It appears Faith No More are on a "semi permanent hiatus." Keyboardist Roddy Bottom made the revelation on his Substack.
Bottom said the following:
Readers, hey.
Lemme introduce me but let's also acknowledge us.
Introductions can be awkward, I know, I'll start. I'm Roddy. I've made a life for myself making music. With Faith No More and then Imperial Teen. I live in NYC and I work with my boyfriend in a band called MAN ON MAN and two awesome friends in a band called CRICKETS and also sometimes the horror art project gnarl core Nastie Band. FNM is kind of on semi permanent hiatus and Imperial Teen is making a record slowly but definitely. I wrote an opera about Sasquatch a couple years ago but I can talk about all those projects later. I'm here in anticipation of a book I've written, it's a memoir called The Royal We. It's my first foray into writing and it's exciting and scary and a whole new world for me..
My initial purge and process was to lay out my life in story form from beginning to end. I did it every morning first thing for like over a year until I was happy with it. When I shared it with an agent he told me that 'cradle to grave' pieces don't really sell that well. Say that phrase out loud. Cradle to grave. Can you even? I don't care so much about the selling part, but the phrase scared the fuck out of me. For starters, i hate biopics. The predictability and the formula and honestly the straight line of a story, there just aren't enough surprises, know what I mean? I find myself checking my watch, just waiting for the protagonist to die. Creating something formulaic and routine like that freaked me out so I went to Paris and reworked everything I'd done. I know. Paris. It's ok to roll your eyes. I needed to change up everything so I could change up everything so I went there and sat in an old library for a month and wrote.
Now as it sits, my book is more of an ode to San Francisco, bicycle messengering, sex work, heroin, dreadlocks, the birth of politics in punk rock, wheatgrass, witches, crystal meth, coming out, self love and the burning down and obliteration of a great American city. It's not a tell all but it tells a lot. I'm leaning into the poetic and the literary. There are people you know in it, overdoses, tragedies and victories and failures. I'll share excerpts of it here as we go forward but for now that's me.
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Post CommentIt's been like 8 years since they've done anything anyway
A long time ago my homie and I went to see them and the lead singer walked straight up to my dude, grabbed him by the neck and kissed him on the lips. It was hilarious, and they shredded.
Last name Bottom, turns out to be an actual gay. Foreshadowing?
"I live in NYC and I work with my boyfriend in a band called MAN ON MAN' The SF to NYC globo-homo pipeline do be like that.
Why is everyone gay? Ever since Biden got in office the gay community just multiplied
Rick here. I'll never take a hiatus from nachos. I'm fat, yo.
Why is everyone gay? Ever since Biden got in office the gay community just multiplied It is weird, isn't it? You lessen the amount that people are systematically persecuted and marginalized and then BAM! They start feeling comfortable enough to publicly express their true selves. I'd be interested to hear thoughts on how we should handle it.
live in NYC and I work with my boyfriend in a band called MAN ON MAN live in NYC and I work with my boyfriend in a band called MAN ON MAN live in NYC and I work with my boyfriend in a band called MAN ON MAN
I'm coming to New York in four days and would love to go to a man on man show where is your next show?
Also, can my boyfriend come over and hang out with your boyfriend after the show?
wearing my lambgoat furnace fest shirt eating a $1 slice at 2 bros pizza next to penn station rn
That's literally where I'm arriving. Moyinhan. Coming for the World Series. How many attempts to get subway to yankee stadium? Or can you push like a salmon and make it first try?
I miss the days when being gay was taboo and dirty. I got so much ass from closeted jocks at shows. It was forbidden and it was amazing. Now it's all cringe hipsters free Palestine let's buy new dr*pes
Todd Jones here. I saw these badboys back in 94'. They should retire. DONE. OVER. FINISHED. END. They will never be one of us.
LOL. A gay jew talking about degeneracy and the destruction of american cities. Can't write this sh*t... well, maybe you can
Introduce Yourself is the best FNM album, Mike Patton is overrated af
So he just mentions the semi-hiatus part so he could plug his bands & biography, got it. Ridiculous "reporting". Faith No More Member Shares News On Side Music Projects & Upcoming Biography, Says Faith No More Is On "Semi-Permanent Hiatus" That so hard Lurk you imbecile? Guess so.
Introduce Yourself is the best FNM album, Mike Patton is overrated Agreed. Patton always had an inferior complex to Anthony Keides (which is a mental illness in itself). Then he went on to create a career that attracted fat sweaty horror fans and dudes who rub their chins when talking about Devin Townsend. Last time I heard about him he was having a "mental breakdown over Trump", and before that he was in an edgy choreographed photo with the guy from The Locust after being pulled over by cops
>fat sweaty horror fans and dudes who rub their chins when talking about Devin Townsend. Nailed it
Nobody f*cking cares about your GAY ASS musical endeavors. I think they can fill your spot. Not to be confused with how your bf fills your b hole
Last time I heard about him he was having a "mental breakdown over Trump", and before that he was in an edgy choreographed photo with the guy from The Locust after being pulled over by cops You don't get out much, huh? Your take makes sense. Patton is definitely not for flyover state trash. You need a little bit of a brain to be into it.
So if they get an offer for half a million they're back
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TRUMP 2020 FOR LIFE folks are the only post contributors ever.
All of Patton's other projects are terrible when compared to FNM. Patch that shit up and go out with a sick final tour if need be.
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