- Mike Patton gives a very good interview to new British online publication The Stool Pigeon. No Faith No More news but still entertaining. More on The Stool Pigeon.
- Via Patton Archivo, the whole of Mike Patton – “Luciano Berio: Laborintus II on Vimeo.
- Don’t wave flags at Faith No More concerts.
- Preview of Mondo Cane in Moscow: “In Moscow, the orchestra Globalis is to play with Patton, while the “Trololo Man” Eduard Khil is to appear on stage as a special guest.” Firsa in comments suggests this might have something to do with this.
(via Patton’s Facebook) - Lusty and Faith No More backstage in Finland including this pic of the band checking out this here blog.
- More expert comment and great photos on Mondo Cane in Wroclaw and Milan from Kika’s blog.
- First video of Mike Patton and Mondo Cane in Florence [the Italian city not the English singer] last night.
- Somewhat surreal video from the Milan local government of the pre-gig meeting between Mike and the Mayor of Milan Letizia Moratti [the name may be familair to football fans; as well as being a successful if somewhat right wing politician in her own right, she is the sister-in-law of Massimo Moratti, owner of European champions FC Internazionale Milano].
- (Hat tip alienvisionary on Twitter and Renaud in comments)
- And Mike meets another dignitary after the show, Lusty.
- More Lusty, from her Consequence of Sound interview with Kid Koala, some Lovage news: “The Lovage music is done for the most part but we’re just waiting for Mike and Jennifer to get together and write again.”
- And finally some Faith No More – remember them? – from back in the day. Poland in 1993 to be exact. (Thanks to porcelaine74 on ye olde Twitter for the info).
- (Great intro and I’d kill for one of those robes)
- Another full Faith No More concert on Vimeo: Faith No More at Rock in Rio II in 1991.
- Relive Warfield! No, not that one or even that one or even the one with Chuck. The whole show from 19 August 1992 is now up on Vimeo (thanks to The Holy Filament).
- Lusty’s Faith No More and general Ilosaarirock Festival is up at Consequence of Sound. Extract: “Taking the show at face value, there wasn’t anything particularly different about it when compared to other shows on their reunion tour. No new songs were played, Patton was as utterly insane as ever, Bill Gould, Roddy Bottum, Jon Hudson and Mike Bordin held down the fort with their usual determination and strength. But there was a buzz of sadness and infamy in the air, which came to light as soon as Gould announced that Finland was a fitting place “for our last show.” “Forever,” Patton added dramatically.”
- Onet.pl has a review of last night’s Mondo Cane tour opener in Wroclaw headlined Romantic Mike Patton. The review notes that for the “intimate” show, Patton was joined by seven musicians, a three-person choir and 12 members of the Wroclaw Film Harmony Orchestra.
- Onet also have a gallery from the concert.
Thanks for all the great comments about the site on earlier posts. Don’t worry; whatever happens to the band, we’ll be continuing with the blog.
- Back to the future, or the past to be exact, with the final part in the wonderful KiK Axe exhumed interviews series.
- Lusty gives the lowdown on the last show of the Second Coming Tour.
- Gurtenfestival review brands Patton the “Lucifer of Rock”.
- Effusive review of FNM at Forestglade from leading Austrian radio station FM4. Sample quotes: “Faith No More is a dirty beast…a hot love, which calls itself a whore, and that’s why it is so attractive”. And: “Faith No More covers Jackson, how cool, how incredibly callous and loving at the same time is that?” And: “Then the maniac [Patton] climbed on the amplifier stack and jumped headlong into the drums of Mike “Puffy” Bordin, the coolest drummer in the world, simply because no one can resist a left-hander as a drummer. A gigantic finale of a band that lost itself in the past but thank God once again found each other.”
- Superbly misjudged review of Faith No More at Dour from the New Current blog. Sample quote: “Their show seemed nothing more than former heavy weights rockers wanting to reclaim their youth – think Pamela Anderson trying to run down a Californian Beach now – in their day the guys no doubt had some power. Now all they came across like was a bunch of your dads drinking buddies getting up in the pub, to them they sound good, but reality is another beast all together – this certainly was Faith No More.”
- Patton Mondo Cane Israel preview.
- And a Moscow preview from the Russian news agency Interfax. More Moscow.
- And a Portugal preview.
- And Poland. Lots of media for Mondo Cane.
- Here’s all the Mondo Cane dates from Ipecac.
- Faith No More are next in action, back in Europe, at the Optimus Alive festival in Lisbon on Thursday night/Friday morning. Faith No More 2.0 will be there and live tweeting and blogging on here from 0030 CET on Friday morning.
- It looks like Midlife Crisis will be one of the 80-plus new songs on Rock Band 3 which will be released later this year. Joystiq have a clip of the game’s new trailer and if you look carefully – around the 0:19 mark – you can see Midlife Crisis on the song list.
- Austrian readers can win a an exclusive festival package for the Forestglade festival next weekend – which features Faith No More on Saturday 17 July.
