Like a mid-20th century funhouse gone mad, Ministry’s official video for the track 'Victims of a Clown' is a relentless hallucinogenic ride through images of creepy clowns roaming circuses where there are no exits, men parading in ghoulish gas masks, psychological messaging, physical reality bending and nightmarish suburbia. 

'Victims of a Clown' was produced and directed by Chris Roth and Steve Roth of The Other House Productions, the same team that created Ministry’s surreal and provocative 'Twilight Zone' video as well as 'I’m Invisible' for Jourgensen’s side project, Surgical Meth Machine. “For the ‘Victims of a Clown’ video, we strived for a drastic stylistic departure from ‘Twilight Zone,” said Chris Roth. “‘This video is a much more raw, down-and-dirty, crunchy graphic art film.”

Filmed in Los Angeles late last year, the entire video was shot exclusively with handheld cameras and the band was lit with extreme rapid flash lighting that limited the final palette of the video to only three colours - black, white and red.  “The end result", Steve Roth added, “is very powerful. Loaded with raw energy and power.”

Ministry will headline a seven date tour, with the dark and atmospheric singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe supporting:

17.07.18 UK Nottingham @ Rock City 

18.07.18 UK Glasgow @ O2 ABC 

20.07.18 UK Manchester @ Albert Hall 

21.07.18 UK London @ The Forum 

23.07.18 UK Belfast @ Limelight 

24.07.18 IRE Dublin @ Tivoli 

25.07.18 UK Bristol @ SWX 

‘Porky Pies’ is the latest track to be cut from Seán McGowan’s fast approaching debut album, Son Of The Smith, which is due out May 11 on Xtra Mile Recordings. ‘Porky Pies’ is a track that sees the young punk poet waxing lyrical about his favourite brand of savoury snack for a big cash pay out, this is not. Instead, pulling up his boot straps on a quest for the truth, Seán’s latest sees him directly confront those who try to pull the wool over our eyes in society.

“Daylight robbery/ mad men on a mugger/ lifetime of monotony/ it’s a fixed lottery/ burdened to bottom feed/ banished to poverty/ worship celebrity?… Nah I don’t think so” - quips Seán as he sifts through the stream of bullshit we’re fed by our media channels everyday and happily regurgitate without a second’s thought.

In an era where “Fake News”, illicit electioneering tactics, and espionage, seem to have become part of the fabric of everyday life, Seán’s frustration with the daily propagation of lies from the upmost order down has perhaps never been more prescient. Standing up for the truth and honour with a song that is as musically deceptive as the subject matter it spears, Seán delivers us another sharp shot of his lyrical prowess in this track loaded with multifarious hooks and cunning key changes aplenty.

‘Son of the Smith’  Album track-listing

Mind The Doors

Cuppa Tea

Romance Ain’t Dead

Skin & Bone

Porkie Pies

Oh My Days

Mind Your Head

Springhill

Local Boy

Auto Pilot

Life Has A Way

Off The Rails

Mind The Gap