“With Sympathy” Era Ministry—Live at First Avenue (1983)

With Uncle Al’s appearance in recent years at Lethal Amounts commemorating his “With Sympathy” past—and the corresponding release of the Trax! Box through Cleopatra Records, we thought we would dust off a classic With Sympathy Ministry set from Prince’s First Avenue Nightclub in Minneapolis circa July 20th, 1983. You’ll have to admit, despite faux-British affectations, Al sure was a dapper fellow before he became a full-fledged post-apocalyptic Ayatollah of Rocknrolla…

Setlist: 

1. “Work for Love”
2. “So-So Life”
3. “Revenge”
4. “Effigy (I’m Not An)”
5. “What Is the Reason?”
6. “I’m Falling”
7. “I Wanted to Tell Her”
8. “What He Say”
9. “Here We Go”
10. “Overkill”