Faith No More has always stood out as some sort of unique beast; part dog, part cat–its music almost as schizophrenic as the personalities of its members. When it all worked, it worked really well, even if the chemistry was always volatile. Throughout our 17years of existence, the mental and physical energy required to sustain this creature was considerable and relentless. Though amicable enough, when we finally split, we all followed paths seemingly destined to opposite ends of the universe.

Yet during the entire 10 years that have passed since our decision to break up we’ve experienced constant rumors and requests from fans and promoters alike. Nevertheless, for whatever reason, none of us kept in regular touch, much less to discuss any possibilities of getting together.

What’s changed is that this year, for the first time, we’ve all decided to sit down together and talk about it. And what we’ve discovered is that time has afforded us enough distance to look back on our years together through a clearer lens and made us realize that through all the hard work, the music still sounds good, and we are beginning to appreciate the fact that we might have actually done something right.

Meanwhile we find ourselves at a moment in time with zero label obligations, still young and strong enough to deliver a kickass set, with enthusiasm to not only revisit our past but possibly add something to the present. And so with this we’ve decided to hold our collective breaths and jump off this cliff….
BACK, GOD FORBID, INTO THE MONKEY CAGE!!!

We can only hope that the experience of playing together again will yield results erratic and unpredictable enough to live up to the legacy of FNM.
Who know where this will end or what it will bring up…only the future knows. But we are about to find out!

FAITH NO MORE are:
Mike Bordin, Roddy Bottum, Bill Gould, Jon Hudson and Mike Patton

“MTV News contacted Patton’s publicist, who told us that yes, the Faith No More reunion is happening … and no, they’re not going to be playing any dates in the U.S. (sorry, Coachella fans). This is will be a strictly European affair.”

More info from MTV.com

I’m going to try to get more concrete details, and I will try to post more soon.

Faith No More:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Faith-No-More/16942753414

Mr. Bungle:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mr-Bungle/16313132508

Mike Patton:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mike-Patton/7538616102

Ipecac Recordings:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ipecac-Recordings/5982142689

Fantômas:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fantomas/25005565812

Secret Chiefs 3:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Secret-Chiefs-3/38180335014

Dieselhed:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dieselhed/17435773262

Dengue Fever:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dengue-Fever/25531843272

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sleepytime-Gorilla-Museum/31670987384

I went to the Moonchild show at the Moore Theatre in downtown Seattle on Sunday, November 4th.  I’ve got a review on my blog and some video snippets (from my digital camera) on YouTube.

Direct links:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=29187805&blogID=326266544&Mytoken=48517425-5DBC-4272-8F1B9A0B61B842B740079341

Generic links (if the above are too long):
http://blog.myspace.com/bowlofedamame
(then scroll down to 11/6/07  entry)

http://www.youtube.com/ytsejam3325

~Dan

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

They have four dates together before splitting up for a few solo gigs. Patton’s headlining shows are all with Italy’s Zu, and Fennesz’s are mostly festival dates. Patton fans in Brussels should note that a scheduled gig at VK for March 5 has been cancelled. But the question remains: When are these two gonna show North America some love?

Patton has also been collaborating with Dan the Automator under the name Crudo. The pair will perform at the 2008 Sasquatch! festival, running May 24-26.

Patton & Fennesz:

02-27 Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller
02-28 Sofia, Bulgaria – Universiada Hall
02-29 Warsaw, Poland – Proxima
03-01 Zaandam, Netherlands – De Kade

Patton:

03-02 Geneva, Switzerland – Usine *
03-03 Rome, Italy – Circolo Degli Artisti *
03-04 Turin, Italy – Ossigeno *
03-05 Brussels, Belgium – VK
03-06 Utrecht, Netherlands – Tivoli *
03-07 Verona, Italy – Interzona *
05-24-26 George, WA – The Gorge (Sasquatch!) #

* with Zu
# performing with Dan the Automator as Crudo

Source: Pitchfork

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  I realize these dates have all passed. Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

www.myspace.com/umlautbarmckinnon

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

Editor’s Note: This was an old submission I failed to approve.  Please accept my apologies while I play catch up.

Yes, you read that right. Mike Patton will be appearing on Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse as reformed rocker Rikki Kix. The episode is set to air on Sunday, July 21st on Cartoon Network. Don’t miss it!

The trailer for Perfect Place, and you can hear some of Mike’s Soundtrack.
http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/36/26336.php

This brings up an issue I see a lot. People post cool things they’ve found in the comments of completely unrelated articles. So unless you read through all the comments, you miss most of the “new” news that I haven’t either heard about or just not got around to posting.

I converted CV from a custom built web app to a standard blog to encourage a community so people could write their own stories and submit them. However, I can’t just leave it open for anyone to publish unmoderated due to the obvious spam that would soon take over the blog. Plus, honestly I just don’t have time anymore to check every submission, especially when WordPress doesn’t even notify me when I something to moderate. So I have been struggling with what to do with CV lately. Should I just kill it? Do people even really care anymore? The bands that CV was supposed to be about are long dead anyway.

But I was fortunate to grab a short domain name, so unless I get offered an ungodly amount of money, I have no plans of getting rid of it, so what to do with the cv.org web space? I could create a site for my canned vegetable collection, but that doesn’t seem all that interesting either.

The other day I had an idea. What about a setup like Digg? Allow people to post whatever they want, completely unmoderated, and then people vote on the stories to promote them or bury them if they are inaccurate or just plain crap. Plus, it would allow people to easily link to and promote their own sites. It would be take the burden off me and allow the CV community to control what they find cool and interesting. I think that would solve a lot of the problems and once again give CV a purpose. I’ve always wanted CV to be a community driven site and I think this may be the best solution.

So I think that’s what I’m going to do. In a few days, I will take this blog down (and archive it somewhere) and replace it with a community publishing system. Let’s see how that works. If it bombs, I can always fall back to my canned vegetables idea.

Update: I’ve decided against the community voting route. This site just doesn’t have enough traffic for that to really work. So I’m going to keep the blog going. I found some old stuff I thought was long deleted that used to be hosted here, so maybe I’ll get some of that back up here before long.