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There have been a couple of new Mike Patton interviews appearing here and there recently with lots of juicy new info, specifically on the future of Fantomas, Tomahawk and Faith No More. Check em out:

Metal Sucks

On Fantomas:

“I just need to write a new record for these guys. They’re just sitting around waiting for me. That’s the status. Very simple. I’ve just gotta, you know, do it. That’s (Fantomas) an important one to me. It’s close to my heart. I don’t wanna take it for granted.”

On Faith No More

“It just happened. I think it was a reconciliation of sorts. We’ve been offered to reform many, many times over the last ten years. At some point, we all realized, ‘Hey, what’s the problem here? Should we do this? Will the music stand up?’  That was a big question. So, we rehearsed to kinda figure out whether it would stand up or not. And it did. And here we are.”

On future Zorn Collaborations:

“Zorn’s written another Moonchild record that I gotta go out to New York and sing on it. In fact, I should be doing it right now.”

On Tomahawk:

“Yeah, yeah. But it’s not my project so… It’s Duane [Denison]’s project. He’s written a bunch of new tunes and he actually just sent me a CD the other day. It’s, like, acoustic guitar and metronome… We’re a long ways off, but yeah, I think there will be more music. Why not?”

The Skinny

On Mondo Cane:

“I knew I would interpret these pieces aggressively – but I didn’t want to murder them, because there has to be an element of respect there and to really just commit some kind of a crime in the name of nostalgia would not be cool… I wouldn’t sleep so well.”

On the future of Faith No More:

“I would venture a guess that this is going to be it, but hey – this is what our focus is now – once this is all over, maybe we’ll sit around, have a laugh and talk about the future. But right now I think it’s way too early to say.”

On future projects:

“I’m working on another score, for an Italian film which should be out later in the year. Mondo Cane is doing a tour in Europe in July, believe it or not, it’s a hell of a time to put it together but we’re going to be over there for around a month.”

Hat tip to Patton Archivo

• Jul 22: WROCLAV (POLAND)
• Jul 25: MILANO – Milano Jazzin’Festival (ITALY)
• Jul 26: FIRENZE (ITALY)
• Jul 29: LUCERNE (SWITZERLAND)
• Jul 31: MOSCOW (RUSSIA)
• Aug 3: TEL AVIV (ISRAEL)
• Aug 5: BRUSSELS (BELGIUM)
• Aug 8: with AIR and MASSIVE ATTACK ZIMBUJEIRA DO MAR (PORTUGAL)

So if you were managed to pre-order one of only 500 signed copies of Mike Patton‘s upcoming Mondo Cane release from Newbury comics count yourself lucky, cos they went quick.

Looks like Mike has just finished up signing them all!

“Just finished signing 500 booklets for Newbury Comics! Whew! All sold out on pre-order, thanks people!”

I think I may have ordered a spare copy, so keep an eye on stubb in the near future in case I’m giving one away…….

Last minute Umlaut gig announcement! They are playing The Lyrebird Lounge this Saturday night, (May 1st). Get down there if you can. (61 Glen Eira rd, Ripponlea, you lucky mofos)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/da9kxm

Thanks to kavbayer33 for the link

He is hunting for Warfield boots. If anyone has link, please post in the comments.

Not the best but the only version I can find so far. If anyone has a better version, please let me know in comments! I know there is one, but the traders are holding their cards close to their chests…….

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y2BO0CPH

“People, we can’t fuck you…unless you’re wet”

Thanks to GigaBru for the linkage.

So after skipping Sydney on their brief visit to Australia last September, those crazy kids from Japan, Melt Banana, will be performing at The Studio, Sydney Opera House.

The show is $35 and is on the 2nd of June. More info

My buddy Heather is a great photographer and one of the reasons why I got in to photography. She also helped me out a lot with what equipment to get and stuff like that so I owe her big time.

You may know her as the administrator of www.bunglefever.com and she also maintains the ftp.bunglefever.com repository. Oh and her beardless better half runs a little place called CacaVolante.

Anyway she recently attended the Faith No More Warfield 13th and 14th shows and took some very nice photos which are now residing at her flickr. Check them out:

Faith No More at The Warfield on April 13, 2010 (flickr set)

Faith No More at The Warfield on April 14, 2010 (flickr set)

Ithaca Undergound

“I still work with John Zorn quite a bit and I think there are two recordings I’ve done with him that are on their way to release.  One is The Dreamers – our third release plus a new group I think he’s calling White Magic which is a really strange sort of chamber jazz project with harp, piano, vibraphone.  I play electric bass on it and it’s a really interesting project.  We spent three days in the studio recording it and it crosses the line between Steve Reich minimalism and ‘70s fusion mixed with chamber music.  It’s a really interesting project! “

Eye Weekly

“The last few rock bands I’ve been in have been on the weirder side, and I just wanted to do something that was based more in the early stuff that I listened to. That, and just wanting to get onstage and play rock music.”

hat tip to stubb buddy Timb for the links

Justin St. Vincent recently pinged me about his new book The Spiritual Significance of Music which features, among others, our good buddy Billy Gould.

“A new book edited by New Zealand born writer Justin St. Vincent, exploring “The Spiritual Significance of Music” is out now. It includes personal contributions from many of the world’s leading musicians and writers including interviews with members of Devo, DragonForce, Faith No More, Guns N’ Roses, Daniel Bedingfield, Michael Franti, Bob Sinclar, and Ravi Shankar, among many others. Justin St. Vincent has interviewed more than 1000 people to explore the deeper meanings of music, choosing over 100 responses to produce a cutting-edge and ground-breaking project for our music-minded generation.”

Faith No More fans can grab it half price from here: xtrememusic.org/fnm.html

He has also kindly offered to give away a signed copy to stubb readers. To enter, e-mail your name with “Stubbadub Book Entry” as the subject to: media{at}xtrememusic{dot}org

c/o brooklynvegan

Recently it was announced that some of Coachella will be live streamed via 5 Gum on Myspace and Facebook. More info can be found here

Faith No More are onstage on Saturday 1:00am (EST) (which I believe is Sunday early morning).

Doesn’t look like Dillinger Escape Plan are included in this. If anyone has an more info, please post in comments and I’ll update here.