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So we have a date 2020 is when Bungle return…..at least according to Bar’s tongue-in-cheek response to the question posed to him by Music Vice in a recent interview:

“Yes.  Only after enough time has passed that we have become so senile that the memories of petty resentments and grudges have faded.  We’re looking at 2020.  Just saw Danny today in Sydney, and hope to somehow include him in future recordings.”

Check out the  full interview

BTW I spoke to Bar backstage at the recent Sydney Umlaut show about his thoughts on an eventual Bungle reunion taking place and he is super keen for it to happen, so it still is possible but I wouldn’t be holding my breath for anything in the immediate future…..

Triple J, an Australian ‘alt’ radio station this morning aired a recent interview with Mike Patton from his San Fran home.

Interesting points that came from the interview include:

• He is about to complete a film score for an italian movie called “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”
• The Nevermen project with doseone and TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe should be due at the end of the year. He describes the project as a ‘vocal trio’
• He has a new Fantomas album bubbling away in the back of his mind
• Duane Denison is hard at work writing music for the new Tomahawk album

Download the interview here

Shootin’ fish in a barrel!

Oh also Newbury Comics are selling signed pre orders of the new Melvins album, The Bride Screamed Murder

Yet another excellent Mike Patton article has recently been released to the world. Now it’s the quietus’ turn:

“In a sense, baiting and teasing that audience became a part of his project, even a motivating factor. ‘I’ve certainly done things like that in the past,’ he says, ‘in some of the earlier bands – and it wasn’t just me! We would make musical choices like, oh yeah, this’ll really fuck ‘em up!’”

Check it

Hat-tip to JimT for the heads up.

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

In the lead up to the release of the Mondo Cane album and the winding down of the Faith No More Second Coming, Mike’s self imposed media ban has been lifted slightly with a few interviews starting to pop up.

Here is a recent one from NoiseCreep where he discusses the album, the Italian shows where the material was recorded, Italy, Faith No More and Meshuggah. Check it out

Next we have a Mondo Cane album review from Culture Bully.

And finally we have some Mondo Cane tour dates starting to appear:

• 22 July – Era Nowe Horyzonty Festival, Wroclaw Poland (Officially unconfirmed. via Pattonfans on twitter and Mondo Cane FB Page)
• 29 July – Blue Balls Festival – Luzern, Switzerland
• August 8 – Sudoeste Festival, Portugal
• As yet unconfirmed Russian Date (via the Mondo Cane FB page)

An excellent brand spanking new interview with Mike Patton on the Mondo Cane project has just been released over at Artist Direct. Some nice new pieces of info in it including:

The Mondo Cane album:

“Basically the Mondo Cane recordings were culled from our first three shows. They were all in Italy. Some very appreciated producers, editors and I chose different parts. Maybe for the record, we’d use one bar from the violins from concert one, and in the same piece of music, maybe we’d use the females in the choir from somewhere else. It was like a giant Rubiks Cube to find the best takes from three concerts out of all these different elements. Obviously, there was some studio trickery [Laughs]. It was fun.”

The Faith No More tour:

“To be honest, I never thought that I would ever revisit that stuff again. After some reflection and speaking with the guys, I realized, Well, wait a minute. I’m not embarrassed about it [Laughs]. It’s still good music! Is there a way that we can still pull it off and do it justice? So we rehearsed! When we rehearsed, I realized this is good and I feel great about it. After that, we decided to do some shows.”

Check out the whole interview here

The Mondo Cane facebook page has also posted a new album with loads of Mondo Cane live photos. Check it out here

Seeing as it’s a Faith No More-fest in Australia at the moment, it seems like a good time to take a trip down memory lane and check out a Recovery interview with Mike Patton and Roddy Bottum when they were last in town, in 1997.

Thanks to mikepatton.cl

Bonus vid. Bungle Recovery interview in ’96

Recently Isis frontman Aaron Turner was interviewed on the Governors Ball.

The interview is downloadable. Check it out: Part 1 & Part 2.

photo credit: toolfan.hess

I know this is a bit late, but now Puffy is jumping on the South American interview bandwagon!

Check out the original here and a fan’s english translation here

Excerpt:

“What drummers influenced your style of playing?

Musically, i haven’t been influenced by just one drummer, but i should mention some. Would be Bill Ward, because i listened a lot to Black Sabbath; the grandfather of rock drummers was John Bonham(Led Zeppelin): his shadow is so immense that you can’t escape him. I like also Matt Cameron(Pearl Jam) and Danny Carey(Tool), he’s a genius.

Thanks to FNM2.0