Caca Volante News

The numbers are in. The self-titled debut from Peeping Tom sold 9,559 units in the U.S. for the week. That means the album debuted at #103, just missing the Top 100.

No new releases bowed in the top 100 slots of the Billboard 200. The closest contenders include Mike Patton’s new project, Peeping Tom, entering with its self-titled Ipecac debut (No. 103, 10,000) and Les Claypool’s third solo studio album, “Of Whales and Woe” (Prawn Song), with 8,000 at No. 115 (his best chart position yet).

–Billboard Magazine

This is quite a bit better than the last FantÃ´mas album, which sold a little under 6,500 units in its first week for a #158 debut.

On the other side of the planet, Peeping Tom debuted at #12 on the Australian Music charts. I don’t have the exact number of units sold in Australia, but a #12 debut ain’t bad.

In related news, the new Faith No More “You Fat Bastards/Who Cares A Lot?” DVD combo. sold a little under 1,500 units in the U.S. during its first week.

Submitted By: Mr. T (U.S. Charts), Allan Sheard (Billboard Article), & Cory Morton (Australian Charts)

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New FantÃ´mas/Melt Banana Split

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Unhip Records has released a 3″ CD and a 5″ vinyl split of a new FantÃ´mas song and a new Melt Banana song.

The amazing split between FANTÃ´MAS and MELT-BANANA is finally ready. Some copies have already ended up on e-bay (copies that were originally sold at the recent FantÃ´mas european shows), but please don’t pay ridiculous prices for it and buy directly from us because there’s no need to worry that the record will sell-out anytime soon (also because it hasn’t been sent to distributors yet). And we haven’t started to sell it mailorder either, mainly because we’ve been (and will be) around the country for festivals so the mailorder will be resumed on Monday September 5th. Sincere apologies to all the people who have ordered the record, please have some more patience and you’ll get it!! Also to those who sent e-mails while I was on vacation, you’ll get your answer asap. We’ll be also accepting paypal payments from now on. The records are all hand-made (this is also why it took us a while to have them all packaged) and comes in 2 formats: the vinyl is a 5 inch while the cd is square-shaped and the diagonal of the square is three inches long.

Needless to say they’re incredibly neat to look at and to be held in your hands, which should be enough of a reason to go out and get it. The split single contains two brand new exclusive songs. FantÃ´mas (who are Mike Patton, King Buzzo, Trevor Dunn and Dave Lombardo for those living under a rock) go crazy on their “Animali In Calore Surriscaldati Con Ipertermia Genitale” (animals in heat overheated with genital hyperthermia), while Japan’s noisecore legends Melt-Banana gave us the wonderful “Cat In Red”. The artwork was drawn by Igort, a friend of ours who also happens to be one of the most talented artists in the world of comics. Check out his website www.igort.com , he’s also responsible for the Unhip Records logo.

Source: theMELVINS.net / unhip records
Submitted By: Evan

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Patton Has Ideas for Upcoming FantÃ´mas Albums

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

A Comment from a italian fan site reads…

“FantÃ´mas. Mike has 3-4 ideas for new album[s]. One with Terry Bozzio, one with Dave, one totally acoustic and one totally electronic.”

OOO… Can’t wait if it’s true!

Source: Delirium FantÃ´mas (an Itailian Fantomas fansite) via Rumba (a Finnish rock magazine)
Submitted By: Jamie Smith

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Correction: No FantÃ´mas in Brazil

Thursday, August 4th, 2005

It looks like FantÃ´mas will not be appearing in Brazil as originally reported. This bit was just posted to the Ipecac Recording website:

“…the band will NOT be touring South America this Fall. They received some offers but the offers were not enough to make it financially feasible. Their booking agent is working feverishly though to try to get you some FantÃ´mas in South America eventually. Much love to our peeps in Chile, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.”

Source: Ipecac Recordings

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More Australian FantÃ´mas Dates

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

FANTOMAS Australian Tour Dates:

This is all the info I have so far:-

10 September 2005, The Tivoli Theatre BRISBANE
11 September 2005, Enmore Theatre SYDNEY
13 September 2005, The Palace MELBOURNE

Tickets for Melbourne show available Thurs 4th Aug.

Source: Ticketek and The Palace
Submitted By: Strangel

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FantÃ´mas in Brazil

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Fantomas is going to play in Brazil. the show will happen in the “Curitiba Rock Festival” on September 25. Fantomas will co-headline the show with Weezer.

Source: Curitiba Rock Festival (portuguese page)
Submitted By: Thiago Veloso

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