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| jaqkvade | Дата: Воскресенье, 17.07.2011, 15:32 | Сообщение # 21 |
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| Hello everyone...
its been a long time... i shouldn't have left you, without a dope beat to step to.......
sorry (im not) i am channeling missy elliot right now.........
well yes blah blah blah i've been dropped by universal, come very close to meeting tori amos and engaging a conversation with. I've been down and out and full of love
and full of life to know that that you are all here with me. The record industry is in collapse and patrick wolf is thriving..... god bless these hard times. DIY. ..do it yourself......... everyone in the world should know that. i met a guy called marvin on my travels who sincerley believes in my work and i totally trust him to take me across the united states and show the states a little or huge lycanthropy, the bachelor and the conqueror stay intact... all is good.. marvin is going to make sure we make sure I win the grammy next year and not some expletive. Nylon records sounds like a good old twin for bloody chamber music records. so if i am to update.......... i am about to go on tour...................... again.. the thing that FUCKED me up so badly last time.. but i love chaos and i love a challenge....... i have once again reinvented the live sound for my band and we are going full on elictricty.. live and loud.... i've spent my last five years doing the shit that people are now copying in the charts so i'm going heavy metal...
metal
metal
hard
tiiiiiimes
ive been rehearsing with my band,
my band of genuises
generation challengers
we want to take you to a new state of mind.
we want you to leave your past behind
we want you to come join our tribe
all across the world..
you are not a slave
nobody is your master
this is not a cult...
this is not a religion
this is a revolution
you do what you want
and you do what you like
and be prepared to say
fuck you to the rest of the world
if it means you get to live your life
and i mean live your life
not just walk through it
being a passenger
be a messenger
be free
x patrick wolf ..thursday may 14th 2009
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Воскресенье, 17.07.2011, 15:49 | Сообщение # 22 |
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| Bits of me...
My favourite author: Denton Welch - People suspect that he was suppressing his true sexuality because even when he writes about landscapes he does so in a really sexual and sensual way. A lot of my upcoming double album is inspired by his writing - I did a lot of exploring of my own sexuality and desire and I can really identify with him. Denton's is a really sad story though, because he died after a car accident and ended up writing just the one book.
My favourite festival: Reading - I never went to Glastonbury but I absolutely loved playing there - it was a mad frenzy. Reading is the one I went to as a teenager, and when I played it was a kind of homecoming of sorts.
The act that will be big in 2009: Ebony Bones - I remember seeing her live a few years ago and I really love her beats and her music in general. We actually had the same driving instructor strangely enough.
My favourite artist: Imelda Apps - She's actually related to me, but that's not why I love her work. I grew up with her works in my house and I almost felt part of her work. I've always wanted to do an album based on her works - they are extremely narrative and very gothic; really, really beautiful.
An album that everyone should hear: Buffy Sainte-Marie - Illuminations - She's largely forgotten in this country now but she was Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell's friend when she first started. She was one of the first singer-songwriters who sang her own songs and she experimented with electronics in the 60s when it was really unheard of. She has a Native American heritage and militantly opposed the US government's policy regarding Native American land, so she's quite inspiring. She's a real hero of mine because of her experimentation with electronics; I can't imagine that artists like PJ Harvey or Courtney Love would even exist if it wasn't for her.
The record I can't turn off: Lady Gaga - The Fame - This is the album that gets me out of the house; to get me on the tube; and on the bus; and into Marks and Spencers; to get me into the shower and walking, you know? At the moment Lady Gaga is wiping the floor with the rest of them in terms of my "motivator album".
The record that reminds me of being a child: Charles Trenet - La Mer - It's a French chanson that my mum used to play whilst driving us around the country. Once we were listening to it whilst driving in a Mini with the top down and we drove into a ditch and the AA had to get us out. It reminds me of total freedom or of summer holidays and being young and carefree.
The record that made me become a musician: Orfeo y Euridice - I was a choirboy in this amazing choir and I was asked to do it as a solo - I sang it at St. Martins in the Fields and at St. Paul's Cathedral. It was my song, basically, my hit single; I sang it every week and it was my party piece. I got really obsessed with the story of Orpheus and the Underground and I really tried to sing it from the point of view of him. After that I knew I wanted to make music like that for the rest of my life.
My favourite pyjamas: The jumpsuit - I've got, like, seven jumpsuits. Different designers keep giving me jumpsuits at the moment - they're not like Anneka Rice's though. I'm also rocking a lot of crystal ram skulls by Orla Savage too - but you can't really wear them, just sort of carry them around.
