Good Afternoon....
Im having a positive goodness Brian Wilson-esque day, one of those when you pull up the blinds and the sun is lighting the whole world and your whole house up all bright white and bold.
My life is finally moving again after a long year and a half of sitting in front of
mixing desks, striking hammers, pulling bows, resting from the roads and
arguing with business men, overcoming all those moments of being made
to feel like a "difficult artist" when I am just being a musician that
won't stop giving a shit about being as creative and uncompromising
as I can and have to be. Sometimes we all have to be diva or divo to keep our
dignity and integrity intact, to keep our communications pure. A diva knows no regret.
Today is a day when all the work I have done has given me a perspective on my future and all the things I've fought for at last seem worth all the fighting. Maybe this is planetary or caused by the sun or just BANG that feeling that my album is finished, totally, excitingly, yes 13 year old patrick, in 12 years time you will have made four albums from the bottom of your heart and you didn't get diluted or compromised along the way, bingo. You aren't the gutter tramp, hooker or failure those kids promised you would be. Im watching my lovely man sleeping in the bed next to my studio.. so peaceful and handsome... all lovers should watch their partners sleeping more often... It's not creepy, It's romantic, I think even snoring can be charming when the noise is made by right person . Sorry I digress.. but I haven't done a proper writing blog for a while.
Im also moving house over the next couple of weeks... slowly and surely.. 7 years of costumes... 10 years of instrument collecting.. endless boxes of old books and note books and manuscript.
Im stepping back in time to the regency period in a little house with two blackbirds
in the garden (and heating.. i have lived without heating for a year now!)
but once again the bloody piano and the harpsichords are going to have to
be put in the elevator and thrown in the back of a truck... terrifying, must be like a mother having
to watch your children skydiving or something. Im getting a four poster bed too... yes, very fancy...
very naughty.. etc etc
Ok.. Now, thanks to you lot.. the first warm up london show at Heaven sold out super quickly so I have added another date at Koko on the 13th of March...the day after Heaven at The Club NME night... Once again bandstocks holders get first dibs on tickets and then the tickets go on general sale on February 19th... There are still a few tickets left for Gloucester, Colchester and Cambridge I think. As stated before this will be the first time I will be performing all the new songs from the first CD of Battle... now entitled "The Bachelor" but expect full U.K and International tours from late April onwards... this is just my first toe back in the big old world of show.
Me and mr editor have just finished two more video blogs so expect these very soon on PatrickWolfTV... Will announce these here.
Also. During The Magic Position whirlwind of 2007 I was flown up to the Scottish Highlands in a private jet to be photographed by the genius Tim Walker for Vanity Fair magazine. Tim has just kindly donated his print of this photograph to The National Portrait Gallery in London after being selected by The Gallery and Vanity fair as one of their most Iconic images of the last 100 years. I was totally flattered when I found this news and to find my picture amongst the company of the portraits of some of my favorite authors and poets, and one of my ancestors, Joseph Swan (who invented the lightbulb with Thomas Edison... actually Edison nicked the idea from Swan.. Shhhh!) Anyway the picture will be on display until mid April before it goes into the National archive and you can also buy the huge hardback book Vanity Fair Icons too I you want to own a copy of the picture and you have half a hundred quid to spare! If you go to the gallery, make sure you don't leave without visiting the portraits of Ottoline Morrel and Virginia Woolf by a great painter called Augustus John.. truly inspiring to me when I was a teenager.
We are currently planning an early March release for the first single from The Bachelor called Vulture. And for the first time I have commissioned so dance and experimental remixes of the song to take down to your local discotheque and give to the d.j. Hopefully very soon we will have a video to share with you too...
Right.. I must dash now.. I have probably bored you rotten and I have so much to get through on this fine day, places to go, people to see, whips to crack, bottoms to slap... yes must really go!
xxx pw
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oh... and if any of you are bored.... here's my two songs of the day...
jayne county in Jubilee!
cheek to cheek!