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| jaqkvade | Дата: Вторник, 12.07.2011, 18:06 | Сообщение # 1 |
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You sent your questions into Patrick, many came in and so we had to select the most exciting so apologies to the ones not used.
W e will do this every year here at wolf dot com so get thinking for your next one.
all the love from the one and only ghost of torquil...........
Hello Patrick! Considering your training with viola, violin, etc.
"classical instruments" and a leaning to poetry. What draws you to pop music
in particular?**
Robyn Schelenz
Hello.. Robyn! I think, after coming across the caviar and champagne mentality of music college.
I realised the bravest thing is not to masturbate and make music for those with ten years of education.
The most daring hero I aspire to be is the one who can give all of themselves without snobbery or selfishness.
I will never compromise my music for the sake of popularity or success but If top of the pops comes
calling I will embrace the opportunity to make magic and give love on a grand scale with open arms.
"What do you think you would be doing right now if you had never become a
musician, and have you made any regrets along your path to becoming a
musician?"
Natasha Prasher
Never regrets! I have made all my music choices from the heart and intuition.
Those organs don’t fail you. Decisions of the brain cause regret. I can’t imagine my life without my music.
Perhaps if this album path comes to a brick wall I will join an orchestra again to keep bread on the table.
When I was eight years old I wanted to be an inventor… I used to make sweet machines out of cardboard and string.
Is it hard to go back to the emotional state that
youve already gotten out of your system during the
production of the album when performing live?
Katy Duibuison
Touring can be a whole new set of emotional states that can apply to different songs.
A song like "pigeon song" throughout the tours of 2004 became like a postcard to
London after not seeing friends or family for weeks.
I don’t have two separate brains about performing and living,
Some songs have lost there relevance to me though,
and I will not be a pop idol about my shows and pretend to be feeling something that
I am not.. I am not an actor… perhaps "the childcatcher" will be very rare in the live
performances until I can feel its heartbeat again.. maybe never.. maybe next week..
I can never tell. I write the setlist two minutes before going on stage, or sometimes never at all.
Have you ever held a live fish?
I like to fish sometimes, but only for eating, sport fishing is selfish and cruel.
Do you watch the BBC often?
I listen to the BBC. Radio 3. At midnight, in the bathtub with a storm at the window.
Do you watch cartoons while eating cereal on Saturday mornings?
Not cartoons but Pop Music shows, when I get the chance.
Do you sleep with a teddy bear?
Pillows are better.
Do you really have a wife named Bishi?
We may have once been married in some sense but she is unfortunately a ghost now
How do you feel about President Bush?
She is a genius..I think my favourite song at the moment is "England my lionheart"
You are often refered as 'the male Bjork.' How do you feel about this?
Do you feel you still fit this discription?
M ost comparisons I find funny, lazy or unimportant, but there are a few, like Bjork or Prince
who I think have done so much as explorers and inventors in pop music, that to be compared to
them means I must be doing something right. I take it all with fistfuls of salt.
I find that journalists often use comparisons because they are either lazy or confused
Are you going to tour in America anytime soon?
September is pencilled in.
How many cats do you have? Do you have any dogs or other pets?
Ian Wellman
One ghost cat, two ghost terrapins, one live cat, one ghost mouse and a pigeon.
Do you have any tattoos?
Jochen Rudek
An upright horseshoe on my right thigh done on my 18th birthday to keep the devil away.
On Wind In The Wires you sight the wonderfull Vashti Buyan as a person in
need of thanks, and your journeys seem to have taken you on a very similar
path to her. When and where did you realise you wanted/needed to become the
Gypsy King?
Hephzibah x
I dont think my journeys yet are no way near as fantastic as Vashti’s. I have a plan that Ive been desiring to act upon
for the last few years but my time has been all dedicated to this Pilgrims path but I want to pack a small
suitcase on the back of my bicycle and cycle all around England for a year.. see all the storms and
go werewolf hunting In the outer hebrides. I promise, If I must go, I will bring back some great big jewels to share.
What's your favourite books? or authors?
Hanni, Norway
I keep on coming back to Woolf.. so much magic and such good sense of reality or unreality.
I like to read Yeats and Dylan Thomas.
A book by Tom Robbins "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" saved my life one winter. Joseph Campbell is a genius.
On the tourbus I am getting to work on my childrens book.
It takes place in the world after the end of the world is the story of a Prince called April
Can you offer any advice to budding ukelele players. What kind of uke to get and learning to play.
Jamie
I play a Baritone Ukulele. It is like a viola on it’s side. Normally a new song comes from
de-tuning the ukulele to make chords or new combinations of strings.
I think this is the best way. Don’t be scared to throw out the rule books..
Make up your own language and rhythms. I think Its about time to put the acoustic guitar in the graveyard...
I beleive the uke is the way forward for the troubadourly inclined.
When was the last time you've frolicked in the woods?
-Casey
The woods I haven’t seen for a month or so… I am in love with the marshes near my house…
We shot the covers of the Wind in the Wires single there. Up early in the morning
and catching the dawn and the magpies. They have gypsy funerals out there,
they burn the bodies of the deceased in their caravans or cars. I was frolicking a
few days ago on the south coast cliffs for the new video. Naked and wet, surrendering body to the cold sea air and sunset.
I would like to know something about the brooch on your
jeans you wore on the 2004 tours? is it a talisman? who did you get it from?
Paola
It was a gold cockroach from Los Angeles… He crawled all over me that year.
Then during the shoot for the album he crawled off into the towans and was never seen again.
I’m sure he is happy there.
Heve you ever worn stilts?
Tilly Geoghegan
No.... but I used to wear seven inch high shoes to school when I was thirteen. My favourite pair, only six were made,
the other five belonged to the spice girls.
When you aren't writing, recording or touring, what do you like to do
with your days?
Robbie x
The freedom time is rare these days… But that time, the way and where is my secret…
it’s where I get all the jewels to put in the crown that I then get to give to you all.
Dear Mr. Wolf,
I know online correspondence is informal, but I come to you out
of need and affection. I have dreamt of little and failed in much.
Would you be kind and spare a pennies worth of wisdom to a distressed
fellow. I would be in great debt if you allowed me this simple
pleasure.
An everlasting anonymous observer
Only you can really help yourself and pull yourself up from the slough.. but a little encouragement from me..close your eyes…
remember when you were six… what did you want to be and dream of?
Go outside… take the first train to the middle of nowhere… count the birds or the waves or your fingers.
Kiss the back of your hand like you’re totally in love. Take off all your clothes and jump in the sea or a lake, it’s best when freezing.
Make yourself your favourite dinner. Wash your hair. Look nice and go dancing. Listen to Joni Mitchell. Get drunk and fall over repeatedly.
Take all the time it takes to get the courage back to smile with total authenticity.
Follow your bliss. Break a mirror and plant some seeds!
Hello!
I've been trying to find chords and tabs to some of your songs (mostly "Pigeon Song"). Is there anyway to get a hold of them? Fredrik
Hi Frederik. So flattered you want to play some of the songs! I have never heard anyone else but myself
and my mum after a bottle of wine sing them. It’s hard because a lot of the songs were written with open tunings.
None of my songs are written on guitar. Pigeon song was written on the viola. I plan one day to sit down and make
a sheet music book with chords for ukulele and piano. Its been on my list of things for a while now.
In the meantime… make up your own chords... or translate what you hear into your own language!
A festival is a meeting of many different artists: did your summer experience give you the opportunity
to meet and "work" with other artists? (and please, don't just answer "yes" )
Anne Robertz
Im not a very networking sort of person. In Benicassim and Haldern, my grandmother had just died
and It was strange enough being in that grievance state and playing in front of so many people,
but having to deal with all the backstage circus, it wasn’t great. I went off for a long walk through
the desert and had a good long cry and sing. I guess, being such a solo unit, I rarely meet like
spirited musicians. Anyway, I have always met other musicians or companions through fate or by drunken accident .
Is there any place in particular that you feel inspires you the most?
Chris Rogers
So many places, a list would be boring though. Really, you or I can find a magic place practically anywhere in the world.
The moment I feel a place is bigger than me… when I can disconnect from myself and be a small piece of a huge puzzle,
then I am alive and in an inspired mode.
What do you dream about?
Ola Lala
Such a big question… changing nightly. Dreams are predictable as the weather, most dreams are total mysteries.
I dreamt I gave birth to a cat last night.
When you get old and open a music school, can i be
your secretary?
Katy Dubisson
Send your CV in thirty years! You must be prepared to be isolated from the world for six months of the year.
