Faith No More returned to the US festival scene in style last night with a short, sharp shock of a set at the Coachella festival in the California desert. Highlights included another Ben cover, a Patton stage dive and a mid-set semi-streak by Danny DeVito.
Faith No More 2.0 himself is too old to stay up until 430am these days and too lazy to get up that early on a Sunday so we missed the delayed webcast, so thanks to all for the tweets and comments on the gig.
New reviews added below
Video:
Check out the full set in video on Kik Axe.
Or a selection below
Last Cup of Sorrow
Ben
Midlife Crisis
Audio:
Here
Reviews:
Spin: “If there was a problem with the set, it was that despite his amped-up spazzy rapping and Faith No More’s full-tilt approach, this show felt like foreplay to a much greater, more epic performance. Maybe that’s still to come.”
New York Times: “Sincerity is a just a fabrication for Faith No More, but the band’s old crunch was real.”
Spinner: “Faith No More are back and, yes, it does feel so good.”
LA Weekly: “Again, the youngs were voting with the bodies for Hot Chip, but Patton and company offered a reliable option to the over 25s and all the comb-over VIP daddies and tattoed cougars.”
Variety: “Yet in terms of sheer bizarre spectacle, the band [Muse] couldn’t hope to compete with their predecessors on the main stage, a reunited Faith No More. Approaching their vintage rap-metal anthems as though they were all long-lost Dadaist performance artists, the nattily-suited quintet interspersed bludgeoning originals like “Epic” and “Surprise! You’re Dead!” with unexplained, jaw-droppingly faithful renditions of Peaches & Herb’s “Reunited” and Michael Jackson’s “Ben.” The latter saw wildman vocalist Mike Patton sustain an impossibly clear glory note, shove the microphone deep into his mouth, and dive into the crowd.”
Stuff: “Mike Patton is a born showman, whether fronting one of his numerous side projects or going back to his roots with Faith No More’s “second coming” he’s always running at high intensity. Today he barks military-style instructions at the crowd, laughs like a maniac, jumps into the moshpit for a crowd surf and hollers into his microphone like a mad cheerleader instructor. Awesome show.”
Orange County Register
Inland SoCal: “Faith No More brought humor and funky bass face-melting metal for an epic performance at the Coachella festival Saturday night.”
NME
KROQ FM
Setlist
Reunited
From out of Nowhere
Caffeine
We Care a Lot
Last Cup of Sorrow
Ben
Surprise You’re Dead
Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Midlife Crisis
Epic
Ashes to Ashes
Just a Man
here is my video from the crowd. its pretty darn cool. mike is right in front of me.
Superb video footage & audio, thanks millions.
So great to see FNM improving with each and every gig, yes I was there for #1 & 2 at Brixton & Download UK (Still suffering hearing loss for 2nd gig LOL), but believe me when they are able to play a full set it’s worth every bit.
Can’t wait to see more in the UK but until then keep the feeds and updates rolling out.
As a final thing, I’d love to see Jim Martin come back if only to play Epic, Surprise You’re Dead & War Pigs, hey Chuck rocked, lets see some more.
Thanks a lot for full set. ‘Just a man’ killed me 🙂
My two measly pesos: I have to say I never liked Epic, in fact *hated* it for the past 20 years, until I heard it live and sang along at the Warfield, and saw the spectacular performance of it at Coachella. It must have changed my DNA or something because now I finally love that song.
Great audio and pro-shot video at Coachella (except for the off-time splicing – i.e. at the end of “Just A Man”). It’s really like I was there! And thanks for all the videos and links; this is like a candy store to me and I’ve got a BIG sugar rush going after last week!
I forgot to add that on the audio he jumps into the crowd right after “Ben”
@ Doug no problem man me and Ti Mort read your post on the Tuesday and felt your pain. So sorry you couldn`t make it. Hopefully the audio will bring some joy. Cheers.
@ Jimbo, you know what? if i would have heard this at coachella without seeing them at the warfield i would have a been a little pissed. They could have easily picked another great tune to play but hearinfg it at warfield was pretty cool. Great song for him to belt it out and it just goes to show you that they are willing to take the risk and make it work.
The audio is great, I watched the show and for those FNM fans of us who now have kids and can’t afford the time to do big travel for live concerts it was fantastic. Seeing this is the closest I am going to get to seeing them live this time around, being able to blast this in the car is awesome.
The look on Pattons face when Danny DeVito came across the stage was priceless. On the festival thing, I think Lollapalooza would have been more fitting. And a lot closer to me.
Well, I really think they should drop that “Ben” thing… My 2 cents…
re NYTimes – does irony exclude sincerity))
Shawn E – I missed the Warfield show despite my ticket, and your recording of this is wonderful to have. I appreciate you making this available.
I just want them to play Atlanta! do a small us tour the have the time…….
yeah it seems like the festival/arena crowd in the USA is not for FNM anymore, they could do it in the early 90’s just because of the success of’The Real Thing’, but once manstream America and MTV got over them, they went back to being what they originally were, a cult band with devoted followers. I really don’t mind them ONLY playing intimate shows in the States, I personally hate large festivals and when 70% of the crowd doesnt even know who the band is, it only further suggests that the band stick to the small venue shows here for the true fans and do the larger shows overseas, both where they are appreciated more….
In case you missed it I recorded the audio and you can grab it here http://www.sendspace.com/file/da9kxm
Enjoy!
Rocky start? The Warfield shows were killer…I think that should be enough to hold them over for awhile. I just think that maybe they’ll reconsider doing festivals and keep it intimate in the States so that the true fans can keep sellin’ out venues and givin’ them a hell of a night! I noticed that the crowd didn’t seem too responsive at Coachella, too…kinda disappointed in my US bretheren, but, then again, everyone was in top form from the band to the crowd in San Francisco. I just think the US festival circuit is shit and FNM should stray away from disappointment like that.
The band rocked it out at the start, but they looked a little disappointed towards the end of the show… it seems the crowd wasn’t that responsive. Rocky start for the US return… hope it doesn’t let the band down. Fun show, anyways.
Them videos were great, many thanks.
Well, the setlist omission is hardly the biggest problem the world is currently facing. Was happy to watch the stream of the show earlier; they definitely crammed as much entertainment into the 50mins as they could. Hope to see them again after the 2 month break 😀
Hi, Yes – much shorter than usual because its a festival and time is limited.
Oh!
FNM has played about an hour…right?!
In this case, this would be the real and complete set list…a short one…Could someone confirm this information?
Thanks for pointing that out. Corrected now.
This concert must have been really awesome!!
It seems that there were no surprises about the set list…were there?
For now I´m just waiting to check the real and complete set list … “Help please Someone??”
I’m watching right now the gig (now watching Caffeine) cause I wasn’t able to follow the streaming but WOOOOOW wish i was there!!! 😀 It’s me or the Coachella gig was shorter? Thanks also to all the twitteros and twitteresses for all the news you gave about Warfield and Coachella, thousand thank yous to all!!
You have a video for Epic, but not included it in the setlist…