I’m still digesting the news of a Faith No More reunion tour. I saw Mike Patton a few years ago at the Astoria. He was spitting on fans who were shouting for an FNM song as he set up his gear. They got off light. I’ve seen him quite happily piss on people.

I saw FNM a lot back in the day. They signed my leather jacket one wet Manchester afternoon – I skipped an English lecture to meet them and I remember Patton seemed to be channeling R2-D2. My jacket had the FNM logo on it – he wrote SUCKS underneath. That was around the time of The Real Thing.

The only way I envisaged them back together in the same place was maybe in a courthouse after they pulled weapons on each other. I figured Patton was happy enough with his Zorn projects, Fantomas, Tomahawk and all the other weird shit he’s had me grinning at over the last few years. I’m not at all sure I want to see him back on stage with FNM.

I probably will get a ticket though. Just in case he pulls a knife.

Photo: Elbereth from Rijeka, Croatia with Mike Patton. Accidental double exposure via Riot Clit Shave

PS I love the way their news page just picks up where the last entry left off back in 1998

So far this year I’ve been doing most of my writing offline. Things have moved forward considerably with the TV show(s), but nearly all the cool stuff I can’t talk about just yet. I’m about to go into another research phase so it seemed a good idea to kick some life back into the site.

However, the gremlins that knocked me offline last year have had a few repercussions – namely that I got unindexed by Google. No big deal really as I haven’t been using the blog half as much anyway. But after talking to Nik (who now looks after the guts of the blog and a few others I have floating around) we decided it was a good opportunity to pull everything down and restructure.

This is an old blog. When I first started I had no idea what I was doing and once you look under the hood it’s in quite a state. So we’re gonna fix up the internal organs and then relaunch the thing properly. Not sure how much of the old stuff I’ll reconnect – that may just become a hobby for rainy afternoons, rifling through the last seven years of posts and revisiting the better ones – we’ll see.

In the meantime I’ll start the research dump here and then we’ll see what the new site looks like once Nik and I have the time to dismantle the thing properly.

So yeah, watch this space, but keep a closer eye on Twitter for the time being.

PS My first trip to L.A. as a TV writer went way better than I expected…