- After that mega Patton post, it would be remiss of us to omit to mention Roddy’s Imperial Teen. Unfortunately, we’re too late to mention their two most recent shows in Portland and Denver. But Roddy and co have three more dates lined up:
Aug 17
Knitting Factory
Brooklyn NY
tickets
Sept 29
Know Theatre
1120 Jackson Street
Cincinnati OH (Midpoint Music Festival)
Oct 14
Treasure Island Music Festival
San Francisco, CA
tickets
No footage from either gig has surfaced yet but here’s one short Denver fan verdict.
And the band:
- Here are some stunning and revealing interviews with Billy and Puffy from – I think – Dutch radio show Toazted from 1997:
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And two more from 1995:
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Part 2
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Think these might be the other way around. Interesting point at the start on working on new material and some revealing insights throughout. - Meanwhile, reaction is still coming in on Faith No More‘s recent European jaunt. The Final Word have a note-perfect review of both London shows: “More than the band, tonight, I think the crowd are really rather keen. And that’s part of the rub : the audience often make the show. Tonight, if the audience are a vampire, the band are the transfusion. From the opening moments, to the final seconds of their cover of Jay-z & Kayne West’s “Niggaz In Paris”, Hammersmith is some kind of rampant, slightly overweight, slightly middle-aged, 5,000 strong orgy of jumping. “
- And London indie zine Drowned in Sound have a fetching gallery from the Brixton show:
- And here’s Bill with un peu de francais pur les gars et les filles at the Faith No More French Community
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- And via faithnomoreblog, Tomahawk will play a Halloween show at the Granada Theater in Dallas on Wednesday 31 October. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased from granadatheater.com
Thanks for linking to the review fellas – your site has kept me in the loop many times over the past few years.
Jeez what an awful list !! Ads would go into my room101… I like the vid for I started a joke with Martin Freeman in it. Small part in the vid for Patton too 🙂
Hahahah! Cool list! Glaring omission IMO is Wilco’s ‘Either Way’ for Volkswagon.
My favorite FNM easy listening type cover is still The Nestle’s Song from back when Chuck sang it and the band played the long version with the Stairway to Heaven outro. Probably the strangest, least predictable cover they ever did until they covered East Enders. I agree about Easy though…it was cool for a few years, but they’ve done a lot better ones since then and I wish it wasn’t a staple of every show. I think I Started A Joke is one of the best songs ever written and Patton sang it great live back in 95/97. They played it in Brooklyn but Patton sang it more jokey, not straight up and soulful.
Actually the commercial was for Levi’s, from around 2005 (I thought I remembered it from the mid ’90’s…!). A guy on a bus changing his jeans… I’ve been looking all over and I can’t find it.
I did however find this, which kills me. Check out #7!
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/apple-picks-50-top-songs-commercials-20096
I call it the “pissing song”
When they play it live i go for a piss.
Don’t see the big deal with that choon.
It bugs me
Some better marketing of “Easy” could have changed everything. Most people called it “that song on the Gap commercial” 😛
Easy was added at later date in Europe too..
I think American audiences just give less attention to music.. Angel dust wasn’t the real thing. America was caught off balance and when they didn’t hear what they were expecting the didnt give the record a second spin.
There is too many shinny objects in USA for fnm to change the goal posts and expect people to get it..Not the case in Europe . Europe is music mad and takes it seriously
When I say europe takes it seriously I mean the majority of people were in USA there is a smaller percentage of people who don’t conform to the latest trend and make their own mind.. It’s why fnm spend their time in Europe and south America..
I agree with the writer for the most part, some good observations, but I didn’t particularly feel burned by the Songs To Make Love To EP…I don’t remember but I’m pretty sure it was priced appropriately for an EP and liked the 3 songs on it that I hadn’t heard yet. For me it made the band cooler…they had a sense of humor that most bands didn’t. What other band around that time as heavy as them would put out a disc of easy listening with Rhinos fucking on the cover? The other point that was missed though is that all this goes back before Patton…FNM took off in England and then Europe back on the IY tour…geez for a California band they toured more in England than California! For some reason back in the 80s the UK got the band when America did not…so maybe people were more used how much the band changed from album to album and got all the dark humor (their 1st 2 albums being fairly dark but funny at the same time). But just listening to their interviews, it sounds like touring outside America is just more interesting for them…as they’ve said, the “real” America is a bunch of gas stations, fast food joints, motels, and a people programmed to consume…I forget which interview this was. Good post though talking about why America didn’t really stick with the band after 91.
Extensive chronologies of B-sides and remixes notwithstanding, here’s some stimulating FNM discussion from FNMblog:
http://www.faithnomoreblog.com/2012/07/faith-no-more-and-usalove-them-or-hate.html
For sure Jacob…..”Silence Is Golden”…
yeah man, the silence is good news to me. if this was a planned last tour, wouldn’t they have said something by now? things may still be up in the air, and they may still decide not to do anything more, but at least it doesn’t seem like it’s a final decision yet.
I keep thinking im going to open twitter and read a tweet from Billy saying “Well, that’ s it everyone…it’s been swell…”
Great tribute. Bill is really the nicest guy in the world 🙂
Loved those interviews! Never heard them before. Key statement during those…I don’t remember to quote it, but Bill said (talking in 97 about making new records) it takes about a year to write the songs, play them, get comfortable with them, and then record them. So if there were new material to be released, I could see that process taking even longer with all that they have going on and no obligation to even do it. Plus they would want to be really rehearsed before getting in a studio without any label backing. So let time go by without any word…gives me hope.
What a tribute he made for us!! Thanks for reporting it Admin 🙂