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3108, 2009

Faith No More Rock en Seine FNM 2.0 videos

The Editor2009-08-31T23:19:23+02:00August 31st, 2009|Faith No More|0 Comments

For once I’m going to chuck in my own videos here.

Caffeine has been my favourite FNM song for a long time for no more than the bizarre the fact that no matter what I was humming I would always end up singing it (very, very badly) in the shower. And Evidence…I used to hum that too..but until very recently I’d sing “Oh baby I justify” instead of testify. Shame it’s not in French but the Italian version is the ultimate language version of this song as Patton annunciates every syllable in a language he’s loved and hated in.

Oh and Just a Man. Unfortunately the best part of this song came after my battery ran out when Patton challenged the audience to hold the note contest. Guess who won. “Don’t fuckin’ fuck with me”

More video
Naturally meemalee has some vids here.

3108, 2009

Links for a day…(vol.31)

The Editor2009-08-31T11:53:10+02:00August 31st, 2009|Faith No More, Links for a day|0 Comments

Still no video or reviews coming in from Leeds – was anyone there? – but here’s a round-up of some other FNM news.

Positive review of Faith No More at Rock en Seine from France 24.
Photo galleries here and here.
The Sun gave FNM the only 10/10 review in their Reading round-up. (No link as I’ve some issues with The Sun but you can find it prettily easy if you want to).
Meanwhile from the Guardian another glowing Reading review. Sample quote: “Yet despite the younger contingent fleeing for Kings of Leon on the main stage, Mike Patton’s band delivered a brutal set that began with a melodica workout (Midnight Cowboy) before flitting between heavy assaults like Be Aggressive and more experimental leanings.”
FNM play their final European date tomorrow night in Tel-Aviv Israel. Here is a Jerusalem Post article on the revival of live music in the country which mentions Faith No More.
Via clauspupp on Twitter, Mike Patton will not be featuring on the long-awaited Os Mutantes album after all. Story here. And here is some belated video of when Mike P met the band last year.

3008, 2009

Faith No More at Rock in Seine video, setlist and photos

The Editor2009-08-30T01:25:39+02:00August 30th, 2009|Faith No More|0 Comments

I’m on a very slow connection here so have not been able to upload my own videos yet. Until then here is Midlife Crisis from the ‘Tube and and the set list. Was a very good show if a little lacking the intensity of some other dates I’ve seen. Nice venue and a nice festival and its a shame they keep getting big cancellations after Amy Winehouse last year and les freres Gallagher on Friday night.

Video

Set list:

Reunited
From Out of Nowhere
Be Aggressive
Caffeine
Evidence
Surprise! You’re Dead!
Last Cup of Sorrow
Cuckoo for Caca
Easy
Midlife Crisis
Epic
I Started a Joke
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
King for a Day
Ashes to Ashes
Just a Man
Encore:
Midnight Cowboy
Chariots Of Fire/Stripsearch
We Care a Lot

Photos
From Virgin Radio here.

2908, 2009

Faith No More LIVE at Rock en Seine

The Editor2009-08-29T19:57:18+02:00August 29th, 2009|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Hi from Paris. I’m going to Tweet the set list from this one so look right. Full report when I get back to hotel later.

2908, 2009

Faith No More in Dublin: a considered negative review

The Editor2009-08-29T12:22:57+02:00August 29th, 2009|Faith No More|0 Comments

Dublin’s online music bible State Magazine gives a considered but overall negative review of the band’s appearance at the Olympia in Dublin in Thursday. Sample quote: “You can’t deny the power of the performances here but the band’s self-indulgent side was tiresome first time around and even this euphoric atmosphere can’t disguise the fact that this still holds. It’s a point hammered home when they launch into ‘Midlife Crisis’ and ‘Epic’, both of which are simply sublime.”

