Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum joins with U.S and Scottish musicians to raise money with charity lockdown album. A charity lockdown album called House Music Volume C-19 has brought together over 20 different artists from America and Scotland - along with possibly the only song to sample Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon - in a bid to raise funds for two local charities in Fife. The track list features Man On Man, Roddy's new musical collaboration with his partner Joey

Faith No More's keyboard player and founding member celebrates his 57th birthday today. Roswell Christopher Bottum III was born on July 1st 1963 in Los Angeles, California. Read full bio HERE. Here we have some quotes picked from various interviews from 1990 to present . Kerrang! “I think the world needs a little provocation right now. It’s a kind of dark, dark place out there, and I think that bringing our craft and our musical exploration to the planet can only be a good th

Man On Man is the new duo of Roddy Bottum and Joey Holman who have created music during quarantine. The collaboration's Instagram describes the project as "gay lovers making gay music." In a new interview Roddy told Rolling Stone, “We’re setting out ultimately to document this odd time in the history of the world and to address the importance of creativity and togetherness. The statement of the song and video for ‘Daddy’ maybe is a celebration of love in isolation and is a lo

Florian Schneider co-founder of German electronic band Kraftwerk has died. He was 73. Kraftwerk's lead singer Ralf Hütter confirmed in a statement, "the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday." Faith No More have a range of influences from many different genres and Kraftwerk have often been cited. You can certainly hear shades of their synthpop noise

Faith No More should be on tour right now in Australia and New Zealand but covid-19 has forced them to postpone dates. Roddy Bottum however is making the most of his time in quarantine and has been busy recording new material with New York musician Joey Holman. The two will be releasing music this week under the moniker Man On Man. "My boyfriend and I drove a truck from NYC to California at the onset of the virus. We wrote and recorded a collection of songs in Oxnard about l

Faith No More's fifth studio album was released twenty five years ago in March 1995. The Making Of King For a Day Fool For A Lifetime This is the story of how Faith No More's compelling and brilliant fifth album King For a Day Fool For A Lifetime was recorded. This article was written with the help of the band, referencing interviews with band members and those who were involved. To Create You Must First Destroy The friction between five diverse personalities that created the

In 2018 Roddy Bottum was in Toulon, France recording with French instrumental group Hifiklub we can now hear the first song from these sessions, David Says. "Hifklub and Roddy Bottum met by chance in New York while the Toulon variable geometry quartet were working on In Doubt, Shadow Him!, their album and film with Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth). A few months later, a first musical rapprochement took shape with a project celebrating the American poetess Emily Dickinson. This initi

We're worried. Very worried. It's Monday morning, and IRISH JAEGA should've returned from her weekend on-the-road jaunt with FAITH NO MORE. She should be at her desk, diligently sub-editing the latest spectacular instalment of 'The Week In Metal'. But she ain't. She's nowhere to be found. Suddenly, Geoff Barton's telephone rings. FNM guitarist BIG SICK UGLY JIM MARTIN is on the line. "We have stolen your journalist! We have some Bic razors, and we are going to shave every hai

As a prelude to their current European jaunt, FAITH NO MORE trailed across the states with Voivod and Soundgarden as part of a triple-pronged metal attack. Roy Wilkinson joins them on the road for an exercise in American excess, Ed Sirrs watches them blow the opposition apart Sounds | 03.02.1990 | Ed Sirrs Divide and Conquer LIKE A burst of rock 'n' roll tracer fire, three silver juggernauts fly through the night. Asleep inside these chrome capsules are three consignments of

Steffan Chirazi interviews Jim Martin for the first ever FNM feature in Kerrang! Magazine California crap-busters FAITH NO MORE, currently on a UK club tour, are one of the most exciting, fresh and inspiring outfits to hit these shores in a long time. So sez Steffan Chirazi, in a bitter-sweet conversation with band guitarist 'Big' Jim Martin...... Gotta Have Faith | Kerrang Magazine | January 30th 1988 | Issue 172 California crap-busters FAITH NO MORE, currently on a UK club

Faith No More's smash single from 'The Real Thing' was released on January 29th 1990 "Mean, Vicious, chunky and Funky, Faith No More continue to break barriers with their brain-scrambling amalgamation of seemingly counteracting styles. Rap with Metal? No problem mate. Funk with  Hardcore overtones? Faith No More have it in hand. Hell, there's even a classical piano break at the end! FNM are the band to take Hard Rock into the '90s." - RIP Magazine 1990 Faith No More have over

Thirty years ago today FNM performed at Sheffield Octagon in the UK in support of their third album The Real Thing. Read the Kerrang! review Kerrang - Issue 275 | 03.02.1990 | Howard Johnson Octagon, Sheffield MORTAL SIN are Aussie Thrashers, and by the time I managed to brave the monsoon weather and Sheffield's one-way system, they are already well into their set. Moshers are joyously leaping from the PA stacks, the band are cranking out suitably monstrous riffs, and vocalis

Should MIKE PATTON cut the crap? Does RODDY BOTTUM need to come out of the closet? Does BIG JIM MARTIN treat women like dirt? And are FAITH NO MORE a mess of insecurities, attitudes and extravagant contrasts congealing into a thrilling whole... or just another rock band? Not an 'Easy' question to answer, reckons GINA MORRIS, as she spends a week in France with America's premier scatological strew-ups and wonders why such a nice boy like Mike Patton feels the need to swig his

The dance floor heavy metal of FAITH NO MORE makes them one of the prime contenders for '88 and the lyrics of vocalist Chuck Mosley penetrate deep into the human psyche. NEIL PERRY meets up with the Californian quintet on the Atlanta leg of their American tour. Making tracks MARY SCANLON. Sounds Magazine | 23.01.1988 | Neil Perry Hear My Train A'comin' Faith No More's wiry drummer, Mike Bordin, cuts himself off in mid-sentence as he surrenders to the dominating roar and clank

On January 20th 1991 Faith No More performed their first show in South America at Rock In Rio 2. Faith No More appeared live in Brazil and South America for the first time which was the beginning of their relationship with the continent, this particular show has become one of those legendary performances we can't stop watching and discussing. Rock In Rio is one of the largest music festivals in the world with 700,000 attending in 1991. The line-up included Prince, Guns 'n'