I plan to kidnap all the children and keep them on an island with instruments… No television or computer games.
No scales or Mozart Sonata books. They basically have to learn to communicate with each other with music.
A good few years like that… showing them the seasons and teaching them the different bird songs,
then they can go back to the rest of the world.
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Patrick sent these out this morning, with the subject heading 'q and a.. finally!'.
No wonder it's taken him bloody ages - he's answered loads!
Enjoy!
pony pony PUNKLE~? poop! - you have been described in ze press as a trouble-DOOR for ze modern (MODEM!) age. Is this a role you identify with?
Hmm.. I don't know about that. I'm not entirely sure what people are insinuating when they say troubadour. All I know is that I love to make music, write songs, that this makes up about 90 percent of my body. I am almost a product of my music, I follow wherever it takes me.
I tend to not indentify with things other people describe me as, I like to stick to being playing an ended role in life.. ready to change or explode into something else at any point.
jack - I know most of your songs are self recorded on the mac, but what recording/sequencing programmes do you use?
Actually.. alot of the second album material was recorded on my macintosh.. For the new album I used all my knowledge of recording strings, drums, piano and vocals that i had learnt with low budget recording and translated it into my desire for making a hi-fidelity sound in a proper studio. About half of Lycanthropy was made with an Atari ST that a lovely record label called fat cat gave me.. I only started to use a Mac in the last couple of months while making Lycanthropy.. Before the ST I was lost in a world of outboard samplers, 4tracks and analogue synths.. For the The Magic Position.. I wanted an album where everything was recorded immaculate and clean.. I almost got there... to make a music paradise that had lots of summer air and light in it.. wind in the wires, I find now, is quite claustrophobic and nocturnal.. I was obsessed a lot with white noise and radio static at the time.. that sonic pallete leant itself mostly to recording without manners.. when a rogue frequency crept in due to faulty connections on the audio interface or broken microphone cable.. I left those sounds in.. amplified and explored that distorted, unwanted sound. The magic position... I eliminated all those noises and recorded a very clean, disneyland, litter free album.
I don't like to give away the tools of my production too much as I
feel that everyone should find their own.. As to software.. I am not currently a pro-tools fan.. i used to produce on Cubase on an the old atari computer connected to a sampler.. but changed when I bought my first macintosh.. I would recommend everyone to start with a small four track tape recorder for a few years.. then go to an atari.. then when you are really ready, go to audio software recording on a computer.. this way.. you work beyond your limitations... rather then just get lost in the amount of choices and luxurious effects you have on offer. This is how I taught myself anyway.. hope this helps! xx
shaniaviram - there is a lot of talk about the image of the wolf and the boy changing into the wolf, and since he changed his name to wolf I was wondering if now, three albums after becoming Patrick Wolf, does he feel that his name is still relevant in the same way it was at the time of Lycanthropy or has it reincarnated in a different way, or maybe it isn't relevant at all anymore?
I can imagine maybe reverting to my birth name when I am very old and want to grow vegetables, grow a beard and lie in bed all day with a lover, listen to the sea.. Wolf has been my name now for a very long time.. my other surname pays the bills and cleans the mould out of the sink.. I get to do the fun stuff.
binglybongly - do you like a nice hot bath? Some of my best ideas occur to me in the bath. Where's the strangest place you came up with an idea for a song for the new album and how long did you live with the idea before it became a full-blown galloper of a pop hit?
I used to have three hour baths.. yes.. lots of ideas... my new home has a power shower though.. that is exciting. I use paris hilton body wash.... It is so "power" full... Its like being underneath a huge waterfall. After a bath i felt very calm and sleepy, that was lovely.. but these days I like to be dynamite.
I wrote the song "the magic position" in italy, on tour.. there were building works outside mywindow, i was hot, with blisters on my feet, couldn't wear any shoes.. so I took a morning bare foot walk while no-one was awake and found a river which had a really long island in the middle separating the water into two parts. I remember suddenly feeling like I was deeply in love with someone from back home and so I wrote a song for them while walking, trying to tap dance down the river. This song became the
magic position.. for the rest of the tour.. I spent pages and pages
trying to document the feeling that came to me that morning.. after about a year it became the basis of the feelings and colours for the new album.
adoraboy24 - I would like to ask Patrick where were his favourite places in Cornwall?
hello.. I would have to say Godrevy Point. This place means so much to me. When i die I want my body to be thrown off the cliff there. I fell in love once for big time down there... I equate the bay with being in love. I bought my only accordion down there in the curiosity shop in the local town.. If you know the bay you will know where I'm talking about.
someforafield - Other than Larrikin Love, which new bands / artists are you listening to right now?
I just came off tour with rio en medio.. I think her music is very
beautiful.. Then my old friend Bishi.. who is making an album right now that I am very excited to see finished. I am listening to alot of henry purcell right now.. I love his music, have always loved it.. so simple yet full of magic. Also the new Joanna Newsom album is beyond genius.
el alma - What image makes you feel the most in tune with yourself?
The blueboy by gainsborough.. the portrait of lady ottoline morrell in the national portrait gallery.. heironymous bosch paintings, Any movie with edith massey, klaus nomi, tracey emins biography.
It sounds vain.. but looking in the mirror every now and again makes me remember myself.. as does listening to one of my albums when I have totally forgotten what I am doing in life... like reading one of your early diaries.
el alma - What instrument do you think you will learn next?
I bought a clavichord about two years ago and I am still waiting to get it retuned. It sits in my house sad and ready to be played.. very soon I will love it properly.
boyofsummer - What poet is most important to you?
W.B Yeats. I feel on a lyrical level and heritage level very close to
him. My grandma left me his book when she passed away. I was already reading him like some read the bible. I also love Dylan Thomas and Thomas Hardy.
kristin - Patrick, what foreign languages do you speak and will we be able to hear you singing not only in English someday?
I have a song called enchanted that I want to record a french version of.. hold tight! I used to be able to speak alot of spanish.. I thought I would be fluent one day but fell out of practise.. when I was in Paris when I was 18 I tried to speak only french.
Kristin - what do you think of Virginia Woolf's style of writing and what her other novels do you like besides "To the lighthouse"?
I can understand why people may find her work boring.. I must admit, It can be real hard to keep a hold of the narrative from beginning to end, but I see her books like one long poem, turned into a book. I am writing music for a film right now and trying to read a screenplay really reminds me of her writing..
I think had she had been born in the time of film, she would be making movies not books. My three other favorites are 'the waves' 'jacobs room' and 'mrs dalloway'
Blake - How do you feel about people copying and imitating your style and actions ie your style of clothes, playng the uke etc?
At first i was very very surprised when the ukulele became so popular in the last few years.. I really adopted that instrument as I felt it was a very unloved member of the instrument world. I have noticed a couple of musicians who I know are aware of my work, suddenly whipping out baritone/sopranon ukuleles from nowhere.. the same happened when I was a one man band with a laptop and a singing for my first tour, with viola and singing too..
I find it quite flattering but also wish people, rather than making copies of what I do be inspired by my desire to make something original and do the same themselves. The worst is when someone steals something of yours without any credit, especially when it comes deeply from your heart. I remember I arrived in Paris with a wardrobe of hand-made clothes and having dinner with Karl Lagerfeld.. he asked his assistant for 'mes crayons' Then
sketched the outfit I was wearing and the clothes I had made my band mate that evening. Within a few months the exact same clothes we were wearing appeared on the Paris catwalk.. complete with the makeup and hair I had that evening. That might come across as really arrogant of me to be so protective, I guess I should take such things as a complement, but since I was very young I have worked very hard to present the world with something it already doesn't have.
The magic position will probably be my last album that features the ukulele.. I feel like my work promoting it to being accepted and used by other people has been done. I am on the hunt for a new unloved instrument to reintroduce to the world.
Jam - If you had to get a barcode tattooed on yourself of any item, what would it be? So that when you die, someone could scan you and you'd bleeb up with whatever your chosen item is. For example, my mate George would have Birdseye potato waffles.
Party rings or fig rolls.
catcatali - What songs bring you down to Earth?
Bad songs bring me down to earth.. amazing songs take me away. Rainy Night House by joni mitchell takes me somewhere I can't begin to describe.
AnneYgerne - well, dunno how to really phrase it. I'd just like him to express himself or elaborate a little about Saint Ex's Little Prince, because he used to have the prince's planet on one of his ukulele and I felt like he looked a lot like him at the bloomsbury gig.