The record that makes me dance my tits off: Venetian Snares - Dance Like You're Selling Nails - When I DJ, to get people to dance, I tend to play something with quite a high BPM and promoters think I'm trying to wreck the speakers and that it's far too fast for the wine drinkers at the bar. My sister sings on this record too, so if anything's going to get me on the dance floor, it's those beats matched with my sister's singing.
The record that changed my life: Bjork - Homogenic - The emotion on that record is up there with any that I've ever experienced with any classical music. It's an album with string quartets and almost industrial beats. Bjork was a real icon for me in the way that I was a real outsider at school with no friends; she was someone in music who taught me not to compromise throughout my life.
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Воскресенье, 17.07.2011, 23:51 | Сообщение # 23 |
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| Bloody hell...
My album has gone top 40 in the midweek charts...
I am so happy, so thankful to of all of you who invested and supported me on this journey.... we (and a hundreds of superstars who invested their money in the album at bandstocks) would absolutely love and love you forever if the record stayed in charts.
Beg steal and borrow yourselves to buy a copy because it means, not only do you get the full High Quality Hi-Fidelity non Mp3Bass-lessCrap that you hear when you download things from file sharing sites etc... You also get to read about all the instrumentation and personal notes and see the artwork shot up on blackdown in west sussex by legendary photographers Nick and Warren Du Preez. There is a digital booklet available at The iTunes shop as well. if you buy the album this week then it means it charts and stays on the shelves and keeps people listening that may not have heard before and gives me and my label and my hard working massive DIY team a bit of reward from all the hard work just to see the bachelor mingle amongst the masses.......
Well, the British tour is over and Dearest U.K (and all you foreign travelers) your support and love over the last month has been such a glorious injection of happiness to me and my crew. Times are hard for every one and it doesn't go unnoticed in me the amount it costs to come to shows when you're skint or hard done by but the shows were so special to me... you inspire me as an audience to keep going and working. Yes I must sound horribly cheesy to those shadow lurkers out there. But Im being 100 percent sincere in my thanks. I just keep on thinking about the patrick who was 14 years old with a black eye, crying on my way to the bus stop listening to debbie harry, sloping back from school dreading to wake up the next day dreaming of something happening good one day in the future when I could put myself in a position where I was understood, somewhere I could shine and feel normal and I've found that place now. Thank you for helping me find it. Thank you for helping me find peace within myself.
It's been another long day, I cant believe how productive one can be on 3 hours a sleep these days. I wake up with a stomach full of adrenaline and excitement and go to bed with a head full of things I want to do. In my garden after not seeing it for a whole month.. there a now foxgloves and all the rose trees are in bloom red pink and white.... its a pulsating orgy of organisms, i sit here at the dinner table typing a way with a cold bison grass spiced vodka and apple juice with the windows open listening to Joni Mitchell, hissing hissing hissing with her summer lawns. William and I saved a sparrow on the street the other day, she had just flown the nest and had lost direction so we took her back to the garden and named her sally, "sally sparrow" she now lives in the garden.... the day we brought her back to the house she flew out of my hands and did a big shit on one of my stage outfits that was hanging up. Naughty Sally.
After her shit she spread her wings and I opened the window and soon she was free to explore the garden I sit here and watch while writing and composing on my days off. Now its dark, I listen to eletronic music, the new La Roux song and even that song about sharks in the water by vv brown and I forget I am 25 and not 14 often.. Its so nice to see some girls overtaking popmusic with a bit of heart and individuality in 2009.
Only for a few days now before its time to fly across the atlantic.. I will be singing in states I have never visited before and revisiting cities I have grown to love and understand over my touring years... It will be sad to leave the garden and little sally
but i'm sure both will still be here when I come back unless acid rain or bird flu comes
and obliterates south east london this June.
Sorry if this has been a long letter... Its late and I can only hear the washing machine spinning round in the kitchen, it feels nice to be able to write openly... Im just in such a peaceful place right now and it hasn't been an easy ride, and i'm sure there will be some great challenges ahead but for now.. its all quiet, the work is done, the record pressed, the windows are open, it is summer in southwark and not a creature is stirring expect probably sally...
Big love, sweet dreams and big adventures
xxx patrick
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Воскресенье, 17.07.2011, 23:57 | Сообщение # 24 |
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| Hello my dear ones..
