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| jaqkvade | Дата: Вторник, 12.07.2011, 11:49 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| April Letter from Patrick 2006
* In absence of the main website being in order, Patrick's letter is posted here on myspace this month *
To all beautiful ugly and brave across the planet Earth.
Thank you so much for your generous words of concern or support that were related to me during my recent spring dramas. I want you all to know that damn blue moon is going down and the sun is creeping back out and hence slowly but surely the wolf machine is creaking back into it's forward motion.
I realised it had been a while since my last letter and I havent wanted to do any interviews while I was working on my album, but still feel there is so much I want to get off my chest. I apologise that the small july U.K tour got cancelled, I would normally do a show even if I had just lost all my limbs an hour before going on stage but I really wanted the record finished so I could focus on the performance when It came time.
I wont bore you with the intricate natural grit un-superhuman elements of my human body but want you all to know I am one small step away from getting back and finishing The Magic Position. Like all my records so far, the beast tends to change its shape right up until the final hour of mastering and through many different mediums both my body and spirit was telling me the bun wasnt quite yet cooked in the oven, so to speak. Certain physical alarm bells had been ringing for a while that I had stupidly tried to ignore and then less than a week away from mastering the fate put its foot down. I just couldn't go any further with the record and devote the time needed to excetute the sometimes lengthy process of finishing. Also domesticity had been perhaps slightly under fire too so I am moving house now for what seems like the four hundredth time in the last ten years and have found myself a place in a quiet tower next to two huge forests and a museum full of old skellingtons, taxidermy and strangely enough, moog synthesizers. Im going to be very happy there, I have an old grand piano left to me by a lovely Russian pianist and a view over London to look at it's weathers and fireworks explode. This is where I will be putting the final touches to my third album in good health and spirits. For the first time since sixteen years old I am going to have a washing machine too which I am very excited about. I will listen to Mrs Bartolozzi by KTBush at full volume while cleaning my sheets in celebration of not having to sit in a laundrette with a deafening army of naughty children singing along to The Pussy Dolls on their mobile phones.
I hope the spring is slowly working its lightness on your life, last week, after a night of smashing plates and slamming gates I got on a train, bought a big ghetto blaster from a dusty one man electrical shop, bought some bread, wine and stinking cheese and got down to some good proper Rimbaud behaviour to explore some empty abandoned woodland, I found a ruined castle and then my new home that day, it seems like the last four years have been so full of hundred mile an hour adventures and dramatic accidents that suddenly, detached from all communication to the busy world, I realised perhaps by mistake I had forgotten what it was to be a mammal for a moment. Dangerous. I am hoping now the new record will be ready for release in late summer, maybe early autumn. Once I have moved to my new home in the next couple of weeks I will set up my studio and start cracking that whip on this magic position record. I must admit, I feel it is by far the most ambitious piece of work I have attempted. I thought Lycanthropy was a trouble child to work with but it seems now Im cooking this current dinner with at least a hundred more ingredients. Its all very exciting but I can't deny its not draining sometimes and so far my rule is never to release even a b-side unless I feel its something I feel I will not want to change until im seventy. Lyrically too I feel I am exposing many new sides of myself that I have not put on display before which is of course quite an exhilarating process but sometimes terrifying when you produce alone like I do. This record is like a musical retelling of one year in my life, it is not at all a less personal record than before, it is actually, to me, quite the opposite of such a thing, I have tried once or twice but failed miserably to write outside of my own experience. It is to me a full spectrum of my emotional peaks and troughs over a year. So if you want, please bear with me and I hope you enjoy all your summers until the thing is finished and ready to make its way into your homes.
Its been since the Scala show last Halloween in London that I have been on my third music mission. I now have, at last after releasing my first record in 2002 on a tiny label found what I think are the most amazing family of people at Loog and Polydor records working with me, I think we are all very excited about working together over the coming years and are ready to really make some proper magic happen in the ever so slightly monotonous world of current popular music.
This week I am making a visit back to Cork, Ireland where half of my family roots lie for my lovely Aunties wedding who is such a strong and beautiful lady and so deserved of this happy event. My sister and I have been asked to sing a song called Heroes by David Bowie at the reception although I have only ever listened to the Nico version of this song before but have a feeling there would be a few too many confused faces over wedding cake if I paid tribute to the great N herself at the wedding, or perhaps not? I am very tempted but the last wedding for my Irish family I had to play the church organ but wasnt given any music so improvised chapel of love with Jo my sister as my lovely cousin walked down the isle. After, outside the church, we were told by a mean old lady that I ruined the wedding... so Im trying to take precautions this time that sort of event doesnt take place again.
Every time the month of April comes around I start thinking about my hero Prince April. I started writing a book about him, and an accompanying soundtrack of songs a few summers ago and it was originally intended to be my third album. But I have learnt that it is a project that will finish itself over perhaps a longer period of time. In the book, around this time of this month April discovers there is a world outside of the house he has been held captive in since he was born. He finally finds the key to his whitewashed windows, open and climbs down the ivy at his window, down into a beautiful spring garden, feels the sun warm on his skin for the first time in his life. One day I will share the whole story with you, but for now he is the one leading me onwards and upwards so that hopefully now I can somehow attempt to do the same for you.
Signing off from this wide world web at too late at night
and too early the morning.
love until the next time,
x Yours.. Patrick Wolf x
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thankyou for the music
to the dear and not so near...
I sit right now in the middle of the countryside. I asked a cab driver
to take me here but he was scared of the dark road and said I would
have to walk the rest of the way on my own. From
the carriage like doctor renfield I went..
Nightingales and a waning moon, stars and stinking cow pats,
my pointy black and white shoes treading through black puddles
and gravel to get to this lovely house.
Then I sit down and have to write..
I am so full of happiness right now. The tour that has just passed
gave me such great joy.. I knew none of my personal details or heavy parts
when I got to sing the songs to you all on that stage. Each night I embarked
on my own little journey to teignmouth and to new york on night trains, on the
back of a starling bird then on the hot yellow back of a giraffe.. I asked you
to join me and you came too.
I want everyone to know now...
When I was 15, I remember being at the end of a dirt track road, on the sussex
downs, with my hood up, listening to homogenic, rain puddles all around me, tears running down my face, I was running away but had nowhere to run to, at a total low,
I thought I had not one person in the world
who could understand what I was doing, or could hear my voice
and understand it.
I had just changed schools, had to escape the violent attack of south london, I was a peacock among a school of feral cats... and was suddenly alone in the only place that would take a boy like me, a boarding school that did farming instead of football
in the middle of the deep english country.
When I arrived, It was mid term and again I was an outsider, already
6ft3 with glitter, red hair and plaatform shoes, I was defiant to be myself,
it was my second chance, to see if I had been living in hell or
the other kids of the world were not as bad as I thought they were.
It was a make or break time of my life. I always held on to the thought
that, I have my music, I have my music, I have my music, My headphones
were attached to my school bag, when I walked the halls.. headphones on..
music saved my life, led me on to higher places, showed me a throbbing light
at the end of the dark tunnel. Blondie, atari teenage riot, shangri-las,
broadcast, stereolab, In this new school, i didnt have to wear my headphones
much, the trick worked... From the outset I swore to myself to be only myself,
people could take me or leave me, at least if I was rejected again I had been true to myself.
Now, im sure you are wondering why I rambling on about all this stuff.. It is because
the last tour has made me feel more happy than ever.. I feel as alive as I did in
my teenage years when I realised the best thing I could do in life is to be myself.
