patrick wolf?

but other than that, gotta say he was pretty fantastic! He managed to charm the crowd back after composing himself, which I thought was kind of admirable.

Ha, I just witnessed this as well. Seemed like he fell/wanted a wardrobe change. Plus bubbles and flashes and Mika. The encore was great.

hahaha yes. i was up near the front, and one guy ahead was saying that Patrick got pissed because his keyboards had not been set up properly and kept wobbling. And then he knocked it over, and promptly flipped out. But yes, it was probably bubbles and flashes and Mika too.

Ah, i was a bit further back and just saw him go down and then flip out and, for the first few minutes, just assumed it was all intentional. A bit silly really, he’s an engaging performer without all that hullabaloo. His whole recovery was impressive though. Also, I didn’t know bubbles could detune instruments. Also, I wish people would stop playing at the corner hotel.

i thought it was intentional too, I didn't even notice he knocked the keyboard over until the tech guys came back to fix it. seriously, what a temper. he did look miserable for a bit until he took down that heckler and got all cheered up again.

yeah what was with the bubbles? seemed pretty harmless. But then I blame the crowd of renn fair rejects right at the front for that, all of whom did not seem old enough to be at that gig in the first place.

He is really dramatic and passionate but I LOVE THAT HOMO! He's so pretty and angular and limber and musical. I loved him most when he thought he was a wolf, a little less when he thought he was a wild country man and a lot less in his current disco poppy incarnation.

"Wind in the wires...."

"you should spend the night with me before making comments like that, dear"

his first album is still the best yes

Wind In The Wires>>>Magic Position>>>Lycanthropy.

I wonder if Greist has seen Patrick live, because Patrick is one of those rare occasions, for me, when seeing someone live has totally cemented and in fact exploded my affection, and made me a; love the whole shebang, and b; adore the records even more.

Was so disappionted with The Magic Position. "Magpie" actually sounds like some sub My Life Story shit.

New song "Careless Talk" on myspace, for the soundtrack to the Dylan Thomas not-really-a-biopic, The Edge of Love.

oh pat, why have you gone all jamie cullum on me? :(

ok i'm exaggerating, it's not THAT bad. it's better than "Enchanted" at least, which was the worst song off the Magic Position. still I wish he wasn't going further down the jazz route - I don't think he pulls it off very well.

It's very period, but that's to be expected given the context.

Enchanted reminds me of Is A Woman by Lambchop.

Wind In The Wires might be one of my favourite albums ever.

I knew he wouldn't stop performing, he's a born performer. Also a towering, demented woodlands elf.

The Guardian:

The lupine singer-songwriter breaks his promise of early retirement by releasing a double set dedicated to his 'old love, William the Conqueror'. We think that's his boyfriend, not the former Duke of Normandy.

Once again, Patrick Wolf's gone and confounded our expectations. Last year, the theatrical singer-songwriter threatened to quit music altogether, but now, equally theatrically, he's announced plans to release a double album.

"Think Smashing Pumpkins and Kate Bush," he wrote in a MySpace posting. "I'm going double, double, trouble."

"The album has been in my blood for a year and much more," he wrote. "The label thinks it will be a disaster, I'm sure, as it comes more from the bottom of my heart even than [debut album] Lycanthropy. [It's] about my father's cancer, my solitude, my true love, my Irish roots, everything that has touched me to the core in the last year."

lol why does everyone think he's gay

Also a towering, demented woodlands elf.

haha! smashing pumpkins + kate bush = ok i will listen, thanks

lol why does everyone think he's gay

"i am so ready for my album to come out and start touring now, but unfortunately, there are still a few perfectionist streaks in me that make want to mother and father these albums a bit more before I know theyre finished, im gonna tell you, the new album is also super tough and inspired alot by becoming sick and tired of ugly female reproductive organss shouting words that should have been made illegal sixty years ago at me as i walk down the street, by my boyfriend having his face covered in blood by three butt ugly homophobes as i held his hand and..... in return used my sexy legs to protect us both on the way home to our apartment... (kung fu is the best way to protect yourself and the one you love btw, i dont promote human violence, but i am a werewolf after all, funny things happen when your blood runs cold and the moon is full)"

This, perhaps? From the same post which gave the Guardian the album info quoted above...

