Chris Connelly (musician)

Chris Connelly (born 11 November 1964) is a Scottish musician and author.^[3] He is notable for his industrial music work of the late 1980s and early 1990s, particularly his involvement with the Revolting Cocks and Ministry.

Connelly was born in Bruntsfield, Scotland to Michael and Sadie (née King) Connelly near the city centre of Edinburgh. Connelly's father died in a swimming accident early in his life,^[4] causing Chris to focus on artistic interests outside the home to help fill the void. Connelly's Scottish ancestry includes Irish descent through the Connellys and Murphys, who originally came from Ireland to Scotland. His mother's side, the Kings and the McCullochs, were from the Highlands and migrated to Glasgow in search of work.^[5]

Connelly began his music career in 1980 with the formation of Fini Tribe.^[6] Through subsequent years he fronted or was heavily involved with numerous notable industrial, dance, and new wave acts. In 2008, Connelly published a memoir of his early years in the music industry, Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible, and Fried: My Life As A Revolting Cock (ISBN 0946719950). It describes his professional debut in Finitribe, meeting Al Jourgensen in London, his involvement with the Revolting Cocks, Ministry, PTP, Acid Horse, Front Line Assembly, Murder, Inc., and Pigface, and the development of his solo career.

In 2013, he started two more industrial projects: Cocksure, with Jason C. Novak (Czar, Acumen Nation, and DJ? Acucrack), and Bells into Machines, with Paul Barker (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, and Lard), as well as the resurrection of the Cocks sans Al Jourgensen and with Richard 23 of Front 242 in 2016.

Connelly is now based in Chicago and works at a record store in Wicker Park.^[7]

• Acid Horse
• Barker + Connelly : Luxapan
• Bells Into Machines
• Cocksure
• The Damage Manual
• Everyoned
• The Final Cut
• Finitribe
• The High Confessions
• The Joy Thieves
• KMFDM
• The Love Interest
• Malekko
• Ministry
• Murder, Inc.
• Pigface
• PTP
• Revolting Cocks
• Sevendials
• Sons of the Silent Age (David Bowie tribute band)^[8]

1983

• Cure for Madness - Fini Tribe
• Bye Bye to the October Sky - Fini Tribe

1984

• Cathedral - Fini Tribe
• Curling Theme - Fini Tribe
• Backwards and Forwards we Lean - Fini Tribe

1985

• Goose Duplicates - Fini Tribe
• An Evening with Clavichords - Fini Tribe
• We're Interested - Fini Tribe
• Splash Care - Fini Tribe

1986

• De Testimony - Fini Tribe
• Make It Internal - Fini Tribe

1987

• I want More - Fini Tribe
• Idiot Strength - Fini Tribe
• Stick - Revolting Cocks

1988

• Cattle Grind - Revolting Cocks
• In the Neck - Revolting Cocks
• TV Mind (remix) - Revolting Cocks
• You often Forget - Revolting Cocks

1989

• So What - Ministry
• Never Believe - Ministry
• Cannibal Song - Ministry
• Stainless Steel Providers - Revolting Cocks
• (Let's get) Physical - Revolting Cocks
• No Name, No Slogan - Acid Horse
• Rubber Glove Seduction - PTP

1990

• Smacktime - Die Warzau
• Can't sit Still - Revolting Cocks
• Something Wonderful - Revolting Cocks
• At the Top - Revolting Cocks
• The Image of Red - Pigface
• Little Sisters (remix) - Pigface
• I told You not to Stop (In Tight Connelly Mix) - Final Cut

1991

• Point Blank - Pigface
• Public Image - Revolting Cocks
• Careering - Pigface
• Flowers of Romance - Pigface
• Blood and Sand - Pigface
• Weightless - Pigface
• Murder Inc. - Murder, Inc.
• Mania - Murder, Inc.

