DIGGINITUP now has five videos from that 1983 San Francisco show up on YouTube. Here goes:

A very young Billy and a undreadlocked baby-faced Puffy along with Wade Worthington and Mike The Man Morris from 1983.
(Cheers to Mike Bolger for alerting to me to this in Comments and to vithovenstyle for posting to the Tube)

Strange how the FNM signature rhythm sound is very much evident here; actually overwhelming the rest of the music.

Actually its Faith No Man from 1982 with Mike Morris on lead vocals. This were uploaded to YouTube but I’ve only stumbled upon them now via Thanks, It Came as a Set. As that blog notes, this has a very Public Image Limited sound and is very much of its time.

These tracks – Quiet in Heaven and Song of Liberty – were released in 1982 as a 7″ single under Faith No Man on Ministry of Propaganda Records.

Here is an All Music Guide review. Sample quote: “Singer Mike Morris is actually really good, using his John Lydon vocals to rant angrily over the solid background supplied by the rest of the band. The lyrics are the typical angry San Francisco punk topics: they hate the government, they hate their girlfriends, and they’re terribly unsatisfied.”

More details here and here.

Well done to all who got tickets for Faith No More’s New York date. We’ve done a little spring cleaning here and belatedly added the US and new Europe tour dates among other things and given the site a splash of green ahead of St. Patrick’s Day.
Back to business and an equally overdue video collection:

FAITH NO MORE IN NEW YORK
Well not exactly but footage of Faith No More tribute act A Small Victory performing in New York

FAITH NO MORE DO CRANBERRIES
Another tenuous St Patrick’s Day connection with Faith No More covering a snippet of the Cranberries best-forgotten Zombie:

LITTLE GIRL COVERS FAITH NO MORE’S EPIC
Complete with a Pattonesque growl and squeal. Aww!

FAITH NO MORE AND THE SCORPIONS AND BO DIDDLEY
Well, Jim Martin and Mike Bordin anyway from the Third Annual International Rock Awards 1991 on Italian TV.

FAITH NO MORE ON CNN 1990
Roddy and Bill interviewing and doing a Billboard chart rundown on Showbiz Today.

RODDY AND MIKE P SAY PROTECT YOUR EARS

LOSTPROPHETS DO THE REAL THING
Welsh rockers Lostprophets have always worn their love for Faith No More on their sleeves and they have added a snippet from The Real Thing to their live act on their current UK tour.

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

As a reward for sticking with me through the reboot and acknowledging that I have still to update the old video files, here is a treat that I stumbled across via Twitter.