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Mike Patton Coachella Redux
Mike Patton is making a return visit to the Mojave desert in 2010 after appearing with Rahzel last year.
Here’s a taster of that show:
Intro
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Cocaine
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Playing with the radio
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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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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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Faith No More at Coachella latest
The Coachella festival will announce their line-up on Tuesday morning around 1200 PST. The announcement is supposed to take place on coachella.com and on KROQ radio. Faith No More have long been rumoured to be making their US return at the iconic festival in April but we have heard nothing to that effect from the band or from anyone close to them.
Two fake festival posters have even surfaced, the first one here is unbelievable but this one is more likely. We’ll let you know more when we have something.
Faith No More to play PinkPop rumours
The Dutch blogosphere has been buzzing with speculation that Faith No More will play the Pinkpop festival in the Netherlands in May 2010. Not a lot of detail in the two stories at Rockblog and FOK but regular Netherlands-based commenter tbeest reckons Rockblog may have inside information from a family member of the festival organiser.
We’ll keep you posted if and when we hear more news but the rumour certainly comes right from out of the blue with much of the recent FNM speculation centering on when they would be announcing the promised US dates. Could Roddy’s Mystery Leg actually be another European festival jaunt in May and June?
Otherwise, the Coachella festival forums continue to reverberate with chat of an FNM appearance at the famed Californian festival in April while there have also been inevitable murmurs of a joint FNM/Soundgarden tour.
In site news, I will be upgrading and relocating the site in the next week or ten days but I’ll make sure to give plenty of notice. Anything new you’d like to see on the site?
Band composes song to secure Faith No More support slot
Relative unknowns Feast of Fetus have composed a song appealing to be selected for a support slot for the future Faith No More US tour. The song Hey Faith No More, We Want to Play with You, which even ends with an Epicesque keyboard flourish, can be heard here. Hear more from the Los Angeles band here.
Faith No More confirm that they will tour US
Bill Gould – and subequently Roddy Bottum – has confirmed on Twitter that the band will tour the US though no further details are currently available. Bill’s Tweet: “Tweet THIS: In response to all of our concerned US brethren…YES…we yare now actively planning US dates.” Roddy followed: “reiterating comrade @MRGOULD claim… USA dates will happen. seriously, you thought they might not? cmon…”
US tour update and more
UPDATE:
This post has got a lot of attention in recent days and some of the reaction has been OTT. My take on it – without speaking to anyone – is that FNM are more likely than not to play US dates. Gezarie’s initial comment was only her reading of the tour at the current moment – i.e. that no dates have been planned or scheduled. In hindsight, I perhaps should not have published it as a guest post (and apologies Gezarie if I hung you out to dry) but this is a blog and not a site dealing in official band news so we can trade in speculation and that is all this was. Otherwise, cheers for all the comments and lets hope the US tour does come off.
Gezarie’s clarification
NEVER said this categorically wont happen! I feel like this might be a bit of an overreaction. NAN is correct in saying that this was only what I was told AT THIS POINT IN TIME but you all should realise that nothing is set in stone with this tour. I have no possible way of knowing what will happen for the rest of the tour, any more than any of you. I think that it should be made very clear that all news must come directly from the BAND, and from the band only. My word isnt gospel!
I was merely suggesting that if it were possible for some fans to head to mexico and they can and are dedicated enough than they should.
I sincerely apologise to have cause such a ruckus.
Also I should add that I spoke up without having all the facts. Bill told me personally that they ARE working on US dates but it is tricky and not just from a money perspective.
So cheer up US!
But while you’re passionate and worked up, contact promoters! Use the link that Michael Bolgor posted. Write emails. Make it happen.
Original post
Some comments are worth posts in their own rights and our friend Gezarie’s almost always are so here goes:
Australia is confirmed with tickets on sale for Soundwave Festival across the country from this Friday. It is a one day festival held in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide throughout Feb and beginning of March.
To U.S and Canadian fans, I spoke with the band, with their road manager and have been in touch with Greg from Ipecac. They are not planning any US dates. This is not due to a disdain for America at all though! Simply the US offers are not there. Or not at this stage anyway.
If any of you can make it to the Australian or South American shows I would recommend it. There will be non festival shows held in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
I hope to see some of you lovely people there!
Oh and Bobby B, tickets for some of the other SA dates like for Rio have already been on sale. Really feel for you US fans, I hope that in the end you guys get some shows late in the game
Links for a day…(vol.25)
- Roddy Bottom’s Twitter update from yesterday about US shows has intensified rumours of Stateside shows. The Noisecreep site reported today that “we’re hearing a tour is in the planning stages, with Tool as the openers. Let’s hope that rumor’s true.”
- Today Roddy has confirmed the open secret that there will be a date in Brazil. He Tweeted: “Ohmygod, Brazilians, you fervent motherfuckers!! Enough!! Do you think for a second we’d skip you and your glorious country?” FNM have been strongly rumoured to be playing Planeta Terra on 7 November.
- You can already download Chuck Mosley’s Will Rap over Hard Rock for Food at Amazon (in certain countries). Even without downloading you can preview the album.
- Via the one and only tbeest, Faith No More will headline the main Alpha stage at the Lowlands festival on 21 August from 20.15 until 21.15.
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