1992

• I can Do no Wrong - Pigface
• Ten Ground and Down - Pigface
• 2000 Light Years from Home - F/i
• Mrs. Whiskey Name - Murder, Inc.
• Red Black - Murder, Inc.
• Supergrass - Murder, Inc.
• Primal Understanding - Final Cut
• Tranquilized - Final Cut
• Fear - Final Cut
• Trash - CC
• TV II - Ministry

1993

• Bedazzled - The Love Interest
• Desperado - Chris Connelly Band
• Hole in the Wall - Murder, Inc.
• Uninvited Guest - Murder, Inc.
• Gambit - Murder, Inc.
• Sergio - Revolting Cocks
• Dirt - Revolting Cocks
• Creep - Revolting Cocks
• Butcher Flower's Woman - Revolting Cocks

1994

• Mr. Lucky - Revolting Cocks
• The Rockabye - Revolting Cocks
• Crackin' Up - Revolting Cocks
• Da Ya think I'm Sexy? - Revolting Cocks
• Last of the Urgents - Murder, Inc.
• Motion Sickness - Murder, Inc.
• ' Songs for Swingin' Junkies ' - CC with William Tucker

1995

• Don't bring Harry - The Swingin' Junkies
• Eleanor Rigby - The Swingin' Junkies
• Walk on By - The Swingin' Junkies
• Search and Destroy - The Swingin' Junkies
• Lucky Jim - The Swingin' Junkies
• Cracked Actor - CC & the Shipwreck Band

1996

• Ikons - KMFDM
• Rules - KMFDM
• Craze - KMFDM
• Blame - KMFDM
• Nothing at All - Final Cut
• Sign of the Cross - Catherine
• A Mutual Friend - CC

1999

• Open Mouth - Bill Rieflin
• Box - Chainsuck
• Scissor Quickstep - The Damage Manual
• Sunset Gun - The Damage Manual
• Damage Addict - The Damage Manual
• Blame and Demand - The Damage Manual
• Leave the Ground - The Damage Manual

2000

• King Mob - The Damage Manual
• Ignore the Noise - The Damage Manual
• Age of Urges - The Damage Manual
• Top Ten Severed - The Damage Manual
• The Peepshow Ghosts - The Damage Manual
• Largo - CC with Bill Rieflin
• Sea Song - CC with Bill Rieflin
• Close Watch - CC with Bill Rieflin

2001

• Stateless - The Damage Manual
• Expand - The Damage Manual
• Broadcasting - The Damage Manual
• Moonlight feels Right - The Bells
• Tears for Reep Daggle - Plastic Crimewave

2002

• Saliva Bead - CC
• All Fours - Fini Tribe
• Me and my Shadow - Fini Tribe
• Paperself - Fini Tribe
• Doomsday - VooDou
• No Man's Land - with Bill Rieflin
• Hard Hearted Alice - CC
• Niddrie Street Tape Loop Experiment - CC with Andy McGregor

2003

• Miss Sway Action - Pigface
• Insect/Suspect - Pigface
• King of Negativity - Pigface
• Friends of Mine - Everyoned
• Low End Flight - Everyoned
• You wear It like Smoke - Everyoned

2004

• Where are They Now? - CC
• Knife Audition - Everyoned
• Curtains - Everyoned
• Glass shall Wake - Everyoned
• First to Know - Everyoned
• Dancer's Legs - Everyoned
• Quiet Life - The Damage Manual
• South Pole Fighters - The Damage Manual

2005

• Limited Edition - The Damage Manual
• Revenge Fiction - The Damage Manual
• I am War Again - The Damage Manual
• Memories - The Damage Manual
• Driven Menace - The Damage Manual
• No Act of Grace - The Damage Manual
• Subtraction - Jarboe
• Don't make Me Go - CC

2006

• Laugh Track - The Damage Manual
• Mad Dialect - The Damage Manual
• Fire and Wine - CC
• Jubbergait Nurse - CC
• Ordinary Things - Ahab Rex
• While the Saints Cry - Ahab Rex
• Wife - Ahab Rex