This feeling actually started last halloween at the scala show.. Some people get it back from a really good lover.. some get it back through religion.. some drugs.. I get mine from making my music, especially when it is being enjoyed by other people.
People from across the world, some of them might be you reading made drawings and three cds of covers of my songs, it was amazing, a great souvenir of the light that filled the room that night. The pumpkins, all hand carved onstage with me. I just realised I had never said thankyou
for this, It has been such a fevered year, putting together the album. But really, thankyou.
Then this tour only gave me more encouragement to fight the good fight.
I can't wait to be back and to go around the world with the news songs, reach parts
that I have never touched or seen before. I just want everyone to know that no matter
what happens with this album or the next sixteen that whatever you read or hear about me, there is always deep down just a boy who dedicated his life to wanting
to make music for everyone to feel better and to feel at home in this world. This is all getting too sincere, I am sorry, i am not drunk even, just feel like relating
back a little information while I can squeeze it out.
Every night last week I wanted to scream with joy after every show.. something
good must be going on.. in a couple of weeks you get the single.. I have finished
copies and I am so proud of the new artwork and I cant wait for you to hear the b-sides.
I also cannot wait for you to have the album.. I feel like a big fat chicken sitting on a
very warm egg.. I hope it doesn't cook!
xx love and more love x patrick
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Вторник, 12.07.2011, 12:07 | Сообщение # 2 |
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Вторник, 12.07.2011, 15:55 | Сообщение # 3 |
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| here..
on my own in this big thriving beast
like my great grandfather, who passed through ellis island
twice all the way from cork, innis, ireland... a suitcase in one
hand to acheive the status to come home and put a ring on the hand
of my to be great grandmother.. her father who only let her be married once her my great grandfather became a landowner. I guess all those years ago he made the first step in the journey that would lead me here.
I often think of him when i am here.. how he felt leaving his homeland, the people that he loved, what he thought and wished to acheive in his solitary mission beyond returning
with money or the desire to be a loved married man. In my little brain, I am comforted by his past journey always when I am here missing being a part of my family, my dearest friends, my island.. just for a while. I cant explain well now but something has called me away.. a short pilgrimage. i have not gone anywhere.. im with you all in spirit.. Ill be home soon enough, with a thousand souvenirs and stories to share.
Sadly, on a recent return from a month in europe and after being drip fed via various worried associates the exploding ridiculousness of my supposed 'retirement'. I found out at heathrow airport on the telephone my boy tigger had gone missing... the one that sat on my bed during the making of wind in the wires.. my great companion now four or so weeks dissapeared. My ma didnt want to tell me while I was on the road doing shows as she thought it would stop me from giving you my best positive energy during a time I was to be giving you all my songs. Im glad she hadnt as I would have come straight home to search for him.. Apparently in the last week before his dissapearance he started eating only birds and rats and making strange noises at my family who now put it down to his desire to be feral. I miss him so, wherever in the world he might be, He would come home if he wanted, so I guess his desire is to be alone.. but I hope and hope one day to run into him, in the forest or in a dark city street just... make some friendly noises at each other, exchange some.. he was a magic beast. He isnt a myspace person so I guess i just have to send out some psychic message of my deepest love and comfort out in the wild world. Youll always have a home with me if you want my love, I wish you only happiness.. i know what its like to want to leave the domesticity for a feral life. just stay alive n free now...
I played last night at the bowery ballroom, for you who were there, thankyou, thankyou. I am starting to see these faces that I recognise from even my first shows here in NY about four years ago. wow.. and all the new fires burning in the audience... really special things youre giving back to me, its a great luxury for me thankyou.. thankyou, that comes from my whole band too. well... I must go very soon, onwards, up the continent to canada, then over to the west coast of america.. then home to my little overgrown patch of garden in london to tune my harpsichord up and get cracking on recording some of these and other things ive been feeling and experiencing in the last year.
all my love and then some
knuckles out!
xx your patrick
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Вторник, 12.07.2011, 16:48 | Сообщение # 4 |
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| Refuge of The Roads
Hello World....
In Portland, Oregon. Been driving through the mammoth redwood forests... stopped
to look at red ants and pick deadwood from the drying rivers.
Fell asleep for hours upon hours in the back of the van, dreamt of
London and standing alone by a ringing big ben sometime late on a sunday
night or early morning, one november. Was sick all the way from San Francisco,
met a group of amazing kindred spirits and too much tequila later was naked in the swimming pool, I think I swallowed enough chlorine to keep me nauseous for weeks on end. I have got to the point now where it feels like calling home to England is like calling a distant planet in orbit.. six hours out of time. In Las Vegas, many thought I had become a nevada desert creature,
with my shorts and bright red sunglasses and eyes wide in wonder at the
light shows and nightbirds on parade all down the broadway. We had driven through death valley that day.. I longed to see a coyote or sissy hankshaw..
We played a show outside, my band re rigged the soundsystem so that
I had a little platform to do my budget liberace elvis american life revue poundland revue show under the fremont street filament skies.
I must send my apologies to leeds.. I had no idea this show had been fully confirmed yet alone now cancelled... my batteries are running to a low
and I need to sit in one place for a week when this month is through. There is alot of action being crammed onto schedule so that I can end this show in November and focus on the next creation. My band fly home to London and I will stay in Los Angeles to recharge and continue the promotion of the magic position here. I have never been to a city where you can tell so much that earthquakes are living underneath the tarmac.. I was hearing all kinds of voices in my hotel room, I stayed on Hollywood, and a big picture of Le Morrissey was on the sunset boulevard, It was so comforting, like having buckingham palace in the centre of London, I slapped my 16 year old self for being a snob about this man. Like the first time I tasted wandsworth youngs ale and complained about it being flat and warm..
The spirits of these American cities are so new to me.. I am bemused and eager to know more, more, my whole musical life I have been a voyeur and recorder on the changing landscapes and communities around me.. I feel this is one I have never even considered translating into music, now being here for a month, It would be a lie not to let my anchor go and see what comes forth. If only I can find a grand piano to play... am i going to have to break into some orange leather skinned millionaires hollywood mansion to keep my fingers alive? I have a feeling there is no bosendorfer in the Super 8 motel.
Hollywood almost drove me at devils speed to mental hospital and back, but I had moments of great joy... great joy. The shows have been without fail amazing for me and seemingly the audience.. and wow, I have fallen in love at least 45 times with people in the audience, so many friends have been made.
I wish there was more time, for all the good things, I hardly sleep because I am so excited working, feeling, sensations... so much dies irae, jus ad bellum, sympathy for terrorism.. constant requiems are being written, who for? which war? once I cross that line I cant hold back.. Its strange.. when I am on the road singing happy songs... i spend the nights writing darknesses, and when on the road singing darkness I spend the nights living joyful.
I have to also give apology to some of you who came along to the Vegas show, I had no idea the venue had changed from the art to the beauty until I arrived in the city.. there had been some politics between promoters that I was not aware of.. I had no access to an internet to get this changed. I will be back soon with a grander show for you, i am sorry, so sorry. For those that were there.. you found out by a miracle where I was singing, thankyou. Then dear Leeds, again, you have been so good to me, I didnt know about this show, I knew I would be too exhausted at the end of this tour. I would have done my best for you if I was in the country of course, but I have to stay on here and work even to pay for my flight home, keep my business alive, the record industry being what it is these days.
So anyway, I must go now, and for those who do and dont hate me now....
I send a gigantic.. gigantic... a big big love
from the boy who cries wolf
somewere in portland.. in an empty ballroom
about to shower off three days of road
defensor pacis
xxx pw
^ From Wolf's MySpace.
