Hiya,

Patrick will be having a chat and performing on John Kennedy's show on XFM from 10pm to 1am TONIGHT so please tune in and enjoy!

Love,

Team Wolf x

Hello tribe,

We thought it was about time to present you with a round-up from Wolf HQ of all the recent news and information... So, here we go!

Firstly, we'd like to remind you all that there are still tickets on sale for the upcoming PW tour over at Ticketmaster, and don't forget that if you get your tickets from there, you will be entitled to a discount copy of the album from Play.com... At £6.99 for the CD and £4.99 for the digital version, there's no excuse for missing out on a bargain like that, is there?

Secondly, ten lucky winners were e-plucked from the digital hat on Tuesday for guaranteed guestlist attendance to Patrick's upcoming instore performance at Pure Groove. They'll be heading off with a friend each in tow to Farringdon in London on Saturday, April 18th! If you're interested in going too, please note that the event IS indeed free, but bear in mind that it's going to be mega busy, so make sure you get there early to avoid disappointment.

The new single 'Vulture' is on general sale NOW at Pure Groove, but a little birdie tells us that there are not that many copies left, so if you want to snap up a cool 7" of the tune plus b-side The Tinderbox, you'd better hurry! For those of you in the UK, iTunes also have the single in stock, along with the b-side and two banging remixes - you can purchase the whole bundle here.

Don't worry, there will be plenty more Bandstocks competitions in future for you to get involved in if you didn't win this time around for the Pure Groove instore. If you're not a Bandstocker yet (gasp! Whyever not??) be sure to toddle on over to bandstocks.com  - go on, get signed up, get investing in Patrick's new album and then you can be privy to all of the latest PW news, enter great competitions and also receive some fantastic benefits on top, like a big cherry on top of a lovely cake. Mmm, cake.

Where were we? Oh, yes... Here's another Patrick competition that anyone (yes, even you...) can get involved in - thanks to Bebo, we can offer one girl and one boy the opportunity to win a music lesson with Patrick in London! To enter, all you need to do is record a little video of yourself playing your instrument of choice and then send it to us at patrickwolfbebocompetition@live.co.uk. You can record any song you want, it's how you play it that counts! Patrick will pick his 2 favourites out of the lot and then the winners will be invited to come to London in June 2009 for their music lesson. The closing date for entries is May 31st and you can watch the entries on the Bebo comp Youtube channel and Patrick's Bebo profile.

Th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!

Love,

Team Wolf x

Hi everyone,

Now is the time to head on over to iTunes and grab yourself the fantastic Vulture EP, which features the single Vulture in its entirety, two incredible remixes and the gorgeous b-side that is The Tinderbox! You can get your mitts on it here. Enjoy at high volume. Or in some nice headphones... But just be sure to enjoy it!

Love,

Team Wolf x

Hey all,

Keeping it short but sweet this time around, with a quick update on how to get your hands on a copy of the Vulture single (with a b-side of The Tinderbox) in 7" when it comes out on April 20th. Those of you that are Bandstockers will have the exclusive right to buy the single from today for one week, so don't forget to check your emails for the presale link, coming shortly. There is a limited run of only 500 of these babies, which could sell out fast before they go on general sale...

Love,

Team Wolf x

Hi people,

Great news for those Wolf fans over in or nearby NY, now. Patrick will be showcasing his brand new album with a one-off acoustic performance at Le Poisson Rouge in New York on May 6th. This performance will give New Yorkers, or indeed anyone who fancies travelling to Manhattan from out of town, their first chance to see Patrick perform songs from his new album, The Bachelor, which will be released on June 2nd in the US.
 
At this first US date of 2009, Patrick will perform acoustically, playing stripped down versions of the songs from his new album that ranges across confrontational electronica to heart wrenching ballads. This will be the first time an American audience has the chance to see Patrick perform as he started out, on his own, without a band. He plans to return to the US in the summer with the full six piece outfit.
 
Patrick said: “ I am excited to be going back to America, to play songs from my new album. And to show New York how it all started by going there on my own with only a case full of instruments for company”.
 
As you all know, with to Patrick’s new album being funded via Bandstocks, Bandstock holders are entitled to many privileges and rewards. To this end there will be a two day pre-sale for stockholders, with tickets going on general sale on Monday, April 6th.

