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Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried

My Life as a Revolting Cock

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When hardcore industrial rocker and Ministry supremo Al Jourgensen recruited Chris Connelly as a singer for the Revolting Cocks, the young Scottish lad could hardly have imagined the mayhem that was about to ensue.

As an integral part of Jourgensen's Mad Max-like mutant family of musicians, Connelly joined a drug-crazed travelling circus. Live shows were transformed into an ear-splitting redneck disco from hell, under the influence of a mind-boggling cocktail of every conceivable narcotic, with sleazy strippers and even reports of live cattle on stage.

As well as Jourgensen and all the Wax Trax! crew, the book features cameo appearances by Ogre of Skinny Puppy, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Killing Joke, Jah Wobble, and Cabaret Voltaire.

Despite the unrelenting chaos, both Ministry and the Revolting Cocks have been immensely successful; Connelly appeared on two US gold albums (The Land of Rape and Honey and The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste) and worked as songwriter on the million-plus selling platinum album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs.

Connelly's superbly written, funny, irreverent, and sometimes downright scary memoir is one of the finest portrayals of a man trapped in the eye of a post-punk industrial storm this side of Armageddon.

Chris Connelly was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and now lives in Chicago where he has pursued a successful solo career.

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This is without a shadow of a doubt the best audiobook that I have listened to. Chris Connelly tells all, in a unique style, about his life as a musician and the debauched journey that it led to.
No punches are pulled and things are not either demonised or made overly glamorous either. It is just told as it is, obviously from his own point of view.
Without wanting to be clichéd, the book made me smile, groan, grimace and laugh out loud in equal measure.
I binged the book in an all night listen whilst not being able to sleep in lockdown for Covid-19. Worth every minute.
You don’t need to be a fan of Connelly in any of his guises, whether it be as a member of Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Pigface, Cocksure, Bells into Machines or any other side project. But if you are, why haven’t you read or listened to this?

An essential read / listen

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Chris’ account of life as a member of Ministry, Revolting Cocks and more will be fascinating to anyone who remembers that scene through the late 80s and 90s. His anecdotes are hilarious and listening to him tell them as he narrates this audiobook even more so.

I loved his impressions of some of the well known characters around him, and the occasional moments of him breaking down in laughter. He has a talent with words, making the book enjoyable in itself, but his narration adds so much more. I’m so glad to have listened to this as an audiobook.

Hilarious account of life in the industrial music scene

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Chris Connelly may not be a well-known name in rock circles but he certainly experienced a lot of the thrills, spills and bellyaches.

His disdain for Al Jourgensen is obvious and he deals with it really in a humorous way. I especially liked his piss-taking of bands like Sepultura and obscure European noiseniks.

Connelly's Edinburgh accent is easy on the ears and I'm glad I bought this over the book version.

5 stars easily awarded.

Great destruction of rock'n'roll myths!

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