Via Patton Archivo, a unique perspective of Faith No More performing From Out of Nowhere at the Sounwave festival in Melbourne, apparently filmed by none other than Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian.

• UPDATE: Chantel has just directed me via Twitter to her very fine photo collection from the 22 February Sydney show on Flickr.
  Here’s Billy:
  
• Faith No More’s one-off cover of Siouxsie And The Banshees Switch at Melbourne’s Festival Hall now in glorious video. (via Patton Archivo)
  
• Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane album cover has been released:
  
• Lots of gossip from Stubbadub after their meeting with the band in Sydney.
• And a good quality clip of A Small Victory from Sydney:
  
  and another version:
  
• (Please play this in Switzerland)
• We’ve added ticket details for Gurten and Dour below.

The Gurtenfestival in Bern has just confirmed that Faith No More will headline their July festival. Faith No More will play on Friday 16 July, alongside The Gossip and Rodrigo y Gabriela. FNM 2.0 is very pleased about this as Bern is only 90 minutes down the motorway; still hoping they play Paleo the following week though.

Get your one-day ticket for just 80 Swiss francs here.

The Dour Festival in Belgium has announced that Faith No More will headline the July festival. The rest of the line-up is mostly electro and dance. More details at Dour Festival.
FNM will play on Thursday 15 July.

Four-day tickets are now on sale and one-day sales start on 15 July. Full details here.
The fact that Faith No More ca headline this electro-orientated festival and also Sonisphere – featuring Megadeth, Rammstein and Slayer – really shows the mass cross-genre appeal of the band.

As we speculated earlier, Faith No More will play the Bilbao BBK Live festival in Spain on Saturday 10 July.

The festival organisers confirmed FNM as headliners this evening, with the Manic Street Preachers and Jet as support. Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains play on the Friday with Rammstein, Slayer and Skunk Anansie on the Friday.
Ticket sales here.

Just when it appeared that Mike Patton’s solo date in Amsterdam would signal the end of the FNM reunion, the band have announced their opening two European festival dates of the summer and promised more to follow.

Indeed, should they follow the often hectic schedule of their 2009 European tour, it seems likely that Faith No More will squeeze in another date on the same weekend as their Optimus Alive and Sonisphere engagements in Portugal in Spain. The Bilbao BBK Live festival, which also features Rammstein from Sonisphere and Pearl Jam from Optimus, looks a good bet. Also on the same weekend are the mammoth and related Oxegen and T in the Park festivals in Ireland as well as the Ruisrock festival in Finland, which FNM headlined last year, and Serbia’s iconic Exit festival. Oxegen has gone somewhat hip-hop this year and the bill looks loaded but more names will be revealed on 8 March. T in the Park has already announced its headliners and is sold out so looks a remote possibility.

With as many as ten major festivals taking place across Europe on some weekends, further summer speculation would be laborious and ill-informed. However, some news to keep an eye out for next week is the announcement of the final headliner for the United Kingdom Sonisphere date. No word of an exact date yet but this week’s announcement came on Tuesday. Iron Maiden and Rammstein are already conformed for the Knebworth two-dayer on Friday 30 July and Saturday 1 August.

A confirmation for that and suddenly a whole summer of FNM again looms appealingly for European fans. What though for the US and north America in general? Three Warfield dates and the Coachella festival have been confirmed so far and there’s not even a sniff of a rumour of anything else as of yet. Some fans have taken the new European dates as a sign that there won’t be any more US shows but there is still plenty of time to fit in more dates before a European jaunt and it must be remembered that the lucrative European festival circuit was more than likely the trigger for the whole reunion in the first place so it is hardly surprising that it is being milked again.

As for a new record, again speculation is all I can offer but it does appear that the band have not even got so far as discussing the prospect in detail as of yet. Whatever the future holds, just over one year after the announcement that Faith No More would reform, the Second Coming adventure continues to enthrall.

Let us know your thoughts below.

And there’s more! The Optimus Alive festival has just confirmed that Faith No More will play at the event in Portugal on 8 July. More details here.
Day tickets on sale here. FNM will be joined on the Thursday bill by Alice in Chains, Phoenix and Kasabian while Pearl Jam highlight the Saturday date. The festival takes place in Oeiras in the greater Lisbon area.

The reunion goes on.  Faith No More will return to Europe in July 2010 when they play the Sonisphere festival in Getafe, Spain (13km south of Madrid). The festival is scheduled for 9 and 10 July and joining FNM will be Rammstein, Megadeth, Alice in Chains, Slayer and many more. No day by day breakdown as yet but tickets will go on sale on 8 March.

There is a string of Sonisphere dates across Europe this summer, many with Metallica headlining. Comparing to the lineup of the Switzerland Sonisphere I’m going to in June, FNM and Rammstein are effectively replacing Metallica.

(Thanks to tbeest for info)

According to the Holland Festival official website, Mike Patton will return to Europe in June for a sole date at the festival. Billed as a “full-length programme centred on Luciano Berio’s masterpiece Laborintus II, Laborintus II: Mike Patton, Luciano Berio” the performance will take place on 18 June at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ.
The website description reads: “Mike Patton is not one to shy away from experiments. The frontman of Faith No More guest stars in a programme featuring Luciano Berio’s 1965 masterpiece Laborintus II, a modern concert chamber opera based on works by Dante, TS Eliot and Ezra Pound. Ictus, the Nederlands Kamerkoor and video-collective Visual Kitchen support Patton and his musical guests. Laborintus II mixes a whole range of musical styles, from dramatic opera to ‘60’s European jazz. After the break Patton will hold an improvisation session with a host of greats from the international jazz scene. The evening is rounded off with a steaming DJ-set inspired by Italian B-movies.” Full details here. You can also order tickets from that link and full ticket details are here.
(Hat tip to Tamara Damians on Twitter)
More on Luciano Berio:
Allmusic
Daily Telegraph obituary
New York Times obituary
Laborintus II summary

Laborintus II part one

A separate Berio Patton favourite

Faith No More wrapped up their Australasian tour in one of Faith No More 2.0’s favourite cities with the final date of the Soundwave festival in Perth. It seemed like they finished on a high with a longer than usual festival set including Ugly in the Morning.

Video:

Set list:
(thanks to Firsa and mouthoftheocean)
Reunited
From Out of Nowhere
Be Aggressive
Caffeine
Evidence
Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Chinese Arithmetic
Last Cup of Sorrow
Ricochet
Easy
Ashes to Ashes
Midlife Crisis
I Started a Joke
Ugly in the Morning
King For a Day
Epic
Just a Man

Encore:
Chariots of Fire>Stripsearch
We Care A Lot
Pristina