patrick wolf and his bachelor

is now on spotify!

here is the video for hard times.



and a live video of blackdown


..and btw. I was supposed to be in copenhagen now to go to distortion and watch a play by Giessen theatreschoolstudents tomorrow.. but I am all dead after exams, and still have a bit more to do. I think I am staying here for 13 days more (18.june I move from Sweden..) then I will go to CPH and stay there in june.

Afterthat I dont know..

perhaps a little europetrip.

patrick wolf / hard times / vulture / prepare to be flabbergasted

"Hard Times" gives us, if you can imagine, an even more theatrical Patrick Wolf. Here he manages to paint a picture for us the clearest he's ever been able, he might as well be standing center stage in a Broadway show delivering some direct monologue to the audience. It is what good theater should be: captivating, over the top, dramatically sitting at the cutting edge. I suppose if you had to imagine where Patrick Wolf would have taken his sound next you might have guessed "bigger, louder, more expansive" etc... and in this case, you'd be right. But would you ever imagine a group of choral singers shouting "Revolution!" -- I like this new direction, even if it's moving in all of them.

Keep keeping us on our toes, Mr. Wolf. You're hitting the nail on the head. The Bachelor is out June

I guess I am floating (where you can also download the song)

here is also vulture. the first single from the record


I am so in love with his new album (even though I havent heard all of it yet!) that with the sole exception of sleep all I do is listen to the few songs I have managed to download from it.

I have talked about bandstocks on the blog before and how he is releasing this album with the funding of his fans, and how disappointed I was that I found myself unable to invest since I am a non-uk resident. But they fixed it! It is now possible to invest even as a non-uk citizen. You just sign up on his website right here. I even got a paypal account just for this. I am such a hardcore fan.

but fuck. no wonder. he is such a genious.

Bandstocks + frYars + Patrick Wolf : Welcome to the future of the music industry!

clever boys, my favourite artists.

frYars next album Dark Young Hearts and Patrick Wolfs Battles will be released with the financing of their fans. Bandstocks give you the opportunity to invest in your favourite artists new albums and become sort of a stockholder in them. Its a win-win situation because the fans are ensured that their (favourite) artist will be able to continue making music and the artist get the funding that they need for their artistic vision without any unnecessary interfering. I tried to click the invest button yesterday for both frYars and Patrick Wolf, but they have restricted it to only include UK citizens, which is a huge disadvantage. These guys have lots of fans in other countries that would have loved to chip in aswell. One of the benefits harder to give to the stockowners/fans in other countries are the secret shows that would only be possible to arrange in UK, perhaps. But I am willing to live with that. I just simply want to invest in my favourite artists and this brilliant new business model that gives the power to the right people.

Patrick Wolfs own words on the issue:

My roots in the music industry have always been firmly placed in independent music. As a teenager I was inspired by visionary labels such as Digital Hardcore, Fierce Panda, Planet Mu, and Tigerbeat 6. As an 18 year old, I was given full creative space by the small label Faith and Industry to grow and to make the records and sounds I had to. After two independent releases I decided to experiment to see what would happen when a major label and my third album collided. It was very beneficial and a great learning curve for me, but I am very happy to be back in the creative, free world of independent music; on my own label, Bloody Chamber Music (A bloody chamber being a heart, a tribute to the book "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter), started earlier this year.

So, here I am. Album four with my own record label. With the old world recording industry a rapidly sinking ship; recording studios closing weekly, free downloads daily, more musicians hitting the long road than ever before to feed themselves, I am happy to have come across a new intimate system of audience and artist participation called Bandstocks. This will be funding Bloody Chamber Music, and the international physical and digital release of my fourth album, Battle, and its collective singles. It’s an exciting game we can play together; you get to be an investor and stakeholder in the album. You will get special editions, first copies of the album, private privileges and mixes... and we get to conquer the world together and show that independence and self sufficiency are the two ways forward and out of the mess the industry is in.

When I pressed my first EP we made one thousand vinyl copies. We sold these at friends’ shops across the UK, and with the money made we funded the mix of Lycanthropy. The music industry needn’t be so complicated or Wizard of Oz. It’s time to drop the curtain and stop relying on a stale patriarchy. I'm excited, I hope you are too. Welcome to the future!

Thank you mister Wolf. I am very excited aswell!