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Oct 13, 2012 2:47:39 GMT
Post by schizoeclectic on Oct 13, 2012 2:47:39 GMT
Hi girls. I've been lurking again the last week or so but haven't had time to sit down and reply properly. You all probably saw that I went to see Kelly Clarkson, I've loved her for years. She'd be my second favourite ever American Idol contestant. Any clue who number one is Jessie haha. It was a great gig, I mostly went for the 14 year old in me. 14 year old Damien LOVED Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Evanescence etc some things NEVER change. Anyways I was mooching about the record shops and bought some Lana Del Rey 7" but unfortunately I was a day early to buy Sundark and Riverlight on Vinyl. I still haven't ordered the Vinyl edition but I'm starting to think that if you order AFTER the 16th you won't get the fanzine so I better hurry eeek.. But you know I have the CD now I bought that today in HMV so I'll post about it in the S&R thread in a minute. I stalked twitter to try and see where she was staying but to no luck and the venue was too big to wait around after to try and see .. oh well. I did have to travel back and forth from the hotel on my own on the Luas (tram) at 1 in the morning cause I had left my phone behind in Subway and 'Teignmouth''s lyrics comforted me hehe Cat. I'm just chuckling here at the three of ye and your fan girl ways. I wouldn't have it any other way.Cat i'm especially laughing at you going into the mensroom haha. One of the only things about Patrick that drives me crazy is songs he never releases such as Halcyon, Wildlife etc and then with things like Brumalia, Lemuralia and the current archive EP's they are still not released hmmm but the Archive version of Armistice is heaven. Yes niwo is right I didn't go to Dublin that time. I had a ticket and for Belfast too but I couldn't use either as financially I couldn't travel or stay over and I didn't want to go alone. I only found out AFTER that Niwo had gone plus Dublin was flooded too. I know what you mean Jessie I always see tweets from us to others and vice versa the wolf pack is like a family. I LOVE Kerli!! I was just looking at my PW Vinyl's. All I need is 7" Wind in the Wires The Libertine Accident + Emergency 12" Sundark & Riverlight Yeah I never see 'Lycanthropy' on Vinyl not since I bought it myself Luckily none of the one's I need are hard to find. Jessie, I must DM you the pic's of the vinyl edition of 'The City' if you want it! Can't wait to hear ALL about it niwo
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Oct 13, 2012 15:13:58 GMT
Post by catwolf on Oct 13, 2012 15:13:58 GMT
Hahaha yeah my brain really wasn't working too well that day!!! It was the first time i ever went to London by myself so i was incredibly nervous and i'd been wanting to see Owen for such a long time so i was incredibly excited... and once i realised how big the Barbican was i thought i had no chance at all of meeting him so i was incredibly shocked i'd managed it! (i thought it would just be a normal theatre but it's a huge complex - i found museums and hothouses and all sorts inside!!!) Aww that's what The Feeling are like for me - going to see them makes me feel like i'm 14 again ;D Anyway, i just remembered about this!!!!!!!!!!! Hee hee hee ;D patrickwolfpalisade.tumblr.com/post/14934253899/trouble You know what, i think i'm actually going to put that as my signature - it's gorgeous <3 Hahahaha!
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Oct 13, 2012 16:39:05 GMT
Post by schizoeclectic on Oct 13, 2012 16:39:05 GMT
Oh yes I've been in the Barbican it's insane. Aw!! Yes maybe that's what Patrick meant when he said we were ''Trouble'' haha
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Oct 13, 2012 16:46:18 GMT
Post by catwolf on Oct 13, 2012 16:46:18 GMT
Hahaha, of course!
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Oct 14, 2012 1:51:51 GMT
Post by jessie on Oct 14, 2012 1:51:51 GMT
Hi guys! @cat you are so funny!! That sounds like something I would have done walking into the men's toilet! Haha! I hope you like your present(s)! Don't laugh at the funny bracelets I threw in at the last minute. I'd made a ton of them for raves and had like 200 so when you open your package and a ton of them fall out you can laugh at me lol you don't have to wear them but everyone I know has had to take some of them. I hope you like the real present though and that maybe it gets there in time. The guy said it would take about 5-7 days, so maybe schizoeclectic.... I can only imagine who that could be?!? I never watched more than an episode or two of American Idol until Adam's last episode. Someone just said "watch this guy, you're going to love him" (seems like that happens to me a lot?) I want to see him so bad but he needs to wait on his tour dates since I've almost spent all of my Adam ticket fund on Patrick. For some reason the only shows he's done here since his album came out are at state fairs (all far away), but he seems to be playing all over the world without a set tour? That's so strange! ....(Oh, btw if you watched a lot of American Idol, Ruben Studdard, Bo Bice, Diana DeGarma and Taylor Hicks are all from Alabama. My friend/husband's singer Jason made it through to the final California audition before being eliminated ). **Oh... and my friend's little boy made the bracelet James Durbin was wearing his last night on the show I'm still loyal to my 14 year old fangirl crushes! I even paid to see Guns N' Roses this year if that's believable. Axl is horrible now (even though he didn't actually sound bad live) but I had to do it for the 14 year old me who loved those crazy hair bands my older cousins played for me as a kid. I wasn't allowed to listen to them b/c of their lyrics so a music friend I made from my sister's class would copy cassette tapes for me at night and slip them to me in the hall. For the longest time I only had the B side of one of their albums. Jon Bon Jovi will forever and always be my biggest crush What can I say? I have always loved boys with eyeliner. LOL. My husband knows and understands this! They were also my first rock concert. On the last tour their stage circled the pit (so you could still be front row during one set if you couldn't afford the ridiculous $1,000 package seat). My friend couldn't go at the last minute and I ended up going by myself. We had front row tickets on the outer ring of the stage. I got there and realized