So sing and rejoice, sing and rejoice

Last night was the first Faith No More concert in 12 years. And it was fucking brilliant! Here’s the setlist:

Reunited (Peaches & Herb cover)
The Real Thing
From Out Of Nowhere
Land Of Sunshine
Caffeine
Evidence
Chinese Arithmetic
Surprise! You’re Dead!
Easy
Last Cup Of Sorrow
Midlife Crisis
Cuckoo For Caca
The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies
RV
King For A Day
Malpractice
Jizzlobber
Be Aggressive
Epic
Mark Bowen

Encore 1:
Chariots Of Fire/Stripsearch
Just A Man

Encore 2:
I Started A Joke
Pristina

Mike Patton’s voice is amazing and he can sing such a fantastic range of styles. Who else could go from Surprise! You’re Dead (complete with manic laughter) to Easy? They played my favourite, the Gentle Art of Making Enemies, which was my highlight of the evening, but of course the biggest crowd reaction went to Epic. For good reason too! I also never thought I’d hear a rock version of Chariots of Fire (which lead into Stripsearch). Surprisingly, I think if someone released that version of Chariots of Fire it would actually be something I would buy. It will be interesting to see what the setlist is at Download on Friday. Can’t Wait!!

The support band, Selfish Cunt, weren’t too bad but the lead singer was really camp and they did get a lot of booing. To be fair, I think pretty much any band who supported FNM were going to get booed just purely because they weren’t FNM.

Here’s a very low quality video of them playing Evidence at last night’s show:

I would have linked The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies, but the distortion was really bad, and you can hear the guy recording it singing more than anything else.