I guess the book has been a real influence In how I've lived my life in the last ten years. I grew up with that book but forgot it when I was going through trouble as a young teenager... then one sunny day I went into a children's book shop and bought the book and read it cover to cover one morning. Did you know you can but little prince perfume at the eurostar perfume shop in the gare du nord in Paris? That was the only thing I wore for two years. I still have the uke with my little prince on it in my house.. that was my first and still sweetest sounding ukulele.
enfantterrible - do you believe in aliens?
I once thought I saw a UFO and ran outside to meet it but then
realised it was a helicopter.
Daniellalala - Some songs show clear literary inspiration (To The Lighthouse) but have artists such as Virginia Woolf acted as a source of inspiration on any of your other songs?
Not particularly... I try to draw from my own life for inspiration
now. The latest little bit of literary inspiration was on Augustine on the new album.. a line about "whooping cranes" relates to one of my favorite books of all time and what the cranes represent in the book.
Victoria - Hi Patrick, I am loving what I have heard of the new album so far and I can't wait to hear more, it sounds like I will be doing much more dancing! Now my question: It seems to me that each album has a certain theme or feeling behind it. What do you feel it is for The Magic Position?
Thank you Victoria! I'm looking forward to you having it finally..
I guess the main themes were true love, friendship, happiness, summer, to the first days of autmn and a certain confidence and purpose that comes with being 22 and not 20. Whenever I came back from touring last yearI would spend my weekends dancing myself away, carelessly in discotheques.. I tried to transfer alot
of that experience and emotion into the record.
rimestock - what's one of your earliest memories?
In my mothers 2cV.. with the roof down, listening to La Mer by Charles Trenet.. passing hot yellow corn fields down a country lane.. my mother driving into a ditch and us laughing.
rimestock - any advice for painfully boring people?
Margaritas
Emma W and Heidi - How are you when you're drunk? We both become very very nice to everybody, Priska talks a lot and Emma falls of her chair.
I have a cousin that falls of her chair too.. I tend to be actually
quite sensible compared to my friends. I normally have to babysit and organize taxi's so no-one gets raped or falls asleep in the
gutter. Other than that.. i am not a violent drunk.. just a silly one.
On a good night I start pole dancing or end up swimming naked in the Serpentine.
someforafield - Dear Patrick, where oh, where can I buy a lute from?
Hobgoblins folk music shop.. there is a good one in London. Near
tottenham court road... I hope you have long fingers!!
Victoria - Hi Patrick, hope everything is going well with you! Just for curiosity, of all the places in the world you have been, where is your favourite? Also, if there's somewhere you haven't been and would like to go where would it be and why?
There is a little island in greece that I want to live on some day...
There are about four cars there.. and is built on an old volcano. I want to explore Siberia one day too. I also went to Egypt when I was younger and I still think about this place all the time.
enfantterrible - Can you grow a beard? and if so please will you grow one just for one show just to prove it to us?
Sorry.. no can do.. I shave twice a day.. maybe more. I only leave it when i want no-one to notice me.. in a full moon, when I am hungry to eat human flesh. If you bump into me sometime on the street I may be hairy, once every three weeks.. but also may want to eat your body.. its a bad habit of mine.
enfantterrible - also do you wear charity shop underwear?
Hmm.. no. You have asked many good questions.. but I wont lie to you..
But I really like wearing long johns.. you can feel like you're always in pyjamas that way.
e - Is there any chance of a tour down to Australia & New Zealand? You'd be very, very welcomed indeed!
This year, very extremely likely.. I really wanted to come last year
but thought It better that I cracked out the next record rather than spend another year touring wind in the wires in america
and australia... This way I can come to see you with lots of songs and a proper band.
beatrycze - Do you plan an extended tour around Europe with Magic Position? I think you've never played in middle/eastern Europe, have you?
I would love to play Israel and Transylvania and there so many places that I have not even touched yet... It is all now so much more possible.
rimestock - are there any songbirds in your neighborhood?
My old garden used to have a nightingale that sang at the same time every night outside my window. We called it frankenstien. Now I live high up in the treetops.. I saw a woodpecker the other day.
rimestock - do you have any favorite dreams?
I like it when I meet someone I haven't ever met before.. or when I fly. I dreamt I was in a flying elevator with one of the sugababes recently.. It was very scary.
rimestock - is there a question you wish someone would ask you?
yes.. but it is a secret.. it has nothing to do with my musical life though.
Emma W and Heidi - And we were wondering if you can do the handstand, because we are both to scared of it.
Only against a wall.. i have always wanted to do cartwheels but can only manage backward and forward rolls.
catcatali - What do you think it is to exist?
Just to live and enjoy your life.. give something gorgeous back to the world.
catcatali - If you could have a super power for one day what would it be?
To fly.. or breathe underwater.. to change pop music..
catcatali - I'm having my 18th birthday party want to come?
Did you ever see the mtv special where you could win a visit from
Britney Spears at your birthday sleepover? She came knocking on your door dressed as a pizza delivery girl with food for everyone. Maybe we can organise something like that?
just sing
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Вторник, 12.07.2011, 19:04 | Сообщение # 2 |
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| It has been an inspiring weekend for me,
the underage festival was like setting buckingham palace
on fire at a jubilee although only 24 i still feel like im fifteen living
a pretend adult life, that is how I want to be forever
the energy of youth and new generations is so exciting
that there is a hunger for new sounds and visions
and ideologies that I am so glad to be reminded still exists.
In my bad teenage days I used to be able to get into
any show I wanted, It was only when I turned 21 did I start
being ID for my age, I was 6ft3 or so by the age of twelve and covered
in makeup but still, those days were easier on teenage thirsty ears.
In the past five years, the government has restricted so much
of the fun and feelings you deserve. I spend so much time trying to get
people who arent allowed in on the guestlist before a show because they are underage
and it makes me feel like were living in the 1950's all over.
Restriction of music, restriction of choice, shift all focus on terror and control, The english government is denying new generations of a healthy musical upbringing
and its becoming boring. If it means all venues are over 18 these days, then I will try my hardest to play halls and bandstands and anywhere where music can be heard for everyone.
I have also become bored of being branded a swedish stripper by "perez soulless vacuous im sorry your life is so superficial gustav mahlers dog will be waiting for you in the afterlife to eat you hilton" Has no body seen "Orlando" by Sally Potter? Read the Leigh Bowery Biography? Watched "Jubilee" by Derek Jarman? I come from these worlds, these are my heroes, heroines,, a naked body does not offend me in any way, it can be used as a communication device, a performance piece. It need not be perfect and there is no such thing as perfection when it comes to the body. I let myself go to my music, sometimes its hot onstage, sometimes its cold.. sometimes the music makes me feel. I do not apologise.
Monday is about to start, my virginal is in the corner and needs tuning today, the hot kensington sun has made the wood stretch and the strings burn into a hazy summer tuning, I have so many songs to finish, the fourth album is becoming an epic, i have discovered alot of old beats and songs and I am definitely working with Alec Empire on a couple of tracks, I will begin recording in September and have plans to tour America, Japan, United Kingdom and Australia before the year is through. Exciting times ahead now.. dont be afraid of the dark.. speaking of the dark....
I have been working on a film soundtrack for a film called "No Ghosts" by John Jenkinson, a long term good friend of mine, and while only in the early stages, he has given me a link where you can find out a little bit what the whole thing is about
the excerpt you hear is called "the days" and was recorded in Vienna..
www.noghosts.co.uk
enjoy the summer my peoples... a tip for the day,
take a boat on a lake and fall asleep and turn your phone off
all the love and then some more xxx patrick wolf
just sing
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| jaqkvade | Дата: Понедельник, 18.07.2011, 15:29 | Сообщение # 3 |
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| RHIPEAT: WHAT ARE YOUR MOST AND LEAST FAVOURITE WORDS?
The word no drives me ballistic when people say it to me, but I love to say it. So, No and No.
JAY: HAVE YOU EVER BROKEN ANY BONES?
Being as accident prone as I am, bizarrely, not yet but I have cracked my skull open three times. Does that count?
ROSS LEE: DO YOU THINK THE SUGABABES SHOULD REFORM?
There was only ever one Sugababes, it would have to be the original line up or nothing for me.
TASHA: DO YOU LIKE COMEDY? WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE COMEDIAN?
Of course! I am not always so serious, tortured and depressing as people would have you believe.. I laugh all day long as much as possible. I like sick humour. Julia Davies is to me the comedy genius of the last ten years but my friends all count on each other to be the best comedians for each other.