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Вторник, 12.07.2011, 21:03 | Сообщение # 5 |
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| August 26, 2007 - Sunday
in the cold cathedrals
Oh my
Its one of those nights,
I cant sit still.. ive been listening to old cdrs all night of backing tracks I made for
songs when I was 16 and making new lyrics up.. getting beats going that were made on atari in a rundown teenage runaway house in richmond...
I get this sometimes, its super creativity
overload, who knows where it all leads to, full moon, half moon, total eclipse.
I was very inspired after reading and leed festivals, thankyou so much for coming,
the monitors at reading were absolutely abismal so it made it very hard for me and my band to do a good job, it helps if you can hear what you are playing especially with string instruments so that you can pitch correctly. Four piece rock and roll band set ups were not really made for double bass, violin and viola let alone electronics, oh I wont complain as the show felt amazing and you all left me feeling like a dream had come true somewhere in the ether so thankyou.
So anyway, its almost six in the morning and theres still no sign of feeling sleepy, Im listening to my archive and thats a little like opening up the photo album you should have thrown away when you were seventeen.
Very soon I will be able to announce new usa, japan, australia and u.k tours, I should be singing right up until december, then starts a self imposed non public phase of my next year when I will dissapear into the studio to make my fourth.
Must go now, to feel my insomnia, sit infront of a piano, feel to much, think not enough or perhaps the other way round. All in the palm of your hands my darlins...
Right now, the dictaphone recordings I made in the cathedral of st eustache in paris are coming on the cd player, I was 17 on a mission to find some joy in my heart somewhere away, away from the city I was born in.. I think I found it that day judging by what im hearing....
Good night or good morning, wherever you may be
xxx patrick
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Вторник, 12.07.2011, 22:31 | Сообщение # 6 |
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| Patrick's First Blog - 26th October 2007
Hello, welcome to the photographic diary from my recent North American autumn tour...
This is the first installment of photos from this recent expedition around the nightland of the United States and of course my dear Canada. I have always photographed my tours, ever since being 18 with my disposable cameras and to tell the truth have always feared the digital until my friend Rick Beauchamin showed me his digital camera that could photograph the night without flash. I fear the flash.
Anyway. My whole life to this date has been half analogue, half digital. Until I was 16, the internet was a cult phenomenon, halfway through my musical "career" people really started this whole internet piracy thing and now its very hard to afford to press up copies of vinyl. What I’m trying to say is that we have to change with or at least try to understand the world we live in, for health and survival reasons, so when Fuji offered me and my band free cameras, just like my dear Rick had, then I thought it would be an interesting experiment. The photos that follow, have all been taken by my road family, my brothers, sisters of the open roads. In my second blog come the private party photographs taken from the vaults of Me and Victoria’s new fancy cameras xx Patrick Wolf
This here is the wonderful American way of displaying who is playing at a theatre. We arrived in Boston very sleepy needing both cocktails and neon signs saying "rock and roll". So we felt very happy indeed when we woke to this sight. I always like seeing my name up in fancy lights, it makes me think one day my dream of having a Las Vegas residency, and perhaps a Penge Triangle residency, will one day come true,
This here is me and the wonderful Victoria Sutherland (who plays wonderful violin in my band) getting ourselves ready for a show, I have a feeling we are still in Boston at this time. Before I go on tour I always ask a friend of mine to make me some pieces for the shows. In this instance I met up with my wonderful new friend, Miss Fred Butler, the night before I left London. She has collaborated with me much over this Magic Position album. She tends to make everything out of found materials, or paper and cardboard, she is a genius. In this photograph I am wearing a gold necklace with gold cardboard skulls and crosses. Although I took a big box of outfits away from the studio and then into my suitcases, I paid nothing in excess luggage, much to the fact that everything in my suitcase was made from recycled paper cardboard!
Ok, this is me and Mr Jonathan Krisp (electronics) in our first lovely van. We are probably on the freeway during a twelve hour drive. About three hours into our journeys, everyone’s bum muscles start to hurt and we have to revert to private entertainment. John has been working on some genius music on the tour, we are often treated to bursts of Electric Light Orchestra remixes and some old rave masterpiece he has just come up with. Our laptops keep us alive. While John is getting high on the music, I am probably getting very nihilistic, writing songs of death and destruction on my old white beast of a computer.
This was taken by Victoria, one photograph after us showing each other what we both think we look like in our subconscious self-deprecating minds. Double chin extravaganza. This whole Magic Position and in fact most of my life has been about wearing the brightest and fantastical colors I can find. My best friend since junior school, Natalie Castro, is a makeup artist and now works for mac makeup and gets me all the brightest colors and glitters. There is no other makeup apart from cheap theatre makeup that works for boys. I have worn mac for almost a decade now, and I’m only 24. Still you wonder why I had to leave school at 15.... This photograph was taken in Portland. My dear Bishi and I spent our day off in Portland going to random bars with unfortunate random pornography on the video screens. All we wanted was a good cocktail.
This is a photography taken by my wonderful manager Stuart Green. On tour, before every show, I need inspiration and to wipe my mind of all transportation, therefore we normally end up watching B*Witched, Spice Girls, Mortiis, Verka Seduchka, Vanilla, No Bra, Atari Teenage Riot and Scatman John videos on Youtube. On my left and right are the wonderful Bishi, who I will introduce shortly and then the lovely Victoria Sutherland laughing with me, both in slight terror at the latest Celine Dion video.
The drive to Canada was full of trees and strip searches once we got to the border. Canadian borders are the opposite of the country it protects. The people of Canada have both big beautiful hearts and a true sense of art and human politics. Once we were within the country itself, our first show was Montreal which felt like a slight homecoming, Most of the last album was inspired by and written about a Canadian girl called Ingrid Z.
Anyways, the photo here was taken in Toronto a good hour or so before I came onstage by one of my band. Not only did the front row bring maracas and bells to play along with the show, they also brought streamers, bubble blowers and glitter canons for the encore. The show felt like a New Year’s celebration. It was Saturday night so me any my band threw in a version of Whigfield’s Saturday Night for extra joy.
Someone had organised me an after party in New York, and I thought I would be able to make it, but I pretty much passed out and headed to Coney Island straight after my show. Victoria, John and Marcello all went to the party at the Beauty Bar and got free electro shock therapy as you can see here. This photo makes me wish I had not downed all that tequila after the show.
By the time we reached Boston, I was alive again and I met up with my boys from the Boston Ballet. They took me for a night out to a club where between every song they would play "Its Britney bitch" almost as a trailer to excite everyone until they let Godzilla loose on the dance floor. I love Boston, last time I was in this city I ended up putting on my own drag show to The Magic Position at the nearest tranny bar. John Krisp was so confused by the spontaneous performance he was convinced I was a hologram until I started sexing up the roman era stage props. Anyway, this photo is me and a Britney inspired ladyboy. I tried my hardest to recreate the VMA performance once they played Gimme More but was pushed out the way by MIZERY the local queen of the diva dance floors of Boston.
I have a feeling this photograph was taken by Victoria or Nick Haward. I am currently a million miles above the Atlantic at four thirty am English time on my way back from the States and dread to wake any of my hardworking crew. I think this photo sums up touring life. A cat in a high street window, fast asleep. On full display. People taking photos as you’re trying to dream. Next to a hot pink smelly cat litter dispenser. Holding your breath. Waiting for someone strong beautiful and caring to take you home for good.
