Care of the now ipecac run Mike Patton facebook page, we have what looks to be the Mondo Cane album cover, and the news that it is “Getting closer”.
Also check out a new interview with Mike over at rockmidgets.
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.
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
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
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.
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)
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
Mike Patton is set to perform Luciano Berio’s Laborintus II in Amsterdam on June 18 at the Holland Festival.
The show is described on the official site as a “Full-length programme centred on Luciano Berio’s masterpiece Laborintus II.” More info can be found at the Holland Fest site
“Mike Patton is not one to shy away from experiments. The frontman of Faith No More guest stars in a programme featuring Luciano Berio’s 1965 masterpiece Laborintus II, a modern concert chamber opera based on works by Dante, TS Eliot and Ezra Pound. Ictus, the Nederlands Kamerkoor and video-collective Visual Kitchen support Patton and his musical guests. Laborintus II mixes a whole range of musical styles, from dramatic opera to ‘60’s European jazz. After the break Patton will hold an improvisation session with a host of greats from the international jazz scene. The evening is rounded off with a steaming DJ-set inspired by Italian B-movies.”
FNM2.0 has some more info Luciano Berio and Laborintus II 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
So for some reason Mike Patton loves rockin out with his cock out in Bris-Vegas. He pulled the same moves in Brissy on a Tomahawk tour a while back just a few days before this happened in London:
And now, Brisbane Soundwave fans were presented with this charming visage:
click to embiggen the stretchiness
Image c/o tanithskye
Update: The video evidence. FNM chatroulette begins!
America’s Funny Man Neeeeeeiiiiil Hamburger will be supporting Faith No More alongside the Eagles of Death Metal, at the Sydney and Melbourne side shows on Feb 22, and 25th.
The comb-over sporting, tux wearing comedian played by Gregg Turkington, last spat humour (…literally) into the hungry faces of Patton fans at All Tomorrows Parties’ Nightmare Before Christmas, 2008.
With the FNM dates listed on his myspace, he will also be playing his own gig at the Toff in Town, Melbourne on Feb 23 with none other than Dr El Suavo. Get tickets for that night of magic, mayhem, hilarity and insult from moshtix.
Neil Hamburger and FNM… Australia, you’ve been warned!
Mike Patton was recently interviewed in a Brazilian newspaper and spoke about the recent Faith No More tours. Thanks to Buga_Lady at MOTO we have a translation:
Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Tuesday, 13th October 2009
Segundo Caderno
Bernard Aerugo
On the 5th of November, 21h30m, at Citibank Hall, Rio de Janeiro rockers will be back together with an old love affair, which started on the 20th January 1991. Back in that time, there was a band fronted by a jumpy brat, and being pushed by two video clips of heavy rotation on a newly born MTV Brasil, which showed the crowd that they were a serious band with their mixture of rock and funk, and got a rare connection with the people who crowded Maracas stadium.
- I don’t know how many times I’ve been to Brazil, but it was less than ten – says the brat, singer Mike Patton from Faith no More, with 41 years old today. – And that’s too few.
After 11 years apart, FNM is back since February 2009, and their return to Brazil will be in November, in Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte, besides Rio.
- I’m having a lot of fun with the shows – says Patton, through the phone, from his home in San Francisco, in the USA. – But South America is the part of the tour what I was waiting for since the beginning.
- Since the first time, in Rock in Rio, I had a lot of fun in your country. And Rio is more special then everything else, of course.
After so many years apart, the band, that achieved great success all over the world in the beginning of the 1990’s, did not maintain the same popularity in the following years with their CDs “King for a day, fool for a lifetime” (1995) and “Album of the year” (1997), in which they didn’t balance so well their experimental side with a pop flavor, and ended up extinct – not many people still thought there would be a Faith no More reunion.
- I was certain that would never happen – admits Patton. – I don’t know how many times, through the years, I said I would never be part of something like that, that it would be a step back. I always liked to give and end to things for good, in my personal life and professional, and go ahead. The idea of paying homage to our own music sounded selfish and horrible. Many times my manager came talking about an offer, and I wouldn’t let him finish the sentence.
He doesn’t know if the reunion never happened before only because of him.
- I would simply say “no”, I didn’t want to know, I had no idea if any of the others had ever said “yes”.
Until one day…
- There was an offer for some shows in Europe – recalls the singer.
- I thought it was a good moment and ended up agreeing. In the first rehearsal, I was late and I didn’t manage to enter the studio. I sat outside on the floor and listened to the band playing. The sound was very good, I felt I would be comfortable singing those songs again. And now we are here. We already played about 40 shows, and we are all happy.