2007

• Looking for a River - CC

2009

• ' Lost Episodes ' - CC
• Wide-Eyed and Legless - CC
• Electric Knives Club - Pigface
• Bodysnatchers - History of Violence

2010

• Destroy the Light - Circle of Animals
• Burning Inside - Plague Bringer
• Mistaken for Cops - The High Confessions
• Along came the Dogs - The High Confessions
• The Listener - The High Confessions
• Dead Tenements - The High Confessions
• Chlorine and Crystal - The High Confessions

2011

• I thought it was Snow, Instead it was Flies - The High Confessions
• British Drug Lords - CC

2012

• Heavy Water - Paul Barker
• Evangelical Sound Barrier - Paul Barker
• The Eternal - Nachtmystium
• The Phantoms of Purgatory Souls - Phantom Plastics
• ' The Collapse of Ether ' - CC

2014

• ' TVMALSV ' - Cocksure
• Black is the Colour - Human Greed
• Patricia - Mushroom's Patience
• Klusterfuck Kulture - Cocksure
• The Craighouse Dogs - Blockader
• Disfigure the Giving - Blockader
• Leave All your Troubles Behind - Blockader
• Ghosts of an unattended Hanging - Blockader
• Image of Red cut in Half - Blockader

2015

• ' Corporate Sting ' - Cocksure
• Ghosts in Gaslight - Phantom Plastics (with Michael Esposito)
• The Visit - with Michael Esposito
• Hurry - with Michael Esposito
• Behaviour - with Michael Esposito
• Purgatory - with Michael Esposito
• ' New Town Nocturnes ' - CC with Michael Begg

2016

• Sound of Silence - Classical Blast
• Heretic Hypocrite - Cocksure
• Assault on Cocksure 13 - Cocksure
• The Nurses of Cocksure Island - Cocksure
• The Last Renoir (A Fiction) - CC
• Wretched little Deity - Bells into Machines
• Your Crime Scene-My Career - Bells into Machines

2017

• The Whisper in Me - Malekko
• Fate won't Conduct - Malekko
• I'm slowly Breathing, Listen - Malekko
• Cadence and Landscape - Malekko
• Last to Fall, Repeat, Fall - Malekko
• Ordinary Fascist - Bells into Machines

2018

• ' Be Rich ' - Cocksure
• Missions - Bells into Machines
• Sweet Life in Soaring Light - Bells into Machines
• FILMS - Bells into Machines
• ATF Shadow - Bells into Machines
• Video of Slaughter - Bells into Machines
• Machine Gun Odessa - Bells into Machines

2019

• Saliva Beach (Death It to Love) - CC
• Spitting Wind - Front Line Assembly
• Your Heart in real Time - Primitive Race
• This will kill That - The Joy Thieves
• I'll give You Shape - Black Needle Noise
• Here comes the Rain - Death Valley High
• Waiting for Clouds - Morley & Friends

2020

• ' Operation C.O.C.K.S.U.R.E. ' - Cocksure
• Scarlet Slip - Gasoline Invertebrate
• The Badlander - The Joy Thieves
• One of my Turns - The Joy Thieves
• Mission Accomplished - Marc Heal
• How Long - MGT
• Covert - MGT
• Death Sky - Nukes
• Kites - CC

2021

• ' American Parasite ' - The Joy Thieves
• Show Me your Spine - Luxapan
• Desolate District - Sine
• Genocide Love Song - The Joy Thieves
• Nemesis - The Joy Thieves
• Seed and Star - Jennifer Gallo
• Chicken Shit - Chris Connelly Band
• Fucking Up - Chris Connelly Band

2022

• Property - The Joy Thieves
• The Unknowing Muse - Sapphira Vee
• Doctor Seraphim - Kooper Kain
• Deaf Blood - The Derision Cult
• Largo's Prayer - CC
• Come Together - Lifeline International
• The Opium Glove Puppet - CC
• Abandoned Premonition - CC
• Harbour Days II - CC

