Ministry with Gary Numan at Hard Rock Biloxi March 27

Wondered the same thing. Found a few recent live clips online. Al and company seem to still be getting around well and sound good.

Toronto: Sept, 2023

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Al lip syncs live now.

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Do you mean full lip sync or singing along with backing tracks? Because the latter has become pretty normalized now. And the other musicians still sound like the real thing.

Full lip syncs. The band is probably real. They have played New Orleans earlier this year and last year and I didn't bother going to either show.

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How good are they still?

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Depends. If you like Paul Barker era, then you won't like this. Their records were fun a good for a little while post Paul, but their schtick became very stale. My issue is Al's refusal to play the Barker era songs live. Their shows are everything from Animositi to new releases followed by an encore with Thieves and So What.

The last show I went to was back around 2010ish when they billed it as a Full Catalogue tour of them playing all the old stuff. I was greated with all new stuff followed by an encore of Thieves and So What plus a cover of a ZZ Top song (which was pimp AF!). Was it a good show? Sure, but it's not what they promised or what I wanted to see. I haven't been to see them since as Al uses Ministry and the tours as a money grab. Once upon a time this was my favorite band. It's a fake shell now.

FYI, tix are now going for “2 for 1.”

I was just looking at setlists for the last couple of shows - it's about half classics, half new stuff. They did all the old songs you would expect. Stigmata, So What, Thieves, N.W.O., Just One Fix, Jesus Built My Hotrod, Burning Inside

Great show tonight.

Although the crowd was quite sparse, Uncle Al seemed to be loving life and very appreciative of the Biloxi crowd--promising that he'd "be back." He seemed more put together than I'm used to seeing him on stage and showed some additional feistiness by having an audience member in the balcony kicked out for getting on his nerves some kind of way ("He looks like he's fricking suffering from early-onset dementia or something.") Paul D'Amour was on bass. Pepper Keenan appeared onstage to help sing "Goddamn White Trash," which he evidently helped write. I was kind of surprised that Ministry's newer songs held their own live.

Gary Numan and his band of alien ectomorphs were just fricking... weird. All of his songs sounded the same, with a decidedly '90s bend, and they overstayed their welcome. Numan's guitarist and bassist re-appeared again onstage at the end of the show just to dance to "Jesus Built My Hotrod." (?!)

All in all, it was a fun night reliving the great Ministry classics in what turned out to be a relative intimate setting as it was easy to get right up in front of the stage.