I spent so long looking for a band that felt that were not only a musical family, but a personal road family. In the last six months I have found this group of people that I’m happy to spend all my waking and sleeping hours with. They are so genius, all for their own talents and virtues. On the left, the wonderful Marcello Vig, the drummer and percussionist for my band, hailing from Brazil, I met him totally through an accident of personalities. Second from left the one and only Nick Haward, our double bassist. He has been with me for the whole Magic Position touring period. Despite his youth, this man is our road father. I feel like I can ask him any question, for instance this morning I asked him if flies could hear and he gave me the perfect answer.
Victoria Sutherland, my lovely dearest gorgeous superstar friend. She is the most talented violinist I have ever heard in my life. When I was 15 and playing in the same orchestra as her, when she played the solos I was moved to silence and tears, she is the Edith Piaf of the string world. My respect and love for this musician and friend is unlimited. I would give my kidneys and liver to keep this lady playing the violin. You must hear her in concert, in symphony at least once in your life. Then on the far right we have Mr Johnathan Krisp, my electronic maestro, he deals with all my nightmare electronics from my random eight year old laptops. Not only does he do this but he has added a wealth of field recordings in the last year, we now have foxes, crows, magpies, storms and seagulls live onstage, all coming from John’s genius technological world
For almost five years, from being a boy with a bontempi organ traveling the seaside towns of Northern Italy, to being a piano player with a fierce celtic drummer in Amsterdam, to playing to thousands as a pop star across the world, I have always kept with me my treasure, my one and only sound engineer. A woman who knows how to mike up and mix any combination of instruments from a ukulele to a symphony orchestra. If there were Oscars for sound engineers, this legend would win lifetime achievement every year. We have decades of sound to make together. I can’t wait for my next fifty years with WIbke Juergens. She is the magic ingredient of every show you have been to in the last five years. There is no other Wibke.
This is me invading Bishi’s soundcheck. Bishi is one of the most talented and genius musicians of my generation. She comes from a wonderful Indian Classical music heritage, and like me was raised in London, both of us a few miles apart from each other. She has been my best friend and closest, dearest companion in life since we were twelve years old. While I was off being an 19 year old pretend popstar, she was studying hard at the Ravi Shankar institute and secretly developing into an amazing grounbreaking pop STAR. Her debut album, about to be released, is a deep and beautiful journey through the life and heart of a 24 year old girl from London. Being on tour with Bishi is like winning a competition to go on a dream adventure with your best friend in the world. I swear my face has become ten years older in two weeks with the amount of laughter lines I have developed. In this photo we are in Detroit and I have just raided the nearest shopping mall for halloween decorations. Perhaps I had a little too much to drink, but at this moment in time I was convinced Bishi needed a ghost to keep her company onstage. Much to my delight, this ghost went on to operate her electronics that night.
Before every show I unpack all my suitcases and my random bags of thrift store junk and channel into my musical world. The two most important objects in my bags for disconnecting from reality are - my snowglobe from Vienna. This snowglobe takes me back to the winter I spent in Vienna recording the Magic Position, the snow was falling, the whole of prater was slow and half closed. I would wake every morning and drink Baileys and wonder through the snow daydreaming of falling in love before Patrick Pulsinger would pick me up in his little car and we would drive to record string quartets and vibraphones in his downtown Vienna studio. Beautiful, perfect days of my life. Then the other object is a copy of the painting called The Blue Boy by Gainsborough, although being a very famous painting and almost the boy version of the Mona Lisa, this painting is almost like staring into a mirror for me. When I see this painting I feel both safe and normal. I bought this painting the day I moved into the Verger’s Cottage with Ingrid, where I went on to record and write The Magic Position album.
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 00:29 | Сообщение # 7 |
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| stu stu studio life
Dearest dearest...
So today on this cold january afternoon I spend the last of a good few weeks of hard listening
mixing and producing all the audio from the shepherds bush empire finale from last month for a television special to be premiered on virgin television special very soon and then an extended version to be turned into my first DVD later in the year. The film has been lovingly shot and directed by the photographer brantley gutierrez who I worked with alot last year on my USA tour.
I opened him up to my early morning ramblings in my messy christmas flat, playing the piano
and getting ready for the final last two shows of the epic magic position tour of 2007.
I have also been secretly working away, crafting away on the new album too in the sleepy black and amber of these long coid winter nights. loading up my old laptops, generating beats and writing, typing nonstop at the piano keys and computer keys, trying to communicate some of the journeys, misadventures and experiences from the last couple of years since The Magic Position was completed. Slowly recovering and returning to a more regular private rhythm of life. Trying to remember how to live outside of hotels and six different airports each week is alot more confusing and tricky than I expected but life is showing me marvels and slowly vitality, inspiration and productivity is returning to my days and nights.
I send love, life and all the best from London to you wherever or however on this planet you may be. Thanks for all being out there, for your support as I get all my new work and vision together for you.
til the bluebells are ringing..
yours x patrick
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 00:30 | Сообщение # 8 |
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| Hello my dears
Well, Ive been deep in my introverted, investigative mode recently
searching for a resonance within myself, wandering through museums and
through libraries, finding the next communication to give to the world.
Although I have years of songs all heavy on my hands begging to be heard, released....
I am still very cautious of releasing songs when they are not fully formed or
in context of a current climate, personally and public.
I trust I have enough time on this earth that I will be able to get all of these songs heard
before i’m gone
I always feel at the beginning stages of making my albums that I have to almost select the twelve strongest stories and connect them via bloodtype, make a family out of them, make a home for them, connect the dots to create a whole, a possession for you to own... its a tricky proccess. The writing of the songs is easy, the putting together is the puzzle game.
After the magic position, I have decided to leave the circus behind, those days are done, It is time to embrace a new age, a stronger, darker, battlefield, warrior, tyburn tree, internal investigations, operations of broken and fragmented heart, to analyse the open endless roads I have travelled in the last six years years...
I wish I could just invite you all over for a long night of stories, log fires and vats of mulled cider or strong hot tea and talk this all over but in my game I have to condense these stories and songs into a record... I will have to edit myself...
anyways.. i am going back to my roots now. after travelling travelling travelling
from continent to contintent I find I am happiest and most productive when close to
my birthplace. yes.. i am south londoner again and it feels fantastic.
when i was fifteen or so I worked in a sandwich shop, making very bad sandwiches for busy people in wansdsworth that was managed by a lady who used to play me and my sister, who also worked at the shop for a while, heavy 2-step garage and what I guess would go on to be grime on cassette tapes she had recorded from last nights local pirate radio broadcasts... thats when I first started getting obsessed with pushing the limit of beat programming and time signatures, so solid crew were the first stars that came from sw london, after ultimate kaos, who i saw open the new virgin megastore in wimbledon by doing backflips around a ghetto blaster, happy days ... anyway, i guess i am suggesting I am reconnecting to my roots, when you find your roots, you become stronger and can grow into new dimensions and I am finding mine again... im researching gaelic
folk songs, all kinds of gaelic, back to my west cork irish roots, the migrations of my ancestors, in my youth the clonakilty buskers festival did so much positive damage to my 8 year old brain that I spent the first five years of my teenage-dom hungering for an accordion, then using all my violin practise time to make up my own reels and turn the violin to a fiddle..
And too, I just want to say hello, and keep you a little informed of the journey I will take as I make this next album, like my mother said with a paintbrush in her hand, the future without the past is barren wasteland.....
