Really quick note just to inform everyone of the timings for the upcoming Palladium show on 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

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!

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 before… 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

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)

7″ VINYL
A – Damaris
B – Queen Isabella (The She-Wolf of France)

Release date: Monday 14th December, 2009
Preorder for 7″ coming soon

Upcoming bits and bobs

As you know, Patrick will be playing his big bonkers theatre production special one off (phew!) show on the 15th of November, with a string sextet and choir at the London Palladium – home of the Royal Variety Show and many a true star. Special guests on the night include Marc Almond and Alec Empire as Patrick recreates the full luscious orchestral epic (phew again!) sound of The Bachelor and selected reinvented anthems from all four of his albums for one night only. It is set to be the most wonderful Patrick Wolf performance to date. Micachu & The Shapes have been confirmed as the support act. Are you going to be there? Check out these links to buy or win some tickets:

- 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

PS: Don’t forget you can receive news like this and much, much more by becoming a member of the official mailing list – simply visit this page to sign up!

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

PS: To those of you who have had problems with signing up to the new list, please message us on Myspace with your email address and we will be in touch. Thanks. xx

Team Wolf are always very busy behind the scenes and in recent times there’s been no exception. For the past few months, we’ve been working on creating a brand new official mailing list, after encountering many a hiccup with the old system – we’re sure you may have noticed – but now we can finally announce the launch of Wolfmail version 2.0!

Sadly, with the way the old system works, we can’t import any information about those of you who had signed up in the past over to the new system – in short, this means that if you’d like to be on the new official Patrick Wolf mailing list, you will have to sign up again. But wait, there’s more! We’re offering those of you who switch over to the new system a free gift… We’ve rooted around and dusted off an exclusive, never-before-released demo of Wolf Song, which you will be able to download once you have fully completed the sign up process. This free gift will only be available for ONE WEEK ONLY – so please be quick if you want to grab this lovely demo.

No more mails will be sent out via the old system, so if you want to keep up to date on all the latest Wolf news, gigs, exclusive offers, interviews, reviews and the like, please consider making the move with us to the new system. It promises to be much more efficient – meaning that not only can we get all the info over to you in a timely fashion, it will all be relevant to your interests and it will be local to you, so you won’t receive info about gigs in Europe if you live in Australia, etc.

We hope that this will reduce a lot of frustration that we met when sending mails from the old system, not just on your part but on ours as well!

The new sign up link can be located here: patrickwolf.com/wolfmail

Remember, the offer of the Wolf Song demo is only available for ONE WEEK, so get registering and stay in the Wolf loop!

Love,

Team Wolf x

Few things for you this update…

Patrick has very excitedly announced two very special guests that will be sharing the stage with him at the Palladium show in November – Marc Almond and Alec Empire!

He shared his comments:

“It is a total honour that I am able to duet with the legendary singer-songwriter, Marc Almond. To me, he is one of the most genius brave and passionate renaissance artists of the last three decades, a total inspiration. He has explored music from Russian folk to Gypsy to being a complete original electronic pop star in his work with Soft Cell. I met Marc totally randomly last summer whilst finishing off “The Bachelor”, he was moving into the house next door to mine and we bumped into each other on the street, me coming home with my groceries and him moving his furniture in. We hit it off immediately and he has since been a big support and encouragement to me over the last year. With Marc’s amazing new album “Orpheus in Exile” just released and me closing “The Bachelor” album tour in the U.K at the Palladium, it seems perfect for our paths to cross now on-stage. We will be doing two songs together.. but time will tell what they may be. Hopefully one from each of our own songbooks.

The other fantastic guest will be Alec Empire, flying in from Berlin, we are still preparing our collaboration on the night but it will definitely be a live continuation of the work we have done together over the last two years, representing our co-writes and production on “The Bachelor” and perhaps one of the forthcoming songs from my next album “The Conqueror” . To me, Alec is one of the seminal revolutionary beat makers and noise makers around and as always it blows my mind to think we are working together now, when I think back to sneaking in with a fake ID to the London Astoria to see Atari Teenage Riot play, aged 14.”

In what is sure to be an exceptional evening, the Palladium date will act as the perfect celebration for Patrick and all of you, the fans, that have helped support the campaign.

