We announced this a while back but the date and time of the free Mondo Cane Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival show in San Francisco has now been confirmed. According to the Ipecac website, “Mondo Cane is currently scheduled to play at 5:20 pm on Sunday October 3rd on the Star stage right after Elvis Costello. Don’t miss this very special event. You are all on the guest list!!!!! Bring a picnic.”
Trevor Dunn (ex-Mr Bungle) recalls a Faith No More show with Mike Patton:
Felipe Arratia, a reporter for Chilean radio station Sonar FM, is trailing an interview with Mike Bordin:
Tweet: “50 minutos al teléfono con el legendario Mike Bordin de Faith No More. Una de las mejores entrevistas de mi vida.”VIENEN GRANDES NOTICIAS
In another Tweet, Felipe responded to a question about a new album: “No, man. He told me they did some jam sessions and came with some ideas together. But no new album plans on the horizon.”
Bill Gould has launched a new Twitter account for his Koolarrow record label. Go follow. Opening tweets:
Upgrade of koolarrow.com in progress…first release of year: Flattbush “Otomatik Attak!” Sept. 28. Blistering punk rock Tagalog power.
Thanks for following!! Still getting everything together but hopefully will get a little action going on this place very soon.
Finally some Mondo Cane at the Big Chill video has dropped.
(Thanks to Firsa in comments)
The Clap cover We Care a Lot in trademark Bliptronic style.
More on Mike Patton being a fan of the San Jose Sharks [that's hockey - hockey on ice even - apparently] from a Sharks site. Seemingly, he was once slated to sing the national anthem before a game. That’s something I’d like to see and hear. Sharks defenseman [that's defender to those of us who speak non-American sports English] Dan Boyle is a big FNM fan. Boyle told the official Sharks site: “They’re basically my favorite band. They’ve been broken up for 14 years and just got back together for a summer tour and were playing a gig in San Francisco a couple days before the Colorado series. To make a long story short, Tom Holy (Sharks media relations manager) got a hold of their manager and they pretty much set me up backstage. I met everybody and since have become good friends with a couple of guys. I got them down to a couple (play-off) games. They came and saw one Colorado game and I think they saw one Chicago game. The lead singer was supposed to sing the national anthem at one of the Chicago games, but something came up at the last minute with him. But he told me he’s gonna do one next year.”
[Hope you can pay us a visit here Dan to check out the latest FNM news and good luck in your next game - hope you hit a few slam dunk strikes.]
Faith No More perform Easy on Australian TV in May 1993.
Mike Patton wound up his Mondo Cane tour at the weekend with two festival dates, the Big Chill in England and
Sudoeste in Portugal. No reports or video from the Big Chill has surfaced yet but here’s some pro-shot video from SIC Radical from the Portugal date. (thanks to Firsa)
Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane will play at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in his native San Francisco on the weekend of 1, 2 and 3 October. More details.
(Via Lusty on Twitter and Mike Bolger in Comments)
The latest date of the Mondo Cane tour took Mike Patton back to Israel for his sixth performance in various guises in the country. And the gig at the Ra’anana Park Ampithreatre once more garnered rave reviews.
The NRG (Maariv) website reported that: “It seems that no matter what language he uses, what size location he chooses to appear in or what musical genre he chooses to abuse and stretch the limits of, his message comes through loud and clear – the man is a musical phenomenon.” NRG also featured a video of Patton speaking days before the concert but I get a Hebrew error message when I try to play it.
Meanwhile, the Mouse music site reports: “Mondo Cane is another reincarnation of Patton. Maybe not the most popular. Maybe not the most valued. But this reincarnation proves his love for music and the genius of his entrance into new areas.” Mouse also have a slideshow from the concert in that article.
No appearance by the unfortunately ill Eduard Khil but Mike’s Mondo Cane went down very well in Moscow according to reports.
Reviews in Russian (Google Translate is your slightly off the mark friend) here from Kommersant and Gazaeta.
Videos below:
Scalinattella (including Mike’s praise for Khil)
Mike Patton played the fourth of his Mondo Cane shows at the Blue Balls festival in picturesque Lucerne last night. Torrential rain and incessant roadworks turned a two-and-a-half-hour car journey to Lucerne into a three-and-half-hour trip so I missed the first few songs. So when I walked in mid-song to my well-appointed seats, I was blown away by the sheer bigness of the sound and the loudness and clarity of Patton’s voice. The decor, size and acoustics of the very modern concert hall were perfect and Patton’s band, led by Daniele Luppi, backing singers Slash Singers and the 21st Century Orchestra were in top form.
My videos below:
After seeing Patton with Faith No More so many times over the past year, it was slightly surreal to see the devilish dervish somewhat contained in this setting – which did not stop one metalhead headbanging throughout – but his articulate, powerful crooning was also accompanied by trademark screams and some equally typical vocal noises.
He was also in very good form, at one stage thanking the audience for “coming out on a horrible night when you should be at home. I would have stayed at home.” He also poked fun at the name of the festival, at one stage declaring: “This song is dedicated to al the guys out there who have Blue Balls, like me. Don’t blame me? I didn’t name the festival, you did.”
Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain a setlist and my knowledge of the full Mondo Cane repertoire is such that I couldn’t guess at one either, suffice to say that it seemed the same as the one posted for Wroclaw.
Thanks to Mike and Elvira for sorting out tickets.
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)
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.
Here are some videos finally of last night’s tour opener. Looking forward to seeing this show in Luzern at the Blue Balls festival (!) next Thursday.
And right on cue, here is Lusty’s review from Consequence of Sound. And, courtesy of Lusty, the set list: Setlist:
Il Cielo in una Stanza
Che Notte
Ore d’amore
20 Km al Giorno
Quello Che Conta
Urlo Negro
Legata ad un Granello di Sabbia
Deep Down
Pine, Fucile ed Occhiali
Scalinatella
L’uomo Che Non Sapeva Amare
Ma L’amore no
Canzone
Ti Offro da Bere
Dio Come ti Amo
Storia d’amore
Lontano, Lontano
O Venezia
Yeeeeeeh !
Senza Fine
ENCORE
Sigaretta
Sole Malato
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