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Faith No More at Coachella ticket update
It does now seem that fans who want to see Faith No More at the Coachella festival on 17 April will have to shell out $269 for a three-day pass. Tickets go on sale on 22 January at 10am from the Coachella site and a number of local record stores. The Coachella site notes: “Every person entering festival area, including camp sites, must have a festival pass. A festival pass is ONE wristband for the entire weekend. A 3-day pass ticket will be exchanged for a single wristband upon entry to the event grounds.”
So, it does look like here will be no single-day tickets for the event for the first time.
In other ticket news, no update yet on when and where tickets for Faith No More’s extra 24 February date will be available but it should not be too far from Ticketmaster.
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Faith No More at Coachella: round-up and reaction
While the announcement that Faith No More will play the Coachella festival on 17 April was the news their United States fans have meeting waiting for, the re-formed rockers’ sub-headlining slot and the media reaction to the overall line-up is more sobering, illustrating perhaps why the FNM reunion has shunned a return home so far.
Initial news reports have focused more on the headliners Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz plus Thom Yorke and even Sly and the Family Stone. The fact that their desert date marks their return to live shows in the US – warm-up gig aside – since 1997. Enough caviling; below is a brief round-up to the Coachella announcement with a Faith No More focus:
- Los Angeles Times – Ann Powers alludes to “Faith No More’s arty take on frat-boy rap rock”, terming the line-up “a model for recessionary times”.
- E! (can’t forget that !) Online – E! somehow concludes that the lineup is one for the kids with FNM – “ who will resurrect their classic ’80s Epic sound” – relegated to the final paragraph.
- New York Times – A NYT blog goes one better and manages to avoid mentioning Faith No More at all.
- Noisecreep – Metal site Noisecreep hit the right tone, noting that “recently reunited Faith No More are confirmed for the second night of this year’s installment. It will be the first time since the band announced its reunion early last year that they’ll play on U.S. soil.”
And that is pretty much it. Maybe we’ll get more reaction tomorrow. For dedicated FNM fans the big question, of course, is when will the band’s other US dates be announced and will there be a Coachella warm-up date in San Francisco.
Faith No More’s last US date
On the day that Faith No More announced their return to the stage in the United States (at Coachella on 17 April), here’s a look back at their last American live appearance, which took place at the Moore Theatre, Seattle on 11 October 1997.
Thanks to the excellent Stefan Negele gig database, here’s the setlist:
Setlist (8:57-10:23):
- Midnight Cowboy*
- Collision
- Mid-Life Crisis
- Last Cup of Sorrow
- The Gentle Art of Making Enemies**
- Evidence
- Easy
- Introduce Yourself
- Ugly in the Morning**
- Mouth to Mouth
- Home Sick Home
- Ashes to Ashes
- King For a Day
- Pristina
- Epic
- Naked in Front of the Computer
- Just a Man
Encore 1 - Land of Sunshine
- We Care a Lot
- I Started a Joke
Encore 2 - “This Guy’s in Love with You” (Burt Bacharach)
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to track down any video from the show but here’s some details from Stefan’s site:
“Highlights were “MidLife Crisis” (after which Mike said “aren’t you Seattle folks sick of being called ‘grunge city’… you’re really Starbuck’s City!”…he said “thank you Starbucks” at the end of several tunes during the set)…a killer “Last Cup of Sorrow”…a great “Easy”->”Introduce Yourself” juxtaposition…an insane “Ugly in the Morning”… Roddy’s eastern keyboardisms during “Mouth to Mouth”… an epic “Ashes to Ashes”…and an emotional set-closing “Just a Man”. The first encore “Land of Sunshine” was worth the ticket price for me (I think they’ve only played it a couple times on the whole tour…) Mike didn’t sing the “does life seem worthwhile” chorus but instead ranted like a maniac. (As usual Mike was amazing, jumping, crouching, babbling, shrieking, blowing his voice out and acting like a total madman onstage). The Bee Gees cover “I Started a Joke” was sung in Anthony Newley-type tones. And the sold out crowd got the band back for a final cover, the Burt Bacharach cover “This Guy’s in Love with You”, on which Mike ended the tune again on melodica (giving the show a nice symmetry).”
Coachella confirmed: Faith No More back in the USA!
Faith No More will play the Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival in Indio, California on Saturday 17 April.
The re-formed band have not played in the United States since October 1997 when they played Seattle’s Moore Theatre.
Tickets are $269 for a three-day weekend pass and go on sale Friday, 22 January at 10 am. through Ticketmaster and Coachella.com.
Make sure to check back for more details and updates.
More details at the LA Times.
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Tagged Coachella, Faith No More, festival, Tour dates, United States, US
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Coachella announcement and Faith No More hint
It seems that the big pre-Coachella festival announcement leak didn’t happen this year with the Coachella Twitter confirming that the line-up will be announced on Tuesday “during waking hours”. The Consequence of Sound blog has updated that the line-up wil be announced at 0715 am PST on KROQ and the LA Times.
KROQ will certainly have the official announcement during the Kevin and Bean show between 5 and 10am and KROQ DJ Nicole Alvarez has hinted that Faith No More will be playing in a comment here.
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