I must sleep now... ive had a mad day of moving a harspichord, a virginal, clavichord, a piano, a dolls house and too many outfits from one side of london to another, from my new home, now is time to rest and digest... good things are coming our way... bloody chamber music will be starting up very soon too, after slow teething problems, its on its way, in its new south of the river home ready to cross those bridges to you...
goodnight brothers and sisters, sleep well, or wake well
sail away, sail away my vessel brave
sail away, sail away my vessel brave...
x pw
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 00:30 | Сообщение # 9 |
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| Hello all
im in a state of total peace right now. I have spent the most inspired
weekend away of my life. Heading down and out of the city with the genius johnny green behind the wheel, the infamous clash tour manager, my good friend ed larrikin and
"famous rondon artist arice" and the thesp orlando seale who was to perform eds new play the CamusFlageCrocodille.., i think thats how you spell it...
I put in the car my farfisa reed organ and uke and
viola and fell asleep on the rainy drive to the laugharne..
when I woke, gone was the tarmac and grey and anger,
there were sea gulls in the marsh and laughter and fresh wild
welsh air. It was beautiful. We arrived at hurst house, a crop of places of rest
out on the estuary marshlands, the scotch and ginger was drunk in name of dylan
and soon was time to play a small set in the townships hall,
I had not announced this show as I want this year to remind me of what music
felt like back when I was 16 when I busked the accordion on hungerford bridge
or sang songs in squats or front rooms, where no one knows who you are but just sing
and if you sing with heart enough, you’ll have made a communication, no advertising or
hype or billing. so i came on the stage and was able, after a good couple of months of introverted gestation sing some new songs and tell some stories I’ve not been able to share yet. The night was perfect in its chaos, Ed and I sang ’on sussex downs’ the song that brought us both together as brothers, I felt released again.
Back up over hills and down a valley to my windswept out house, I slept and dreamt deep and well and then in the afternoon made the gorgeous journey to Dylan Thomas’ boathouse were he lived in his later years, ed and I had been asked to do a little concert in tribute to mr thomas, which I did with a humble heart, I brought along my organ, uke and fiddle, along with some readings of dylans poems, set inside
an old white washed house on the base of the wide wild damp green estuary. I started the set with a song that will be played during the closing titles of
the forthcoming Dylan Thomas Biopic ’the edge of love’ the song is called ’careless talk’ and was written for me by angelo badalementi and the director of the film, john maybury, The song has found its way deep into my heart and thats a tricky thing to do when you’ve spent a decade mainly only singing your own songs, in the boathouse, it struck an even deeper chord in me as this was where dylan and his wife spent much of there time in deep salty chaotic drunken love. After the concert, good welsh food was digested and stories shared, muscles relaxed and laughed again.
Then, as If i didn’t need any more good happenstance, in the afternoon the next day a very great moment happened, patti smith and I met on the stairs at hurst house, and we ended up playing three songs together on the saturday night, me on the harmonium and viola and patti singing a song called wind and ghandi. and reading a dylan thomas poem which i played along to, which both still are confused about as the poem/song we rehearsed earlier in the day had dissapeared from the book.. we then did the same in the boathouse the next day, and patti has and I will be making some music together very soon. On monday she taught me a melody she wrote about a three legged dog... we have still to work the song out to full completion. Soon we will be recording a little moment for the next album. Im very excited about getting to the end of the three legged dog song though too. she told me that we have a good future together and how can I cont agree. patti reminded me of the who and the why of the start of this journey when I was sixteen. That not being afraid of journeying alone is not a weakness or that loneliness should make you vulnerable, that being independent is a strength and part of the power of being a solo songwriter or artist. I think i forgot that over the last couple of months. Shame on me.
So now here I am back in london, missing wild wales and its people and proper weather and the generous ghost of dylan.. many moments have just passed that I will cherish forever. Thanks to laugharne, johnny, earl, ed alice, matt, robin, dylan, orlando, and patti. Im on fire and have plans to keep on shining bright.
til the next time.....
goodnight!
x pw
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 00:31 | Сообщение # 10 |
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| Hello..
While Im stuck out in the west sussex country
Making my beats n beasts and staring out windows
At easter full moon, digesting too much whiskey and cheese..
I thought I would make little overtures to those that
Were interested, to share some of
the soundscapes Im experimenting with over coming
months as the album comes together../
First, on my music player is an excerpt of a demo of a
a song called wargames, part of the more
political, current affair part of the album
It first started on my atari
Back in the days when I had an atari str and a
a couple of sturdy outboard samplers about eight years
ago now rewritten over the last year as a battlecry
my own battle against the apathetic technological age
I debuted it in full with an amazing gospel choir
at the barbican last winter in the plague songs
night with rufus wainwright and
imogen heap, I performed as neolithic warrior complete
with a bleeding skull for the climax with ondes martenot and
full brass band... a personal highlight of last year..
Now, must get back to the music...
Til the next time.. hope you enjoy a little of my kriegspiel..
catch it while you can...
x pw
mar 24, 2008
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 00:34 | Сообщение # 11 |
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| dearest, nearest, queerrest and weirdest.......................
jesus FUCKING christ.......
so today I attend one of my favourite irish cousins weddings, and i grit my teeth through the catholic blessings, cry myself to empathy via the love confessions they both confess and sware to each other. fierk and kitsy, i wish you both the hugest love forever, i had a slight homophpbic attack where after having a gun shaped fist held to my head, and being told someone wanted to kill me..... (seriously, since when was a pair of knee length socks and and a serious you want to kill me then i kill you first attitude became a bit too much to deal with.... i ended up kicking some shit in the head for literally stepping back thirty years in gay and feminist rights. I dont apppreciate some neandrathrall telling me i should be dead for being in a long term relationship with my beautiful husband.... i have to tell you, i have two albums coming out soon.... think, smashing pumpkins, kate bush, im going double, double, trouble, thats why im taking so long, one disk is heartbroken and in deep dispair, one is in deep dark joy dedicated to my new love, my old and forever love, william the conqueror, ok..... i better leave, my irish cousins are begging for a go on the intranet.... i just realised its been an age and a half since i communicated, the album has been in my blood for a year and much more.... the label think it will be a disaster, im sure, as it comes more from the bottom of my heart than even lycanthropy, about my fathers cancer, my solitude, my true love, my irish roots, everything that has touched me to the core in the last year.... ok, im rambling i must go.... i hAVE been told by my relative that i must go............... oh shut me the fuck up.............pw..xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx i love y'alllllll
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 00:37 | Сообщение # 12 |
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| Hello..
While Im stuck out in the west sussex country
Making my beats n beasts and staring out windows
At easter full moon, digesting too much whiskey and cheese..
I thought I would make little overtures to those that
Were interested, to share some of
the soundscapes Im experimenting with over coming
months as the album comes together../
First, on my music player is an excerpt of a demo of a
a song called wargames, part of the more
political, current affair part of the album
It first started on my atari
Back in the days when I had an atari str and a
a couple of sturdy outboard samplers about eight years
ago now rewritten over the last year as a battlecry
my own battle against the apathetic technological age
I debuted it in full with an amazing gospel choir
at the barbican last winter in the plague songs
night with rufus wainwright and
imogen heap, I performed as neolithic warrior complete
with a bleeding skull for the climax with ondes martenot and
full brass band... a personal highlight of last year..
Now, must get back to the music...
Til the next time.. hope you enjoy a little of my kriegspiel..
catch it while you can...
x pw
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 00:46 | Сообщение # 13 |
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| blog - divine intervention
dear all.
Well as the summer has given us its summer solstice. Life has changed here for me.
It is strange that I will be 25 this year. . 25 is such an odd
feeling, quarter of a century it is. It makes you look back on what you have acheived and be proud
of yourself. I have made many changes in my life, found a home, found my feet on good earth again
after all the touring of last year. I came home and found myself again. At the end of the magic position reignbough was my treasure, a boy conqueror who helped put the wreck that I became last year together again. I think I lost myself
last december. Love heals the deepest wounds.