So the tour has been amazing so far.. had one off show but mainly due to random
Neandrathals at the back of the gig shouting super intelligent things like "get your cock out" etc.
My good lord, I am not the Jonas brothers, if you want that kind of "rapport" from a musician then do leave me and my band in peace to get on with singing, performing and making music while onstage or at least engage or enjoy with the show or get the hell out... and get your kicks at the local chippendales strip joint or xtube... or come ask me such questions face to face and you'll receive an honest personal response that will probably see you checking into hospital for a few days.. If I was a woman.. would it be respectable for you to ask me to show you my tits? This rant is not about this one comment.. its about a general "shoot the freak" mentality that comes with speculators coming to a show with only the intention at hurling abuse at me. I am in no way conservative but there is a time and a place for vulgarity. Respect that me and my band work our fucking asses off to get on that stage, to be ourselves, to play from the bottom of our hearts... we love you and respect every person that comes to our show... and love you as an audience.. so its a real wake up call when people feel the need to heckle and provoke a reaction and ruin not only the good peoples experience of the live show, but in turn sap the energy and the fun out of it for us. Joni Mitchell famously walked off stage at the isle of white festival while doing an acoustic set because of heckling and catcalls and I don't blame her one bit.
But the shows have been amazing bar one... we are a band again and I am back on the road where I belong, singing, feeling and confessing and dancing every night and you have been so gorgeous as an audience every night showing so much love. I am resurrecting some old songs that we haven't played in years... I am so so loving this tour. I am so sorry I sometimes don't have any energy left after some shows to come out and meet everyone offstage, but please keep in mind my international promotion duties start very very early in the morning and can lead right up to the time i go onstage... and I am lucky to get a good nights sleep especially with japanese and australian (let alone the USA) time differences when I have to do phone and email interviews (and all the business duties that come with owning my own label now) Sometimes im too busy to even fit a full meal into my day.... Therefore once the show is done, and with the amount of dancing and performance in my shows, I am beat beat beat and best tucked in bed with BBCiplayer or the st.vincent album, or a strong sleeping pill... yes kids.. this boy is oh so glamorous and flossy flossy.
In other news, I have recently had so many requests for me to start a twitter account... so with the help of the lovely Janine from the PW forum we have set up the official PW Twitter account..... Im still working out exactly what the fuck twitter is... but my amazing support band for this tour YACHT have been giving me tips and i'm fascinated by reading my soul sister Craig Templates insane amazing updates. So for all that want to see me try and engage with futuristic technology but getting it super wrong and probably far too personal you can read my twats at......... wait for it.........
www.twitter.com/pw_official
I think i drunkenly set one up months ago that now has 1,600 followers... and i only ever sent one message saying something ridiculous like THIS IS S*** and when i sobered up I had totally forgotten the password and any recollection of setting the account up... i promise this won't happen again.... oh and also my new website is up and running at www.patrickwolf.com it's been months in the making but still so far from completing the extensive tour archive and history... if anyone has any spare information they think should be included.. anything from favorite interviews to homemade sheet music and ukulele tunings to live photography and homemade music videos, send it to the new webmaster mr Paul Burgess and we will include as much as possible with all due credits... it can be like a group creative project.
O.k.... I am so looking forward to seeing you all on the rest of this tour and remember, we are only as good as our audience... we will give you love, magic and music but you must give us some back... that way we will all go home with a smile in our hearts and dream of revolution and wake up fighting...
I really do love you all.. I cant believe how well this album has been received.. to think that at one point they were all calling me crazy and for a bloody second, I almost believed them... almost....
Gigantic, gigantic, a big big love, a big big love
xxxxxxx p w xxxx
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 00:01 | Сообщение # 25 |
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| My London: Patrick Wolf
Amy Grier
15 May 2009
Patrick Wolf has an umbilical pull to Waterloo...
Home is...
With my boyfriend in a Regency mews house near Waterloo Station. I was born in St Thomas' Hospital around the corner so feel a sort of pre-natal umbilical pull to the place.
What would you tell a tourist?
Don't be aggressive and try to accept our ways and customs when you're here.
What's London's most romantic spot?
Kensington Palace Gardens at midnight. Climb over the gates with a bottle of wine and make love under the stars.
What's your favourite pub?
The Red Lion on Hoxton Street, N1. The people working there are my close friends. It's my Queen Vic.
If you were Mayor...
I'd cancel the Olympics. I think London needs to nurture what we have and work on the smaller issues rather than create a whole new set of problems.
What was the last gig you went to?
