Patrick Wolf

[oomarhatelier]

he's a genius full of creativity. Love him

 

[James1057]

^^ agreeed i love him to bit my friend caught one of his hair extensions at a concert the other week! i envy her ...LOTS!

 

[city girl]

Wind in the wires is beautiful..probably my favourite of his. The lyrics to 'The Libertine' amuses me. What a talent!

 

[Glittery_Bug]

rachelhurdwood.org

 

[La bordélique]

^ Looking out of place, as always...

 

[Scott]

^haha!! indeed actually

 

[La bordélique]

^ and we love him for that, don't we?

During his 'finales', he wore interesting designs by CSM graduates ****** & Diamond. One of them (Craig Lawrence) does knitwear for Gareth Pugh.

Their MySpace profiles: ****** & Diamond liriaPristine KNITWEAR DESIGNER

The second picture is from the night he 'died' on stage.

Kim682 / John Gleeson / Milindris @ flickr

 

[SiennaInLondon]

Soulless crap. It's a shame it sounds so superficial. Technically he is quite good.

 

[James1057]

i heard a rumour hes quitting music...please say this is untrue?!

 

[Scott]

i think it's just a rumour. its a rumour that actually developed on his tour in america last year. i think he said he just wants to take a break.

thanks for those la bordelique! some new talents for me to check out

 

[city girl]

Soulless crap. It's a shame it sounds so superficial. Technically he is quite good.

You think his music is superficial? A few tracks off The Magic Position maybe..but some of his stuff is quite dark and sad

I really love those photos

 

[Scott]

certainly if you listen to wind in the wires....definitely more emotionally wrenching. but his writing,its like goldfrapp to me...alot of his lyrics like on the libertine are visual metaphors for something incredibly melancholic.

 

[SiennaInLondon]

See to me, he is just a guy who wishes he were Nick Cave. But he is not. So he kicks up the scenester chic a notch. But then I just love Nick Cave so I could be biased.

 

[Scott]

^i adore nick cave too and there's certainly no denying his influence on him but i also know he has other influences which are pretty obvious...like bjork...kate bush...pj...

that's another thing i admire of him. i think it's even more refreshing since this kind of artistry is coming from a gay man. for once somebody who doesn't follow that stereotypical notion that we all love and are influenced by madonna or abba. and he's so anti in that part of music too which is another refreshing bit.

 

[La bordélique]

I haven't listened to a lot of Nick Cave after The Birthday Party, so could someone point me out a few the similarities they have in their music?

 

[Scott]

i would think everything till the mid-90s would suffice,really...

 

[La bordélique]

I found this bit of interview on blogotheque.net.

Q : Would you indulge me in a quick game of I like/I don’t like ? You’re associated with many people and I suspect that you really don’t like many of them. Nick Cave and the bad seeds ? PW : I like some of his songs. I don’t really know him that much.

Q : Björk ? PW : Björk is a genius. I mean, when I was 12, she was the only one to actually say "this is ****". There’s no need for this, to be so boring. Things with guitars really don’t have to be that banal. I find a true inspiration in that. The fact that she dares to take a string quartet on stage and work that way. I feel the same responsiblity now to get that message across to the young ones. [He makes a parallel with his NME open letter in January 2005]

Q : Pet Shop Boys ? PW : I don’t know. I don’t really think of them.

Q : Soft Cell ? PW : I don’t care either. When I was 17 people were saying like "It’s crazy. You sound like Marc Almond". I don’t know maybe I did because I sang very passionately in English but I never listened to a Soft Cell record in my life.

Q : Tindersticks ? PW : I don’t know.

Q : Scott Walker ? PW : I prefer Jacques Brel. [I try there to get him to listen to Tilt. The NME also mentioned Tilt in their review last week (in the 12/02/2005 issue)]

Q : Radiohead ? PW : I don’t know but my sister likes them.

Q : Nick Drake ? PW : Yeah. I’ve got a couple of Nick Drake’s records.

 

[city girl]

Whenever i listen to him i don't associate him to anyone. I think he's pretty unique..at least for me

'Epilogue' is the most beautiful instrumental song i've heard

 

[La bordélique]

Wolf Song is one that I especially like. It sounds a bit medieval at the beginning then progresses with electronic sounds and tah-da, the song doesn't seem dated at all!

 

[Scott]

ahhh....very enlightening. totally agree with him about bjork. of course,i would put scott walker and jacques brel in the same chapter of music with bowie because really there are no others [men] like them.

perhaps,the nick cave thing is something kindred in their interest in composition.