Faith No More today announced that they will be returning to live shows in 2020.
The band’s announcement coincided with the big reveal of the line-up for France’s huge Hellfest event, and sure enough Faith No More will return to Clisson in Loire-Atlantique between 19-21 June.
The band have not played live as Faith No More since September 2015, the same year they released their comeback Sol Invictus album to critical and commercial acclaim. They were keeping a low profile themselves, but various members declared themselves stoked and impressed by the intensity of the reaction.
While fans will de delighted that FNM are back on the road after a long hiatus, the hedonistic treadmill of fandom dictates that there are already demands for new music and a follow-up to Sol Invictus
Hellfest
Tickets for Hellfest went on sale in October before the line-up was known. While all three-day seats were sold out in two and a half hours, day passes will go on sale in February.
Sunstroke
Rumours circulated through the day that Faith No More would again headline a revived Sunstroke Festival in Dublin. FNM headlined the event in 1993 when it was at Dalymount Park not Punchestown, also in Dublin.
Sunstroke could see FNM on a bill with influencers and more, Killing Joke, as well as Gojira, and some uprising Irish acts like Fang Club and the fierce Bitch Falcon.
Early bird tickets go on sale Tuesday 3rd December at 10am for 48 hours
EARLY BIRD TICKETS Prices
Day: €69.50 Including booking fee
Weekend: €129.50 Including booking fee
Weekend Camping: €159.50 Including booking fee
GENERAL TICKETS
Day: €79.50 Including booking fee
Weekend: €139.50 Including booking fee
Weekend Camping: €169.50 Including booking fee
There is also the upscale glamping Pink Moon option available.
Tickets so on sale through Ticketmaster
Ton of Rocks
FNM’s third gig is the Ton of Rocks festival in Oslo in Norway.
Ton of Rock tickets can be obtained here,
We expect lots more to come.
While you count down to Faith No More’s return to your neck of the woods, get their back story in Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More out now
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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 and RV, The Morning After and Paths of Glory. I hope they don’t retire Chuck songs and bring more of them back. But definitely more new songs…it was a major disappointment that the countdown led only to shows and not a release, and it will be a worse disappointment if they play without any new songs. I actually loved Sol Invictus…it’s either their 3rd or 4th best IMO. But I still feel they have more potential. The best FNM album have also been the most collaborative. I think the next one has more potential because Roddy, Jon, & Puffy will be involved more from the start…it would be nice if Patton would rejoin his band in the studio, write several drafts of lyrics for songs like he did for Angel Dust, etc instead of just layering on his vocals via email like he has for their last 2 albums and most of his other bands. Patton thinks musically, it would be better for him to be there at the gestation. Bill wrote songs like Caffeine, but back then Patton still influenced them musically, not just the vocal melody.
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. Here’s hoping for some US dates soon!! It should be an exciting year!
I’m very happy for Portugal! They appear to be rabid FNM fans and also, the 2010 Lisbon show is probably the best show the band has had since reforming. It was only a few days after Patton’s voice got hoarse in the last NYC show, but he came back with a vengeance. Looking back, the band always seems to have wild shows there.
Punk was okay, but I love the post-punk bands like Siouxsie, Killing Joke, Public Image Limited. Faith No Man ha ha. Man, festivals sound like so much work…I’m too old.
couldn’t see them being on later than 21.30 / 22.00 although its a festival the race course its at isnt to far away from residential housing. would think there would be a 23.00 * 23.30 restriction on noise.
My autocorrect incorrectly predicted i wanted to write “be run” instead of “Benrun” and took the liberty of changing it for me which I didn’t notice until comment was posted
I’ll be getting my early bird tickets anyway – too old for the camping so ill be only getting the Saturday day/night day pass.
I wonder what time the last band ie fnm will actually walk on stage
at ?
Using Ireland’s other festival “Electric Picnic” as a rough guide for times would estimate maybe 11pm or 12pm
(The Strokes 2019) but other acts on dance/techno style stages start as late at 2am..
Not my bowl of stew but Iggy Pop is to headline the “All Together Now” festival 2020 – I know you like punk be run so maybe you should consider moving again and relocate to this island.
If mr bungle announce a date here or add themselves to the sunstroke lineup Id have to go into hibernation until then with excitement
I have no idea, the only way I got backstage was because Chuck Mosley slapped his VIP badge on me when I met him outside and walked me back there himself. Even he needed a badge to get back there. There were about a dozen non-band associated people back there and I’ve always wondered how they got back there…they couldn’t possibly be bigger fans than me!
I have no idea. I only got backstage because Chuck stuck his VIP badge on me and walked me back there. He even had to have one to get back there. There were maybe a dozen other people back there and I was wondering who they were since they couldn’t possibly be bigger fans than me!
Is that how backstage passes are dealt out ? Who and how is it decided on who gets what ?
If anyone in Ireland deserves it, it’s you KingCol! You could try emailing koolarrow records and ask the CEO, janitor, webmaster, etc…Bill Gould. Maybe send a picture of yourself in the 93 shirt holding a sign saying, “I promise I’m just a fan and not a psychopath”!
I’m not sure on who to ask this question to but does anyone have any pull on able to look into the possibility on getting me a backstage pass to meet the band – Iv never met any of the band members even though I’m the biggest fan in the parish and possibly the world – I’ll be wearing the sunstroke 93 t-shirt which is reason enough to get me back-stage .
FNM playing shows again…awesome! FNM announcing European festivals with a picture of a New Zealand mountain and a countdown…lame. Countdowns are for releases, not shows. To a huge chunk of their fans…”Congratulations, we’re going to go play some shows you could never afford to go to!” There…now that I’ve written my complaint, I wonder how cheap I could get a ticket to Ireland.
Flipping hell !!! Iv actually got the Sunstroke 93 T-shirt on while reading this —