Tickets can be purchased from:

www.livenation.co.uk Tel: 0844 576 5483
www.seetickets.co.uk Tel: 0844 412 4657

Now… Music is power!

Patrick will be performing a stripped down set for Youth Music in London on the 9th of November and you could be in with a chance to win some VVVIP tickets – yes, that’s right, VVVIP! – to the event… Just tell Youth Music what your power song is and why music is powerful to you, it’s that simple. Check out the competition page to enter.

Good luck!

Patrick has also been nominated twice in the UK Festival Awards! Please head on over to their online polls and vote for Patrick – he’s up for Most Memorable Moment (The Magic Position) and Virtual Festivals Critics’ Choice Award (Dot to Dot). By voting, you could be entered to win VIP passes to every winning festival listed, so get clicking and get your friends clicking!

More news coming your way incredibly soon…

Love,

Team Wolf x

You may have noticed that we’ve just announced some new tour dates, but if not, we’re going to tell you about them now so you don’t miss out. These dates may be in places you might not have been able to catch the Wolf before – you can check them out here on the website or at Patrick’s Myspace. Dates include Florence, Prague, Helsinki, Sao Paulo and Australia – including Meredith Festival!

The European tour starts next week in Amsterdam - the dates will be supported by the swish Swedes, The Deer Tracks – check out their Myspace here. PLEASE NOTE: VENUE CHANGE FOR BERLIN – the Lido show in Berlin has now been moved to the much bigger Astra venue to accomodate for the huge demand of tickets.

Australian support TBC although we know the Brisbane show will be supported by Crocodiles - No Age love them, we love them too – and their Myspace is here.

Tickets for the much-anticipated Palladium show in London this November are going fast – if you want to see this extra-special concert then you’d better rush over to seetickets and grab the last few of these tickets before we completely sell out of them.

Speaking of extra-special, our typing fingers are really itching in anticipation to spill the beans about the exciting guests that are lined up for the Palladium show, and all we can say for the time being is that we’ll be announcing them very very shortly, so stay tuned!

Patrick’s been busy in the studio continuing work on The Conqueror – everything’s coming together now, but you’ll hear lots more updates from us in the near future on that and even more Bachelor-related goodies and fun coming soon, as well.

Don’t forget you can follow Patrick on Twitter if you’re not following him already – you can hear all his news, plans and thoughts first-hand and super-quick, too – just head on over to twitter.com/pw_official for updates.

Remember that Bebo competition to win a music lesson? Big big thanks to all of you who entered – your performances were honestly staggering, there’s so many talented wolfies out there which made Patrick’s decision an incredibly hard one to make, not to mention not having much time due to his touring schedule as of late but.. drum roll, please… We’re now pleased to announce the winners! Huge congratulations to Jake Downs and Rajasri Narasimhan – you’ll be hearing from us shortly with details about your music lesson with Patrick!

Before we go, we thought we’d share some lovely live photos with you – just click on the thumbnails. These were taken by Pim Top in Sweden for the Way Out West Festival last month. We think they’re great – let us know your thoughts on the Myspace or the website, we’re sure Pim would love to know!

We’ll be back soon with more info.

Team Wolf x

Huge apologies to all who are still waiting for their Bachelor vinyl – we have had a few problems with this product that needed to be ironed out… The sleeves must’ve had a fight with the factory or something because when they were delivered, they were not up to the standard we wanted, i.e. they were falling apart, and it wouldn’t be fair to send these to you. We recalled all of our stock for inspection, and now we have put new stock into production. We will keep you posted as to when the new stock will be on it’s way to those of you who ordered through patrickwolf.com.

Thanks,

Team Wolf x

Patrick’s cape sadly went missing over the festival season – it was last spotted at Underage Festival…

Team Wolf are offering a cash reward for anyone who can locate it and get it back to us safely and in one piece.

Please message us at the Myspace account if you have any information about the cape’s location.

No jokes about it flying off, please

Love,

Team Wolf x

We thought we’d churn out this little blog to let you all know that the long-awaited vinyl edition of The Bachelor is now available to order right here on the official site!

If you pre-order from us now, you might receive one of 100 copies that are exclusively signed by Patrick. Your yummy vinyl will be dispatched on 17th August, and costs just £17.99.

Lovely stuff.

Team Wolf x