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

• Faith No More are again proving pioneers by becoming the first band to broadcast a gig live via Chatroulette during their Australian tour. IT Wire have picked up on the story. Sample quote: “There were a number interesting characters that popped up last night, most notably a man and his son who bobbed along to the music and did devil horns with their hands. No-one else seemed to appreciate the effort, most users disconnected within 5 seconds when they saw a sea of 1000 raised fists and bright lights, instead of someone to talk to. There were young girls, half naked guys, and a grandpa playing guitar.”
• And here is some video courtesy of Male Practice in comments:
  
• Photo proof from Stacey in comments:
  
• The band have sent their best wishes to their many, many fans in Chile after the devastating earthquake this weekend, with Roddy tweeting “our hearts and well wishes go out to our special friends in Chile. love & support from FNM” and Bill adding: “On behalf of FNM we would like to dedicate this tweet to all of our friends in Chile.” Faith No More 2.0 also sends best wishes to our many readers in Chile and hope you are safe and sound. A big shout to our friends Patton Archivo and mikepatton.cl.
• Reviews are finally starting to appear from the mainstream media in Australia. Here’s a review of one of their Festival Hall shows.
• This Town Ain’t Big Enough…in Sydney:
  
• This Guy’s in Love with You at the first Melbourne date:
  

Faith No More played their penultimate Australian date in Adelaide on 27 February. Local news site Adelaide Now were full of praise in a pun-tastic review. Sample quote: “While the classics like Midlife Crisis and Epic got an airing, the really impressive songs were those that allowed Patton to show off his vocal range – in particular the early classic Chinese Arithmetic, Stripsearch and a relentlessly brutal Gentle Art of Making Enemies.”

Photos:
Some here on Flickr and two pics in a overall festival gallery from Adelaide Now.

Set list:

1. Reunited
2. Land of Sunshine
3. Be Aggressive
4. Evidence
5. Surprise! You’re Dead!
6. Chinese Arithmetic
7. Last Cup of Sorrow
8. Cuckoo for Caca
9. Easy
10. Ashes to Ashes
11. Midlife Crisis (Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke interlude)
12. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
13. King For A Day
14. Epic
15. Just a Man
16. Chariots Of Fire/Stripsearch
17. We Care a Lot

The scandal that one but Faith No More 2.0 is calling Mickeygate continues to rumble on. A new photo sent to be by the_wretched1 on Twitter suggests that a) little Mike is bigger than the previous photo suggested and b) he may not have been showing his junk after all but a dildo or prop.
After all, Patton has previous in the prop and prosthetic penis stakes. He claimed to have used a fake in 2002 when he was accused of peeing on a security guard at a Tomahawk show at London’s Astoria although now it seems that the statement was a joke.

Faith No More have not long finished their second show in Mebourne, Here is the set list, courtesy of setlist.fm. You may note that it contains such rareish gems as Small Victory, Edge of the World and Mark Bowen and a as yet unidentified one-time only cover.
Mike Patton also joked about Twitter apparently, perhaps piqued that his member has been circulating round the Twittersphere over the past few days.
There are already some cracking photos up on Flickr. None more so than those from Amped photography.

More details as we have them.

NOT FOR MINORS OR THOSE OF A SENSITIVE DISPOSITION

Ladies, some gents and fan-boys, your darkest, dearest wishes have been granted. Below, via tanithskye on Twitter, is Mike Patton getting his penis out onstage at the Soundwave festival in Brisbane last weekend. Enjoy or whatever.
More details and pics at Stubbadub.

• UPDATE: Bit late with his one but here’s Mike Patton with Tom Jone and tour manager Tim Moss in New Zealand.
  
• UPDATE: Sydney poster now on sale at Secret Serpents.
• The Pinkpop Festival in Holland announced its lineup today and Faith No More, despite being strongly rumoured to be appearing at the Dutch festival, were conspicuous by their absence. However, all hope is not lost as the May festival still has ten big names to reveal. And Dutch broadcaster RTL is still suggesting that Faith No More may yet be added to the bill.
• Finally some good video of Faith No More performing A Small Victory.
  
• And A little Sir Duke during Midlife Crisis
  
• An awesome shot from news.com.au of Faith No More at Soundwave Sydney
  
• And there are some great shots on Flickr too:
  
• Mike Patton icon of rock, according to this excellent piece from Consequence of Sound. Sample quote: “So, why is Patton an Icon of Rock? Two main reasons: he is indeed a phenomenal vocalist, but he is also the epitome of the anti-rock star. According to Faith No More band mate Roddy Bottum, Patton’s “only drug is caffeine”. He loathes the overzealous and greedy lifestyles of more famous rock “icons”.”
• According to Patton Archivio, a Mike Patton interview will soon be appearing at the Rock Midgets site. We’ll post more details when we have them.
• Long-term fansite mikepatton.de is back up and running and looking good.

Thanks to the lucky guys at Stubbadub, who we now hope are enjoying nude mud wrestling back stage with the band, here is the Faith No More set list from their side show at Hordern Pavilion in Sydney. We’ll add photos and video and reviews (if there are any – why are you ignoring Faith No More and even Soundwave Aussie media?) when we have them.

Video:

Set list:

1. Midnight Cowboy
2. The Real Thing
3. Land of Sunshine
4. Caffeine
5. Evidence
6. Gentle Art of Making Enemies
7. Last Cup of Sorrow
8. Ricochet
9. Easy
10. Midlife Crisis
11. Epic
12. I Started a Joke
13. Surprise You’re Dead
14. Small Victory
15. Ashes to Ashes
16. Just a Man
17. Edge of the World
18. Digging the Grave
19. Introduce Yourself
20. This Town ain’t big enough for the both us

Faith No More have just finished their second Soundwave date in Sydney and the reaction on Twitter at least has been ecstatic. Stubbadub were there so expect a full review from them soon, and via them here is the set list below.
Here’s a pic posted by FasterLouder on Twitter.

Photos:
FasterLouder now a great gallery up. Skip to page 19 to see Faith No More. Check out Roddy’s new soupstrainer below.

Set list:

1. Reunited
2. Land of Sunshine
3. Be Aggressive
4. Evidence
5. Surprise You’re dead
6. Poker Face/ Chinese Arithmetic
7. Last Cup of Sorrow
8. Cuckoo for Caca
9. Easy
10. Ashes to Ashes
11. Midlife Crisis  feat. Popcorn
12. Gentle Art of Making Enemies
13. King for a Day
14. Epic
15. Just a Man
16. Chariots of Fire/Stripsearch
17. We Care a Lot

First reports are filtering in from Faith No More’s opening Soundwave gig in Brisbane. Apparently, Mike P got what Aussies refer to as his “dangle” out and the band played a cover of Sparks’ This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us.

Roddy tweeted: RODDYBOTTUM: hey brisbane, thanks for the evening. did you like the sparks song? we hadn’t done it in ages.

Photos:

There are loads on Flicker and a small gallery at the official Soundwave site.

Set list:
(updated and this like the original version was sourced from setlist.fm)

1. Reunited
2. From Out of Nowhere
3. Caffeine
4. Evidence
5. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
6. Chinese Arithmetic/Poker Face
7. Last Cup of Sorrow
8. Cuckoo for Caca
9. Easy
10. Ashes to Ashes
11. Midlife Crisis
12. Surprise! You’re Dead!
13. King For A Day
14. I Started a Joke
15. Epic
16. Just A Man
17. Chariots Of Fire/Stripsearch
18. This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us