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Secret Chiefs 3 have added a few more stops to their upcoming Euro tour:  ISTANBUL: TURKEY, TEL AVIV: ISRAEL, SOPHIA: BULGARIA, TIMISOARA: ROMANIA, WELS: AUSTRIA, ESSEN: GERMANY

The full dates (as posted at WOM)

28.04 / WELS (au) @ Schl8hof
Alter Schl8hof Wels – Dragonerstraße 22 – 4600 Wels – Austria.
20:30 – 8/10 €
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29.04 / BRNO (cz) @ Melodka
Kounicova 20/22 – Brno 602 00 – Czech.
20:00 – 150/190 czk
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03.05 / BUDAPEST (hu) @ A38
Pet?fi híd – budai hídf? (Near Petöfi Bridge Muegyetem Rakpart) – 1117 Budapest – Hungary.
20:00 – 1500/2000 huf
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04.05 / TIMISOARA (ro) @ Set Up
Pestalozzi Street no. 22 – 30000 Timisoara – Romania.
20:00 – 10/20 lei Continue reading

11.05.10 / ZAGREB (hr) @ Teatar &td
12.05.10 / LJUBLJANA (sl) @ Kino Siska
17.05.10 / GENEVE (ch) @ L’Usine
18.05.10 / MÂCON (fr) @ Cavazik
19.05.10 / NANCY (fr) @ L’Autre Canal
25.05.10 / SAINT NAZAIRE (fr) @ Vip
26.05.10 / BOURGES (fr) @ Nadir
27.05.10 / MONTPELLIER (fr) @ Secret Place
28.05.10 / MARSEILLE (fr) @ L Embobineuse
29.05.10 / DÜDINGEN (ch) @ Bad Bonn
02.06.10 / AARHUS (dk) @ Stubnitz
03.06.10 / HAMBURG (de) @ Hafenklang
05.06.10 / PARIS (fr) @ Jardin de la Villette
06.06.10 / TOURCOING (fr) @ Grand Mix

Despite news that Download Festival would be FNM‘s sole UK appearance they have just confirmed a whole series of new dates for August, including the already sold out Reading Festival and Leeds Festival!

Thurs Aug 20 Pukkelpop Festival, Hasselt, Belgium
Fri Aug 21 Highfield Festival, Erfurt, Germany
Sun Aug 23 Area 4 Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Fri Aug 28 Reading Festival, Reading, England
Sat Aug 29 Rock en Seine, Paris, France
Sun Aug 30 Leeds Festival, Leeds, England

And to top things off, a little birdy may have tweeted word of another UK show… But we’ll keep you updated. *cough Brixton*

Enjoy, Europe!

UPDATE: Problems with Leeds and Reading. Official word from Billy:

“Reading and Leeds want dates but Download want their bill to be “exclusive”.

Faith No More’s booking agent is currently sorting this out, though for the moment Download are making other UK dates exceedingly difficult.”

Will post more info when available.

Faith No More have been confirmed for another European Festival, the Nova Rock Festival in Austria on the 19-21 of June.

Mike Patton‘s publicist and ipecac recordings has confirmed that Faith No More are to reunite and tour Europe. Here are the reports thus far:

mxdwn

Rock-a-Rolla

update: more links (thanks to comments)

popwatch

MTV

According to Gezarie John Hudson will be axeman for the tour

Ipecac Recordings Press Release confirming the Faith No More Reunion news

Mike Patton will be performing a string of dates with Italian band Zu. Zu’s music has been described as “a fusion of hardcore punk, free jazz and noise rock”. Should be some very interesting shows.

Tour Dates:

2 mar 2008 @ L’Usine Geneve (Switzerland)
4 mar 2008 @ Ossigeno Torino (Italy)
5 mar 2008 @ VK Brussels (Belgium)
6 mar 2008 @ Tivoli Utrecht (Netherlands)
7 mar 2008 @ Interzona Verona (Italy)

Press Release:

“(PR) Zu & Mike Patton have teamed up for a string of European dates. ZU represent something unique in the Italian independent scene, a band that built a strong fan base worldwide thanks to an uncompromising sound and more than 1000 gigs in nearly 10 years.

Their sound is an unique mixture of jazz improvisation, noise, hardcore attitude and extreme metal and in their career they released records and shared stage with artists like: The Melvins, The Ex, Dalek, Peter Brotzmann, Hamid Drake, Alvin Curran, Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, The Thing, Amy Denio, Damo Suzuki, Eugene Chadbourne, Geoff Farina & many more.

This time ZU have a very special partner on stage: Mike Patton an artist who simply changed todays’ music, from his earliest works with Faith No More to the experiences with Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk & Peeping Tom.

ZU and Mike Patton already toured together when the Roman band opened for the Melvins/Fantomas world tour and made a special appearance in 2006 in Ceanada, at the Victoriaville festival, a prelude to great future projects.“

LINE UP: ZU & MIKE PATTON

Massimo Pupillo – bass
Jacopo Battaglia- Drums
Luca Mai – Sax
Mike Patton: vocals & more surprises!!!

Other Zu sites:

Zu’s Myspace
Zu Wiki
Zu’s Homepage