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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,,24949621-5006024,00.html

“And, over on the Essential Stage as the sun goes down, there’s Fantomas leader Mike Patton, a man who follows no rules (career, musical or otherwise) but his own.

And what is Mike Patton‘s rule for the Big Day Out?

Concentrate, or you might end up with a can of fly spray directed at your ear.

“It doesn’t affect anything except your attitude,” says the amiably grumpy Patton about playing Fantomas’ album of film music, The Director’s Cut, in full in a festival setting.

If it wasn’t for the deliciously evil cackle he throws in, the guy could give Neil Young a shake in the curmudgeon stakes.

“I’m in a little bit more of a bad mood when I play these things,” he says, looking around the backstage area of the first BDO of the season in Auckland.

“It’s just not my scene. I’m not saying it’s worthless, but it’s less about music than a lot of other things.

“Let’s be honest, what we’re about to go and do is not music to pick up boys or girls on, or to get drunk with. It’s music you’ve gotta f—ing pay attention to, and if you don’t, it’s like having a mosquito in your ear for 45 minutes.

“I’m sure there’ll be a lot of people going ‘Whaaat?’ and running for the exits. But that makes you wanna do it even more.”

He laughs the evil laugh again. “

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