2023

• Shelta's Lament - CC
• Cat Black (The Wizard's Hat) - The Liquid Gang
• Miss X - Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre
• Elizabeth's Rock - CC
• The Skye Boat Song - CC
• Purity is Dead - CC
• Come back early or Never Come - CC

2024

• Courtesy of the USA - Cringe Fantasy
• Obsession - Sevendials
• Zodiac Morals - Sevendials
• Whispering Wand - Sevendials
• Wolves - Sevendials
• Number One Song in Heaven - Sevendials

2025

• Welcome Home - Trade Secrets
• The Constant - Fini Tribe
• Restless - Fini Tribe
• Throttlehearts - Fini Tribe
• Weathervayne Days - Sevendials
• Too High to Live - Sevendials
• Knife without Asking - Sevendials
• Corrupted Verse - Sevendials
• Before you make your Distance - Sevendials
• Heathen Earth - CC plays TG
• Mother Spunk - CC plays TG

2026

• Needles on the Tundra (remix) - Moiii
• Blue Jean - Sons of the Silent Age
• Let's Dance - Sons of the Silent Age

• Whiplash Boychild (1991)
• Phenobarb Bambalam (1992)
• Shipwreck (1994)
• Songs for Swinging Junkies (with William Tucker) (1994)
• The Ultimate Seaside Companion (with The Bells) (1997)
• Blonde Exodus (with The Bells) (2001)
• Largo (with Bill Rieflin) (2000)
• Private Education (2002)
• Initials C.C.- Out-Takes, Rarities and Personal Favourites 1982-2002 Vol. 1 (2002)
• Night of Your Life (2004)
• Lounge Ax, Bottle, Elsewhere - '94/'01 (Initials C.C. Vol. 2) (2005)
• Box Set (2006)
• The Episodes (2007)
• Forgiveness & Exile (2008)
• Pentland Firth Howl (2009)
• How This Ends (2010)
• Artificial Madness (2011)^[9]
• Day of Knowledge (2012)
• The Collapse of Ether (2012)
• Blockader: Recordings 83-88 (2014)
• Decibels From Heart (2015)
• New Town Nocturnes (with Michael Begg) (2016)
• Art + Gender (2017)
• Further Days (2017)
• The Tide stripped Bare (2018)
• Bloodhounds (2018)
• Death It to Love (2019)
• Sleeping Partner (2019)
• Graveyard Sex (2020)
• The Birthday Poems (2021)
• Firth Rebirth (2021)
• Abandoned Premonitions (2022)
• LARGO 22 (2022)
• Eulogy to Christa: A Tribute to the Music and Mystique of Nico (2022)
• SHELTA (2023)
• The Lives and Loves of the Serial Homesick, Vol. 1 (2024)
• White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle) (2025)

• Front Line Assembly – Wake Up the Coma (2019)
• Paul Barker – Fix This!!! (2012)
• Jarboe – The Men Album (2005)
• Catherine – Hot Saki & Bedtime Stories (1996)
• Die Warzau - Vinyl88 (2008)

• "Desperado" on Welcome to Our Nightmare: a Tribute to Alice Cooper (1993)
• "A Mutual Friend" on Whore: Various Artists Play Wire (1996)
• "Hard Hearted Alice" on Mutations – A Tribute To Alice Cooper (2002)
• "What's Left But Solid Gold?" on ...It Just Is (2005)
• "Don't Make Me Go" on Cash From Chaos – A Tribute to the Man in Black, Johnny Cash (2005)
• "Looking for a River" on Whispers From the Offing (A Tribute to Kevin Coyne) (2007)

• Confessions of the Highest Bidder: Poems and Songwords, 1982-1996 (1999) KB Publishing
• Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried (2007) SAF Publishing^[10]
• Ed Royal (2010) Shipwrecked Industries
• The Heart has to Ache before it Learns to Beat (2020) Shipwrecked Industries ISBN: 978-0-9664065-7-3

• New Town Nocturnes (2016) a collaboration with Michael Begg^[11]

• The official Chris Connelly home page
• Interview on Deviant Nation Archived 7 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine