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
With Faith No More’s The Second Coming Tour now extending into the early months of 2010, the release of the Mondo Cane double album has been pushed back until April/May of next year.
The upside is that this release, previously expected for November, will now likely coincide with some Paris tour dates.
More news on this closer to the time.
Indiepit recently posted an article titled “Inside the Label: Ipecac Recordings” which had a few items of interest:
Check out the whole article here
One of stubb’s readers, John, has been trying to get some info out of the French promoters that recently prematurely advertised the Mondo Cane shows at Cité de la Musique. Finally he has received a response. Hopefully this will help anyone else in the same boat:
“Dear Sir,
we are sending a mail for all the public of these concerts. thank you for
waiting again a little.Best regards.
L’Equipe des relations avec le public
Cité de la musique”
What exactly the “mail” is that they are sending is yet to be discovered, but hopefully it “arrives” soon.
UPDATE 2: Ipecac now have official word on this:
“It has come to our attention that tickets are being sold for Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane in Paris on February 19 & 20. Unfortunately these dates are not correct. Mike did not agree to these dates. If you bought tickets, please get a refund. We are working on getting the correct dates. (http://www.ipecac.com/news/426)”
Tickets have just gone on sale for two Mike Patton dates with Ochestre Nationale d’Ile de France. February 18th and 20th, 2010. The concerts will be held at Cité de la Musique and are expected to be the first Mondo Cane shows since the highly successful Amsterdam concert of 2008.
A double album of Mondo Cane (Mike Patton and The Metropole Orchestra) is expected for release in November this year, though a later date to coincide with the Paris shows, is likely.
The event is already selling quickly. Get your tickets HERE!
To celebrate the 10th birthday of Ipecac Recordings, the man formally known as gerg, Greg Werkman, was interviewed in the latest issue of rock-a-rolla (a quality magazine).
On the new Fantomas:
“Mike’s not even really begun on that. He has ideas but it’s not even close.”
On Crudo and Peeping Tom:
“There will also be a new Peeping Tom record, not this year though… Then him and Dan the Automator started working on a band called Crudo. The thing about Mike is that he always has five or six records at various stages, all at the same time and it’s hard to tell which one’s gonna get done first. And then other things happen in his life and everything is put on hold. He just did the score for Crank: High Voltage. That took up four or five months of his life this last year, and when things like that happen everything else stops until he finishes those projects.”
On the much anticipated italian pop covers album Mondo Cane:
“We got Mike’s big project that he’s been working on for a while, a little over a year, called Mondo Cane. He sings italian pop songs with a full orchestra. He taped a couple of the shows he did over there last year and then he’s been in the studio working on the tracks and adding some strings. It’s taking longer now with the FNM stuff going on, it’s gonna delay it a little. I hope that record comes out in November of this year, but maybe not.”
Hat tip and thanks to mindbait for the heads up and transcribing the interview snippets!
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts Rock a Rolla recently revealed that Fantomas are currently working on their next album with a tentative release date of June next year, while the Mondo Cane album is looking at coming out March next year. All dates to be taken with a grain of salt obviously but good news about the new Fantomas……bring on some tours. Full news at rock-a-rolla.
photo credit: kokuziu
From Ipecac:
“Jul. 13, 2008 Joensuu, Finland @ IIosaarirock Festival
w/ Joensuu Sinfonietta
Jul. 18, 2008 Bologna, Italy @ Piazza Santo Stefano
w/ Orchestra Toscanini”
yay finally found it
http://www.mediafire.com/?jrua4j0gwod
http://www.mediafire.com/?imueejtjmlb
http://www.mediafire.com/?dmym3s2hmzt
http://www.mediafire.com/?ziyxvjywijn
http://www.mediafire.com/?kybju93dz0m
UPDATE: A torrent: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1561849
2nd Update: An AVI of the show:
Part 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?mbebwzktdxd
Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?zcyjwj1twlw
Part 3: http://www.mediafire.com/?mv1j9xyqmm9
Part 4: http://www.mediafire.com/?3g0njcjd9di
Part 5: http://www.mediafire.com/?ocicyfrz4m1
Part 6: http://www.mediafire.com/?p40atmeytxn
Part 7: http://www.mediafire.com/?lldzt1l9ytk