YAZZ: IF YOU DIDN'T SUCCEED AT BECOMING A MUSICIAN, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'D BE DOING NOW?
I can't begin to imagine. It's like being asked what you would do without a heart!
ERU: WHAT DOES LOVE MEAN TO YOU AND HOW DOES IT INSPIRE YOU?
I will continue to discover the meaning of love for my whole life, it changes moment by moment and from relationship to relationship. I am constantly inspired by love or the absence of love in my work, it is the main fuel to my passion for making music and creating.
FIREFLYPULSE: WHAT IS THE BEST THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE IN YOUR LIFE?
Well, I think on a personal and relationship level I am not the best judge to answer that question, but I think deciding to be Patrick Wolf and start making my dreams come true by releasing that first EP that has taken me on a wonderful journey that has shown me so many adventures and a world and life I longed to experience.
HANNAH88: MAYBE YOU DON'T LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THIS, BUT WHY DO YOU THINK YOU HAVEN'T MADE JOOLS' GUESTLIST? IS IT STILL ONE OF YOUR DREAMS TO STAND THERE, OR DO YOU NOT CARE (ANYMORE) AFTER 4 AMAZING ALBUMS? I SO WANT THIS FOR YOU... YOU, DOING YOUR THING, FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE! (I'M FROM BELGIUM AND I WATCH THIS SHOW EVERY TIME, SECRETLY WAITING PATIENTLY FOR YOUR APPEARANCE).
It would be an absolute honour to play that show one day. After 4 albums I still feel like I am at the beginning of a long journey both public and personal as a musician, writer and performer.
HANNAH88: WHAT'S THE WEIRDEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO YOU ON STAGE?
Probably the C/O Pop event that was put on Youtube. I told you from the start I was a werewolf. Sometimes, like all of us, I have no control over myself. Jekyll and Hyde. Adrenaline is the ultimate poison.
HANNAH88: WHAT DO YOU DO IN THAT FINAL HOUR BEFORE GOING ON STAGE? DO YOU HAVE A FIXED ROUTINE? ARE YOU STILL NERVOUS? HOW DO YOU CALM YOUR NERVES IF NECESSARY?
I have learned that drinking alcohol is not the way to calm nerves now, I try to imagine all the journeys people have made that day to come to see my show, the time and emotion invested in wanting to see a performance and be moved by music. I only have to think of what it must be like to be someone else coming to my show to make me pour all my energy into that two hours on stage.
HANNAH88: IF YOU COMPARE YOURSELF TO THE BOY WHO WROTE LYCANTHROPY, DO YOU FEEL DIFFERENT? ARE YOU STILL THAT PERSON?
Of course, I am a very different person, we all evolve as human beings throughout our life but I think our core spirit and soul stays the same. I have the same soul but I'm a different person, if that makes any sense. I have experienced so much since that album came out, I would be a robot if I wasn't changed or hadn't grown from those experiences.
BIRDSHEART: WOULD YOU MAKE A TRIP INTO OUTER SPACE? ...YOU KNOW WHO'S STILL THERE.
Yes, I would visit Lucia Pamela and record a duet with her.
OHMYGODTEA: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE CHILDREN'S BOOK?
Le Petit Prince, an anthology of Hans Christian Andersen, lots of Roald Dahl or Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by JM Barrie, but my favourite was a book that my Jewish godmother Sally Goldfield had made for me that was my name written into a Peter Pan book so it was like “Patrick and Peter visit Neverland together”. It even had the name of my road in Wandsworth and in the illustrations there was a road sign on a cloud, one signpost pointing to Neverland and the other to South London. I have never quite been the same since.
AYLA: DO YOU HAVE ANY HIDDEN TALENTS?
I can balance spoons on my ears and make a good bread and butter pudding.
RHIPEAT: WHAT KIND OF THINGS DO YOU DOODLE?
I have an obsession with X, I don't know how it started, just X's everywhere.. I also draw popstars when I'm bored, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez...
COMETOJOY: WHAT DEODORANT DO YOU USE?
I have been known to not bother, usually during periods of intense writing, high libido and sleeplessness.
VEROCS: IF YOU COULD PICK ANYWHERE TO GO ON A HOLIDAY, WHERE WOULD IT BE AND WHY?
Easter Island. I am obsessed. I really really want to go one day. I would love to spend a night there. Or Sark.
CHRIS: WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO GET INVOLVED WITH MUSIC? HOW DID FOLK MUSIC COME TO INFLUENCE YOUR SONGS?
Well, folk music is really music that is passed on through generations, music of the people, songs that are in the public domain, I am more fascinated with the instrumentation used in folk music than folk songs to tell the truth. I wouldn't call the work of Joni Mitchell or Buffy Sainte-Marie folk as they are original compositions and I am just a sucker for a great song that feels like a confession, hearing Ladies of the Canyon for the first time by Joni or Illuminations by Buffy, I just realised that I could work out a lot of problems in my life by writing songs and music about them. Bjork's Homogenic album really fuelled me up to want to be an inventor with sound and production, to experiment and always explore new sonic textures and mediums. I was lucky to be born into a very musical and artistic family, it would have been very odd if I turned out to be a stockbroker....
LEMON BLOODY COLA: YOU PROMISED ME A SHEPHERD'S BUSH GREEN HOOKER OVER TWO YEARS AGO ON THIS VERY SITE... HELLO? WHERE IS IT? BROKEN PROMISES MAKE BABY JESUS CRY, STAND AND DELIVER.
She's still waiting for you, she calls me every day.. where is baby Jesus? She says she'll see you there next Saturday by Chicken Cottage, please bring a condom and a copy of the JLS album to get her in the mood.
MIMICRY: ON THAT NOTE, IF YOU COULD BE A DANDY HIGHWAYMAN, WHO WOULD YOU ROB, WHAT WOULD YOU TAKE, AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH IT?
What's the point of robbery when nothing is worth taking?
OHMYGODTEA: SO IT COMES THAT YOU CAN BE INVISIBLE FOR A DAY. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
I've had to think really hard about that, I don't think I would ever like to be invisible...
LOUISEXPW: DO YOU LIKE TEA? WHAT TYPE AND WHAT KINDA BISCUITS DO YOU DUNK IF YOU DO?
Yes, love tea... already answered this question, but red bush tea and ginger nuts are my late night writing fuel.
JAZZY JEFF: WHAT IS IT LIKE TO WORK WITH ALEC EMPIRE? HE JUST ANSWERED THE SAME QUESTION ABOUT YOU. IS IT WEIRD TO BE WORKING WITH SOMEONE WHOSE MUSIC YOU HAVE BEEN INTO BEFORE MEETING THEM?
It was like working with a long lost brother.
JAZZY JEFF: DO YOU EVER HAVE DAYS WHERE YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO?
Of course, we all do now and again, but I always make sure I do something, experience something or I feel like a corpse.
JAZZY JEFF: DO YOU EVER GET BORED OF PLAYING THE SAME SONGS EVERY NIGHT?
Not anymore, I have the exciting luxury of having a big catalogue of songs to choose from now, so I choose a setlist to suit my emotion that evening.
WASABI87: WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE BISCUIT?
I just said ginger nuts, but I like party rings, custard creams, iced gems, jammie dodgers, caramel hobnobs... I got to stop this now.
LEMON BLOODY COLA: DO YOU LIKE IT UP THE SHITTER? Y/N?
Is that an offer Y/N?
TIARASTRIPES: ARE YOU FREAKED OUT BY ANY CREEPY CRAWLIES?
Silverfish, fruit flies and cockroaches.. I don't get scared by them, they just remind me of living in hell with no money.
HOMICIDAL PUDDING: IF IT WAS NOW THAT YOU HAD TO CHOOSE A STAGE NAME, WOULD YOU STILL MAKE IT 'WOLF'? AFTER ALL THESE YEARS HAVE PASSED, DO YOU FEEL LIKE A WOLF-BOY? DOES THIS NAME AFFECT YOU, MAKE YOU BEHAVE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER? HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU LAST THOUGHT ABOUT YOURSELF AS 'PATRICK APPS'? AND IF SOMEONE SHOUTED 'APPS' IN THE STREET, WOULD YOU TURN ROUND? THANK YOU, LOTS OF LOVE, ANNA & OLGA.