Personally I can see the point the author – Phil Udell, who I heard explaining his viewpoint more as a frustrated fan than a media mischief maker on Dublin’s Phantom 105.2 FM yesterday – is making. But I think that rather than being tiresome, Faith No More’s refusal to do anything except on their own terms and in their own way is an essential part of their appeal. And it would have been a betrayal of their very essence if they did peddle a package of greatest hits live rather than seeking to evolve from where they left off.

2908, 2009

Faith No More at Reading pro-shot video

The Editor2009-08-29T12:04:12+02:00August 29th, 2009|Faith No More|6 Comments

For UK viewers, you can watch highlights of Faith No More live at Reading from Friday night on the BBC Reading website now. Video and photos here.

If you are elsewhere you can try YouTube.
Last Cup of Sorrow

More here.

2908, 2009

Faith No More at Reading set list and first review

The Editor2009-08-29T00:15:38+02:00August 29th, 2009|Faith No More|11 Comments

Faith No More garnered a lot of attention for their slot at Reading tonight despite being up against the most popular band in the UK Kings of Leon. BBC have just finished showing a healthy proportion of their gig – around seven songs – and a lot of attention has been lavished on their now familiar Eastenders cover. There should be a lot of pro-shot videos making their way online tomorrow.

Set list

Midnight Cowboy
From Out Of Nowhere
Be Aggressive
Caffeine
Evidence
Surprise! You re Dead
Last Cup Of Sorrow
Malpractice
Easy
Midlife Crisis
Epic
I Started A Joke
Gentle Art Of Making Enemies
King For A Day
Ashes To Ashes
Just A Man
RV
Land Of Sunshine

Review:
From the good old indie bible NME (they were on their stage after all). Sample quote: “Later in the set, Patton treated the crowd to a singing lesson. “Got that note? Happy with it?” he asked. “Now we’re going to teach you rhythm. Welcome to my world, bitches.”

Photos
None from 2009 but a superb set from 1990 on Flickr here.

2808, 2009

Faith No More at Rock en Seine live

The Editor2009-08-28T16:34:25+02:00August 28th, 2009|Faith No More|0 Comments

Faith No More 2.0 will be at Faith No More at Rock en Seine near Paris on Saturday night. Depending on how our broken Crackberry recovers we may or may not be live blogging from the event (but we will have a report straight afterwards if not). But you will beable to listen to FNM’s performance live on French radio station Virgin Radio. Story here and all-important link to Virgin Radio site here. And they also have a section with news and photos from the weekend here.

2808, 2009

Faith No More at Reading and Leeds on BBC TV and Radio

The Editor2009-08-28T16:28:50+02:00August 28th, 2009|Faith No More|0 Comments

The BBC wil be providing extensive coverage of the the Reading and Leeds festivals this weekend on TV and radio. BBC Three, the digital TV station, will be showing some of Faith No More’s Reading performance tonight and there will also be coverage on BBC Radio 1. More details here.

2808, 2009

Faith No More in Dublin videos, set list and more

The Editor2009-08-28T09:49:57+02:00August 28th, 2009|Faith No More|0 Comments

No reviews in yet but some excellent videos have started to appear on YouTube. Set list and reviews will follow later thoug again they started with Midnight Cowboy and not Reunited.

Stage dive and more

More Eastenders and great singalong

Stripsearch/As the Worm Turns

Set list
(via the Metal Ireland forum below)

Midnight Cowboy
The Real Thing
Land Of Sunshine
Caffeine
Evidence
Suprise! You’re Dead
Last Cup Of Sorrow
Malpractice (Eastenders snippet)
Easy
Midlife Crisis (Eastenders snippet)
Epic
RV
Gentle Art Of Making Enemies
King For A Day
Ashes To Ashes
Just A Man
Encore:
Chariots Of Fire/ Stripsearch
As The Worm Turns

Reaction
Get some fan reaction at the Metal Ireland forum here.