Electronic music legend Peaches at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the Ether Festival. She was on fire.
What's your worst fear?
Being conventional.
What are your guilty pleasures?
I don't believe in guilt. I enjoy everything I do.
What's your philosophy?
Don't compromise in the face of convention.
What animal would you most like to be?
An Atlas moth. It's one of the most beautiful species but it has no mouth and only lives for a week.
What are your secret London addresses?
Bankside News in SE1. I talk to the owner Shilper whenever I am stressed. I've been clothes shopping at Kokon To Zai, W1, since I was 13. It's great at showcasing up-and-coming designers. Past Caring on Essex Road, N1, is the best second-hand furniture and bric-a-brac store. The Bonnington Café in Vauxhall is a beautiful vegan restaurant. I used to earn money playing there when I was 18. A fabulous new shop has just opened up in a converted garage in Hoxton called Jeannette. My designer friends are putting their stuff into it. It's going to be huge.
What would you save from a fire?
My boyfriend and my hard drive, which has all the work I've ever done on it.
What makes you laugh?
Chaos and extremity. Anything or anyone that is slightly unhinged.
Who's your hero?
Myself. We should only act to save ourselves and not try to be heroic in our gestures to others.
What do you love to wear?
My blue platform shoes that I wore for The Magic Position tour. I was staying with the artist Nan Goldin in New York and she took me to an amazing vintage shop called Screaming Mimi's in the Lower East Side. Those shoes are one of my most cherished possessions.
Have you been away?
I've just been to St Ives Bay, Cornwall. It's so wild and one of the few places I really feel at peace. I spent a couple of days chilling in Las Vegas during my last tour - bright lights, bright stars and rattlesnakes. My last proper holiday was about five years ago in Alonissos, Greece. I went with my parents but rented a cottage on my own, drank wine and ate lots of halloumi cheese.
What's your tombstone?
Instead of a stone I would like an Aeolian harp. It's this amazing instrument that makes harmonies when the wind blows through it. I like the idea of making music even when I'm dead.
Have you ever stolen anything?
I once stole one of Amy Winehouse's hair extensions from a bathroom at The Dorchester.
What are you up to at the moment?
Right at this moment I am being fitted for a sparkly catsuit. Apart from that, I am getting ready for the international release of the album. It's going to be a mad few weeks!
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 02:48 | Сообщение # 26 |
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| "Hello myspace...
Im very sorry that someone just told you to check out the "nylon blog"
I don't know who posted that up.. sorry if any of you wasted your time.
I cannot stand this awful excuse for a woman who "writes" this blog and
who LIES about me and my band (and the other bands on this tour)
crew and friends on this tour. She had 24 hours in our company to make
up some of the most hilarious bullshit I have ever read about myself....
Im sure you all know about the crap this woman blogs about.
Its like carrie bradshaw just with a lobotomy.
If you need to know about the mental state of an mentally unstable human
like this who writes this blog then listen carefully to the lyrics
of "munchausen" by nobra.
Seriously.... Just giving you the 411 on someone who uses my my name to promote herself and begs sucks you into this vapid blackhole of culture that this fantasist fame whore writes about.
FARAN KNOWS JACK SHIT ABOUT ME
Dear miss "shiny happy person" ..... from the whole bus.. FUCK OFF.
xpw"
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 10:59 | Сообщение # 27 |
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| Hello World!
Its patrick here..
Im offering a fantastic opportunity for any lead guitarists or cellist to join my permanent band
I will be holding public auditions next week and the week in London, only one musician will be chosen. Female, ethnic "minorities" transgendered and homosexual musicians will be of highest importance and will command most respect from the judging panel. Either a guitarist or cellist with improvisational skills, a taste for the avant and extreme and multi instrumental will be well on their way to being chosen first.
Staying power, long term vision and a kamikaze approach to the world of "show must go on" will be much appreciated and applauded...
send your CV and a paragraph defining your character and love for music and influences.
London based musicians most appreciated. Many amazing shows to come in the future... All festival appearances and international tours included in your inclusion in my band/gang.