It's so strange for my family now that Apple have this APPS thing everywhere. When I grew up, it was the weirdest surname ever, it actually stems from Scandinavia and means “dweller under the aspen tree”. Now it's all apps this and apps that on the computer... bizarre. I'm glad I changed my name... I would never have been able to have been found on the internet! What's even stranger is this iPad now, Pad Apps was a nickname at school.... it's like being called iPod or something... it's a strange world... I'm much happier as a wolf than an application.
OHMYGODTEA: YOU OFTEN GET ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR STAGE OUTFITS AND FASHION ITSELF SINCE YOU SEEM TO BE A VERY VISUAL PERSON. DO YOU SOMETIMES GET TIRED OF THESE QUESTIONS AND WISH FOR MORE MUSIC RELATED ONES OR ARE THEY EQUAL TO YOU? IN SHORT: DO YOU WANT TO BE SEEN AS PATRICK THE MUSICIAN OR PATRICK WITH THE OUTFITS WHO ALSO DOES MUSIC?
Yes! I do get so so so (times by infinity) tired of these questions.. because I don't think that I look any different to anybody else.. that's my problem, I'm not making any fashion statements, it's just how I look. I wonder, should I change my appearance so that I am taken more seriously? Of course not. Perhaps journalists should change their appearance so that I take their questions more seriously.
LEMON BLOODY COLA: WHO DO YOU HATE LEAST? THE MUSLIMS OR THE JEWS? AND WHY...
I don't hate either... each to their own. Live and let live. I only wish I was not hated in the eyes of other religions. I have a trace of Jewish blood so I understand Jewish culture more than Muslim. I think the Jewish religion is more equalitarian than Muslim but I think all faiths should learn to have a better understanding of each other. There is space for every one on this planet.
SARAH: DO I STILL HAVE TIME TO ASK WHAT HIS FAVOURITE FRUIT IS?
Watermelon.
JAZZY JEFF: DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE A 'SOUL-CITY'? LIKE... A PLACE TO PERFORM OR EVEN JUST BE IN THAT YOU FEEL SOME SORT OF CONNECTION WITH? AND ALSO, WHICH COUNTRY HAS THE BEST CROWDS, WHAT MAKES A STAND-OUT SHOW FOR YOU, AND WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO PLAY THAT YOU HAVEN'T YET?
From all the travelling I have done, I honestly can say that I have no preference. I thrive on the energy of the city or country I get to perform in day by day, I adapt myself and work out how I can be as close to the audience as I can be every night.
KELLKOAN: WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SEASON AND WHY?
Autumn in England is my favourite, the location would be Battersea Park, which is a park I wrote Bluebells in. Autumn is such an inspiration, life changes, life slows down, the extrovert becomes introvert, we enter darker days.
KELLKOAN: I'VE ATTEMPTED TO SNOWBOARD FOR 4 YEARS NOW AND OBTAINED 4 INJURIES TO PROVE IT. DO YOU DO ANYTHING REMOTELY SPORT-RELATED IN THE WINTER? SKI? FIGURE SKATE? HUNT CARIBOU?
I have been skiing only once. I remember it being very liberating, apart from the altitude sickness vomiting, I felt like I was flying. I am a fish/crustacean at the end of the day, I am actually writing this answer while in the mountains down in southern Spain, but I long for the sea and land. I am a good skater, I used to ice skate every week when I was a teenager, I can pirouette! I would love to the toboggan one day, that looks fun...
VEROCS: ARE YOU A MAC OR A PC?
MAC 4 LIFE
RHIPEAT: WHAT KINDS OF THINGS DO YOU DO TO CALM DOWN?
Watch The Golden Girls, listen to Meredith Monk, be with close friends, laughter and more laughter...
KELLKOAN: HOW DID IT COME ABOUT THAT YOU CHOSE GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE FOR THE NEW VIDEO? SHE'S LOVELY... AND AS TALL AS YOU, WHICH MAKES FOR EASIER KISSING, I SUPPOSE. HOW WAS IT DOING YOUR FIRST ON-SCREEN KISS?
Gwendoline and I were raised by the same nightlife wildlife people in London, her disco-mother was Sybil Rouge and my disco-Father was Matthew Glammore. I thought that choosing an obvious gypsy dark and mysterious stereotype would be too obvious for the video. I thought it was more interesting getting two people that mirrored each other as a representation of true love. The subtext of Damaris being a gypsy is in the lyrics enough, but the message of the song is that love exists outside of gender and religion. That it is a meeting of two souls regardless of creed or colour.
LASTGOODBYE: I'VE GOT A LONG, COMPLEX ONE, WHICH I'VE BEEN WANTING TO ASK FOR A WHILE. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE NASTY NEGATIVE PRESS YOU SOMETIMES RECEIVE (E.G. PEREZ HILTON), AND ALSO ABOUT THE TIMES WHEN PHOTOS OF YOU AT PARTIES APPEAR ON GOSSIP-TYPE MUSIC SITES, THAT KIND OF PRESS? DID YOU EVER IMAGINE THAT YOU'D HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THAT KIND OF THING WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED OUT, AND WHEN YOU SCORNED THE CELEBRITY CULTURE (I.E. THE LIBERTINE) IN THE PAST? IS THIS HOW YOU EXPECTED IT TO BE, AND DO YOU RESENT THAT TYPE OF MEDIA SPOTLIGHT? DOES IT MAKE YOU SYMPATHISE MORE NOW WITH THE “PETE DOHERTY” TYPE MUSICIAN, OR STILL NOT AT ALL?
The simplest answer I have to this is that all this bananas media misconception of me over the years has made me extremely resilient to any negative attention. Not that I started out being someone that needed to be anymore tough or fierce, but what I learnt at being bullied in the playground, I learnt on a whole new level as the “FLAMBOYANT” pop star and the little patronizing digs from different sources of media over the years. I'm happy that it all happened before I was 25 because I can safely say that I am pretty much invincible to anything.... And now I plan to use this resilience to be in a strong place to share my love and positivity around.
JAZZY JEFF: HOW FAR DO YOU THINK YOU'D GET IF YOU ENTERED THE X FACTOR?
I would win of course, but I would refuse to cover any songs... just howl and roll around onstage and play theremin. TV is too boring nowadays. I am here to entertain and inspire, not conform.
FUNN O))): OBVIOUS QUESTION BUT... WHAT DO YOU THINK OF SWEDEN?
I love it, my godmother and cousin run a pub in Gothenburg, I really enjoyed my early touring experiences there back in the days, I just had my big old suitcase filled with clothes and small instruments, I remember playing the royal theatre in Stockholm in the snow, it was gorgeous, I felt so free back then.
ANNA PEENEIGHDOUGH: BIT OF A SELFISH QUESTION HERE BUT I MADE YOU SOME PAPER PATRICKS (FOUR ON BLACK PAPER, WITH GOLD WRITING ON IT) AND WAS WONDERING DID YOU GET THEM? IF SO, DID YOU LIKE THEM?
I never got them! I wish I could magic back all those gifts that have gone missing during delivery over the years, I'm still so sad that the birthday book got lost by Polydor. They lost about 2 hours of Super 8 footage I shot during Wind in the Wires writing period down in Cornwall. Please send all letters or pictures to my management in the future.. they always send me every little and large thing that is sent.
LEMON BLOODY COLA: WHAT WOULD YOU FEEL LIKE IF ONE OF YOUR FANS MADE A FONT OF YOUR HANDWRITING?
Well of course, you can never beat the original of anything! But of course I find (and found) a tribute such as that extremely flattering and was very honoured someone thought my bad education handwriting was something worth reproducing. I think handwriting is very much linked to our emotions, so my handwriting changes when I am in a good mood or bad, so I think you all have my handwriting from Wind in the Wires as a font which is when I was in a very lonely and melancholy mood...
TARANTELLA: HOW AND WHEN DID YOU COME TO IDENTIFY AS A FEMINIST OR PRO-FEMINISM? I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU, BY THE WAY, FOR BEING SO VOCAL ABOUT IT – HEARING YOU TALK ABOUT IT SOME YEARS AGO INSPIRED ME TO LEARN MORE ABOUT FEMINISMS, WHICH HAS HAD A HUGE PART IN MAKING ME THE PERSON I AM TODAY.
My awareness and passion for female equal rights developed initially from being only a year and a half apart in age from my sister and what a wonderful sister I grew up with. She educated me about feminism and really empowered me as a boy to not act like a stereotypical male. My mother is an amazing artist who too is a real rebel against convention and in my eyes a true creative visionary, so it was just the language that was being spoken as I grew up. So I was so confused when I went to an all boys school and the boys were talking about girls as if they owned them or would one day possess one or they were better than. It didn't make any sense and it still doesn't.
