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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.”

Douglas Esper recently interviewed Chuck Mosley about his new album and asked him what he thinks about the Faith No More reunion.

Read the interview at DomainCleveland.com

Faith No More confirmed For Austria’s Nova Rock Festival (June 19-21, 2009). More info and full line-up at http://www.novarock.at/

There have been three dates announced so far:

Download Festival
Donington Park, England
June 12-14

Southside Festival
Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany
June 19-21

Hurricane Festival
Eichenring, Germany
June 19-21

Southside and Hurricane are twin festivals that take place at the same time.  We don’t yet know which specific day FNM will be playing at each of these festivals.

For up-to-date tour date postings, check the events section of the Faith No More facebook page.

RollingStone.com has posted a few great photos from “The Real Thing” era of Faith No More.

Bill Gould set up a Twitter account to send updates on the band’s progress leading up to the upcoming tour. So now you can get updates directly from the band!

http://twitter.com/MRGOULD

From: http://www.fnm.com/news/

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