Send all applications to mybandneedsyou@gmail.com
look forward to meeting you!
x patrick
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 10:59 | Сообщение # 28 |
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| A public apology to all involved in the c/o pop shenanigans
I am very sorry that I became too much wolf on stage in C/O pop
I was singing shakiras new song "she wolf" and i felt my animal instinct to
protect my audience. My music is very tribal at the moment, I feel I am protective
of all of them. It had been a very long day I slept well but woke at 4 am to fly to cologne to start
a full day of back to back interviews and photos. My band and crew were setting up onstage and i had no idea of stage times as I
do not wear a watch and wasn't informed that my set was being cut short before I went onstage by the
relevant parties. one of the many people milling around backstage told me that the "music industry conference" had
gone on too long. Being someone that thinks the audience comes before the industry, in my tired
and promo overload tour brain I took this as a demand for justice for the audience.
This is why I directed my aggression, which came at the end of a very heated set not at a man or woman.
I was throwing the stool and the microphone at a black hole part of the stage where no one would get hurt but there would be a statement made... the spit did not land on anyone but was in general a display of "I don't respect you". As I said, my show is very tribal at the moment as there is a lot of good in the world to be fighting for. The words "bitch" and "motherfucker" really are
not misogynistic words when you live near Soho, London, so lets put that to rest. My tribe will know that
I have over the past 10 years been a public champion for feminism, against ignorance and always fighting in the name of the good fight.
The very bad footage you see on you tube does not explain that the lady to my left is victoria my long term violinist
and good friend who I protect like a sibling and is not the one I am directing my words or aim to when throwing a piano stool. I would rather hit myself then see victoria hurt by anyone, or any of my band. I'm terribly sorry if anyone was upset by this display of closure on a show, but as a human who works like a dog to keep myself in music during these hard times in the industry , i do have off days and bad moments like every other person in the world although I am not sorry that I am passionate enough about music to care that my crowd didn't get there money's worth due to curfews and mismanagement of stage times I hope you agree. The display of aggression was directed at nobody in particular, just life and darkness and hard times, i'm sorry if any people got in the way and I hope you can forgive me for causing any damage due to excess negative personal emotion. as you heard or saw, the audience was encoring for almost half an hour. my next album is about hope and romance and love so I will bring you a bunch of bright red red roses and a box of after eights next time from a helicopter when I see you all. So, a summary, major miscommunications backstage x lack of sleep due to very busy schedule x singing many songs about battling x an intense education from the extreme parts of london nightlife/wildlife/streetlife as a teenager x steve strange going on very late x a full day of cameras flashing and questions x being 26 years old and should have known better = bad wolf
sorry. peace. pace. truce.
Patrick Wolf
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 15:04 | Сообщение # 29 |
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| Hello my gorgeous wolfgang
Im finally working through the Q+A
It makes me SHAMED realizing these questions were
mostly asked before the palladium show.. I've been heads down
in my lyric books and writing writing away and making beats
and trying to make sure the conqueror is really something special
for you all, which of course has led to working round the clock
and making myself ill and going bananas basically...
Ok, well I thought the only way I could make up for how bad
I feel is to share with you a picture that is pretty legendary
amongst my close friends... I was invited to a costume party last
year to dress as your favorite album front cover... so I went
as "my prerogative" greatest hits by Britney Spears...
of course it's not my ultimate front cover.. but fake tan is cheap
I had the wigs and a few gin and lemonades,
and I was going through an extreme britney obsession...
So anyway, it was a pappa-razi-licous event and the next day in the tabloids
I actually passed as a woman.. some headline like "who is this hot blonde
bombshell arriving at ********'s party" I kid you not....
Anyway, i hope this makes up for the shame of being so late on my answers..
Love you all so much.. must get back to the questions...
xxxxxxxxxxx patrick
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 15:06 | Сообщение # 30 |
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| Hello there xxxx
thank you so much for yet another fantastic year of my life.
To all of you who have supported me and listened to my music.
I couldn't be here today without you loving my music and buying my records
and keeping all this here around me. I am so blessed to have such
a great backbone of love and goodwill from all of you. Next year, I'll be finishing off
the conqueror and i'll be out touring by the summer around the world to see
very familiar places and people.
I can't wait til next year. I remember popping a bottle of bubbly down by tower bridge
when it turned the millenium and seeing fireworks go off in the sky and feeling
that the next decade would be the time I had to really show myself and the world what I was made of. I had no idea that within ten years I would have gone on to release four albums and
my god, the bonkers adventures that have happened along the way to getting that music heard by you. I don't want to end up sounding like an old dame here but it's been an absolute bloody amazing journey and it's down to you who brought the records and came to the shows... The next step is even more exciting, the next decade, I feel like I've laid down the foundations in the last ten years to build a huge castle. The best of me is yet to come.