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On Faith No More to return to tour in 2020 plus ticket info (16)
- Benrun { Excellent idea about O'Riordan, that was so tragic. The Cranberries are extremely underrated. They are not a 'hits' band, the deep cuts are consistently good. } – Dec 07, 1:31 AM
- KingCol { I don’t care what they play as long as it’s not “Easy” and “Epic” always makes me do a large loud exaggerated exhale sprinkled in with a few tuts and basically negative body language from me — on saying that I do love all the add on snippits of songs they bolster up with — “ I believe I can fly “ fitted in perfect and gets extra points for thinking outside the box —“ 911 is a joke in your town” also fitted in ok —- but if you ask me what other non conform type of material they... } – Dec 07, 1:10 AM
- Benrun { Good to hear from you again Bobby! I agree about more variety in the set. Except I'm not a big fan of The Cowboy Song...though I'd still like to hear it live. It was a real treat how the band brought back so many songs on the reunion tour...I hope they do that again instead of cycling through the most common songs. I really feel that there should be no real reason the band should feel compelled to play Epic or Easy in 2020...they have so many other songs. I would vote for more Absolute Zero and Star AD, Kindergarten... } – Dec 06, 2:42 AM
- Bobby B Better { Of course this is the best news of the year! It's been a long 5 years. We need to petition for them to add a few rarities into the mix this time around...my vote is for The Cowboy Song. I'm betting on some new music as well. I loved SI but it never really grew on me the way the other albums did. Don't get me wrong, there are some gems in there (also some I'm not too fond of) but I've always felt like they have at least one more great album between them that could blow SI away.... } – Dec 05, 11:22 PM
On Ghost's Tobias Forge praises hard-to-define Faith No More (24)
- Benrun { I'm very hopeful it will be something much more than announcing that they will play European festivals. I knew before this that Hellfest was announcing their line-up, and I figure they would play other shows over there. I personally feel that a countdown to a tour announcement without a promise of something new after 3.5-4 years of silence would be a huge misjudgment of fan enthusiasm. If it's just a tour, just announce it. They are my favorite band and musicians on the planet...I don't want to see them get too egotistical. } – Nov 26, 3:00 AM
- admin { Just 25 hours to go... } – Nov 25, 6:25 PM
- Benrun { Hmmmmm….I think Roddy just waved at us with the arms of a mountain....perhaps a surprise on Black Friday? } – Nov 24, 12:44 AM
- Benrun { No FNM news....4 years....can't....go...on...much....longer....need Live release....B side....even the Seagull Song....anything.... } – Oct 29, 1:03 PM
On Faith No More and the fall of the Berlin Wall (4)
- Gilly Bould { Small article and interview with Billy Gould about that night in the new issue of german music-magazine "Musikexpress"... } – Oct 21, 10:22 AM
On Faith No More's The Real Thing recalled on thirtieth anniversary (12)
- KingCol { Well Adrian , the next time you see them ? Would you by any chance let me know in advance if you meeting up with any of them ? Iv never met any of the band and If it wasn’t too much hassle I’d have some questions i would forward to you that perhaps they wouldn’t mind trying to answer at their own volition of course.. If it was a case of they being sick to the teeth of being burdened with the chore of politely having to answer every question put to them by the normal Norman’s of the... } – Jun 26, 12:51 PM
- KingCol { It seems like there's not as much humour or general wackiness evident these days "For the first few years you put humour first, everything's a big joke and so on. But then you look back and see that the humour is overshadowing other things, and you realise it can't be that way all the time. There's so many things about this band that have never made it to print or photos, people haven't seen there's a lot of dimensions here. It's easy to talk about what a bunch of smart arses we are, how our 'funky grooves' or 'metal' clashes... } – Jun 25, 2:38 PM
