{"id":353376,"date":"2026-02-24T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/353376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:37:08","slug":"mike-patton-says-faith-no-mores-last-tour-felt-like-closure-even-if-nobody-said-it-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/353376\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Patton Says Faith No More\u2019s Last Tour Felt Like “Closure”\u2026 Even If Nobody Said It Out Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the future of Faith No More<\/a>, plenty\u2019s been said about how it\u2019s pretty much non-existent. After the way their last tour was canceled<\/a> and how some members believe frontman Mike Patton was \u201cunwilling\u201d to do shows with them<\/a>, it sounds like their \u201csemi-permanent hiatus\u201d<\/a> is more permanent by the day.<\/p>\n

According to a recent interview with Kyle Meredith<\/a>, Mike Patton said the band\u2019s final performances over a decade sure felt like it was the end, even if no one really said it at the time.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd I think that we all kind of felt it, but it was unspoken. And it\u2019s funny: when you\u2019ve been in a band or a musical situation for a period of time, you always, in the back of your head, you\u2019re kind of thinking, \u2018Well, maybe this is it.\u2019 And I don\u2019t mind that feeling. I don\u2019t see it as a sad thing. I see it as being present and being able to really appreciate it while it\u2019s happening.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For many folks that follow Faith No More, many might see the various other projects Patton\u2019s been spending his time with \u2014 Mondo Cane, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Mr. Bungle, etc. \u2014 as side projects. Yet in this most recent conversation, Patton explained that to him, there are no \u201csecondary\u201d projects. In his mind, each one is equally important because he doesn\u2019t see any one project as taking precedence over any others, even one as massively popular as Faith No More.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019d never really understood, and I had to figure this out very early on, was the concept of a side project, that\u2019s assuming that there\u2019s a main one. And for me, I really never had one\u2026Everything that I\u2019ve done was of equal importance to me. They just weren\u2019t viewed that way.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whether his former bandmates in Faith No More feel that way is a totally different thing altogether. Over the years, people like keyboardist Roddy Bottum has talked about the band\u2019s inability to get back together after 2016. They had plans at one point to tour in 2021, but that fell through when Patton was dealing with some mental health issues and alcoholism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With how it all went down, Bottum said he doesn\u2019t really see anything happening with Faith No More in the near future.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not just me. I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s sort of up for it at this point\u2026 I think we did a really good job. We played a bunch of reunion tours, and I think we did what we kind of set out to do\u2026 I just don\u2019t see it happening again, honestly.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Though Bottum spoke fondly of the band\u2019s reunion tours in the early 2000s, drummer Mike Bordin explained some of how the cancelations went down in 2021 and how it was tough for the band.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were ready, we were prepared. And it came to pass that\u2026our guy [Mike Patton] doesn\u2019t show for the rehearsal\u2026It was very clear that he was unable at that point to physically do it. We made the decision that, \u2018Look, we\u2019ve gotta support our guy.\u2019\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even though he said that scenario was painful both emotionally and financially for everyone involved in that tour, he understood that things changed with Patton and that was that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the time with Mike Patton. Yeah, because my life would be very different without it. But I can\u2019t force him to do something that he, from where I\u2019m sitting, doesn\u2019t seem to wanna do.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As for bassist Billy Gouold, he told Radio Futuro last January that the band was \u201cin a really weird spot, a really strange spot, and I can\u2019t really tell you what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

I know I can tell you all that as a massive Faith No More fan, I am thankful that the band got together at all. It allowed me to see them multiple times and experience some of the most amazing concert moments of my life. If they never come around again, I\u2019ll be bummed but thankful that I got to see them at all\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to the future of Faith No More, plenty\u2019s been said about how it\u2019s pretty much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,118576,19,17,152992,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-353376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-faith-no-more","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mike-patton","14":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116124466975805656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}