And i hope the same for you all too. Your future is in your own hands remember. There's nothing you can't do. Nothing.
May you find yourself happy and with friends and family this christmas.
Endless thanks and gratitude to you all.
Yours, Patrick Wolf x
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 15:09 | Сообщение # 31 |
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| "Hello.. its patrick here... ive been locked away in my studio working
on the next album and only just realised that the amazing Fred Butler original
Owl paper outfit that I wore for Latitude festival is on ebay
right now... It is being auctioned to raise money for a charity called
Youth Music... where they give musical isntruments to kids who cant afford to
own instruments or have music lessons... so so so important!!!!!!!!
http://musicispower.youthmusic.org.uk/about/
I will personally take whoever makes the highest offer meets the reserve price out
for tea at fortnum and masons and we can spend an hour discussing
and talking about anything you like. It's so important that we give a little to those in need, in face of the recession... we can still be charitable.....
Fred butler is a genius couturier/designer who made this piece for me
during the magic position.....
This is me wearing the Owl costume onstage at Latitude festival
here is me wearing the outfit in my garden this summer...
and here is the piece on its own....
It's almost christmas! so think what an amazing present it would make...
and seriously... whoever meets the reserve price and wins the bid, i will
personally have tea with you at fortnums this christmas, just to be all posh and fancy
and make you feel regal for buying not only a piece of couture but also giving so much to charity. If you're not in the u.k then wherever in the world you are I will make sure
as a huge promise that during my next international tour I will try my best to find a way for us to meet and have tea and gossip in a more fine local establishment!!!!
I understand if you are all hard up, tis hard times after all, but good luck
and lots of love
oh...
the link to ebay is...
HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xxxx
ONLY 20 HOURS LEFT!!!!!!!
xxx pw"
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 15:10 | Сообщение # 32 |
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| "hello there... I know it's late at night, but all is quiet in the wolf house here
and I can't sleep because i'm so excited. Thoughts running through my head
about sunday and for what the future holds for me and my music and my band.
Planning this show on sunday has almost brought me to tears
(yes, boys and men are allowed to cry too) as I try to write the set list that attempts to define my life to date and all the songs, lyrics and experiences I have written over the years. Just sitting here listening to the london wind and rain outside, I start thinking of all the amazing different stages and countries I have been blessed to be on, the moments i can never regret.
thinking of how wonderful you have all been to me across the world, I couldn't have imagined a more supportive and bizarre and amazing wonderful diverse audience and support system. You really have heard and seen me grow up and out before your eyes and ears, thank you so much for staying with me..
I know I can be trouble sometimes, but i've realized it's important not to regret the mistakes you make because they help you to learn to do better and to help you evolve into a better creature, if you play your cards right.
I hope I have enough time on this planet to show you all my wrinkles and sing everything I have to say and experience, But for now I am 26, I feel like i've just begun, like I've been in dress rehearsals for the big show, my big moment, next will be the new album, new outlook and new vision and sound but I must sleep because I start rehearsals tomorrow. Be a good boy patrick I tell myself. Go to bed. But it's already 6 in the morning.
I don't want to keep rabbiting on but I have a great duet on sunday with a mystery lady who is a kindred spirit in this musical world, she sings from her heart, deeply, but I can't tell you who it may be or i'll get slapped on the bum by someone from HQ. Mr marc almond sadly can't be with us on sunday for he is poorly, but i'm sure my amazing duettist will raise it up! if you know what I mean.
errr...
I should sleep!
I love you all
oh and...
dress to impress on sunday! keep it classy! it is the legendary palladium!
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM!"
(ask your grandma if you don't know what I mean!)
and
if I don't see you on sunday then I can't wait to see you all in australia or japan.. bring on the sunshine!
xxx your boy/man/she-wolf x patrick"
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 15:12 | Сообщение # 33 |
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| Tribute and Love for the National Equality March
x to all those who marched and stood at the national equality march yesterday in DC x
You are true warriors of love and of the heart. Love is a force that sees no gender or sexuality. I believe you are right for being angry that Obama is putting his "land of the free" country to shame by not addressing the promises he made during his voting campaign. I think it is saddening that in the USA you have no form of "hate crime" laws. These laws, that filter down into the schools of your country through government education, forward thinking pro active support for those of us who still would love to marry and exist in peace be given the respect any decent human being deserves on this planet. I am not a citizen of america but I have an artist visa and I love my audience so very very much within every state I have visited and I have seen such an amazingly diverse spectrum of human beings being together in song at my concerts, yes, I guess I get to live in a form of utopia when I am onstage, but it shows that if you choose the right words and harmony you can make anything happen or change in this world. Obama should not be letting you down. He exchanged your vote for a promise and he should stick to it. I hope he will. It will be so sad to see equal rights time travel back to where the struggles started at stonewall or with the suffragettes, you may think i'm being dramatic, which yes, I often am, but im sat here cross legged infront of my laptop with my heart beating wishing i was there yesterday..
