Faith No More Links for a Day… (vol. 150): Patton speaks: Jon speaks; French come early?; old new and new sold songs

The band frenzy continues with Mike Patton breaking his Sol Invictus silence to give an interview alongside Bill Gould with Australian radio station Triple J.

“I’m not sure we have a sound. We just do what we do and let the rest of the world figure it out.”
Mike Patton

And one more interview! JON HUDSON – fresh from lighting up the new FNM single – has spoken to music tech site Gearophobia.(via FNM Followers). it is a wonderfully revealing interview and not just for musos or techies. I loved this quote on his relationship with the older FNM material:
“I enjoy the older material a lot. We don’t play everything of course. I don’t really try and branch out any further than what is on those respective records. I’m not trying to put my mark on it. There is no need for that. It doesn’t need another ‘signature’ on it. I’m a huge fan of what the other guitar players had done in the band… Jim and Trey. I don’t really think I’d want to be in a band and play for this many years if I really didn’t enjoy the material.”
Here’s the full elegant flipping book interview.

Great to hear Superhero on my radio station of choice BBC 6 MUSIC this morning – on their breakfast show. You can listen here – and Faith No More is from 48.00 onwards. It is Matt Everitt – the former drummer with Menswear who is waxing lyrical while giving the FNM update.

This release has really gone global. Even Irish state broadcaster RTE are getting in on the act with a stream.

Early release? AMAZON.FR have the CD release date for Sol Invictus listed as 15 May.

And the same for vinyl

AMAZON.COM still listed as 19 May by the way.

Enough with all that exciting new stuff. How about some OLD STUFF? Way old. Twenty-year-old to be precise. Some video of Faith No More in Sweden in July 1992 has just popped up on YouTube. cheers for uploading Aleksa.
Here’s the show details courtesy of friends of the site and FNM tour bible anaussiemusicfan

Another new old one from NORWAY now.

And the setlist.

BACK TO THE NEW STUFF, here’s one YouTuber’s review of Superhero

And from the exact same source of the gig database, anaussiemusicfan strikers again with this great video of the old new song MATADOR rom Soundwave Melbourne

15 Comments

oort March 3, 2015 at 8:23 pm

Finding it difficult to keep up with everything lately, but I managed to take in Jon’s Gearophobia interview. Of course the tech speak was a little over my head, but it’s great hearing more from the rest of the band in these newer interviews – especially Puffy (does he still like to be called that?) and Jon.
Bobby B Better March 3, 2015 at 6:12 am

Finally, SI is #13 in iTunes rock album chart and superhero is #55 in rock songs. Don’t know why I care about such things but it’s pretty cool.
Bobby B Better March 3, 2015 at 5:58 am

Sol Invictus is also #93 in iTunes overall album chart.
Bobby B Better March 3, 2015 at 5:53 am

Superhero vinyl and sol Invictus vinyl are # 1 and #2 respectively in amazon’s hard rock sales. Sol Invictus CD is #10 and both vinyls are in the top 100 for all music. Superhero vinyl is also in the top 100 in the Amazon pop chart. Not bad. Just got all my pre-orders in.
Bobby B Better March 3, 2015 at 3:36 am

Superhero vinyl is listed as #1 best seller in hard rock on Amazon. #72 overall.
Bobby B Better March 3, 2015 at 3:34 am

Vinyl, digital, and cd pre-order is on Amazon.com. CD is quite pricy…just a dollar less than the vinyl. I guess I haven’t bought one in a while.
Mark Bowen March 3, 2015 at 12:33 am

Is that really the final artwork for the LP? A knobby-kneed boy with a mask? Gross.
admin March 2, 2015 at 9:18 pm

Might plan a trip “home” that weekend
Martin March 2, 2015 at 8:34 pm

Ireland have it on May 15th as well. All new albums are released on a Friday in Ireland so France must be the same.
Eric March 2, 2015 at 7:54 pm

@Nickc yep.
Alcides Duverge March 2, 2015 at 5:18 pm

Loving the updates. Thanx Adm.!
Nickc March 2, 2015 at 5:17 pm

Wait, vinyl pre orders are up?
Eric March 2, 2015 at 3:55 pm

Agree – LOVING THE UPDATES. So pumped for this album the anticipation is almost killing me. Just preordered on amazon, but it’s MP3 only. No CD option yet, I’ll get the physical copy when it is available.

Any insight into the logic for vinyl availability initially and not CD? I’d have thought more would have CD players than record players.
Nickc March 2, 2015 at 3:35 pm

Thanks admin. You are killing it. These constant updates are incredible. Seriously, I think I speak for all of us when I say thanks.
Ben March 2, 2015 at 2:33 pm

It’s hilarious…everytime I listen to Superhero, Das Schutzenfest comes on next due to Sol Invinctus being followed alphabetically by Songs To Make Love To.
Great Jon interview…he’s definitely a tech guy.
I love that Sweden FNM show…great band banter in that one; that’s been a bootleg around for awhile but nice that’s it’s up on youtube now. Never seen the Norway 95 show before!