TARANTELLA: ARE YOU STILL INTERESTED IN MOVING TO SAN FRANCISCO? I'M SORRY FOR YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH THE POLICE HERE, AND I HOPE THEY HAVEN'T TARNISHED YOUR IMPRESSION OF THE CITY.
I love San Francisco so much, my sister of spirit Kiddy lives there. I blame more my Twitter addiction at the time and bad evil door-whore vibes at a goth club. That's all, and a very old Patrick 16 year old UK anarchist attitude of mine in terms of dealing with such situations. It's no excuse, but back during the days of Maison Crimineaux, Fanny and I used to have punch up fights with bouncers, it was just the laws of Soho and being a small time band that had an element of controversy to the performance.
TARANTELLA: WOULD YOU PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE ANOTHER LIST OF RECOMMENDED SONGS ALONG THE LINES OF 'TEN SONGS TO BANISH THE DEATHLY SENSE OF BOREDOM'? THAT MADE A REALLY AWESOME MIXTAPE.
I'm thinking of starting a blog around the time of the new album on my site that has more of my favourite music and books, something more personal than the random online media that popstars are asked to do when it's “promotion” time.. so a regular playlist or something would be very exciting for me. I'm always making mix CDs for my friends.. and you are all my friends, so it's time I made you another!
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| TARANTELLA: I'M NOT SURE IF THIS QUESTION IS INAPPROPRIATE, AND I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE IF IT IS, BUT HAS JO STOPPED MAKING MUSIC? I WAS SAD WHEN SHE DELETED HER MYSPACE.
Jo Apps is now focusing on being a super hot music video director, she has just signed up to Partizan films and will be reinventing your MTV screens very soon... she's a genius, her music will be heard one day soon when she feels it's ready....
MADONNA/WHORE: THERE ARE SEVERAL COUPLES ON THE WOLFBOARD – WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF TWO PEOPLE WHO ONLY KNEW EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF YOUR MUSIC GOT MARRIED OR HAD A CHILD?
I would be so so happy, it's only now I start to realise that people are making friendships and gangs and love affairs around my work and it still is hard for me to believe that my music has helped people in this way, I would probably sing at the wedding!
JAY: WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE COMFORT FOOD?
My mother's cooking, when I go visit in the country, grounds me and reminds me of how far I have come since childhood.
BURNCHI: IS THERE ANY INSTRUMENT THAT YOU'D LOVE TO PLAY BUT NEVER GOTTEN A CHANCE?
There was an instrument in Zurich I found that cost an absolute fortune that I would love to make my main instrument, It was a wheel of zithers all tuned to different notes on the scale. Perhaps one day I will go back once I've had a number one record and buy this.
VICTORIA: FAVOURITE DESIGNERS AT THE MOMENT?
The people I collaborating with currently are top secret, but this would be a good time to tip my hat to the late Alexander McQueen who was a huge inspiration to me as a teenager and will continue to be. He was one of those rare breed of people working in the fashion world that was truly an artist first, the kind that I love to only work with and champion in collaboration for my work.
VEROCS: YOU'VE DONE A LOT OF PHOTO SHOOTS, WHICH ONE DID YOU ENJOY THE MOST? WHO WAS THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHER TO WORK WITH? WHAT CONCEPT DO YOU THINK WAS THE MOST INTERESTING AND FINALLY, WHICH PHOTO FROM THE MANY TAKEN OF YOU DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST/THE MOST INTERESTING/MAKES YOU LOOK BEST LOOKING, AND WHICH IS/ARE YOUR FAVOURITES?
Well, I must be diplomatic because I have had the wonderful opportunity to work with some absolute legendary photographers in my time. I think each photographer makes their own portrait of me, they capture the character they see on the day or in the moment. Sometimes I don't recognize myself at the time of seeing the photograph back, but later in life I look back and see something of myself I didn't see at the time. I always throw my all into the portrait experience. Somedays I don't feel like having my photo taken and that sometimes shows through too as an emotion.
ANNIJA_AJINNA: DEAR PATRICK, IF ONE DAY A GIGANTIC OCTOPUS CAME TO YOU, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE HIM TO GIVE YOU WITH EACH OF HIS LEGS? ILZE, FOR EXAMPLE, ANSWERED THE FOLLOWING: A CUP OF HOT CHOCOLATE, 210 LVL SO WE COULD GO TO YOUR CONCERT, AN ALREADY FINISHED PAPER ABOUT POST-MODERN LITERATURE, SOME SNACKS, WITH HIS FIFTH LEG HE COULD GIVE HER A GENTLE STROKE, WITH HIS SIXTH LEG HE COULD TUCK HER UP, A NEW ISSUE OF HARRY POTTER AND THE EIGHTH LEG SHOULD GIVE HER A HUG. AND BECAUSE WE HAVE THE CHANCE, WE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE TWO OBVIOUS STATEMENTS: YOUR MUSIC IS BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL. HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY! ANNIJA, ANNA & ILZE.
A writing retreat chalet in west Cornwall, a wedding ring from my true love, a Turner Prize for my mother, BBC6 music to be saved, a time machine to go back in time and see a Klaus Nomi concert and see my grandparents again, an island for all my friends across the world to move to when we are 50 and be in the same place, a house with a recording studio so that I don't have to travel so much in the future, a new Joni Mitchell album, a new Kate Bush album.
ANNIJA_AJINNA: PS – AND AGAIN JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE A CHANCE... THOSE MITTENS YOU GOT AT BOTANIQUE IN BRUSSELS, THEY JUST APPEAR TO BE SUPER SMALL. ACTUALLY, THEY'RE QUITE CAPABLE OF STRETCHING.
I will keep that in mind, thank you again!
MICHAEL BUSH: WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE TV/MOVIE/LITERARY WEREWOLF AND WHY?
The original Wolf Man is a beautiful film, I would love to live in that film and be friends or lovers with the werewolf. Wolf Alice is my favourite literary wolf, another Angela Carter classic and TV wolf must be Tabatha Coffee. She is definitely a werewolf, I've become her hugest fan since my recording sessions in L.A. I can sense there's an animal in there waiting to get out...
ANNA PEENEIGHDOUGH: WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE BIRTHDAY BOOK?
I have two birthday books and I cherish them, it's beyond belief to me when I read these books and I'm instantly humbled, I would save them from a fire in my house. Thank you, thank you, thank you, I almost feel like it's such an intimate communication between you (plural) and me that it feels odd talking about it in public.
BLUEBIRD: WHEN CAN WE BUY A PATRICK-WOLF-DVD? =D
I often ask myself this question regularly and trust me, my management and I have been trying to get this project off the ground for a long long time with various companies. When the record sales go up and this horrible era of taking everything for free starts to change, then money comes in to my business and I can re-invest this into protecting and re-releasing the back catalogue and getting some unheard and unseen archive footage/recordings of concerts and albums into public domain.
BIRDSHEART: WHAT TALE WOULD YOU READ OUT EVERY NIGHT AT THE BEDSIDE OF YOUR CHILDREN TILL THEY FALL ASLEEP?
It would depend on the child and their character, everybody deserves their own story.
MYNAMEISHUGHGRANT: SAY YOU HAD WRITTEN THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE, WHAT WOULD YOU CALL IT?
You will have to wait until it's published.. I already have the name for my perfume prepared... but again this must stay a secret. Intellectual copyright!
KURE: I READ THAT YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A COLLABORATION PROJECT FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. DO YOU THINK THAT AMNESTY OR SIMILAR ORGANISATIONS CAN MAKE A CHANGE? PEOPLE OFTEN THINK THAT WE ARE JUST LUNATICS WHEN WE WANT THEM TO SIGN A PETITION.
Amnesty has been very close to my heart for many years as a charity, I have a huge passion for human rights issues especially for development and change within fiercely religious nations where society is still inflicting death on people due to antiquated inhumane religious laws. Amnesty seem to be the only people that give a shit in the UK. Whenever the story of a young gay man or woman being hung or stoned to death in other countries comes overseas, it is brushed under the carpet or given a small column in the Guardian newspaper. If the money raised by the download of my song helps Amnesty in any way financially to continue to help change in the world, to stop more murder of innocent people, then I would be able to sleep a little better sometimes knowing I had tried to help change too. No petition that we sign is futile, no vote that you or I make to any party is pointless and no money you donate to any charity is worthless.
DOT: IF YOU WERE STUCK ON A DESERT ISLAND AND YOU WERE ONLY ALLOWED ONE ALBUM, ONE BOOK AND ONE INSTRUMENT, WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?