I have read so many letters over my years of touring america, when i get handed letters outside after a show from boys, girls, men and women across America telling me about how hard it is for them at school, or their work place that they have no support network, be it parental, governmental or often the right protection from police when needed. that music is their escape and inspiration. I would love that one day a gay couple kissing on any street corner only would get a shout of "get a room" not "it was adam and eve not adam and steve" or a teenage girl in a texas high school decided she wanted one day to be a man and could be supported in her journey to find herself not have her spirit and soul crushed by out of date laws and education systems or a boy can take his boy crush to the prom and no one like they did to me and this was just in maths class, stab the boy with a pair of compasses. I say this now just to raise awareness. This is how bad homo-phobia is in the school system. Its time to up-date the laws of humanity. We are constantly evolving creatures. Ok. Well I will leave it at that... but I dedicate these words I wrote now to all those who fight the good fight, protect their freedom and equality on this earth and help those around you who don't have theirs find it. I have changed the lyrics as I go on tour. It mutated into an anti Proposition 8 anthem for me halfway through the american tour this year.
I think it still very much is
Peace x Patrick
BATTLE
Battle the patriarch
Battle for equal rights
Battle battle battle
Battle back your liberty
Battle the long night
Battle battle battle
It’s your time
To join the tribe
Yes it’s time
For some victory
Your time
If you’re sick
Of being a victim
Of their ignorance
Then
Battle the conservative
Battle for your
Battle battle battle battle
Battle the homophobe
But battle without war
Come on!
battle
Battle, battle, battle
Battle the misogynist
Battle for your
Victory
Since I was 12
It’s been me
vs the world
I got so sick
Of being told
Our identities
Were in minority
But now we’ve
Got tribe
And we’ve got
Some battle
And yes it’s time
Don’t you know it’s time
To g-g-g-g-g-get some victory
This is our battle
x
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 15:14 | Сообщение # 34 |
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| Hello tribe-- I woke this morning to see Lilly Allens blog about the music industry and file sharing...
Well, I try to maintain some kind of private life, but certain issues, when the message isn't coming across through all available media, have to be spoken about.
I think to myself that my money shouldn't really be any bodies business but I look at what I knew about the industry before napster- came along and it was a very respectable encouraging place where people on independent labels could live a good life and create great art and music and use the profit they made to invest in other talent or other future creative projects... some musicians were lucky to get a mortgage or if you were lucky and had been through the britpop days, you could buy a house. major labels and indie labels sat side by side quite comfortably.
When my first album came out.. there was a whisper or jokes, but alot of speculation about what might happen in the future, what with file sharing and this new thing called myspace... I fast forward to 2009 and the only income any artist will see now is by doing live performances, I have friends who have been to number one for weeks on end and seen no profit due to marketing. Most major labels are in more debt than you can ever imagine. And its not very funny as all these people who work there (and there are many, many, many) are people with jobs who went to school like you and I did and wanted to work and earn a living. I still don't understand how spotify is meant to make up for this, I don't know anyone who has actually bought an account. When theres no money coming in.. then no body gets paid... then no one can pay their bills and then you are homeless.... its very hard for everyone right now in the current economic climate and I have total sympathy with all of you, but im making a plea on behalf of all the fantastic musicians and people within this fabulous industry which was built at the end of the day, not to make money off you but to inspire you... what is life without music??
I don't have a liberace helicopters and limousine lifestyle. I'm currently deciding wether i spend the last of my earnings this year from touring on recording the string and choir section of my new album or on the rent until december, just an example of how alot of other musicians have it. I dreamt as a teenager I would be able to buy a house one day, somewhere peaceful so that i could focus on writing and composing and perhaps set up a gorgeous studio with all the instruments I have collected to record and produce other bands. in the early 2000's it seemed likely but file sharing means that most musicians will probably just make ends meet their whole life now and most musicians dreams will have to be put aside for need for part time work and doing the odd gig and free download only single made on garageband.
