RODDY BOTTOM Says FAITH NO MORE Is On A “Semi-Everlasting Hiatus”

it began when Religion No Extra and Mr. Bungle canceled their September and October 2021 tour dates as vocalist Mike Patton handled ongoing psychological well being points. These cancellations bled into 2022, with Religion No Extra cancelling the entire yr’s price of dates. Mr. Bungle would finally get again on its toes, however Religion No Extra by no means recovered. Patton would later handle his points with Religion No Extra‘s different members as having “some points” nonetheless occurring, and that was that – Religion No Extra by no means returned to the stage or made any additional feedback.

Now in a submit on his Substack (which you’ll be able to take a look at right here), Religion No Extra keyboardist Roddy Backside briefly addressed the band’s scenario as a “semi everlasting hiatus.” So I assume it is good they are not definitively damaged up, proper? “Readers, hey,” wrote Backside. “Lemme introduce me however let’s additionally acknowledge us.

“Introductions might be awkward, I do know, I will begin. I am Roddy. I’ve made a life for myself making music. With Religion No Extra after which Imperial Teen. I reside in NYC and I work with my boyfriend in a band referred to as MAN ON MAN and two superior buddies in a band referred to as CRICKETS and in addition typically the horror artwork undertaking gnarl core Nastie Band. FNM is sort of on semi everlasting hiatus and Imperial Teen is making a file slowly however positively. I wrote an opera about Sasquatch a pair years in the past however I can discuss all these tasks later. I am right here in anticipation of a e book I’ve written, it is a memoir referred to as The Royal We. It is my first foray into writing and it is thrilling and scary and an entire new world for me..

“My preliminary purge and course of was to put out my life in story kind from starting to finish. I did it each morning very first thing for like over a yr till I used to be proud of it. After I shared it with an agent he informed me that ‘cradle to grave’ items do not actually promote that nicely. Say that phrase out loud. Cradle to grave. Are you able to even? I do not care a lot in regards to the promoting half, however the phrase scared the fuck out of me. For starters, i hate biopics. The predictability and the formulation and actually the straight line of a narrative, there simply aren’t sufficient surprises, know what I imply? I discover myself checking my watch, simply ready for the protagonist to die. Creating one thing formulaic and routine like that freaked me out so I went to Paris and reworked all the pieces I might completed. I do know. Paris. It is alright to roll your eyes. I wanted to vary up all the pieces so I might change up all the pieces so I went there and sat in an previous library for a month and wrote.

“Now because it sits, my e book is extra of an ode to San Francisco, bicycle messengering, intercourse work, heroin, dreadlocks, the start of politics in punk rock, wheatgrass, witches, crystal meth, popping out, self love and the burning down and obliteration of an amazing American metropolis. It is not a inform all nevertheless it tells so much. I am leaning into the poetic and the literary. There are individuals you recognize in it, overdoses, tragedies and victories and failures. I will share excerpts of it right here as we go ahead however for now that is me.””