- Get those disturbing but stunning Gary Baseman Faith No More Williamsburg posters on Secret Serpents now. Three colours available.
- Faith No More return to the stage on this Friday 2 July with the first of their two dates at the Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn. What to expect? Well, Bill’s most recent Tweet suggests something special: “We’re planning 1 special song, for 1 performance only in this next leg, though we’re not going to say which show.”
- Meanwhile, Roddy has tweeted details for the 5 July date at the same venue: “Doors 530, James Chance maybe 6 or 630, Neil Hamburger at 7 or 730, FNM at 8.”
- And Philadelphia is getting ready for FNM on Saturday. Preview from the CityPaper.
- As most of you will know, Roddy has now started blogging. Check him out.
- Roddy also previewed a new limited edition t-shirt that will be on sale at the East Coast shows. Looks pretty cool. Can someone pick me up a size L?
- And continuing the Roddy special, Happy Birthday!!
- Poster for 3 July show in Philadelphia revealed via Secret Serpents (on sale 4 July at 10:00 am PST at the Secret Serpents webstore)
- Eagles of Death Metal say nice things about Faith No More: “We just got off of tour in Australia with Faith No More and they are f*****g killer. Mike Patton is a genius. They literally killed every f*****g night.” From a cool Examiner interview.
- Behind the Music: Courtney Love aired on 21 June on VH1 and apparenttly featured an interview with a member of Faith No More, which I am presuming is Roddy. You can – if you are in the US – watch the full episode. If anyone in the US would be so kind as to capture Roddy’s clip(s) and send or upload that would be much appreciated.
- More Roddy. Here’s the pic he tweeted of Imperial Teen in the studio.
- Not sure if this has seen the light of day before but here is Faith No More doing Epic on Arsenio Hall from 1990:
- And we’re back. Hope all is well out there. Been a bit quiet on the FNM front and I’ve been up to my neck with various extracurricular projects and gig-going, so here’s an overdue round-up.
- Mike Patton was back on stage in Amsterdam on Friday when he performed Laborintus II. Arno (tbeest) was there and has posted these videos:
- Vrouwjke has sent me an interview (pdf) she did with Patton about the Laborintus project. (In Dutch)
- The National have more details on Mike’s worth with Alan Moore, out on 5 July. And Wired have some more info here.
- Mike’s latest Mondo Cane interview in Verbicide. Sample quote: “I am so a Beyonce fan. I am not gonna lie. If you wanna go really obvious and ignorant, then I will go with Beyonce.”
- Rather remarkably, there appears to be still tickets available for the Faith No More shows in Brooklyn on 2 July and Philadelphia on 3 July. Get your tickets.
- Apologies for the lack of updates; very busy at the minute but here goes with some overdue news.
Spotted this t-shirt in a bar in Geneva at the weekend. The guy wearing it did not know that these were Faith No More lyrics; he said he had heard them played when he had been watching wrestling on TV.
- Mike P was on the Triple J radio station in Australia this morning. Stubbadub has all the news here. And you can listen to the interview.
- Also in Australia, Mike gave a great interview to Vine magazine last week. Also good to see a journo doing his research and that certainly gets the best out of Mike. Sample quote: “[On Mondo Cane's chart success] That was a real surprise, and I’ve had quite the hearty belly laugh over it. I’m proud. It’s funny, it’s a nice achievement but it also just proves that you never know. And the world is an absurd place.”
- Mike and Mondo Cane will be playing in the UK after all with an appearance at the Big Chill festival on 5-8 August in Herefordshire.
- The poster for the Faith No More’s Williamsburg Waterfront show on 2 July – by Tara McPherson – has been revealed:
As usual, the poster will go on sale at Secret Serpents – from 3 July. - The death of the iconic Dennis Hopper reminded me of this: Mike Patton’s acting debut in Firecracker, which was originally slated to feature the Easy Rider star.
- Mike Patton continues to do the media rounds to promote Mondo Cane and he has given a lengthy and revealing interview with the Cast in Metal podcast on MTV. Mike mentions that he is writing a new Fantomas album, that he has received music for a new Tomahawk release from Duane Denison, that a new Lovage is ready and may sometime see the light of day and that he is seeking collaborators for a new Peeping Tom disc which will sound very different form the debut. From a purely Faith No More perspective Mike again pours cold water on the prospect of an imminent new record but does offer some home by saying that it is “not out of the question”. The interview is well worth 27 minutes and 21 seconds of your time.
- A quirky but interesting examination of Faith No More lyrics as the inner workings of the Joker’s mind from Pop Matters: “In a feat worthy of the Clown Prince of Crime, Faith No More somehow managed to encapsulate the fractured, subversive purpose of Heath Ledger’s Joker 16 years before Ledger’s Joker came into being.”
- Faith No More’s current incarnation on British TV (All hail King Cameron!) in 1997. Not sure if we have shown this before but here goes in any case:
- And once especially for David Cameron for the day that is in it:
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