing their latest album, of which they hardly played anything: it was a greatest hits concert with songs like "So What", "Thieves", "Filth Pig" and so on. The sound was okay and Al Jourgensen was in a nonchalant mood. The crowd loved hearing all these hits live again. After about 50 minutes they left the stage, coming back with "Psalm 69", but after just a few minutes the vocals went off. Al switched mikes, but no good: his voice was dead. As a little child he threw off his guitar and kicked it before leaving the stage. The other members noticed it was over, stopped playing and just said 'Al lost his voice' and that was it: a very abrupt end to a nice show. The crowd was really pissed off for this disrespectful end of the expensive concert.
     At the venue I met the other Belgian Luc Van Acker, who played with Al in Revolting Cocks. He told me they are still practicing on the new songs, so they couldn't play them yet, which I find quite dumb for a promo tour. He also said that Al often loses his voice touring with RevCo, as he drinks, smokes, sniffs coke and hardly sleeps on tour. The dutch people didn't like it.

LuX