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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

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.

Sounds like it was an awesome night………..

photo care of OleCardDead

Update! The Setlist (thanks to Jawshco in comments)

Reunited
From Out of Nowhere
Land of Sunshine
Caffiene
Evidence
Gentle Art of Making Enemeies
Poker Face/Chinese Arithmatic
Last Cup of Sorrow
Cuckoo For Caca
Ben
Ashes to Ashes
Midlife Crisis
Digging the Grave
King for a Day
Epic
Just a Man

Encore:
Mike comes out and then leaves as Chuck runs out in a big red coat and sunglasses.
As the Worm
Crab Song
We Care A lot
Mark Bowen.
Encore 2:
Just Mike this time…
Ole/Chariots of Fire/Stripsearch
Introduce Yourself with both Mike and Chuck!!!

According to tbrandao who is currently attending the first night of the three Warfield San Fran Faith No More shows, the tour dates on the T shirts list a second New York show, July 2nd, Brooklyn. Good news for the east coasters!

UPDATE: Another New York Show – The Mann Center, Philadelphia on 3 July.

UPDATE2 – Billy confirms it:

“The Tshirts don’t lie: we’re adding 2 E.Coast shows. July 2 – Williamsburg Waterfront, Brooklyn….and July 3 – Mann Center, Philadelphia. We going to do another fan pre-sale for these shows through twitter on Tuesday, 4/20. More details coming up.”

To all in San Fran who are attending the shows, have fun! I’m sure FNM will have some surprises in store for the home town shows

Faith No More will headline the Exit Festival in Serbia on the 11th of July, and according to FNM2.0 they have also been confirmed to play the Ejekt Festival in Athens, Greece on Monday 13 July.

Via Secret Serpant

So in the aftermath of the Faith No More Australian tour, there have been loads of quality photo galleries emerging. Below are a few I have come across in my travels. If you know of any others, please post in the comments and I will update this post.

The Hordern Pavilion (22 Feb 2010) by Gezarie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gezarie/sets/72157623435923985/

The Hordern Pavilion (22 Feb 2010) by Chantel Bann
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chantelbann/sets/72157623454168329/

FNM Soundwave Festival Sydney by Chantel Bann
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chantelbann/sets/72157623356333265/

FNM Festival Hall (24 Feb 2010) by Chantel Bann
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chantelbann/sets/72157623474312753/

FNM The Hordern by The Hordern
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=156909&id=56816522126&l=484ec3e78b

FNM The Hordern by Faster Louder
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/gallery/14337/Faith-No-More.htm

Faith No More, AFI, Gallows, Festival Hall (24th/02) by Faster Louder
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/gallery/14428/3/Faith-No-More-AFI-Gallows.htm

FNM Melb Festy hall (25/02) Amped Photography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ampedphotography/sets/72157623506174512/

Faith No More will be heading back to Europe in July to cover the festivals they missed last year when they took July off:

1. July 8     Alive Festival Lisbon Portugal
2. July 9     Sonisphere Festival Madrid Spain
3. July 10     Bilbao BBk Live www.bilbaobbklive.com Bilbao Spain
4. July 15     Dour Festival www.dourfestival.be/en Dour Belgium
5. July 16     Gurtenfestival www.gurtenfestival.ch Berne Switzerland

They have also announced an east coast U.S date, July 5  at Williamsburg Waterfront, New York. If you can, make sure you make it to a U.S date because it could be your only chance!

Care of Roddy on twitter:

“FNM play NY!!!! Williamsburg Waterfront, Brooklyn, July 5! special presale March 16/10amET, we’ll tweet a special password that morning.”

If you are keen for tix, make sure you are following @RODDYBOTTUM and @mrgould for the presale password.

Hanging out backstage at the Hordern at the FNM after party has it’s benefits. The following is some info I picked up from various convos I had during the party.

Mike Patton:

On the new Mondo Cane album – May release date for hopefully June and July tour

On the Paris Mondo Cane show situation – He is not happy with the way the French venue handled the Mondo Cane show by selling tickets before he had actually confirmed the show. He is looking at other possible venues and mentioned that the Sydney Opera House was a good possibility as they had approached him to do a Mondo Cane show there

Jon Hudson:

On new material and Faith No More‘s future – He has no idea what is going to happen post second coming completion. None of them have discussed it yet. The plan was to do Europe and Australia and finish up with a few US shows. With the tour nearing completion they will get together at the end and work out where they go from there.

On the reunion - They just all got together to see how it felt. He said if anyone had actually heard them the first time they played together again, he is sure no one would have wanted it to happen

On the festival tour Scene – He much prefers the intimacy of smaller venues like the Hordern as you can see and interact with the crowd. Festivals (such as soundwave) feel like you are just playing to a giant faceless blob

Gregg Turkington:

On faxed Head – Has put together an albums worth of Faxedhead stuff. Trey has expressed his enthusiasm for the new album, but Gregg is struggling to pin him down to record it and make it happen.

Billy Gould:

On Faith No More returning to Australia – He said if it is going to happen it will happen sooner rather than later because he is getting too old for this sort of thing (so probably very unlikely to occur)

Danny Heifetz:

Current Projects – He recently recorded drums for the upcoming as yet untitled theHead album. Danny toured with theHead in support of “Cubic Meters” back in 2003.

And care of the Horden, the Faith No More setlist from the Hordern show………They were going to play As the Worm Turns!

Oh yeah and this guy is one of the nicest guys around. Thanks Billy for an amazing night

So the July Euro Fest dates are starting to roll in. Another one is now confirmed, Portugal’s Optimus Alive festival. More info here and ticketing info here.

And on an unrelated note, here is FNM with Tom Jones in Auckland

Thanks again to FNM2.0 for the tip

So it looks like the rumours are true and Faith No More are looking at returning to the European festival tour for the July run that they took off in 2009. They have just been announced to play the Sonisphere festival in Getafe, Spain, 9 and 10 July.

thanks to FNM2.0 and tbeest for the info