Ministry Announces 2023 Headline Tour Dates With Gary Numan & Front Line Assembly

By Kyle Hansen 1 year ago
Ministry Announces 2023 Headline Tour Dates
With Direct Support From Gary Numan & Front Line Assembly
16-Date Tour Kicks Off April 20, Ending With Performance At
Sick New World Festival In Las Vegas On May 13
Tickets On Sale Friday, February 10 At
Ministry Will Also Join Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper
For Summer Dates
Industrial juggernauts Ministry are heading back out on the road in 2023 with a series of spring headlining dates, bringing long-time friends Gary Numan and Front Line Assembly along for the ride.
The tour kicks off April 20 in Reno, Nevada and will end with an anticipated performance at the Sick New World Fest in Las Vegas on May 13.
Tickets for all headline dates go on sale Friday, February 10 at 10 AM local time in all markets. Find more information and ticketing links at ministryband.com.
Ministry also previously announced a summer run opening for Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper, kicking off August 24. See all upcoming Ministry tour dates below.
The 2023 appearances come after a wildly successful “Industrial Strength Tour” throughout 2022 and will continue to be a career retrospective of Ministry’s greatest works, as the band enters its fifth decade with frontman and creator Al Jourgensen continuing to churn out his indelible missives on the state of the world and society as we know it.
Songs each night of the tour will include selects from across the span of Ministry’s full catalog including the latest works from 2021 album Moral Hygiene, which was added to many “best of the year” lists, including Loudwire, Consequence Of Sound, Punk News and XS Rock (where it was ranked the #1 album of the year).
Jourgensen has re-entered the studio and is currently beginning work on Ministry’s 16th album – more details will be coming soon.
For the upcoming tour dates, Jourgensen will be joined by band members drummer Roy Mayora, guitarists Cesar Soto and Monte Pittman, bassist Paul D’Amour and keyboardist John Bechdel.
MINISTRY SPRING 2023 HEADLINE TOUR
April 2023
20    Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort
21    Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union
23    Albuquerque, NM @ Revel
25    San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theatre
26    Austin, TX @ Emo’s
27    New Orleans, LA @ Fillmore
29    Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
30    Charlotte, NC @ Fillmore
May 2023
3    Silver Spring, MD @ Fillmore
4    Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hal
5    Cleveland, OH @ The Agora
6    Ft. Wayne, IN @ Clyde
7    Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
9    Sioux Falls, SD @ The District
11  Billings, MT @ Pub Station
13  Las Vegas, NV @ Sick New World Fest*
*Indicates a festival date where Gary Numan and Front Line Assembly are not playing
MINISTRY OPENING FOR ROB ZOMBIE & ALICE COOPER
August 2023
24  Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion
26  Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
27  West Palm Beach, FL @ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre
29  Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
30  Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
September 2023
1    Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
2    Des Moines, IA @ Wells Fargo Arena
5    Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre
6    Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
8    Scranton, PA @ The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
9    Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
10  Hartford, CT @ XFINITY Theatre
12  Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena
13  Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
16  Englewood, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
19  Ridgefield, WA @ RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
20  Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre
22  Concord, CA @ Concord Pavillion
23  Anaheim, CA @ HONDA Center
24  Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion
For tickets and more information, visit www.ministryband.com/tour
ABOUT MINISTRY
Born in 1981 in Chicago, Ministry has been the lifetime passion project of founder Al Jourgensen, considered to be the pioneer of industrial music. In its early days, Ministry was identifiable by its heavy synth-pop material in line with the new sounds and technology that were being developed in the ‘80s. Ministry’s output began with four 12” singles on Wax Trax! Records in 1981 before the first LP With Sympathy in 1983 via Arista Records. As time progressed however, so did Ministry, quickly developing a harsher, and more stylized sound that the band soon became infamous for on seminal albums Twitch (1986), The Land of Rape and Honey (1988), and The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste (1989). With the release of Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and The Way to Suck Eggs (1992), Ministry hit an all-time high in the mainstream musical realm and received its first Grammy nomination. In total, Ministry has been nominated for a Grammy award six times. Eight more albums would follow before an indefinite break in 2013, only to be unearthed again in 2018 with AmeriKKKant, continuing to reflect Jourgensen’s views on the frightening state of society and politics. The band’s latest effort, Moral Hygiene, came out in 2021 on Nuclear Blast Records.
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