Faith No More

Faith No More are playing the Brixton Academy tomorrow night, their first gig in eleven years. It's a warm for their headline performance at Download on Friday, and it cost far more than I would normally pay for a gig at the Brixton Academy. but it's Faith No More, the band that most people thought would never reform.

They were a unique band back in the nineties, being one of the first metal bands to use hip-hop elements (which rather unfairly seems to get them blamed for nu-metal), but they stood out more to me for their lack of a rock star attitude. Hell, they sacked the only one of the band to think he was a star. Fame never sat well with them, which was odd for a band I remember seeing on Top Of The Pops, and it wasn't too surprising when they split up. They'd become too commercial for their own sensibilities.

I saw them on the last UK tour they did, back in 1997. They played the Cambridge Corn Exchange and blew me away. I've spent the better part of a decade being able to lord it up over people that I saw them live. Now the world and its dog is going to get the chance, and, despite the fact that it means I won't be able to gloat anymore, I'm glad that people will get the chance to see them and have the memories that I've had for the past twelve years. Besides, I get to go and see them too.

Now all we need is for Soundgarden to reform...