Bandstockers will have an exclusive pre-sale period from today until Monday to buy tickets, so remember to check your emails for the link.

Love,

Team Wolf x

Hello everyone,

Lots of little juicy morsels for you to get your paws on this blog. A reminder that tickets for the upcoming tour are now on sale, you can find them at Ticketmaster. Don't forget that anyone who buys themselves a ticket or two from Ticketmaster this tour will have the opportunity to pre-order themselves the new album to be sent to them on the day of release (1st of June) at a very generous discount - £6.99 for the CD, £4.99 for the digital bundle. Tidy!

Coming up, we've got Patrick at what promises to be an amazing instore performance on Record Store Day (18th of April) at Pure Groove in Farringdon, London! Although the event is free for all who wish to attend, it will undoubtedly be busy and they do expect a road block so, get this - we are offering 10 Bandstockers (plus a mate each!) the chance to win guaranteed entry to Patrick's performance. The lucky winners will be pulled out of a hat on Tuesday, 14th of April.

Pure Groove are also exclusively releasing the limited edition 7" of the new single Vulture, and again, Bandstockers will have the first opportunities to order a copy - see Bandstocks.com for full details of how you can invest in Patrick's album and receive all these lovely benefits and more in future!

The plans for international release are coming together now, as well as future release dates and, of course, festival plans... Stay tuned to Wolf HQ for more news to follow very soon.

Love,

Team Wolf x

Tribe,

Tickets for the upcoming tour go on general sale TOMORROW (31st March) so make sure you head over to Ticketmaster to get yours before they go!

Best,

Team Wolf

Clash Music are having a little party at the Lock Tavern, Chalk Farm Road, today 29th March - Patrick will be spinning a few tunes early eve. Its Free Entry 6pm ish onwards

Team Wolf

Good morning....

This is patrick here..
just as the sun is rising here in waterloo
and big ben is chiming I am too,
signing in from planet wolf to planet earth
I really just want to say thank you so much for your love for vulture!!!!

Shall i tell you some thing about this song? I was lying in bed in olympia
thinking of a new direction, trying to go somewhere new with sound and electronics
and after three albums of self production I thought.. ok, i've come this far on my own, I want to start some collaborations, loosen up and get out of my comfort zone. Learn new things.
I felt like I had already explored found sounds and field recordings and technology
changes so fast, when i started in 2001 , to have logic or pro tools or any software recording device was the most amazing new world. Now everybody has access to be able to make electronic music. which is fantastic, a dream i had when i was 12. but we shouldn't get lazy.

At the end of 2007 I was going through my archives of tapes and mini discs of old beats and noises I had made and realised that all the work I did when I had almost no technology, just one sampler and a midi sequencer, was so much more exciting and furious than the work I had with loads of options and technology and plug ins and synths etc..... well, there was no way I was going to go raid my parents attic and find my old atari and start learning how to do all that again so I remembered meeting Alec Empire in berlin during that mad year of magic position touring. He had been one of the people that inspired me as a kid to get into making electronic music, atari teenge riot were such an original and revolutionary band during the homogeny of the late 90's. So, I was in a bad place one morning, at home, full of negativity and rage and stress and whenever this happens i need to write or sing or create something... same happens when Im extremely positive too.... I emailed alec and asked told him my emotions and that I DESPERATELY NEEDED TO WRITE A SONG WITH HIM NOW. Emails went back and forth and ideas were thrown at each other and a vulture was born within a few days.. It took us about Six months to finally get to meet up in person when i travelled back to berlin and finish this alongside a song called "battle" and he produced a first demo of the song "the sun is often out"

In Berlin, alec programmed all the beats and synths through an atari computer I think, ... It was such an inspiring moment watching alec program away amongst banks of modular MIDI patch synths, limited edition 1950's russian electronic equipment... everything was manually done with amazing fury and precision... watching him work reminded me of documentary footage of the BBC radiophonic workshop... I feel like he and I created a new sound that has been forgotten. using a music technique that predicted the future but gut swallowed up by garage band and firewire and ipod land... i'm not being nostalgic.. all technology should be embraced and utilised to its best advantage but we shouldn't forget the practices of the past.

For this album I wanted to work with rarities.. both music and visuals that can't be imitated so easily as The Magic Position was and is by novelty flash in the pan entertainers. Vulture only has one acoustic instrument on it that I recorded in England called The Stroh Violin by an amazing musician called David Coulter.. David also plays musical saw and nose flute on the album. Working with david helped me remember my roots in experimental music, my love for Stockhausen and the early electronic music concrete experimentalists who used to spend hours cutting up analagoue tape, rearranging the recorded parts and sellotaping it back together again then feeding it through the tape machine to make a new aesthetic of music. If you are losing me... then.. I want you to go and purchase a copy of Stockhausens "Kontakte" and hear what I believe to be one the bravest beginnings for electronic music. Also Google "Daphne Oram" "Clara Rockmore" then "Nic Endo" "Pierre Boulez". This thought process and collaboration with mr Coulter led me on to going to Paris to work with Thomas Bloch who is the only virtuoso in the world existing who can play The Cristal Bachet. I was thinking that we were so overwhelmed with synthetics these days, synthesizers and music machines come free with our desktop computers that everything is starting to sound the same. I gave thomas bloch all my synthesizer parts i had written and he played them on a totally acoustic instrument made of metal and crystal glass. I cant give too much away right now.. people may poach the eggs before i've seen them hatch as has happened before.

But in the coming months I will be able to share share share away with you all.......
I have been on such an amazing journey with this album, I feel as though this album is
my "coming of age", I hope you understand. It's a hard thing to try and explain. But I can't let any of my albums become my portrait of dorian grey, its a dangerous thing releasing an album when you are 19 but you can only hope that people will want to grow and change with you... I hope you do.
Soon you will start to see the new artwork by Nick Thornton Jones And Warren du Preez... These guys are very similar to thomas bloch and alec empire. Their photography is pure alchemy but not computer generated as many might think. They come from the good times of experimental photography before computers (not too long ago at all...) where people were playing with light and movement and shadows. aperture, Illusions and set designs, taking us on a journey to another place like all great art and music should. I have been dissapointed that many of you people would look at an the new album cover by nick and warren and say "OMG LOLZ THEY DID THIS IN PHOTOSHOP INNIT BABEZ ROFL WTF" where actually you're talking about a two day shoot, a weeks worth of preparation, one of the most amazing team put together of the leading avant garde creative visionaries in london. I am bored of the way most images look these days.. we are all photoshopped to look as though we were created by mary kate and ashley olsens mum or zac effrons plastic surgeon don't you think? I wanted to work with photographers who let me dance and move as I do onstage, to communicate to the camera like I do on video, who would help me articulate the character of the album, the different personas in the songs.. thank you so much to nick and warren for being that and so much more.

So anyway... take a look around, and a little more... this is all i'm saying. Think twice, think, engage, create, innovate...

I have three hours to deliver the artwork for the cd body.... (yes kids.. i'm still making compact discs) so Im going to make some coffee and put on the micachu album. This lady is the real deal, a true original, Listen to the album on headphones... it seems to have about 7 dimensions... mad amazing and brilliant.

Oh.. and I hope you're all enjoying the video.... again, not one part of that video was done by mistake... everything has it's meaning... power struggles, vulnerabilty, submissive vs dominance.. sexual violence... pleasure and pain. I guess I have no shame about nudity, the human body is beautiful, we cover it up too much, hide it under boring layers of cloth, we should celebrate our bodies more whatever the proportion or contortion... we are all animals after all, and I don't see any birds in my garden here wearing jeans and trainers.

ok, biggest love and the rest to you... i'm feeling so so so on fire after the last tour, i'm taking five days away from the spotlight next week to finish off the miniscule details of the next part of battle before the bachelor takes over my life for a year.... no rest for the wicked.......

tooth n nail xx patrick

P.S Thanks to steve lamacq for having me on the round table this week.. it was much fun, I felt like I was on smash hits.. oh and to all the djs at BBC6 that are playing the new song and to all that voted me as winner on the playlist, and to the nme for your support... this is all very exciting.... good times ahead my friends and still very early days.