I would take a grand piano, Ladies of the Canyon by Joni Mitchell and perhaps an anthology of W.B Yeats poetry.
AFTERHOURS: YOU WIN FIVE MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE SWEEPSTAKES AND THE SAME DAY THAT BIG ED GUY GIVES YOU THE CHEQUE, ALIENS LAND ON THE EARTH AND SAY THEY'RE GONNA BLOW UP THE WORLD IN TWO DAYS. WHAT DO YOU DO?
Biggest party in the world for my friends, all you guys and girls and my family.
EMOTIONALFREAKOUT: DO YOU EVER FEEL NERVOUS AFTER AN ALBUM THAT YOU WON'T GET INSPIRATION FOR ANOTHER?
Never, if there has been one constant in my life, it has been songwriting.
COMETOJOY: IF YOU COULD'VE BEEN ANYONE IN HISTORY, WHO WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN?
Lady Ottoline Morrel.
ANNABEL: ARE YOU EVER SCARED BY YOUR SUCCESS?
I don't feel like I have achieved anywhere near what I want to achieve in my life, that is my only fear, that I will not get to do the things I want to do in my life.
HOMICIDAL PUDDING: IS THERE A QUESTION YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ASKED WHILE BEING INTERVIEWED ('CAUSE YOU HAVE A WITTY OR MAYBE WISE ANSWER) OR A QUESTION YOU'LL NEVER GET TIRED OF ANSWERING EVEN IF IT IS ASKED BY EVERY SECOND INTERVIEWER?
I would love to be asked more about my productions and arrangements and the actual creative process. It's so confusing to me that I spend two or three years working every day long hours in the studio and writing round the clock, working with huge string sections and choirs to be quizzed for half an hour about how “weird” or “unique” the way I look is to a journalist. The mind boggles.
LOUISEXPW: I HAD MY HAIR DYED RED (INSPIRED BY YOU) BUT AT SCHOOL THEY'RE MAKING ME DYE IT BACK TO BROWN AND I HAVE TO DO IT NEXT WEEKEND AND I'VE ALREADY GOT INTO A LOT OF TROUBLE BECAUSE OF IT WHICH I THINK IS UNFAIR BECAUSE APPARENTLY I STAND OUT TOO MUCH, WHICH IS KINDA THE POINT, BUT... WHAT COLOUR ARE YOU PLANNING ON DYEING YOUR HAIR NEXT? AND WHAT'S BEEN YOUR FAVOURITE COLOUR YOU'VE HAD IT?
I remember the trouble really kicked off at school when my red hair turned to pink after a long summer of self discovery, I was like a red rag to a bull to that bunch of conservatives! Spread those colours my dear! If it's in your heart then always stand out.. never fade. Never fade! xxxx
FIREFLYPULSE: WOULD YOU EVER GO ON CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER?
I was actually offered one year after The Magic Position. I think I would suit a reality show more like the Anna Nicole Smith show..
JAZZY JEFF: COULD YOU SING A SONG ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE, THAT WASN'T AT ALL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL OR APPLYING TO YOU? WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO FEEL THAT? HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DON'T WRITE THEIR OWN SONGS? WOULD YOU EVER WRITE FOR SOMEONE ELSE?
Many of my songs have been written from another person's perspective of course, but the person I write about has to relate to something I have felt or experienced emotionally, take Damaris for instance, I write from the perspective of Lewis, but I related so much to the story of Lewis because I had recently broken up with someone I really loved but couldn't be with and was still very much mourning for her, so I sing this as first person because I felt so extremely close to his story. Damaris became my ex-love in my heart. I have been approached to write for other people but I have been so busy writing my own work. I once co-wrote with Bishi and that experience was so natural as we had been the closest friends for many years before we actually started writing.
TARA: DO YOU HAVE A RITUAL BEFORE GOING ON STAGE?
That's my magic secret, it's certainly a transformative experience, I feel like I grow a new skin and shed an old one before I go onstage. Night after night!
TARA: HOW DID YOU MEET VICTORIA [SUTHERLAND]?
Well I first met Victoria when I was 15 when I had to change schools half way through the year and the only school in the UK that would take me was a music/theatre school in the middle of the countryside and when I joined the orchestra there I was transfixed by one of the best violin players I had ever heard! She was the first violinist and we shared the same violin teacher. We have been friends now since then and have played together since I was 18. She really is to me the meaning of the word “virtuoso”. She has studied the craft of this instrument since she was about 5 and has dedicated her life to this instrument. I would love her one day to have her own album of classic performance, she really is one of the best violinists of my generation. Hands down.
BLUEBIRD: WHAT EYE COLOUR DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL?
The colour of the eyes of whoever I am in love with!
ANDYAYRE: DEAR PATRICK... WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BLACKBIRD? I QUITE MISS IT'S INCREDIBLY SEXY BASS LINE.
I miss that song, I think it will join the ranks of a classic live moment never to be released, alongside Bestiality and Midnight (the one you all call abolish confusion!!) But you never know, the blackbird may one day be resurrected, but not for now.
ANNA PEENEIGHDOUGH: ISN'T JAY FAB?
Jay is certainly fab, I also love that she is from Corby. There are quite a few Midlands inspired lyrics on the new album. I am so so so grateful for all the effort and passion Jay and you wonderful wolf gang have for my work and that you all feel there is somewhere you can come to feel like you belong.
VOMITED: DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS TO CONTINUE THE VIDEO JOURNALS ON YOUTUBE? DID MAKING THE JOURNALS HELP INSPIRE YOU TO DIRECT YOUR OWN MUSIC VIDEOS?
I have always created visually, painting, drawing and photography, making the journals was very exciting but sometimes distracting. I also really loved making my own videos, but for now I am taking my director hat off as I feel I explored two very different characters and stories as a director between Vulture and Damaris and I feel it's time to work closely with a director again.
MAYA: HI PATRICK! HOW MANY LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK? WHICH LANGUAGE WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK? WOULD YOU LIKE TO SING IN THE FUTURE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE, OR MAKE VERSIONS OF YOUR PAST SONGS? I LOVE BEING ABLE TO EXPRESS MYSELF IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING. I KNOW ENGLISH IS KNOWN IN THE WHOLE WORLD, BUT WHEN YOU TALK A LITTLE IN OTHER PEOPLE'S LANGUAGES (AS YOU DO IN SHOWS) I THINK IT'S A GOOD WAY TO TOUCH THEIR HEARTS AND STRENGTHEN YOUR RELATION WITH FANS, ISN'T IT? LOVE FROM SPAIN.
Well, I left school too early to really get a grip on these languages but Spanish is my main foreign tongue and French is also a big passion. I would love to one day be able to get back to some state of fluency again.
COMETOJOY: WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE GOLDEN GIRLS EPISODE?
The Christmas special!
JAZZY JEFF: A QUESTION FROM MY FRIEND – EVEN THOUGH THIS TOTALLY MAKES IT SOUND LIKE IT'S ONE OF THOSE 'OH YEAH... MY, UH, FRIEND HAS A PROBLEM... I- I MEAN, HE REALLY NEEDS ADVICE...' THIS IS ACTUALLY FROM MY FRIEND WHO WANTS TO KNOW – DOES PATRICK HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR A MUDDLED BISEXUAL?
The only way to stop feeling muddled I guess is to be true to your desire and to be honest with the world around you and the people that love you about your sense of romance and sexuality. Try to gain more awareness of the difference between your love and your lust and enjoy the moments of intimacy with what ever gender you find pleasure with. Don't worry if sometimes you find yourself in love with a gender or person you have no lust for and also don't get scared when you have lust for a person or gender you have no love with. Be free, keep your mind and heart open and enjoy your body and all the pleasure love and desire can bring you.
VICTORIA: I'VE LOVED BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE DEMOS FOR WOLF SONG AND TEIGNMOUTH RECENTLY... ANY CHANCE FOR MORE TO BE RELEASED IN THE FUTURE?
Some of the old demos date back to when my voice had not broken, some of the new demos have very unfinished lyrics, I would like to perhaps put a demo CD together one day, but for now there is enough work to be done on my albums. This Conqueror album is swallowing me and my spare time whole as we speak!
MIMICRY: MANY OF YOUR WORKS THERE SEEMS TO BE A DICHOTOMY BETWEEN TWO DIFFERENT PLACES – HOME AND THE ROAD. HOW WOULD YOU ARTICULATE YOUR FEELINGS TOWARDS BOTH? HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT? COULD THEY EVER BE THE SAME?
