Patrick Wolf Options

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Born into a creative household, Patrick's musical education started with violin lessons and church choirs. He first began recording songs with his violin, voice and car boot sale organs on a four-track tape recorder at the age of twelve, he made his first Theremin at the age of 11. At fourteen, he joined and performed with pop art collective Minty. Two years later, he left home, choosing to live wild and free around London. During this period, Patrick earned money from busking in a string quartet and also formed a group called Maison Crimineaux, a noisy trio built on destructive ethics around white noise and pop music. He also continued to record and write his own material. A Maison Crimineaux gig in Paris was attended by electronic maestro Kristian Robinson (aka Capitol K), who would then go on to release Patrick's debut album Lycanthropy.

Patrick's ongoing writings and recordings caught the attention of Fat Cat Records, which donated an Atari computer and a mixing console to Patrick. During the recording of Lycanthropy, Patrick studied composition at Trinity College of Music for one year. Lycanthropy was released in the summer of 2003. He also made some guest appearances as a viola player with Chicks on Speed and The Hidden Cameras. The German-based record label Tomlab later released the album for America and Europe. His second album of 2005, Wind in the Wires, was released on the same label and likewise met with a wave of critical acclaim.

Following the greater success brought by Wind in the Wires, Patrick signed a record deal with Loog in late 2005 and began recording his third album, The Magic Position, featuring collaborations with Marianne Faithfull and Edward Larrikin of Larrikin Love. The album leaked onto file-sharing networks in its entirety on January 3, 2007 before its official release on February 26. "The Magic Position" was released in the US on Low Altitude Records on May 1, 2007.

Starting in January 2007, a vodcast, the first of six, was made available on iTunes. This series of vodcasts includes live performances of old and new material and interviews with Gill Mills. These can currently also be downloaded from the iCast website.

On February 27, 2007, in an interview with The London Paper, Patrick Wolf raised many questions about his sexuality: “In the same way I don’t know if my sixth album is going to be a death-metal record or children’s pop, I don’t know whether I’m destined to live my life with a horse, a woman or a man. It makes life easier.” Later in a July 5 2007 interview with Sydney Star Observer, he confirmed his bisexuality: "My sexuality is kind of liberal. I fall in love with men and women. I guess you would call me bisexual. I like to have sex and fall in love - I don't like giving terminology for my sexuality."

Wolf's third album, "The Magic Position," was released through Polydor/Universal in February 2007, and he has been busy promoting it with a successful concert tour in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. He has stated that he already has enough material for a follow-up album, and has been previewing some of it in his live shows.

In an interview to the NME in June, 2007, Wolf announced that he has begun working on his fourth album, which will be a political record sparked by his reaction to the United States during his recent tour. The record is supposed to be released in the spring of 2008.

On 18th July 2007, the day after he supported Mika at Somerset House in London, Wolf sent a MySpace bulletin stating that "Mika is a twat", before following it up with another bulletin the next day:
“What I meant was: Please let's put an end to over-marketed, expensive, heartless, tacky rubbish, autotune, airbrush..."

I demand justice for good music and firebrands who refiuse [sic] to compromise to be popular.
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Listen here. I'm a big fan.

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shame MucH pPL Dnt L!Ke his Mus!c

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WRITE PROPERLY PLEASE!!! MY EYES STING. I DID LIKE THEIR MUSIC UNTIL U DECIDED TO WRITE LIKE THAT ON THIS THREAD WHICH HAS BEEN DEAD AND BURIED FOR AGES!.