MINISTRY - Copa, Toronto, Canada

Artist: Ministry
Date: 12/12/88
City: Toronto
Venue: Copa
Length: 85 Min
Setlist:

1) Where You At Now
2) We Believe
3) You Know What You Are
4) Land Of Rape And Honey
5) Flashback
6) Missing
7) Diety
8) Stigmata
9) No Bunny
10) Golden Dawn
11) No Devotion
12) The Light Pours Out Of Me
13) Smothered Hope

Personnel:

Al Jourgensen - Vocals, Keyboards
Paul Barker - Bass, Keyboards
Nivek Ogre - Guitar, Vocals
Bill Rieflin - Guitar, Keyboards
Jeff Ward - Drums


This is a great show from the Land Of Rape And Honey tour. The audience is quite lively, as is the band. Highlights include Al having a nice playful fight with Bill Rieflin during You Know What You Are while a girl from the audience gets onstage and steals the microphone. There are quite a few visitors onstage from the audience, perhaps partially leading to the giant chainlink fence used on the band's next tour. As usual for dates from this tour, Ogre from Skinny Puppy joins the band for several songs, including doing vocals for the encore songs.

There are two stationary cameras used in this recording, with frequent cuts from one to the other. This leads me to believe that the original source was the venue itself. One camera's quality is a bit better than the other, but both are very clear with good shots of the band with many closeups. The sound quality is very good for a video-sourced recording as well. The only drawback are the frequent dropouts of both audio and video. These happen every few minutes, especially toward the end of the recording. None last long, but the do break the flow of some of the songs. It's still a quite entertaining watch, and one of only two videos from this tour that have surfaced - the other being the incomplete, black and white recording of the 12/16/88 New York show, which is nowhere near as fun to watch.

And, as always, I'm searching for any Ministry, Revolting Cocks or related recordings. My list is at http://www.darkstatic.com/~bisquitodoom/Bootlegs/Main.html I'm looking for anything not listed there. I'm also interested in any information from Ministry tour dates that we haven't compiled for the Ministry live archive at http://prongs.org/ministry/tour. Please email me at bisquitodoom@hotmail.com if you have anything you can add.