Roddy Bottum has been speaking to Clash about FNM, returning to their roots and making 'Sol Invictus'
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On Motherfucker....“It seemed like a credo to establish at that point,” Bottum says of the latter. “We haven't been around in so long and it felt like putting a song out called 'Motherfucker' set the course to let people know that we weren't really into compromising or releasing something just for the sort of bang of making money. It was a direct, in your face expression. As well as the tone of the song was about where we were and where we come from. Accountability of the creative process.”
Motherfucker live in Detroit 2015
On returning to Faith No More's roots....“When we started doing it, it was honestly just a really crazy art project the three of us started together,” he says. “It was very goth and very simple and very repetitive and very stripped down. I think we intentionally went there, back to our absolute roots and started from there.”
“Not so much outward inspiration,” he says, “more us as a group – what got us off and what we liked doing. Which was just like this weird language that we share, this repetitive, simple, moody, brooding place that we used to go.”
On 'Sasquatch the Opera'...“It's pretty experimental and weird. I live in New York and those sort of artistic endeavours are encouraged!” he laughs. “I like the idea of taking something from the ground up and having a story and following it all the way through towards the presentation. And I like the idea of telling a story with song and I really like the theatrical sort of quality, the visual presentation of opera. It's really cool.”
On the reunion...“It was super emotional, it was a crazy place to be seeing as we'd broken up ten years prior, too. With really no intention of ever really coming back together,” he insists. “There were a lot of crazy resentments and burned bridges coming out of that, when we broke up. It was a really hesitant but comfortable and emotional place to re-visit. Going back into it in those first shows it was really super scary and very emotional.”
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Billy Gould speaks to Finnish channel Kaaos TV
Billy talks about the making and recording of the new album 'Sol Invictus' gives his thoughts on the rock scene today....'We didn't tell anyone that we were doing it (sol Invictus) so if it was shitty we could just delete it and no one would ever know!' BG