I guess I articulate this exploration through my lyrics. My life is a constant wrestle between being extremely domestic and travelling for my work. After a lot of travel I start to get nomadic and realize that my home is wherever I am, no matter the country or circumstance, but when I am in my house I never want to leave, I would quite happily lock the door and spend the rest of my years playing my piano and gardening. But my music must be heard and there are people that want to hear it around the world and it is my duty to my songs and my audience while I am still alive that I play live and tour.
IRIDACEAE: WHAT ACHIEVEMENT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?
My greatest honour to date was the artist Nan Goldin asking me to compose and perform the music to her seminal artwork “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. Also the opportunity to be collaborate a few times with Patti Smith has been a real honour over the last couple of years.
TRIXIE: HI PATRICK! THANX FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL OPPORTUNITY YOU GIVE YOUR FANS. DO YOU LIKE COMICS AND/OR MANGA? IF YES, ARE THERE SOME OF THEM THAT YOU USUALLY READ?
I used to read Ren and Stimpy for a while. But comics were really my sister's thing. I used to read The Dandy when I was 7-ish. My sister was always reading manga, and Tank Girl was a big staple diet of the Apps household. I was obsessed with fanzines, I guess they were a bit like my comic books as a teenager. I went on to make my own called “Breeding the Different Race”.
VEROCS: IF YOU WERE GIVEN FREE REIGN TO DESIGN YOUR DREAM BONFIRE NIGHT WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE? WHAT EFFIGY WOULD YOU BURN/WHAT COSTUMES OR THEME WOULD THE PROCESSION HAVE/WHAT MUSIC WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO GO WITH THE DISPLAY, ETC... WOULD YOU GO FOR THE BIG FLOWERBOMB TYPES OR THE SHRIEKING SPERM-LIKE ONES OR THE ONES THAT LOOK LIKE GOLDEN RAIN?
I love big blossoming fireworks, not the shrieking ones, they remind me of banshees, and banshees make me terrified since childhood summers in Ireland. In my procession everyone would be semi-naked draped in wool, old fur, taxidermy and leather. Getting really pagan and lots of big fountains and big Brazilian marching drums. Lots of violas and hurdy-gurdys. Everyone must make an effigy of themselves to burn on the bonfire, to encourage us to forget the past and embrace the future.
YELLOWBELLY1945: THE QUESTION IS A BIT COMPLEX. IF WE JUST LOOK AT THE UK THERE IS STILL, IN THE 21ST CENTURY, LOADS OF PREJUDICE AND IGNORANCE. PEOPLE ARE TOO OFTEN JUDGED BY THEIR OUTWARD APPEARANCE. THERE ARE TOO MANY RULES AND CONVENTIONS. YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE TO WEAR UNIFORMS AT SCHOOL AS SCHOOLS SAY IT LEADS TO THEM LEARNING BETTER, BUT OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE NO SCHOOL UNIFORMS AND BETTER EDUCATIONAL RESULTS. I RECENTLY TOLD SOME FRIENDS, AFTER ANOTHER FRIEND'S FUNERAL, THAT I WAS GETTING MY HAIR DYED AN UNNATURAL COLOUR (I'M 64). SEVERAL OF THEM SAID “BUT WHAT IF YOU HAVE TO GO TO ANOTHER FUNERAL WHEN YOU HAVE RED OR BLUE HAIR?”, AS IF THE COLOUR OF MY HAIR IS OF ANY IMPORTANCE. IF, AS A GAY GUY, I KISS ANOTHER GUY IN OLD COMPTON STREET, NO ONE WOULD BAT AN EYELID. IF I DID THE SAME IN MY VILLAGE STREET, I'D CERTAINLY BE VERBALLY ABUSED, MY HOUSE WOULD BE EGGED, AND I MAY BE THE VICTIM OF PHYSICAL ABUSE. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE CAN'T ALL STOP JUDGING PEOPLE BY THEIR OUTWARD APPEARANCE AND LIFESTYLE (AS LONG AS THAT DOESN'T ENCROACH ON OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES, E.G. BY PLAYING LOUD MUSIC ALL NIGHT TO THE DETRIMENT OF YOUR NEIGHBOUR'S SLEEP), AND WHY WE HAVE TO HAVE STUPID RULES AND CONVENTIONS. HERE COMES THE QUESTION: WHAT ONE THING CAN WE DO AS INDIVIDUALS TO CHANGE MINDS, SO WE CAN BE OURSELVES, CARING FOR EACH OTHER OUT OF MUTUAL RESPECT AND LOVE FOR OUR NEIGHBOURS? WHAT CAUSES ME THE GREATEST OFFENCE IS PREJUDICE, HATRED, WAR, HUNGER, DISEASE, POVERTY, IGNORANCE, GREED AND EXPLOITATION, ALL OF WHICH COULD BE ERADICATED IF THERE WAS MORE LOVE AND RESPECT IN THE WORLD.
I have reached the point where I feel that perhaps the human race will never be at peace with itself. The little time we have created for our future generations on this planet means that we will only have time to experience peace in part and respect in glimpses of empathy and compassion that will surprise us as we go along our way. I say this as I feel I have been subject to too much of this kind of negative energy to believe in a public utopia for the human race. All I can say is that we shouldn't all second guess where the compassion and evolved human sense of society comes from, you may find yourself in a big city getting constant abuse for being “other” but then suddenly find yourself in a small village being accepted and loved for being “unique”. It's important not to get misanthropic. This is a big question through, I would prefer to discuss and debate this topic rather than answer!
JAY: HOW DO YOU THINK OF POSES FOR PHOTOSHOOTS?
It's always purely spontaneous but I always pretend that I'm doing a performance.. it makes it less boring for me. I did also have a lot of training from my mentors when I was part of The Offset performance art group about makeup, lighting, posture and good angles. Being so tall, I have to play a lot of games with the cameraman so that we are in the same altitude even!
GLOSSY_FUCKER: WHAT SHOULD BE YOUR IDEAL PLACE FOR CREATIVITY AND WORKING? IS THERE PARADISE ON EARTH? OR CAN IT ONLY EXIST IN YOUR DREAMS?
My dear, there is indeed a paradise on earth. I find it these days with my loved one but when I was single I would be searching for it and finding it often in my solitude. Dreams are there to inspire us to make the most of the time we have on this planet. These days I travel so much I have become very used to creating on the road, but once I am home for a couple of months, I am totally fertile and creative in a very different way.
ANNIJA_AJINNA: A SHORT QUESTION. WHY SHORTS?
Since I had my growth spurt at the age of 12, no trousers fit me apart from really ugly ones made specifically for tall people, so I remember seeing a pair of Vivienne Westwood 3/4 length pirate trousers in my sister's Dazed and Confused and realized that was my only option. Now I don't worry about the length of trousers, I just cut the bottom off and wear knee socks. I feel very comfortable this way, I think my legs are giant, they need some kind of dissection visually. P.S I don't like shorts even... Hot pants are my bag in the tropical climates and breeches or 3/4 lengths are my thing in colder climates. Sorry for the long answer for the short question!
PYHAI: DID YOU COME FROM THE QUENTIN BLAKE PICTURE BOOK CALLED PATRICK? IT'S THE STORY OF AN IRISH BOY CALLED PATRICK WITH A MAGICAL VIOLIN WHO MAKES THE WORLD MORE BEAUTIFUL! ON A SIDENOTE, WILL YOU SOME DAY WRITE A CHILDREN'S BOOK FOR THE WORLD?
Well, I still have the same copy of this book from when I was a child. I must have read it so many times but I didn't rediscover it until when I was 15 and had already been playing the violin for many years. It really is a gorgeous little story, and yes, I have sometimes felt as though it was written about me. I would love one day to have my book published that I have been writing since Lycanthropy days. But I find I can't write literature while I am in the middle of writing lyrics for an album. One thing at a time done well is my policy these days rather than 12 things at a time done badly.
VICTORIA: WHAT'S THE WORST JOB YOU'VE EVER HAD?
Ah, when the biography comes you'll get the real juice on my jobs I took when I left home... pretty hilarious seeing as I would get fired every two weeks... I remember being a sushi waiter and constantly getting food poisoning, or sewing buttons on old leather jackets in Camden market and my fingers constantly bleeding.
ALLANAH: DO YOU LIKE BEAKS?
Yes of course, you know I am a bird lover, but the toucan beak is perhaps my favourite.
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