- Bit of a Mike Patton and the US-bound Mondo Cane special today.
First up, Mondo Cane play England’s Big Chill festival this weekend. It is an early start at 6.30pm tonight with a seemingly shortened running time of 45 minutes. Big Chill on Twitter. - Mike plays Yoshi’s Jazz Club in San Francisco on Thursday 26 August as part of the John Zorn: Bay Area Connection event. He will be performing along with Zorn and Fred Frith.
- Further review of Mondo Cane in Israel from one of the country’s leading papers Haaretz.
- More news on Mike, Kid Koala and The Slew project from Spinner.
- A French-language reconsideration of Faith No More’s first two albums from Radio Metal.
- Remember when MTV played music and interviews with artists? Mike on masturbation, Billy nose-picking, Roddy in an orange t-shirt and shorts; it must be Faith No More Hanging’ with MTV from around 1992.
(via the artist formerly known as alien visionary on Twitter)
- Faith No More Epic rehearsal from 1990.
- 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.
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.
- We’re a few days late to this but its been busy. Faith No More broke up on 20 April 1998, 12 years ago this week. Here are some of the press obituaries of the time:
- New York Times: “Faith No More, the 15-year-old San Francisco rock band known for its energetic mix of punk, jazz, heavy metal, samba, polka and easy-listening, has broken up. The group’s announcement this week said the decision was mutual and, in typical band fashion, ended with a joke: ”There will be no pointing of fingers, no naming of names, other than stating, for the record, that Puffy started it.”
- Rolling Stone (no link as they’ve gone all pay wall): “During Faith No More’s fifteen-year run, they spent nearly as much time diffusing break-up rumors as they did making music. As of today, they no longer have to worry about either. The band officially announced its break-up eleven months after the release of its sixth album.”
- MTV: “Faith No More has officially called it quits. Earlier this month, the band had played a handful of overseas concerts in Spain and Portugal, a move that served to at least temporarily set their fans’ minds at ease in light of a never-ending sea of rumors, but their relief was short lived.”
- Not sure if I posted this previously but even if I have it is worth a second look. It is a feature from MTV in 1995 and shows interviews with the band and footage from the Evidence video shoot.
The second part kicks off with Bill promoting Andy‘s original Caca Volante website and mailing list complete with nostalgic mentions of Mosaic and Netscape. It also includes their appearance on John Stewart’s show.
- Commenter Lusty has got the second part of her Warfield post up on her Anywhere but here blog. Billy, bed bugs, Bungle tshirts and bed bugs right this way.
- Patton Archivo unearthed and tweeted this gem earlier today. I grew up on Zig and Zag, the extra-terrestrial aliens, on Irish TV in the late 80s and early 90s and here they are covering Epic in their Two Elvises guise in 1994.
- Still no word of a summer UK date on this second Second Coming European tour but UK fans can get their FNM fix from new tribute act Faith No Man. Their next date is in the Midlands on 21 May. Check out their tour dates and covers here.
- Mondo Cane will be released in the UK on 31 May, according to Rock-a-Rolla. (Via Patton Archivo)
- Massive Attack’s new album is getting lots of press Down Under with Robert Del Naja (3D) seemingly doing a the interview junket trail. He reveals in The Age that some Mike Patton material may make an appearance in May. Sample quote: “Excitingly for fans, a new EP of material is ready and will drop in May. ”We did some stuff with Mike Patton [Faith No More],” 3D says. ”Also Guy Garvey and more great stuff with Damon.” Meanwhile, The Herald Sun reports that “there are also three songs recorded with Faith No More singer Mike Patton” with Del Naja stating: “We’re looking for an opportunity to finish those. Musically, they’re quite mad. We didn’t have the time to take the music to the right place, I’d like to re-look at all that.”
- Meanwhile, Mike Patton will be back in New York in 2011. Broadway World reveals that he will feature in a John Zorn and Friends concert on 30 March 2011: “Avant-garde innovators Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Mike Patton, Marc Ribot, Dave Douglas and Uri Caine perform with experimental music master John Zorn in a series of mind-bending sonic compositions and no-holds-barred improvisations.” Playbill has the ticket details:NYCO season subscriptions are currently on sale. Single tickets will begin sale Sept. 7. Visit NYCOpera, or phone (212) 496-0600.
- Following matthius23′s suggestion in the comments of the Scott Ian piece, there was actually an Anthrax/Faith No More comic book, published in 1991. Its available on Amazon.
- 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:
- Mike Patton sports an Argentina shirt adorned with his name on stage in Buenos Aires.
Patton's Maradona homage (Photo (c) the_unintended on Flickr) - flickr.com/photos/the_unintended/
- Some pro-shot video of the same concert (snippets of Caffeine, Evidence, Easy and Epic)
Warning: video ID not specified! - Interesting take on Faith No More’s Pepsi Music show in Buenos Aires.
- La Rocka reports that Pato Machete will support Faith No More on their Monterrey, Mexico date on 11 November. More Pato here.
- Norwegian band Trail of Tears cover of Caffeine
Warning: video ID not specified! - Superb photo gallery of Sepultura and Faith No More in Santiago from La Tercera. (via mikepatton.cl)
- And a brilliant gallery from noize.com of the Porto Alegre show. (via Clauspupp)
- Regular commenter, writer and BC blogger Wanderlusting does a Mike Patton-inspired fashion shoot and Patton style critique on her Anywhere but here blog.
Good video of FNM performing Evidence in Club Cuidad plus a positive review and an explanation that the various bands at the festival limited the live feed to five songs. All here at 10musica.com.
Chilean channel Via X will broadcast coverage of Faith No More’s Santiago concert(s) this Saturday 7 November at 23.00 local time. Further broadcasts on 8, 9 and 10 November. All the details at Via X.
FNM play Porto Alegre in Brazil tonight. Preview from the local Zero Hora newspaper here.
The band’s tongue-in-cheek tour rider has also resurfaced. (Thanks ClausPupp for the tips)
Image rider
FNM missed out to Iron Maiden in the Best Band category at the Classic Rock awards last night.
- The mikepatton.cl has all the news on the build-up to Faith No More’s Santiago dates tonight and tomorrow. They even have this impromptu interview with Roddy:
Warning: video ID not specified! - La Tercera also have a report on FNM’s arrival in the country.
- As stubbadub have been Tweeting, Faith No More’s sidewave tickets sold out in seven minutes.
- Faith No More in Auckland ticket details here at Ticketmaster.
- And for Christchurch here at Ticketek.
- Final few days to cast your vote for FNM as Band of the Year at the Classic Rock awards.
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