I have spent the last month in battle, 1066 hastings, recording the next album, im digging right
deep to the bottom of my heart this time. there have been tears and screaming and nocturnal hours
and lots of battle of beleif and heart, im really going on some exploration this time round, be prepared!
I checked myself into a rehearsal studio yesterday in london bridge to
start thinking about the album tour and, I cant say what my new idea is because some random
pop fluff might come steal my identity again but let me say that it will be major. major . lots of exciting collaborations are abound. joni mitchell, if you can hear me, I have a song called theseus for you to do with me.. x all the strength
and happiness to you in these summer months. love yourself first and the rest will follow.
oh.. p.s . I hope you enjoy the angelo badlamenti song careless love, there are two different versions recorded
that you will hear in good time and also my version of careless talk will be unveiled sometime soon too
go see the edge of love, its a beautiful film about a wonderful poet by a fantastic director. and you can hear
the song in the middle of movie after the marriage. for those in london, ill see you at bishi with the london symphony orchestra.. bring your cameras. document this moment in time, east and west come together x PW
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 00:53 | Сообщение # 14 |
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| ok...
so here it goes.
wheels on fire. I will be playing the grand turbine hall of the tate modern next saturday to one of the most inspiring and emotionally evocative photographic geniuses of our living generation..Nan Goldins balllad is a strong and powerful message and exploration of love, strength of human, vulnerabilty, passion, desire, and all the algebra of heart that has to be decoded.
Its a real challenge anneke moment for me, what with my album being recorded simultaneously with my new engineer wonder
andy savours. me and all the instruments and the band are going to battle hastings 1066 in the next few weeks. album is well under way......for what would life be were it not for putting on your best catsuit and jumping out a helicopter and building a castle for twelve orphan gorrilas near alton towers?
by the way, if anybody lives by the southbank, me and a forthcoming star called "ebe oke" are going to be busking for ch-ch-changes and ch-ch-charity somewhere between southwark and blackfriars bridge.. and dare you ask..yes SAARF side of the river...... two o'clock when the sun is shining today.. we hope to see you under a bridge where we find best acoustic and no people pushers.... no bjs allowed. boris johnsons types that is. I feel the need to do this as it was almost eight years ago I was playing my accordion on hungerford bridge, ill wear the same outfit as i did back then, just to see if people spit in the hat like olden days or have we come so far now that i may get a brown coin, golden coin... pennies from heaven!
ill keep you posted......x pw
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 01:07 | Сообщение # 15 |
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| Dearest listeners, friends and supporters...
Today is the launch of my Youtube channel, Patrick Wolf Tv
This will be an official source of visual communication from me
documenting my journeys past, present and future...
I have been filming much of the last few years on the road
not knowing what I may end up using these little documents for...
I have decided it now time to start editing all this mass of footage
into small chapters I am calling my "journal".. I have even come
across a video of the launch concert for Lycanthropy I did in a
little abandoned taxi rank in east london over five years ago.
To start off with, Is Chapter One, a little personal scrap book of visual memories
from america, the long drives through the deserts, sweaty mid summer
stages, the amazing experience
of meeting my american audiences... The soundtrack is a
backing to a new song I programmed while driving through
death valley during the day and night long drives across the states..
I hope you enjoy it... make me know if you want more... there is over five years
of footage to share and many stories to tell. Im so excited by this new channel
that has been set up, a total new and intimate medium of staying in contact
with you all directly.
Today I recorded the string sections for the new album and the final vocals and choir parts will be completed with in the next week.. Then to mixing.. I should have the album all done and ready to go for 2009 before christmas. Lots of exciting news to come which I cant wait to share.
In the mean time enjoy Patrick Wolf Tv... its only just begun!
biggest love xx pw
http://uk.youtube.com/user/patrickwolftv
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Среда, 13.07.2011, 01:07 | Сообщение # 16 |
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| Wow…it's really been a scary age since my last blog, huh? I've been undergoing a lot of changes behind the scenes over the last few months while finishing the album. I started writing up some of the credits recently, and for a record that I had planned to make totally within one studio, and to try to sit still for a whole year, me and these new songs have really experienced a lot of drama and traveling along the way. Which is why this final mixing process is almost ten times more cathartic than the actual songwriting process. I'm feeling lighter by the day as each track is put "to bed".
I've holed myself up in Yorkshire in a place called Castleford, no distractions here apart from repeats of Jeremy Kyle and the amazing local 6 year old pop-star-in-the making little Danielle Ling who plays a Hannah Montana keyboard down at the local Chinese takeaway… Kate Bush, I have found your successor! (YouTube clips to follow soon)
Ok, so I mentioned "behind the scenes", and it's really time to tell you a bit of the story. Basically, this album was not and never could have been the sequel to Magic Position. I don't work like that. I tend to finish one creative rhythm then move onto another with each album. Thus, Battle was not the album that my last label wanted me to be making; I guess I'm not family friendly or conservative enough to play that game, and I am getting a bit more fearless as I grow older. Not really been one to compromise with businessmen in my life, so I thought why should I start now when I'm at my most self confident and passionate about the sound of music that I want to create and explore? So, Universal and I decided to part ways. So with album 4… I'm back in the free world of Independent Music
Anyway, thank god I set up Bloody Chamber Music this year, I can finally focus on my label and make it everything I wanted it to be this time last year when I first announced it… I want this to be a label that understands how the music industry has changed beyond recognition year by year since the millennium. That we need to establish new relationships between musician and audience, work out a respect system by that if a musician spends their whole year making an album, putting the hours you would at a full time job, no one would expect you to work full time and not be given your salary at the end of the year… But a musician, who like you, has to have food on the table, maybe support a family, pay rent on a flat, works on an album for a year or more and then the album is taken for free… as if all the goods for your store fell out the back of a lorry and were stolen. Yes, as someone that released their first record just before My..Space and the huge rise in the use of Napster etc… I have seen things change around me and panic amongst many of my musician friends, some having to move to squats, not have enough money to make a follow up album and give up their passion for good.
I think its time we all rethought this industry because for me right now, there is no music industry.
For instance there is no Top Of The Pops; distribution companies, record shops and legendary recording studios are going into administration weekly. The mediocre musical vocabulary of Simon Cowell has taken over the music charts, Hit singles are vehicles for product placement and heterosoc... This is not the world I aspired to make music in back in 1998 when Bis could play on Top Of The Pops as an unsigned band and Bjork, Faith No More, and PJ Harvey were constantly aweing and shocking in equal amounts in the top ten. This does not make me any less passionate about making my albums, despite mad reports that I was retiring last year... (If anyone actually read what I wrote it never mentioned giving up music. I don't even have the ability to give up music. it would be like having a lobotomy. I was just wondering if I could give up publicity, have some form of private life again) I am in this bonkers game till the day I drop dead….
So, with my label, there are two ways to go about things. The dangerous route, that many are taking is to take money from city investors… and then basically they have a huge share in your band and a say or filter on your creative output – basically like being on a major label. Or, the second option is "Bandstocks" which to me sounds the most exciting, and is the route I have chose.
