After all the angst over the European tour, it seems that Faith No More do after all have plans for more US shows. Both Bill Gould and Roddy Bottum have tweeted that they will play the Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn on 5 July.
Roddy’s tweet:
RODDYBOTTUM FNM play NY!!!! Williamsburg Waterfront, Brooklyn, July 5! special presale March 16/10amET, we’ll tweet a special password that morning.

Bill has clarified that the pre-sale will be on 16 March at 10am ET.

The New York Times is already blogging the story and they have general ticket sales details: “Tickets for the concert, which is being held as a benefit for the Open Space Alliance, will go on sale at noon on March 19 at ticketmaster.com and the Nokia Theatre Times Square box office.”

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.

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.

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)

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

(Via Patton Archivo) An extensive interview with Faith No More’s Mike Patton was published on Rockmidgets.com today. The piece focuses largely on video gaming with a little mention of a Mondo Cane release in May but none of FNM. Read the full interview here.

• 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: