Hello wonderful human creatures!

Hello.. its patrick here... ive been locked away in my studio working 

Hey,

It's that time again... where you need to exercise those voting fingers!

Rage FIFTY is a celebration of all the best music videos of 2009, as voted for by the viewers. They want you to decide what's on the playlist - so nominate Patrick!

Simply click the link above to read more about Rage FIFTY and start the voting process.

Voting will be open until midnight December 15 and then - drumrolls please... - the Rage FIFTY 2009 will go on air on Saturday 26th of December, on ABC1 in Australia.

Get clicking!

Team Wolf x

Hey again,

Check out Patrick's recent session and interview over at The Quietus! Fab stuff.

Team Wolf x

Hi everyone!

Before we talk about the show timings and give you some details for the specially-designed shirts at the Palladium, we'd just like to reiterate that Marc Almond will not be performing at this event with Patrick as planned due to illness in case you missed our note about it. But - please be assured that there will be another fantastic mystery guest taking his place! We can't say much as we don't want to ruin the surprise but we think a fair few of you (i.e. everyone!) will be suitably excited by his - or her - appearance...

The timings for the show are as follows:

7:00pm – Doors
7:30pm – Micachu & the Shapes
8:30pm – Patrick Wolf (+ special guests)
10:30pm – Finish

Now we've got some more info for you about these exciting one-off designer t-shirts that you can buy at the show! Please note that prices will vary. The t-shirts in question are designed by Patrick's very lovely and very talented friends Fred Butler and Ada Zanditon, and they had this to say about the project...

Fred Butler - BLOG / WEBSITE

"My first ever commission for Patrick Wolf was in 2006 when his stylist asked me to make a key necklace for the Magic Position album artwork photo shoot. I made a kite instead (as that is what I was in the mood for making) and it ended up on the single cover for Accident and Emergency which is an image I really love. I then made Patrick a Bi-Plane shoulder piece that I thought would be perfect for him. This appeared in i-D magazine and led Patrick to borrow some of my archive pieces for his North American Tour. On his return he then commissioned me to make the set for his finale concert at Shepherd's Bush Empire. Our latest collaboration has been on a portrait commission for a Rankin exhibition / auction and another of my archive accessories appears on the cover for The Bachelor."

Ada Zanditon - MYSPACE / WEBSITE

"The first few times I met Patrick I have to confess that I was quite drunk and mostly always incapable of coherent speech or movement. However, despite that, Patrick asked me if I would like to create his tour wardrobe for his album "The Bachelor". I was thrilled and by sheer coincidence was also working on a collection inspired by Vulture's and Celtic Folklore. I created The Vulture Cape which has proved fatally popular and gone astray.... however before that unfortunate incident it has: appeared on the single cover for Vulture, been replicated in miniature by some dedicated Russian fans and graced the front page of The Observer. Other pieces that appeared in the album/single artwork/press and videos & on Patrick on stage throughout this year include: The grey white and black Union Jack Jumpsuit (live shows 2009), the wooden needles jacket and wooden block armour (Another Man Magazine/ The Bachelor artwork) the black suit with falconry and tombstone detailing and a red top featuring external shoulder pads made from human hair (Paper Magazine/ The Bachelor and Hard Times artwork respectively). The collaborative fun has continued and I recently made him a golden outfit which has appeared at many festivals this summer. Patrick can currently be seen in one of my archive pieces in a feature in Zoo Magazine."

Patrick Wolf has been Destroyed

Not literally, but it's just that Fred's kindly reminded us of the fantastic piece she created for the Rankin Youth Music project, we'd like to direct your attention to the fact that the auction for said piece is open now, and you can find it and all the other commissioned work from this great project on Youth Music's Ebay right here! Patrick's recent performance at the exhibition went down a treat too, Spice Girls hits and all.

More more tour (how do you like it, how do you like it?)

If you're missing Patrick's Palladium show next Sunday for the simple reason that you're not in the UK - don't fret! Patrick's coming over to Japan and Australia in December and you can see all the upcoming tour dates on both the Myspace and patrickwolf.com. So don't forget, if you want to catch a show in your neck of the woods, now's the time to start grabbing those tickets.

Gigography

Speaking of gigs, just another little reminder that you can add a handy little machine tag (hold on, we'll explain) to any of your Patrick photos that you post on Flickr, and then your lovely pics will appear on patrickwolf.com! All you need to do is find the gig that you've attended (or are going to attend) on our gigography or events page, and simply copy and paste the given machine tag into your tags over at Flickr. Then, as if by magic, your pics will take pride of place on the site for all to see. Ooh, ahh. Ain't technology brilliant?

That's all for now, folks! Hope to catch plenty of you singing your hearts out at the Palladium on Sunday, see you then...

Love,

Team Wolf xx

Hi all,

Really quick note just to inform everyone of the timings for the upcoming London Palladium show this Sunday:

7:00 - Doors
7:30 - Micachu & the Shapes
8:30 - Patrick Wolf (+ special guests)
10:30 - Finish

We also have a new special guest who we've not announced yet... ooh, wonder who that could be?

News on the above and more coming to you before Sunday, we promise...

Bye for now,

Team Wolf x

Damaris video - Guardian exclusive!

Get your senses ready for a feast because we are incredibly pleased to announce that the Damaris video is available for viewing NOW over on The Guardian's site - simply click here to enjoy the rustic romance of the song and story, captured in an honest, earthy and altogether beautiful depiction that makes the most of the breathtaking scenery and stunning views that are rural England. Dreamy. You'll be able to catch it on Patrick's Youtube channel from tomorrow, too.

Preorder your 7" now

To preorder your copy of the 7" for Damaris, featuring marvellous harpsichord-driven B-side Queen Isabella, just visit this link. We're offering a bundle of the single with a signed Vulture poster, which will cost you just £12 in total - but please be quick, as there are only 80 copies of the poster left and it's first come, first served! You can find the bundle offer here.

Palladium special guests

Just a short note to send our apologies - due to illness brought on by exhaustion, Marc Almond will unfortunately not be able to appear at the Palladium show with Patrick on Sunday. He has been told to rest and he hopes to return to work as soon as possible. He is very sorry to let people down, especially Patrick and his fans, and sincerely hopes that he will be able to work with Patrick again in the near future. We at Team Wolf are sending him lots and lots of get well soon vibes and we're certain that you're joining us on that.

There will be another unnanounced very special guest joining Patrick on stage instead, though, so don't despair...

Merchtastic

We have a very limited amount of stock of the Palladium t-shirts left - they are available online now and whatever we have left will be available at the show, so be sure to snap one of those up if you want one, because they won't be around for much longer.

How exciting is this? We will also have some one-off designed t-shirts available at the Palladium, all personally created, designed and made by those close to Patrick... more news on this to follow.

And for those bargain hunters out there - good news! We've got some early Christmas deals at patrickwolf.com in our merch sale. Get those orders in and get decked out in Wolf gear for the new year!

Bachelor vinyl

All of our signed copies are now sold out, thanks for nabbing those, but if you missed your chance just to get a vinyl copy of The Bachelor in general, we have some more vinyls in stock now, also!

Destroy Rankin

Hey! Don't forget about the Destroy Rankin exhibition we mentioned in our last mailout... Youth Music is a fantastic cause. Patrick's performing at the launch event tonight in London at Phillips de Pury Gallery, and the auction for the piece by Patrick and Fred Butler is now open, so get bidding! More info at this link.


That's it for now, coming soon we'll have a round-up of what Patrick's been up to in the press and in pictures and much more, so keep your eyes peeled...

Love,

Team Wolf x

Hi gang...

Yes, that's right - Patrick will be releasing Damaris as his next single on December 14th! Please note the correct date for this release, as some blogs and newsfeeds have reporting the 15th and this isn't the case. Now! Onto those juicy details we know you love (we do too, goss-fiends that we are). Read on for info on the single itself, including how the song came to be written and in what formats you can grab it, bits and pieces about the b-sides and upcoming video, and some stuff on what Patrick's up to now and next...

God damned Damaris, killed with last kiss...





Patrick will be releasing this powerful and beautiful ballad that has been an international stand-out live anthem, performed over countless music festivals this summer. The song is semi- autobiographical and centred on the loss of love, but was also inspired by a tale discovered by Patrick when he went to seek out his English roots after a period of heartbreak and the ending of a relationship that was documented in the song The Magic Position.

Tracing the roots of his father under the family name Apps back to a family of ferret-catchers and blacksmiths in Brede, East Sussex, Patrick stumbled across a small wooden cross engraved with the name 'Damaris' among the gravestones of his ancestors...

From that moment, Patrick began to research who Damaris might be, and it came about that the wooden cross told a larger tale than anyone could have imagined. It is still unsure whether Damaris was a gypsy or a heathen, but she belonged outside of the Catholic church, who in 1880, held a very strict reign over romance and passion in such a small village. Damaris was most certainly not from the Catholic church, so when she fell in love with Lewis, the son of the Parish priest, she was denied of ever being united in marriage with him.

Patrick writes the song from the perspective of Lewis after discovering that Damaris has 'died of a broken heart', which, in the 19th Century was a polite term for either suicide, or a romantic notion that someone can be so heartbroken that they give up on life. The song is a musical iconisation of a true life Romeo and Juliet from Sussex. Two star-crossed lovers who were destined to be together, but were denied, due to the repression and sign of the times.

The church organ on the song, played by Patrick and the drums by Marcello Vig were both recorded in 2008 on location in St. George's Church, the very church ground where the romance took place a hundred years before between Damaris and Lewis.


B-sides

Peacock Skies - programmed by Patrick during the Magic Position tour of 2007 in the Californian Desert somewhere between Las Vegas and San Francisco.
Damaris (St. George's Church Acoustic Mix) - a special acoustic mix of Damaris, which highlights the amazing St. George's Church Organ and Patrick Wolf/Fiona Brice string arrangements in their full glory.
Queen Isabella (The She-Wolf of France) - a truly gothic baroque harpsichord-driven fury of a song, written from the perspective of the legendary 'She-Wolf of France'. Isabella of France who was sworn into a marriage in her youth with King Edward the Second of England, who was reputed to be bisexual... The English people in the 16th Century branded her 'She Wolf'. Legend has it that her ghost still haunts the gardens of St. Paul's Cathedral, nearby to where Patrick lives.

The video

The video was directed by Patrick in collaboration with Director of Photography Rory Broadfoot. Patrick co-stars alongside the actress Gwendoline Christie, who can currently be seen playing Holly Go Lightly's glamorous neighbour in the hit West End production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, and also in the Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The video is Patrick's visual interpretation of the passionate romance between Damaris and Lewis, shot on location at Blackdown, West Sussex. You'll be able to clap your peepers on it sometime in November, watch this space...


Formats, release date and preorder

DIGITAL

Damaris
Peacock Skies
Queen Isabella (The She-Wolf of France)

Damaris (St. George's Church Acoustic Mix)

A - Damaris
B - Queen Isabella (The She-Wolf of France)

Buy: See Tickets
Win: Converse Music competition
Win: The Music Slut competition

In addition, as described in our last mailout, Patrick has contributed to the Rankin Youth Music 'Destroy' Project and will perform at the launch event on Monday 9th November at Phillips de Pury Gallery, London. To be in with a chance to win tickets to this exclusive event, simply visit this link.

Following this, Patrick will take the stage at Oxford University to give a prestigious lecture and question and answer session for the Oxford Union. Previous guests include Michael Jackson and Stephen Hawking.

As if this wasn't enough (phew phew phew!), Patrick will then be jetting off to Japan, Australia and Brazil before the end of the year for some more fantastic live shows.

Bye for now...

Team Wolf x

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Hi,

We've extended the time limit for your opportunity to get the exclusive Wolf Song demo until Friday 16th October - that's one more day left!

To get your free demo, please visit: patrickwolf.com/wolfmail

Team Wolf x

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