- KingCol { Bloody iPhone spellcheck —*sounds like* The laugh SOUNDS like his laugh . I always wondered where the origins of that laugh came from because it always sounded familiar as if from a particular tv show or film character. Maybe it’s roddy but it kills me not knowing ... “The world is yours” is another massive musical sample jigsaw . } – Jun 25, 1:39 PM
- admin { Hi Col No idea but will ask next time I see them. I know that some of them watched Rocky and Bullwinkle. } – Jun 25, 11:55 AM
On Small Victories tour in Los Angeles and San Francisco a great success (8)
- Benrun { FNM 2.0 is back! I missed you everyday you were gone! } – Jun 20, 1:36 AM
- KingCol { Another good topic /// has any got a favorite riff , drum solo or a part of any of the bands songs that stuck with you ? I always liked “return to your own vomit like a dog” I also like the Kronos quartet bit they sampled The whole song “Khad” is one huge wow weeeeee But what has blown me away recently was Fantomas / suspended animation - Sunday ————- the start of that song with the classical vibe to it is superb —— anyone know who wrote that part or was it a sample from else where.? } – Apr 24, 1:57 AM
- Benrun { Hello KingCol…I do the exact same thing! Everyday I just look at the latest post and check the comment number. You asked a very difficult question...I know Bill picked Midnight Cowboy, Bill and Patton together picked I Started a Joke when they heard it in a karaoke bar in Guam...I get a sense that it was because it was so sappy in a powerful way, but that's a guess. I'm sure Bill had his hand in the Serbia song and the Chilean Violeta Parra cover. I'd love to know the stories behind these choices. Jon played Rich Girl, Strawberry Letter... } – Apr 18, 3:26 AM
- KingCol { I dunno if there are more recent comments on other threads here but I normally just check the article at the top of page and the number of comments attributed to it . If it’s at the same number as the last time I checked i move on . Maybe a good idea for this site would be a comment section that’s not assigned to any thread so random thoughts/opinions etc can be posted .... like this one —-> In relation to past fnm cover versions and song samples and snippets, does anyone know or have an opinion on whether... } – Apr 17, 9:16 PM
On Links for a day 207: Not canon, Introduce Yourself, Patton latest and more (2)
- Warren B { FYI - the audio versions of these bootlegs are posted on www.archive.org. Just type Faith No More in the search. There are over 400 uploads covering the entire length of FNM's career. } – Apr 03, 3:49 PM
On Links for a day...(vol: 104) (38)
- durabari { Faith no more. I have never seen that video, Love it though. www.cmastering.com } – Mar 10, 2:06 AM
On Small Victories book events and signings in Los Angeles and San Francisco in February (8)
- Mark Rago { Ironically enough, I made a comment on a thread on YouTube yesterday where I razzed a lady a bit through the lyrics of the song in question ( I believe it was a Fantomas video, but I'm not certain of the song title), replying "Shut Up" to a humorous comment she made challenging anyone to give her crap for being a die-hard Mike Patton fan. I also replied that it's amazing that FNM and Mr. Bungle were ahead of the curve simply because they had a profound influence not only on musical contemporaries like Sepultura , Bjork , and Melvins,... } – Mar 01, 3:28 PM
- Benrun { I remember an interview with Bill and he was asked what songs he does or does not enjoy playing live anymore. I remember he liked playing Epic which surprised me...he definitely no longer enjoys playing Death March. But there are quite a few shows in the 2nd half of the 97 tour where they omitted Epic. They didn't play it at the Chile show with Trey and there were a few 2015 shows they didn't play it either, mostly when they played SI in it's entirety. } – Mar 01, 2:49 AM
- KingCol { The inclusion of “epic” in their set lists actually puzzles me - since for the most part the band normally doesn’t give into public demand and if anything would normally go against the grain - probably the bands most popular and well known song and i actually skip by it when listening them live and the only thing i like about the song is the end of the track when they include a sample from another artist. } – Feb 28, 9:01 PM
