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 12 months’s value of dates. Mr. Bungle would ultimately get again on its toes, however Religion No Extra by no means recovered. Patton would later deal with 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 put up on his Substack (which you’ll try 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 am going to 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 known as MAN ON MAN and two superior buddies in a band known 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 document slowly however positively. I wrote an opera about Sasquatch a pair years in the past however I can speak about all these initiatives later. I am right here in anticipation of a e-book I’ve written, it is a memoir known as The Royal We. It is my first foray into writing and it is thrilling and scary and a complete 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 12 months 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 effectively. 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 the whole lot I would accomplished. I do know. Paris. It is okay to roll your eyes. I wanted to alter up the whole lot so I may change up the whole lot 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 delivery 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 isn’t a inform all however it tells quite a bit. I am leaning into the poetic and the literary. There are individuals you recognize in it, overdoses, tragedies and victories and failures. I am going to share excerpts of it right here as we go ahead however for now that is me.””