Caca Volante News

Are you jealous of your west coast friends and their Coachella tickets? Here’s a way you can fill that FNM void:
A Small Victory, the east coast’s best (and only) Faith No More tribute band, will be performing on Friday, March 5th at Connolly’s Klub 45 room in Manhattan. Details follow below. We may not be the real thing, but we’re the next best thing.
When: 3/05/10, 10pm
Where: Connolly’s Klub 45 Room, 121 W 45th St (between 6th and 7th Aves)
Cover: $10
www.myspace.com/asmallvictorynyc
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Playing their first show in the US since 1997, Faith No More has been confirmed to play the Coachella festival on Saturday, April 17th.

No word yet on additional US dates.

No, that’s not a joke, there’s yet another Faith No More greatest hits album coming out June 1st, and it’s really called “The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits.”

CD 1 – Fully Remastered Tracks

• The Real Thing
• From Out Of Nowhere
• Epic
• We Care A Lot
• R’n’R
• Kindergarten
• Caffeine
• Land Of Sunshine
• Be Aggressive
• Midlife Crisis
• A Small Victory
• Everythings Ruined
• Evidence
• Digging The Grave
• Ricochet
• Ashes To Ashes
• Stripsearch
• Easy

CD 2 – B-Sides, Covers and Rarities

• Absolute Zero (B-side on ‘Digging The Grave’ single 1995)
• The Big Kahuna (B-side on ‘Ashes To Ashes’ single 1997)
• Light Up And Let Go (B-side on ‘Ashes To Ashes’ single 1997)
• I Won’t Forget You (Rarity previously released on Who Cares A Lot? Greatest Hits album 1998)
• The World Is Yours (B-side on ‘I Started A Joke’ single 1998)
• Hippie Jam Song (Rarity previously released on Who Cares A Lot? Greatest Hits album 1998)
• Sweet Emotion (Given away with Kerrang! Magazine in 1989)
• New Improved Song (Given away with Sounds Magazine In 1988)
• Das Schutzenfest (B-side on Evidence Single 1995)
• This Guy’s In Love With You (B-side on ‘I Started A Joke’ single 1998)

iTunes Exclusive Tracks

• Spanish Eyes (B-side on ‘Ricochet’ single 1995)
• I Started A Joke (Single released on Who Cares A Lot? Greatest Hits album 1998)

If you want a copy for free, Thrash Hits is giving away five copies.

Thanks to mik kime for sending this along.

This morning Billy shared a photo of their rehearsal space.

Roddy drove up to San Francisco from Los Angeles today to rehearse with the band.   He promised photos when he arrived and posted these shots of the individual members on TwitPic.  This is the closest we’ve gotten to a reunion photo so far.

Twitter has been around for over two years, but it seems to have reached critical mass recently.

Billy Gould (@mrgould) started using it to communicate about the Faith No More reunion.  Then Roddy Bottom (@roddybottom) joined.  Even Chuck Mosley (@chuckmosley) has an account now.  With the launch of the new website, Ipecac Recordings (@ipecacrec) is now on Twitter as well.

I often come across things of interest, but don’t get around to posting them until it’s old news or I’ve forgotten about them entirely.  So, with the recent popularity of Twitter, I realized that I can send out tweets much more frequently and more timely than I can update this site.  So for fresh content, follow @CacaVolante on Twitter.

If you weren’t able to get a copy of the March 11th issue of Kerrang!, here’s a composite of the article:

Thanks to “Mr John” for the scans.

I try to keep up with what’s going on with the FNM reunion, but to make sure you get all the information, there are a couple of other blogs that you should be reading, if you’re not already.

• stubbadub by Josh Hessel
  News about WoM, Ipecac, Mr Bungle, FNM & related bands & musicians
• Faith No More 2.0 by Adrian Harte
  All about the Faith No More reunion

If there are other blogs actively covering the Faith No More reunion, please let me know.

Kerrang! Magazine has always seemed to promote Faith No More more than other rock music magazines, so it comes no surprise that the news of Faith No More’s reunion would take the cover of the March 11th issue.

In this week’s Kerrang! magazine we welcome back the newly reformed Faith No More! 

After an 11 year split, FNM are reforming for this year’s Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival. We chronicle how the San Franciscan nutjobs became the finest – and moist shocking – band of the ’90s!

According to a Digital Spy interview with Krist Novoselic, bands like Faith No More “paved the way for Nirvana.”

“Living on the margins for so long, living in the underground scene it’s like: ‘Oh this will never catch on’.

“But it did, and it was starting to change where you had bands like Faith No More and Jane’s Addiction.

“They were these rock bands but they were more like alternative or edgy. Then they paved the way for Nirvana.”