- Mark Rago { If I were Jim Martin, and Mike, Billy and Roddy were calling me a Mama's boy and insulting me in the Lions share of interviews, I wouldn't have been a team player either. That being said, it seems to me that Martin was the creative catalyst during the Mosley era and The Real Thing. Patton really started to pilot the bands style and writing during the making of Angel Dust, and I think Martin took umbrage with that, and the teasing and ribbing the other guys piled on him when absent from band interviews (good natured or not) started to... } – Feb 28, 2:03 PM
On Episode 3 of Podcast Croissant - the new Faith No More podcast - now live (6)
- Benrun { Podcast 4 about IY? Favorite song would be Anne's Song, followed by Faster Disco. But I love every song on the album. It is the best FNM album in terms of 5 guys fighting for their part to be heard, yet servicing the songs. It's got the best guitar tone of all the albums. The only possible criticism I can think of for the album is the one that Chuck gave it...that the drums are a little similar song to song...Puffy would stay intense but add more versatility on later albums. This album has so much tongue in cheek but... } – Feb 08, 3:05 AM
- KingCol { I always though that Patton on video croissant sounds like “ZIG” from “ZIG AND ZAG” } – Feb 03, 12:02 PM
- KingCol { I still watch video croissant on my vcr .. I love the live footage of the bottle throwing and i loved the everything’s ruined video at the time too .. The best thing about phoinex 93 is the fact that the audio was released long before the shaky footage was synced together. I listened to that audio for years and had so many questions about that show that the video answered... I think it was hot Canada who actually shared the show with me in exchange for the Slane 92 bootleg .. } – Feb 01, 10:59 PM
- Benrun { The earplugs comment came from me, I sort of chastised him with my facial expression over that one...it was backstage at Detroit 2015 that he told me that. Somehow we got on it because I work as a Speech Language Pathologist and had almost become an Audiologist. Great observation about the nasal shrillness cutting through. I feel like the keyboards remained harsher all the way through the AOTY tour and were more tame in the mix on the reunion shows, I missed the old harsher sound. One of the greatest things about the Phoenix Festival show in 93 is how... } – Jan 30, 4:25 AM
On Listen to episode 2 of Podcast Croissant, the Faith No More podcast (6)
- Benrun { KingCol, I email back and forth with that member regularly and have definitely benefitted from the connection because they have been a very generous trader of bootlegs. I've also loved getting bootlegs off of Dime a Dozen, still do. Pretty sure it is a "he" and "he" is a really cool guy. Not sure he is a big commenter on websites, and while he's definitely a FNM fan, he also loves a lot of other music. If you search for it you can find his trading website. I haven't messaged with him in a while though, I should check in. } – Jan 25, 2:50 AM
- KingCol { The real thing song itself is such a wonderful composition - I was blown away by the live donnington reunion version .. (on a side bragging note , I was also lucky enough to attend the gig in Dublin in the Olympia with a capacity of just 1200) As everyone else mentioned here already, the other obvious stand out tracks are “the morning after” and “under water love” . Ps : there is a loyal faith no more fan base here who continually comment on the various updates... was anyone here a member of the website “dime a dozen” I... } – Jan 24, 9:29 PM
- Emayan { Episode 2 was awesome! So much fun to go back over this classic of an album. Not a weak song on it...including Underwater Love (what an outro) and The Morning After (what an intro). The Real Thing is still one of the greatest rock songs ever. Pure perfection, an all-time favorite. } – Jan 23, 12:12 AM
- Rob { Podcast 2 a success!! Please don’t feel the need to speed up your analysis. I’ll totally be happy with a 3 or 4 hour analysis of TRT. My own notes on the TRT: 1. Underwater Love is underrated and those keyboard flourishes are beautiful. Also, I often link this song thematically to Nick Cave’s “Where the wild roses grow”. 2. Zombie Eaters lyrics to me are more about the thoughts of an autistic or seriously handicapped young adult man. 3. From Out of Nowhere, The Real Thing and Woodpecker are the best tracks on the album. 4. Have you heard... } – Jan 21, 12:23 PM

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