The formation that brought FNM back is not the same from when they were at the top of their career, with successes like “Epic” and “Falling to pieces” (the two bizarre videoclips that MTV Brazil would play non-stop in 1990): the big-bearded guitarist Jim Martin, that was in the group until 1993, was not invited.
- We thought about inviting him, but we did two records without him, and that would be too many songs he would have to learn – tells Patton. – and there were also personal risks. For these reasons we have Jon Hudson, who is a good player and is great to deal with.
There are no news songs in the shows.
The show will certainly include successes like “From out of nowhere”, covers like the delicious “Easy”, from the Commodores, and B-sides like “Malpractice”. But do not expect new songs.
- We don’t have any new songs – says the singer. – The reason for this reunion is to remember our old songs, which we like so much, and try to entertain people with them. We have been lucky and there have been lots of people interested.
The tour, according to him, is more fun then hard work.
- We usually stay three weeks traveling and then go home to rest – he tells. – We are, in a way, getting to know each other again, learning how to deal with each other. Of course I have always been in touch with them, we are friends, but that sort of friend that you don’t talk to every day. So far, it has been great.
He says the reunion may not last forever.
- We are not Starbuck’s, that are in every corner – he jokes.
- If you want to see us, it is better go this time, because we don’t know if there will be another one, certainly not in another 10 years. So far we have shows booked until February, and maybe that will be it. The curious fact is that we didn’t have many offers to play in the USA.
So far, there are no plans for a new record.
- We haven’t discarded that completely, but we are not thinking about composing – says the singer.
- We don’t want to be like those bands that stay years apart, then return and release a horrible record.
That way, is it possible that Patton, in 2010, go back to projects like Fantômas, an experimental rock full of noise that played in Brazil in 2005 at a festival.
- It is always fun to go there, but that time it was weird – he remembers. – I remember we went to a van to go sound check and I joked with the promoter saying I wanted to go to a barbecue place. When we passed near one, I think in Barra, she told the driver to stop.
We left the van, ordered caipirinhas and had a great meal. When, hours later, I asked if we weren’t too late for the sound check , she said that we weren’t because the festival was running even later.
Besides playing in Fantômas, he owns a Record label, Ipecac Records, and has various other projects, like Mr. Bungle (another bizarre band, in which he sings since before FNM) and Peeping Tom.
- I’m finishing recording for a project called Mondo Cane – he says. – They are covers from classic-rock Italian tunes, a gender that I got to know when I lived in Italy.
Mike, who listens from Marcos Valle and João Gilberto to Sepultura and Ratos de Porão, intends to see some old friends in Brazil.
- I don’t see João Gordo (“gordo” means “fat” in Portuguese) in many years, how is he? I heard he became some kind of star, he is on MTV, is that true? Did he operate his stomach? Then, he turned into João “Flaco” (“flaco” means “thin” in Spanish)…
From the video description:
“Mike Patton and Luciano Chessa test out the reconstructed futurist noise machines for the upcoming ‘Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners’ at the Novellus Theater in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Friday October 16th at 8pm.”
According to Ipecac, Mike has recently written a “Futurist Noise Composition” but won’t actually be performing it. It will be performed by other musicians in two separate shows in New York and San Fran.
The official statement:
“Now here is a cool show to check out. Mike Patton recently wrote a musical piece for a futurist noise series that will be performed by musicians and composers in both San Francisco and New York City.
The SF show is October 16th at MOMA/Yerba Buena http://www.sfmoma.org/events/1459
The New York show is November 12th at Town Hall
The list of musicians that composed the music is VERY impressive. Check it out. Mike will NOT be performing.”
In a recent interview with Metal Injection, Dave Lombardo was asked whether he would ever rejoin Fantomas. Not only did he say that it will happen, but that he has also been in recent email contact with Mike:
“(5.26) I just emailed Mike Patton and we are in constant contact, that door will never close. I had so much fun working within the Fantomas music and its something I’ll never ever want to close. I’m sure in the future because he did mention hey we need to work together again. We’re both busy with Faith No More and me with slayer and it’s been like that for a while, but i see it coming.”
This is great news for us dedicated Fantomas obsessees as things were looking a little dire there for a while!
Slayer are on the brink of an Australian tour, and for one special Sydney show will be performing Reign in Blood in it’s entirety.
http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/3538/dave-lombardo-of-slayer-interview-at-mayhem-fest-2009