Either way, I'm looking forward to this double album of spleen. The Magic Position had some incredible songs on it, but as a whole it didn't hang together as a piece in the same way Lycanthropy or Wind in the Wires did. Patrick may be insane, melodramatic and occasionally verging into self-parody, but he's also bloody brilliant. Smashing Pumpkins, Kate Bush, and based on earlier reports, Alec Empire, Atari Teenage Riot, industrial metal techno one CD and orchestral stuff on the other.

everyone including him ;)

Priming the Conner Smedley jokes...

"i am a werehomo."

i don't trust anything he says anymore but he'd better not be kidding about Kate Bush + Pumpkins. And as always, I'm worried about his new look:

http://www.dyskrasia.org/lj/patrickguitar.jpg

...

geetars just looks wrong on this dude.

better than his last look!

So he's making a consciously gay album? Plz 2 channel Coil not Rufus Wainwright

Well, he's got the scatalogical fixation down enough to do a convincing Coil...

http://www.nme.com/news/patrick-wolf/41562

Bump; no one at all interested?

"Something fantastic happened just as I was about to start that journey and I had all these songs to record - I fell in love,"

I thought that's what happened for The Magic Position? I much prefer angsty patrick to happy patrick.

just a tenner for a 'share' does sound like a good deal though.

well, depending on what you get for it i suppose.

No, not interested. I'll happily fun Circulus's spaceship for £50 (and I get my picture in a porthole on their album cover) but Patrick Wolf can go peddle his arse down Soho if he wants cold hard cash.

FUND, not fun. Though I'm sure FUN will be involved, too.

Subprime assets in 2008! You've got to respect him for going against the prevailing trend.

I chucked a tenner in.

his new video is o_O

http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/12569-vulture-nsfw/

wtf

at least the music harkens back to lycanthropy. but seriously what is wrong with him.

omg i just saw the album cover and it is also o_O

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x66/mothsmoths/patrick_wolf-the_bachelor.jpg

looool this is like one of those make your own album cover facebook meme thingies

dammit

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x66/mothsmoths/patrick_wolf-the_bachelor.jpg

loooool

Wow. that cover sure is bad.

But there seems to be a 2009 trend for utterly awful cover art - see also Bat For Lashes?

I am REALLY finding the video mesmerising, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons. Um. Wow.

I always thought he was a bit of a creep but, erm, wow.

The song's not really doing it for me. Sounds like a Fischerspooner outtake as remixed by Justice which is a bit... wow, you're really far behind the curve on this one. Or perhaps he's so far behind the curve he's actually ahead. Has the timelapse of nostalgia collapsed in on itself yet?

Now I'm gonna go watch him as a sci fi Lawrence of Arabia some more. Raped by Turks, you say. Oh my. Let's have some more of that, please.

i feel bad for the ones who own shares of this

That'll be me, then.

how does it feel knowing your $10 went to his bondage outfit

Kind of... naughty.

Can't... stop.... watching......

If I'd thought it would have encouraged this sort of behaviour, I'd have kicked in £10 just to buy him a nipple ring.

Wow. I think I may actually explode if I watch that one more time.

lol yeah i'm somewhat glad i didn't buy a share. although maybe if i did he could've gotten a better designer to do his artwork jesus.

kate have you seen the wind in the wires video? i didn't think he could top that but apparently i was wrong.

Um, noooooo... does it involve Lawrence of Arabia costumes and rape by Turks?

I'll go look on YouTube.

OH. OH GOODNESS.

Is it just me, or are all Patrick Wolf videos just Germaine Greer essays brought to life?

Yes, he's a beautiful boy throwing himself about and totally objectifying himself for the (fe)Male Gaze.

I JUST WISH HIS MUSIC WASN'T SUCH GODAWFUL SHIT.

he'd be my wet dream if his music was any good at all. But I'm sorry, I really don't like it. And never have.

So just make your soundtrack.