Don’t forget to grab your tickets!

So Ipecac’s official word on the Fantomas Australian tour early next year so far is as follows:

“Fantômas set to bring “The Director’s Cut” to Australia!
G’day Fantômas Fans,

You read right, the mighty Fantômas are bringing “The Director’s Cut” down under in January 2009.
They’re opening for their good friend Serj Tankian! Here are the dates:

Jan 21, 2009: Brisbane, QLD
Jan 24, 2009: Sydney, NSW
Jan 25, 2009: Melbourne, VIC

*We’ll post the venues when we get them, but we wanted to let you all know about these shows.”

UPDATE: word is venues are as follows:

21 Jan The Tivoli QLD
24 Jan Enmore Theatre NSW
25 Jan The Palace Theatre VIC

photo credit: gregoryperez

So (unfortunately) it looks like Fantomas will be joining the 2009 Australian Big Day Out tour which is already sold out and has a myriad of shithouse bands.

Fortunately they will also be supporting Serj Tankian’s solo Australian tour!

Officially Trevor has both the BDO and Serj dates listed on his myspace page but ipecac have only announced the Serj Support dates so far.

The Dates:

Fantomas: Big Day Out Festival

16 Jan 2009, 8:00PM, Aukland, NZ
18 Jan 2009, 8:00PM, Gold Coast, Aus
23 Jan 2009, 8:00PM, Sydney, Aus
26 Jan 2009, 8:00PM, Melbourne, Aus
30 Jan 2009, 8:00PM, Adelaide, Aus (Msg From Trev: it’s my birthday. It’s Adelaide. Somebody please get me baked.)
01 Feb 2009, 8:00PM, Perth, Aus

Fantomas opening for Serj Tankian

21 Jan 2009, 8:00PM - TBA, Brisbane, Aus
24 Jan 2009, 8:00PM - TBA, Sydney, Aus
25 Jan 2009, 8:00PM - TBA, Melbourne, Aus

“Just a reminder, there are still some tickets left for the ATP festival in England curated by Patton and the Melvins, come on, come camping with us!!!!
Also tickets left for the London Director’s Cut show on Dec 8th and the New Years show in San Francisco. These shows WILL sell out. Grab em now!!!!”

“Hey, all you Dvd craving peeps. Here is a cool one for you. We had a very special live performance of the Fantômas Melvins Big Band taped a couple years ago in England and it came out GREAT. The band ripped that night and friends of ours fancied up the footage and alas a Big Band Dvd is out everywhere now. We hope to do more of these as well.

Who knows when or if this group of musicians will play together again, it is a great souvenir of 2 bands joining forces to play each others songs.

As a bonus, we even did a top secret commentary track, where limoncello aficionado, Danny DeVito and friends like Dale & Buzz from the Melvins break down the concert to give you behind the scenes insight into the show. (well, that is what they were supposed to do, but they get a little side tracked)”

Go grab a copy now

There is also a snippet from the DVD on the new ipecac site

Fantomas Live Montreux 2005 DVDrip
Genre: Avant-garde metal, Experimental rock
Video: MPG, 352×288 (1150kbps)
Audio: 44100hz, 16bps, 2ch (224kbps)
Length: 0:40:56
Bitrate: 1394kbps
Size: 408 Mb

Ftr Terry Bozio on drums

Setlist:
Introduction
Night of the Hunter
Cape Fear
04/02/05 Saturday
04/03/05 Sunday
Ave Satani (The Omen)
04/04/05 Monday
04/06/05 Wednesday
Delirium Corida (Excerpt)
04/07/05 Thursday
04/09/05 Saturday
Take Me Out To The Balligame (Sample)
Page 27
Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
04/10/05 Sunday
04/13/05 Wednesday
04/18/05 Monday
04/20/05 Wednesday
Delirium Cordia [Excerpt]
04/21/05 Thursday
04/22/05 Friday
Experiment In Terror

P1: http://www.mediafire.com/?71qcx004h4z
P2: http://www.mediafire.com/?851tw9dhmfh
P3: http://www.mediafire.com/?a6tv0d8qjwj
P4: http://www.mediafire.com/?3db1ukhxt1n
P5: http://www.mediafire.com/?ds9ghpmzsxu

photo credit: gregoryperez

The Fantomas Melvins DVD - Live from London 2006 is due out on the 26th of August and from all accounts it is well worth the wait. If you’re a fan make sure you grab a copy if not for the concert, for the rambling and mostly unrelated commentary featuring among others, Ipecac’s good buddy Danny Devito.

DVD Promo Images:

Some interesting insights into how the DVD came about, and Mike’s opinion of concert DVD’s.

Linky to the article

Recent rumours regarding a possible album release or tour by Fantômas have been well and truely quashed by Andy of cv.org fame. Official word is that:

“there is no immediate Fantômas plans, and they expect any future plans to be at least 2 years out.  So don’t hold your breath for a 2008/2009 tour.”

Bugger