| Damaris video now online |
[Nov. 9th, 2009|07:56 pm] |
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| | Patrick Wolf - Damaris | ] |
I just found the new video for Damaris.
I love it. It is so beautiful ♥
Enjoy :) |
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[Nov. 4th, 2009|11:02 pm] |
Dear LJ,
We have been together for seven years now. Oh how I love you so much. You help me remember things that get fuzzy in my head.
I want to finish the Zine. I know its ALMOST done, but I REALLY want to finish it. For real. By the end of 2009. I think it needs to come home with me for a while *wink wink*.
Today Will and I celebrate our un-official official One Year. Officially year and 1/2 =) It was cute. We skyped for over and hour and drank red wine 'together'. He truly is the best of them all (for me anyhow). My future husband for sure! Hell yes, FINALLY.
Anthony, Will and I are going to NY for New Years. Its going to be a blast. I am excited to hang out with all my crazy Italian New Yorker family members. And my cousins from Queens from my Moms side. Lots of fun to be had.
School is going.. almost done, I just keep telling myself.
Especially now that there is a light!
New: We may be able to keep Mocha. I am pulling for Tiger Lyly, but that may not happen. |
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| It all keeps coming along... |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|10:58 pm] |
More future guest news!
The indescribably lovely Gareth Malone of The Choir fame just posted a twitter/facebook link to a picture of his Buzzcocks dressing room door; he's gonna be on the show!
(Perhaps it won't be seen as quite as epic as the Who-fest we're getting later on, but AJSJFKH; GARETH MALONE. Is anyone else head-over-heels in love with him?)
I'm terrible at linking, sorry! |
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| Interview with Patrick |
[Oct. 31st, 2009|03:26 pm] |
I'm doing an interview with Patrick and since we're all tired of reading the same questions and answers over and over again I decided it was a good idea to create something out of his fans curiosities.
It's going to happen next week for the website Made-Up Disease. I'll try to film it so you guys can see the complete version of it and not only the edited article.
Obviously I'll have to make a selection of the questions and try to fit them on the interview which will be focused on his new release. But I'll do my best.
Xx
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| New single = Damaris |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|02:03 pm] |
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...via the mailing list. There's more info than this, quite a lot actually so if you want it all join the mailing list or the wolfboard, I didn't want to make a ginormous post here.
New single DAMARIS coming December 14th!
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.
(click the pic for larger version) |
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[Oct. 28th, 2009|10:45 pm] |
buzzcocks is on tonight! not tomorrow
i hope this is okay to post, but i had no idea they'd changed the day
so for those of you who didn't know either buzzcocks is on in fifteen minutes bbc2! |
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