As musicians, to make big and small music, we all have other musicians to pay and crew to pay and managers and on top of that lawyers and accountants.... if you don't pay for music, how can the musicians of tomorrow and of today survive and learn our craft. In my 7 years in this biz I have seen countless record companies fold and recording studios close and sold for real estate to make a luxury apartment complex. For instance, the townhouse, a legendary studio in shepherds bush where I mastered wind in the wires and the magic position had to close down because record companies cant afford to put bands into studios and get them playing with beautiful acoustics and great sound engineers and vintage gorgeous mixing desks and grand pianos. When I was last at Abbey road studios, I was told by a mastering engineer that it was close to being turned into a museum because there is no REVENUE in the music industry because in the last 5 years people have stopped buying music. Please.... Even if you just go out and buy your favorite Joni Mitchell album on Cd or Buy a Bob Dylan Vinyl from HMV or FOPP something. Think of the music industry like a food chain.... it goes right from from madonna, elvis to beyonce right down to the boy behind the counter at hmv via billions of peoples wages.....
I would also like to tip my hat to music retail too... I am so sad there are no more record shops in London. my church used to be a place called tower records, picadilly circus, and every sunday I would go to pray at the alter of the listening post. There are no part time saturday jobs "at the record store" for anyone now.. the U.K is a sad place in 2009 I think. Sorry to sound depressing, but i think it really is time we as musicians spoke out more about these issues, I have been really inspired by Lilly writing the below piece on her blog. I can only do my best in saying I am on the same ship as you all and the ship is sinking, sinking.... But what is life without hope!! Lets start a new future... think about where all the lovely music comes from... Do what you can to protect the music you love, invest in physical purchases, think about the machinery that goes on behind making your favourite band so fabulous and inspiring.... and how they should be able to make a living as well as you too... There really is a need to call an end to the bling bling flash in the pan soulless simon cowell world of money rubbish. I beg of channel 4 or BBC one to bring back a TV show that shines a light on new talent. Lily.. take it away,,,,,
xx patrick wolf
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 15:20 | Сообщение # 35 |
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| "I write this short letter on a glorious 5th of April 2010 up high in the southern Spanish mountains in a studio called El Cortijo. Glorious not just because of the big wind storm whistling through the studio, but also for me because today I am a few hours away from completing the recording of ‘The Conqueror’. Me and this album have been on such a long journey together and I am so very proud and excited about its completion and release, I can't yet give away any secrets about its personality but I will of course have all the next couple of years to share this albums stories and adventures with you through concert, interview and hopefully in person.
For now all I write is that this has been the grandest production for me to date and the most intimate of my recent emotions have been expressed in the lyrics, no persona or bachelor boy aggression, all personal and conquering positively this time. Tomorrow I have a long day of travel to New York where I will be for quite some time as the last long process, mixing, takes place. Well, I guess some of you may wonder how all this travel and studio time is taking place on my little BCM label...
Well I share now some great news with you, I have recently signed a fantastic new deal with a label called 'Hideout' which is a subsidary of 'Mercury Records'. I am the first signing to this label and the two guys who run it are the lovely Keith Wozencroft and Dan Keeling... Firstly truly real humans and also supremely supportive of me staying a free spirit and an explorer. These guys are true legends in the old biz and it's a real thrill to know my work will once more be well distributed and looked after. Most importantly this new deal I signed has provided me all the creative freedoms and consents I need to do what I do and also too the finance I need to record and make my work. I'm really in a dream position creatively at the moment to make my ultimate musical and visual dreams come true. I'm hoping this will come as good news to you.
Of course I will miss our last years fighting indie spirit with Bandstocks but that good fight certainly has finished in victory... I heard that the album recently went into profit and slowly every one has started earning money from their investments in The Bachelor. I'm so happy that you all now start to get something back from your amazingly generous and loving support during such a scary time for me. I really hope that it's only just the start of it for us all. My own record label 'Bloody Chamber Music' stays alive of course, owning and releasing my back catalogue and hopefully now I can focus on breathing some life into old unrealized projects, that have had to be shelved due to finances.
Anyway, I must go. Last couple of hours in the mountains to sing my heart out until I drop. I can see eagles, sparrows, butterflies and rainbows from my vocal booth, no wonder this is Mariah Carey's studio of choice.. So much love and thanks to all of you.. I can't believe I'm reaching the grand old age of album 5. So glad to be sharing it all with you.
Here's to the future....
Xxx Patrick
(PS - New news coming from Team Wolf very shortly... x)"
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