MINISTRY, MESHUGGAH, HEMLOCK: Complete Tour Details Revealed

November 12, 2007

On the heels of their final studio release, "The Last Sucker", released September 18, 2007, MINISTRY has announced their final world tour, "C U LaTouR", with special guests MESHUGGAH and opening act HEMLOCK.

MINISTRY kicks off the North American leg of "C U LaTouR" in Vancouver on March 28, 2008, stopping in a limited engagement 33 major market cities through mid-May, ending the U.S. leg in MINISTRY frontman Al Jourgensen's hometown of Chicago in early May. MINISTRY then heads off to play the principal European festivals as well as choice club dates beginning late May stretching through to July.

Exclusive pre-sale tickets for the North American "C U LaTouR", offered by Music Today, go on sale this Thursday, November 15 and can be purchased here. Exclusive Special Limited Access VIP tickets will also be available for purchase via the pre-sale, offering advance doors, seating, meet & greets and souvenir 13th Planet gift bags.

The "C U LaTouR" touring line-up features MINISTRY's founder Al Jourgensen being joined onstage by guitarists Tommy Victor (PRONG) and Sin Quirin (REVOLTING COCKS),keyboardist John Bechdel (PRONG, ASCENSION OF THE WATCHERS, FALSE ICONS),and drummer Jimmy DeGrasso (ex-MEGADETH, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, ALICE COOPER). STATIC X's Tony Campos has recently stepped in to fulfill bass on behalf of the recently departed MINISTRY/KILLING JOKE bassist Paul Raven. Joining the MINISTRY clan as Special Featured Artist will be FEAR FACTORY/ASCENSION OF THE WATCHERS vocalist Burton C. Bell. Main support is Swedish experimental metal MESHUGGAH and opening act is the U.S.-based HEMLOCK.

To coincide with "C U LaTouR", Jourgensen's indie imprint is scheduled to release MINISTRY & CO-CONSPIRATORS "Cover Up", a 12-track covers release featuring artists from the 13th Planet Records family, as well as other special guests. "Cover Up" is scheduled for a late March/early April 2008 release.

For its spectacular two-and-a-half-hour "C U LaTouR" set, MINISTRY will perform tracks from "The Last Sucker" as well as songs that revisit the band's rich and provocative 30-year musical history. Archival MINISTRY videos plus other visual elements of alchemy, Christianity, politics and other topics aligned with MINISTRY will be incorporated into a special video presentation, produced by "Wicked Lake" director Zach Passero (with whom Jourgensen is collaborating on the soundtrack for the feature film) that will change night to night. And, as is expected from a MINISTRY show, you just never know what surprise guests will jump on stage for a song or two.

"A MINISTRY tour is a traveling circus," states Jourgensen. "When we roll into town, everyone hides their daughters, but the freaks roll out the red carpet and a friend or two pops up on stage to add some spice and mayhem to the show. We never know who's gonna walk through the dressing room door at sound check. We rehearse a bunch of 'extra' songs just in case so-and-so shows up..."

Confirmed dates for MINISTRY's 2008 "C U LaTouR" are as follows (additional dates and cities will be added at www.thirteenthplanet.com):

Mar. 28 - Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC CANADA
Mar. 29 - Showbox SoDo, Seattle, WA
Mar. 30 - Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR
Apr. 01 - Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
Apr. 02 - Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
Apr. 05 - House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA
Apr. 06 - House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA
Apr. 07 - House of Blues, San Diego, CA
Apr. 08 - Marquee Theatre, Tempe, AZ
Apr. 09 - House of Blues, Las Vegas, NV
Apr. 11 - The Great Salt Air, Salt Lake City, UT
Apr. 12 - Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO
Apr. 15 - La Zona Rosa, Austin, TX
Apr. 17 - Palladium, Dallas, TX
Apr. 18 - Verizon Wireless Theatre, Houston, TX
Apr. 19 - House of Blues, New Orleans, LA
Apr. 22 - Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, FL
Apr. 23 - House of Blues, Orlando, FL
Apr. 24 - Tremont Music Hall, Charlotte, NC
Apr. 25 - Masquerade, Atlanta, GA
Apr. 26 - Rams Head Live, Baltimore, MD
Apr. 27 - Palladium, Worcester, MA
Apr. 29 - Fillmore Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA
May 01 - Irving Plaza, New York, NY
May 02 - Irving Plaza, New York, NY
May 03 - Metropolis, Montreal, QC CANADA
May 04 - Koolhaus, Toronto, ON CANADA
May 06 - Agora Theatre, Cleveland, OH
May 07 - Emerald Theatre, Detroit, MI
May 08 - House of Blues, Chicago, IL

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