Basically, anyone can invest in a share of the album soon to be released. The more people that invest, the better the packaging, the better the mastering, the bigger the budget for videos and tours etc… the more fantastic the album is… the bigger the tribe… the bigger the battle, and bigger the victory in my language. If you need the finer details then go over to www.bandstocks.com, to hear some snippets of the album, and read all about it! All those that invest get the opportunity to come to secret rehearsals, and to get a limited edition amazing version of the album, get the album first, get first dibs on tickets for the tour. I'll invite you all over for a big homemade Wolf stew and a round of grog when I win my Grammy…
Ever since I was younger I promised myself to look always to the future ways of being a human, or at least embrace the current options at least. This is a brave new world we face. I refuse to let the crumbling industry around me make me have to give up this life long passion and journey I've been on. Although this is album four, I feel like I've only just begun and have great things to achieve with my life. Now, just like at the beginning when we pressed up 1,000 of the Patrick Wolf E.P and sold it hand to mouth, you get to be part of the journey too… Lets get futuristic!
I recently met the actress Tilda Swinton and she filled me with so much fire thinking about Derek Jarman; to me, the greatest outsider and visionary of British Film. I think about him down in Dungeness making one of his last films, "The Garden", With a couple of old Super 8 cameras; no script, no money, and hardly any eyesight, making a true masterpiece. I am from this world of creativity, when you have nothing you really make something… and when you have too much, you often make too little.
Tilda actually ended up being the narrator for Battle. She appears on four or five songs as the voice of hope against all my negativity… The album has been blessed!
Ok, I must go… so much to do! This Thursday I am back at the Barbican playing a few Christmas songs on the piano, I was commissioned to write a new Christmas song… after spending the last two weeks in front of my organ contemplating eggnog, Argos Christmas trees, family fights, Satan or Santa, Mr Blobby etc etc I have decided to write about wanting to give birth to my boyfriend's baby… I would make a good mother if I had the right organs.
Wishing all the love, joy, good sex, and peace to you… Be back with you all shortly. From Your boy in Battle xxx PW"
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Суббота, 16.07.2011, 21:44 | Сообщение # 17 |
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| "im so sorry..
ive tried so hard to be a good person..
i work so hard...
my whole life, i quit my a levels, my education... im 25, ive been fucked over by so many people... i came from being beaten up by a bunch of aggresive homophobic conservative two faced cunts at school and entered an industry that is rife with these people... i come from fuck all and i work so hard to be good and have only asked the people around me to be honest.
im so tired of liars and hypocritical older industry motherfuckers.. im so tired of it all..
i only ever wanted to share my song with the rest of the world...
i have been legally sworn to silence about my deal with universal.. i have never mentioned my business deals publicly...
i have spent the last year making the album of my life... but its too much now...
ive jumped through too many hoops, im so tired.. its time to start again...
this industry is for people made of steel.. im just made of flesh n bone...
im so sorry i cant compete anymore.
x pw"
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Суббота, 16.07.2011, 21:45 | Сообщение # 18 |
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| "Heaven, I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak"
Good Afternoon....
Im having a positive goodness Brian Wilson-esque day, one of those when you pull up the blinds and the sun is lighting the whole world and your whole house up all bright white and bold.
My life is finally moving again after a long year and a half of sitting in front of
mixing desks, striking hammers, pulling bows, resting from the roads and
arguing with business men, overcoming all those moments of being made
to feel like a "difficult artist" when I am just being a musician that
won't stop giving a shit about being as creative and uncompromising
as I can and have to be. Sometimes we all have to be diva or divo to keep our
dignity and integrity intact, to keep our communications pure. A diva knows no regret.
Today is a day when all the work I have done has given me a perspective on my future and all the things I've fought for at last seem worth all the fighting. Maybe this is planetary or caused by the sun or just BANG that feeling that my album is finished, totally, excitingly, yes 13 year old patrick, in 12 years time you will have made four albums from the bottom of your heart and you didn't get diluted or compromised along the way, bingo. You aren't the gutter tramp, hooker or failure those kids promised you would be. Im watching my lovely man sleeping in the bed next to my studio.. so peaceful and handsome... all lovers should watch their partners sleeping more often... It's not creepy, It's romantic, I think even snoring can be charming when the noise is made by right person . Sorry I digress.. but I haven't done a proper writing blog for a while.
Im also moving house over the next couple of weeks... slowly and surely.. 7 years of costumes... 10 years of instrument collecting.. endless boxes of old books and note books and manuscript.
Im stepping back in time to the regency period in a little house with two blackbirds
in the garden (and heating.. i have lived without heating for a year now!)
but once again the bloody piano and the harpsichords are going to have to
be put in the elevator and thrown in the back of a truck... terrifying, must be like a mother having
to watch your children skydiving or something. Im getting a four poster bed too... yes, very fancy...
very naughty.. etc etc
Ok.. Now, thanks to you lot.. the first warm up london show at Heaven sold out super quickly so I have added another date at Koko on the 13th of March...the day after Heaven at The Club NME night... Once again bandstocks holders get first dibs on tickets and then the tickets go on general sale on February 19th... There are still a few tickets left for Gloucester, Colchester and Cambridge I think. As stated before this will be the first time I will be performing all the new songs from the first CD of Battle... now entitled "The Bachelor" but expect full U.K and International tours from late April onwards... this is just my first toe back in the big old world of show.
Me and mr editor have just finished two more video blogs so expect these very soon on PatrickWolfTV... Will announce these here.
Also. During The Magic Position whirlwind of 2007 I was flown up to the Scottish Highlands in a private jet to be photographed by the genius Tim Walker for Vanity Fair magazine. Tim has just kindly donated his print of this photograph to The National Portrait Gallery in London after being selected by The Gallery and Vanity fair as one of their most Iconic images of the last 100 years. I was totally flattered when I found this news and to find my picture amongst the company of the portraits of some of my favorite authors and poets, and one of my ancestors, Joseph Swan (who invented the lightbulb with Thomas Edison... actually Edison nicked the idea from Swan.. Shhhh!) Anyway the picture will be on display until mid April before it goes into the National archive and you can also buy the huge hardback book Vanity Fair Icons too I you want to own a copy of the picture and you have half a hundred quid to spare! If you go to the gallery, make sure you don't leave without visiting the portraits of Ottoline Morrel and Virginia Woolf by a great painter called Augustus John.. truly inspiring to me when I was a teenager.
We are currently planning an early March release for the first single from The Bachelor called Vulture. And for the first time I have commissioned so dance and experimental remixes of the song to take down to your local discotheque and give to the d.j. Hopefully very soon we will have a video to share with you too...
Right.. I must dash now.. I have probably bored you rotten and I have so much to get through on this fine day, places to go, people to see, whips to crack, bottoms to slap... yes must really go!
xxx pw
just sing
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Воскресенье, 17.07.2011, 15:29 | Сообщение # 19 |
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| "Good morning....
This is patrick here..
just as the sun is rising here in waterloo
and big ben is chiming I am too,
signing in from planet wolf to planet earth
I really just want to say thank you so much for your love for vulture!!!!
Shall i tell you some thing about this song? I was lying in bed in olympia
thinking of a new direction, trying to go somewhere new with sound and electronics
and after three albums of self production I thought.. ok, i've come this far on my own, I want to start some collaborations, loosen up and get out of my comfort zone. Learn new things.
I felt like I had already explored found sounds and field recordings and technology
changes so fast, when i started in 2001 , to have logic or pro tools or any software recording device was the most amazing new world. Now everybody has access to be able to make electronic music. which is fantastic, a dream i had when i was 12. but we shouldn't get lazy.
