FAITH NO MORE Talk Reunion - "To Fuck Something Up Really Bad And Then To Go Back And Re-Address Is Really Unique"
May 13, 2015, 8 years ago
Faith No More, who release Sol Invictus - their first new album in eighteen years, on May 18th - are featured in a new interview with Rolling Stone, discussing the factors leading to their highly publicized reunion and the band's new album, Sol Invictus. An excerpt from the story is available below:
To Billy Gould, the reunion has been almost therapeutic. "When we were dysfunctional and we split up, I contributed to that as much as anybody," he says. "To look back and go, 'Well, I was kind of a dick then. If I behaved differently, how different could this be?' Actually, it's been completely rewarding on that side."
"I was a real hard-ass on people," he remembers about his Nineties approach. "I took on the role, myself, of being a whip-cracker. I grew up in a nice middle class family and got good grades in school. Dropped out to be a musician, I never graduated. I was completely unemployable. I worked at Domino's Pizza and I had shitty minimum wage jobs. This band was kind of like where I put all my focus, this is what I want to do with my life.""I would say in years past I held some shit in," says Mike Patton, who describes the reunion as being "like fucking therapy." "Now, we'd just rather talk about it. . . . I would hope that I've gotten better at that because I was not good at that in the beginning. If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won't talk about it, but you're going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room. Or start yelling about some innocuous — "It's fucking cold outside, goddamn!" — channeling that energy. You realize, Wow this is not helping."
Roddy Bottum, too, is finding some kind of closure in the new relationship. "I went through a whole drug thing halfway through the band that was really secretive and a weird place to be," he says. "That's…a whole lot of shame around that. Who gets that opportunity? To fuck something up really bad and then to go back and readdress is really unique."
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Faith No More performed on April 25th at The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA. Fan-filmed video of the entire show can be viewed below.
The setlist on the night was as follows:
"Motherfucker""From Out of Nowhere"
"Caffeine"
"Evidence"
"Epic"
"Sunny Side Up"
"Surprise! You're Dead!"
"Midlife Crisis" (with "Rich Girl" by Hall & Oates interlude)
"Everything's Ruined"
"The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"
"Easy" (Commodores cover)
"Spirit"
"King for a Day"
"Ashes to Ashes"
"Superhero"
--Encore--
"Sol Invictus"
"This Guy's in Love With You" (Burt Bacharach cover)
Mark Bowen" (with Chuck Mosley)
--Encore 2--"From the Dead"
The band's tour schedule is now as follows:
May
14 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
15 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
29 - Nurburgring, Germany - Grune Holle Festival
31 - Munich, Germany - Rockavaria Festival
June
4 - Vienna, Austria - Vienna Rocks Festival
5 - Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic - Rock For People Festival
12 - Landgraaf, Netherlands - Pinkpop Festival
13 - Donington, UK - Download Festival
14 - Glasgow, Scotland - 02 Academy
17 - London, England - The Roundhouse
20 - Clisson, France - Hellfest
21 - Dessel, Belgium - Graspop Festival
24-27 - Seinajoki, Finland - Provinssi
July
27 - Dallas, TX - South Side Ballroom
28 - Houston, TX - Bayou Music Center
30 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade Music Park
31 - Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheater
August
2 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
4 - Boston, MA - Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
5 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
7 - Toronto, ON - Ricoh Coliseum
7–9 - Montreal, QC - Heavy Montreal
