Faith no more: Mike Patton “is not willing to make concerts with us”

THE Faith no more they have been largely inactive in the last decade after the publication of their return album “Sol Invictus“In 2015, even if he should have played a series of shows in 2020, only that they were deleted due to Covid-19.

In addition, the Californian training, which does not appear on stage from the last concert held in Hollywood on August 20, 2016, canceled the latest dates scheduled in 2021 with Mike Patton For reasons of mental health of the frontman who then revealed that during the pandemic he had been diagnosed with agoraphobia (the fear that is felt in unknown places, crowded and the wide spaces. Certainly not ideal condition for the protagonist in concert and life on tour).

Since then, however, the singer has been around with his other band, i Mr Bungle, And now, in a new interview with Podcast Let There Be Talk, Mike Bordin drummer and founder, in the early 80s, of the Faith No More he provided an update that are not very encouraging on the future of the group.

Bordin told of the need to erase the shows of 2021, saying that it was “very clear that at that moment Mike Patton was not able to do it physically. We made the decision to support our” man “,” he added. “We knew it would be a shitty storm erase 75 concerts, but none of us wanted to force him to do something that was not able to do. There was not even discussion.”

But when Bordin saw that the shows of the Mr Bungle went on, he changed his mind and understood that the situation of the Faith no more could be another. “My idea is that Mike has gone from the impossibility of doing shows to a clear unavailability to do shows with us,” he said. “And this is heavy. It is a big difference. And we haven’t spoken much about it … it doesn’t seem like a good thing. Honestly it does me a little bad, but it’s a personal thing. It’s a private thing. We would never have forced someone to do something that was not able to do. And now, as I said, it seems that it is more than anything else to be willing to do it.”

At the beginning of this year also the keyboardist Roddy Bottum He also spoke of the future of the Faith no more, stating that at this moment they are in a “really strange situation”. “You can not believe me, but there is nothing to say,” Bottem stressed. “At this moment we are in a really strange situation and I can’t really tell you what’s going on. I don’t even know. I receive information other than people … and I’m in the band”.

Bordin, for his part, will take part At the farewell show of the Black Sabbath At the Villa Park in Birmingham on July 5th.