At the end of 2007 I was going through my archives of tapes and mini discs of old beats and noises I had made and realised that all the work I did when I had almost no technology, just one sampler and a midi sequencer, was so much more exciting and furious than the work I had with loads of options and technology and plug ins and synths etc..... well, there was no way I was going to go raid my parents attic and find my old atari and start learning how to do all that again so I remembered meeting Alec Empire in berlin during that mad year of magic position touring. He had been one of the people that inspired me as a kid to get into making electronic music, atari teenge riot were such an original and revolutionary band during the homogeny of the late 90's. So, I was in a bad place one morning, at home, full of negativity and rage and stress and whenever this happens i need to write or sing or create something... same happens when Im extremely positive too.... I emailed alec and asked told him my emotions and that I DESPERATELY NEEDED TO WRITE A SONG WITH HIM NOW. Emails went back and forth and ideas were thrown at each other and a vulture was born within a few days.. It took us about Six months to finally get to meet up in person when i travelled back to berlin and finish this alongside a song called "battle" and he produced a first demo of the song "the sun is often out"
In Berlin, alec programmed all the beats and synths through an atari computer I think, ... It was such an inspiring moment watching alec program away amongst banks of modular MIDI patch synths, limited edition 1950's russian electronic equipment... everything was manually done with amazing fury and precision... watching him work reminded me of documentary footage of the BBC radiophonic workshop... I feel like he and I created a new sound that has been forgotten. using a music technique that predicted the future but gut swallowed up by garage band and firewire and ipod land... i'm not being nostalgic.. all technology should be embraced and utilised to its best advantage but we shouldn't forget the practices of the past.
For this album I wanted to work with rarities.. both music and visuals that can't be imitated so easily as The Magic Position was and is by novelty flash in the pan entertainers. Vulture only has one acoustic instrument on it that I recorded in England called The Stroh Violin by an amazing musician called David Coulter.. David also plays musical saw and nose flute on the album. Working with david helped me remember my roots in experimental music, my love for Stockhausen and the early electronic music concrete experimentalists who used to spend hours cutting up analagoue tape, rearranging the recorded parts and sellotaping it back together again then feeding it through the tape machine to make a new aesthetic of music. If you are losing me... then.. I want you to go and purchase a copy of Stockhausens "Kontakte" and hear what I believe to be one the bravest beginnings for electronic music. Also Google "Daphne Oram" "Clara Rockmore" then "Nic Endo" "Pierre Boulez". This thought process and collaboration with mr Coulter led me on to going to Paris to work with Thomas Bloch who is the only virtuoso in the world existing who can play The Cristal Bachet. I was thinking that we were so overwhelmed with synthetics these days, synthesizers and music machines come free with our desktop computers that everything is starting to sound the same. I gave thomas bloch all my synthesizer parts i had written and he played them on a totally acoustic instrument made of metal and crystal glass. I cant give too much away right now.. people may poach the eggs before i've seen them hatch as has happened before.
But in the coming months I will be able to share share share away with you all.......
I have been on such an amazing journey with this album, I feel as though this album is
my "coming of age", I hope you understand. It's a hard thing to try and explain. But I can't let any of my albums become my portrait of dorian grey, its a dangerous thing releasing an album when you are 19 but you can only hope that people will want to grow and change with you... I hope you do.
Soon you will start to see the new artwork by Nick Thornton Jones And Warren du Preez... These guys are very similar to thomas bloch and alec empire. Their photography is pure alchemy but not computer generated as many might think. They come from the good times of experimental photography before computers (not too long ago at all...) where people were playing with light and movement and shadows. aperture, Illusions and set designs, taking us on a journey to another place like all great art and music should. I have been dissapointed that many of you people would look at an the new album cover by nick and warren and say "OMG LOLZ THEY DID THIS IN PHOTOSHOP INNIT BABEZ ROFL WTF" where actually you're talking about a two day shoot, a weeks worth of preparation, one of the most amazing team put together of the leading avant garde creative visionaries in london. I am bored of the way most images look these days.. we are all photoshopped to look as though we were created by mary kate and ashley olsens mum or zac effrons plastic surgeon don't you think? I wanted to work with photographers who let me dance and move as I do onstage, to communicate to the camera like I do on video, who would help me articulate the character of the album, the different personas in the songs.. thank you so much to nick and warren for being that and so much more.
So anyway... take a look around, and a little more... this is all i'm saying. Think twice, think, engage, create, innovate...
I have three hours to deliver the artwork for the cd body.... (yes kids.. i'm still making compact discs) so Im going to make some coffee and put on the micachu album. This lady is the real deal, a true original, Listen to the album on headphones... it seems to have about 7 dimensions... mad amazing and brilliant.
Oh.. and I hope you're all enjoying the video.... again, not one part of that video was done by mistake... everything has it's meaning... power struggles, vulnerabilty, submissive vs dominance.. sexual violence... pleasure and pain. I guess I have no shame about nudity, the human body is beautiful, we cover it up too much, hide it under boring layers of cloth, we should celebrate our bodies more whatever the proportion or contortion... we are all animals after all, and I don't see any birds in my garden here wearing jeans and trainers.
ok, biggest love and the rest to you... i'm feeling so so so on fire after the last tour, i'm taking five days away from the spotlight next week to finish off the miniscule details of the next part of battle before the bachelor takes over my life for a year.... no rest for the wicked.......
tooth n nail xx patrick
P.S Thanks to steve lamacq for having me on the round table this week.. it was much fun, I felt like I was on smash hits.. oh and to all the djs at BBC6 that are playing the new song and to all that voted me as winner on the playlist, and to the nme for your support... this is all very exciting.... good times ahead my friends and still very early days."
just sing
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Воскресенье, 17.07.2011, 15:30 | Сообщение # 20 |
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the childcatcher
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| "Good morning....
Life is so amazingly wonderfuly busy at the moment...
I am currently rehearsing with my band up near ARSEnal stadium
(oh shit.. i'm so going to get shanked on the way home now!)
I've been making a few appearances in my spare time at some
of the recent london fashion week events... It has been amazing
to see some of my good designer friends debuting this season...
big congratulations to Craig Lawrence (who made most of my outfits
at the shepherds bush finale shows alongside his ex-collaborator
Liria Pristine) Fred Butler (who made many pieces for my final
magic position USA tour and made me one of my favorite wardrobe
items of all time, the airplane shirt that was photographed by
Nick and Warren for I-D last year.... then also big round of applause
to Ada Zanditon who showed for the first time at LFW.. She has
been working very closely behind the scenes for me
for the last three months on the new tour wardrobe and helping
to bring to life all the characters I have written about on 'The Bachelor'
Its so exciting when your friends start emerging from their creative
chrysalises so to speak.. it's an exciting time as all three of these
people are super inventive and forward thinking which is very much
what I think should be celebrated in a creative person.. good work my friends!
O.k... Here is chapter four of my video journal.. just a little glimpse
of some of the chaos that occurred last xmas and a little farewell
to the flat that brought me back to life, writing, peace and quiet to
help make the new album..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01KnqEdU9c0
My days are so busy filled with appointments and errands and dancing and singing
and photography and video shoots.. but I wouldn't have it any other way.. I am a fish back in the sea... after co-directing my first couple of videos I have decided as an experiment
I am going to direct the video for the new single "Vulture" by myself.. I may be mad...
but I just want to deliver the most intimate portrayal to you of the dark self destructive
place in my heart and groin that the song was written from..... Let's just say it just may have
to go on x-tube rather then youtube for its debut!
Right... Im off for my errands, got to get me some sexual clothes and rehearse.. I went to the nme awards... the guy from the killers looks like he got dressed in a ritzy mum jacket store in croydon... I did much people watching.. alot of bitching and laughing at people... I should really get out more... learn some manners... eat more vegetables etc......
o.k over and out.....
still love, always love xxxxx patrick"
just sing
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