Fantomas (wed June 15)

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Present
FANTOMAS
Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, Buzz Osbourne & Terry Bozzio
WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE
THE VILLAGE
DOORS 8pm
TICKETS € 20 FROM SOUND CELLAR, ROAD, CITY DISCS, WAV BOX OFFICE & ONLINE AT WWW.TICKETS.IE
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Hi,
Just to let you know,
the incredibly prolific former Faith No More frontman Mike Patton brings his supergroup Fantomas to Dublin for the first time on wednesday june 15.Featuring Buzz Osbourne of the melvins on guitar , Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle on bass, and the legendary Terry Bozzio of Frank Zappa's Mothers of invention sitting in on drums for Dave Lombardo, who is on tour with Slayer.

Responsible for one of the most eclectic catalogs of recent memory, Fantômas return with Suspended Animation, a thirty-track set that both celebrates the art of cartoon composition and the many reasons to behold the fourth month of our calendar, April (with one piece for each day of the month). Who knew that April is subtitled “national humor and anxiety month”? Who knew that the dreaded April 15 was actually titled “That Sucks Day” or that April 24 marks the beginning of National Karaoke Week? Leave it to the creative minds behind Fantômas to enlighten us to the many forgotten holidays throughout April.

The brainchild of Mike Patton, Fantômas is an anti-hero from a series of pre-WWI French crime novels, sometimes dubbed the “lord of terror.” Rounding out the ensemble are Buzz Osborne on guitar (Melvins), Trevor Dunn on bass (Mr. Bungle, Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant) and Dave Lombardo on drums (Slayer).

Fantômas’ three previous releases have regaled listeners with a sci-fi homage (Fantômas, 1999), a celebration of the best in film composition (Director’s Cut, 2001) and a one song album (Delirium Cordia, 2004). As Rolling Stone said in their review of Delirium Cordia: “One epic seventy-four minute noise-rock song. What’s not to like?” Now with Suspended Animation, the quartet delves headlong into a new and recently unexplored genre... cartoon music. Recorded in the Spring of 2003, during the same sessions as surgically precise Delirium Cordia, Suspended Animation is the yang to Delirium Cordia’s ying. Bright and loose, Patton describes the new album as “nursery rhymes, cartoon sound effects and choppy arrangements.”

As with all Ipecac releases, the artwork and packaging are just as integral to unfolding the full story as the piece of music, Suspended Animation is no different. Perhaps the most intricate packaging to date, the thirty page booklet/calendar is illustrated by Asian pop cartoonist Yoshimoto Nara. In a recent San Francisco Bay Guardian feature, Nara’s influential style was described as “cartoonlike images and sculptures of kids and puppies – sporting world-weary adult expressions, major attitude and salty vocabularies.” The paper went on to say that Nara’s pieces “are among the most cutting edge of Japanese exports in the contemporary art world.”

adox

Wow,I might pop along to this one.

I have "The Directors Cut" and its excellent.Its also completely bonkers!

BleakestH

This will be a contender for gig of the year, can't wait.

LegacyUser

got my ticket!

Altheus

Was packed out, started an hour late... but still was pretty amazing.

It started thinning out half way through the gig which made me think that more than a few Faith No More fans had been misinformed..

Short set, 1 hour, but it was hell for leather right through, thoroughly enjoyable.

John

Altheus wrote:

Was packed out, started an hour late... but still was pretty amazing.

How do you know it started an hour late? Doors were delayed opening but there was no start time listed on the ticket.

Altheus

My mate is a stage tech in the Village.

John

Ah right, just I know there were two types of tickets so I thought maybe if you bought at the box office they had all the info on them