10 year anniversary - new album!

[Kayleigh]

This is my ten year anniversary and I don’t really like greatest hits compilations so what I’m doing - and this is an exclusive - is that I’m recording a brand new album next Monday. I’m going back to the studio and recording my jubilee record and that’s as much as I’ll say. But it’s in connection to this tour and the album will be out in time for these shows in Australia.

The album will be totally, totally, totally stripped down. It’s time for me to be retrospective about the last ten years before I move onto the next ten. I’m 28 and I think it’s quite fun to sing the songs you wrote as a teenager.

Source: www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s3505858.htm

[Sorrow By Nature]

Lovely! I wonder what will be on it. An album full of acoustic versions of the singles, a bunch of unreleased songs or something completely new which is simply retrospective. I'm hoping for a mix of all three.

/Tommy

[jay]

totally stripped down = TOTAL THUMBS UP

i always find myself gravitating to the more acoustic songs, and especially the b-sides, when i'm in a patrick mood. if there was a whole album like this, woooo....

[exim]

So when's he in Aus?
Lots of acoustic shows this summer, so I guess there'll be a bit of a preview there.

[catwolf]

This is so exciting!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D I wonder if this means he's finally recording Teratology... ;D

May 23, 2012 9:39:58 GMT exim said:

So when's he in Aus?
Lots of acoustic shows this summer, so I guess there'll be a bit of a preview there.

I've updated the gig thread with the Australian dates: patrickwolf.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=live&thread=6022&page=1

I've even more excited about going to see him in August now, hopefully he'll be playing loads of songs from this album ;D

[niwo]

where's the explanation letter?

anyway, i didn't expect fresh material (be it old stuff newly recorded or new old stuff or old new stuff or just ... stuff or a sung version of the biography) that quickly after lupercalia and brumalia, so i'm happy with whatever to expect

[gasolinerainbow]

OH YES!!!!! XD

Stripped down Patrick is always great around this time of the year.

[herrdoktor]

Any news from yesterday's show ?

[niwo]

LOVEBOX WAS FANTASTIC

if that was the news you were asking about?

no new songs/new versions/ talk about the anniversary album though

[herrdoktor]

Jun 20, 2012 12:07:32 GMT niwo said:

LOVEBOX WAS FANTASTIC

if that was the news you were asking about?

no new songs/new versions/ talk about the anniversary album though

Good enough!
What about the setlist, do you remember any of it? Any old gems?
I know he did Time of my Life, House and The City

[niwo]

the setlist... oh well i have it actually
and i should go find the right thread for posting it. but honestly i can't be arsed, so here you go:

1. Kreigspiel
2. Hard Times
3. Time Of My Life
4. House
5. A&E
6. Falcons
7. Bermonsey Street
8. Magic Position
9. City
10. Together

(typos as to be found on setlist )

[herrdoktor]

^ thanks A LOT really, I enjoy knowing what he has been playing

[catwolf]

Apparently the album's going to be rewritten versions of his back catalogue:

"As for his next album, Wolf reveals that it will be a revisionist retrospective of sorts, subverting the notion of the greatest hits package which often coincides with Wolf’s current career point. “It’s all recorded, I’ve got two days of vocals this weekend, then I’ve got mixing at the end of the month,” he explains. “It’s basically all back catalogue. It came from doing these acoustic shows, when I sat at the piano and forgot about what it sounded like on record or with a band, and thought about how it should sound in 2012. So new lyrics would come up, some of them retrospective or things I was too scared to say back at the time. Some lyrics feel wrong, like Hard Times I’ve sort of rewritten as I feel the message is screwed up with that song, promoting aggression rather than resolution. So I’m readdressing and rewriting the back catalogue. I’m not really choosing the most obvious songs for the record. I think it came from the notion that after ten years you do a greatest hits – I don’t have any hits,” Wolf smiles. “It’s kind of an invalid format now anyway, you can choose 12 tracks from your favourite artist on iTunes. So I thought it was better to readdress the back catalogue as sort of a songbook.”"

www.beat.com.au/music/patrick-wolf

[exim]

"I don't have any hits"... cute.

So he's doing a sort of Kate Bush Director's Cut, but all completely redone.

[Chelsea]

You do too have hits patrick! Stop lying to yourself, its just other people don't realise how awesome your songs are.

[schizoeclectic]

VERY excited!!

[schizoeclectic]

Everytime I get a new e-mail I think it's going to be the latest newsletter with all the new album details I had a dream last night that it was titled 'Anniversaire' too ...

[exim]

more like luperannousica the way things are going