how close I was and Jon was only going to be a few feet from me and I really thought I was going to have a panic attack! I'm so dumb but I just never imagined I would be that close and I've seen them at least 10 times! I was so nervous and shaking and couldn't eat my food while I waited for the first act to set up. I kept thinking - if I run away now, no one ever has to know this! LOL. I have no idea why I was so nervous. Our seats were actually separate and I moved to my friend's seat to be closer to the center then Jon sat down in front of my original seat (the one i paid a lot more for!).He sang my favorite song to the girl who'd moved into my seat! Anyhow, I know they are just people, but it's still fun to have something you're that passionate about. I'll be calm about Patrick now, I just needed to get over that initial nervous excitement. I do think when you love & are dedicated to music as much as we are it's hard to forget the music that you first fell in love with. And I really have always met my best friends through music! Haha. That's what I love about the Wolf Pack - I'm like, wow all these people like me have been here all along? It is still amazing that I found people who get Patrick's music schizoeclectic I love that you loved Avril Lavigne - I was totally rocking out to some "Sk8er Boi" back in the day I am pretty sure she raided my old wardrobe for that video! I also love that music can remind me of the *feeling* of a certain time and place so much. Like that Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Californication" oddly is forever going to remind me of this rainy day in Whitley Bay and feeling a little bit lonely and homesick and at the same time not wanting to come back to the States. Patrick's music makes me miss England so much. I would love to hear him play there. LOL. Or be like you two and just listen on the train This sort of reminds me of how we are about Sundark & Riverlight. One of the last times I was in Newcastle I was annoyed that I was going to miss the release date of a cd of my favorite band in the U.S., luckily I was able to get the UK release before my trip was over, but my mom and friend had both bought me the US copy on the day it came out here to make sure I had it when I came home. lol. And of course I was all too happy to own different versions of it. When I got home there was a single from a UK band that had been in the charts here all summer (I never heard it when I was in England). American radio repeats the same songs 100 times a day so my friends here were so sick of it already, but I wanted to play it all the time. I'm not going to say the name of this silly song, but my best friend and I may have driven around with the sunroof open and the windows down blasting it a few weeks ago for old times sake. LOL. :)Yes:) DM me the pic. I'm sure I'll want it if it's not too much trouble to ship. oh @cat I downloaded the songs you listed I put the others on while I was reading the other night and they are great! I know I'm going to like the Music of Hair from that one song you posted. What's the story behind that title??? My friend is working on a book about hair & society and I've sent her Patrick's "The Hairy Song". The wolfboard says: "it was it was an online only demo for a magazine called Open Democracy and the article was about emotional responses to hair through music and art." The song was just perfect for what she's writing. I haven't been able to find the actual article for her, but I'm going to have a look at the university library online when I start to research my paper tonight. Okay I will see you later I'm sorry I always write too much and I do actually need to do some things at home! lol. Oh yes! So how many days/weeks til your Patrick gigs?
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Oct 14, 2012 2:34:23 GMT
Post by jessie on Oct 14, 2012 2:34:23 GMT
Oh and sorry! That link is great Cat! It fits you perfectly
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Oct 14, 2012 2:36:26 GMT
Post by schizoeclectic on Oct 14, 2012 2:36:26 GMT
I have dipped in and out of American Idol over the years but I was addicted to Adam from the second I saw him. Him and Patrick mean so much to me. You and I are literally their ONLY mutual fans as in the only people who know both! That's so cool. Alabama must be so proud of them all so.
Like I said if I'm obsessed, then I'm obsessed for life. Nobody gets left behind. It's so weird that you say cause when I was very young I used always get Bon Jovi and Guns N' Roses mixed up. I just loved them both: Bryan Adams would be someone else I'd add to that whole 90's era of male rock singers and bands there aren't many like them nowdsys
I am so busy at the mo that I haven't had time to take a pic of the vinyl but yes it wouldn't be an ounce of trouble to post. Trust me!
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Oct 14, 2012 17:20:35 GMT
Post by jessie on Oct 14, 2012 17:20:35 GMT
No worries You can post the pic whenever you get around to it I've ordered some singles on Discogs, hopefully they will get here soon. Yes, I am burnt out on so much of that old music, but some of its still good. That's why I love artists like Patrick & Tori Amos because it's different every time so it never really gets old and they are always evolving and creating something new. I can't wait to get my S&R vinyl! When I saw the zine was 28 pages I decided the shipping was worth it. Haha. I'm too cheap but it's mainly because I'd rather spend my money on tickets and at the shows. I hate that US shipping on that site is more than 1-2 of his tickets.
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Oct 14, 2012 23:10:57 GMT
Post by catwolf on Oct 14, 2012 23:10:57 GMT
Hahaha i'm such an idiot! I walked right in and there were all these men staring at me and it took me a moment to realise something wasn't quite right... Thanks so much for sending me a present!!! I'm really curious to see these bracelets now, haha! Yeah i'm like that too, i can never really casually like music - the music i like, i LOVE and will love forever ;D And most of the music i love reminds me of certain periods/moments of my life/places and make me really nostalgic. Or train journeys - i have soundtracks to a lot of trains! Whenever i get the train from Edinburgh to Kings Cross (which is normally cheaper than direct from Glasgow) i always listen to The Gypsy King and think about Patrick writing it on that train journey many years ago ;D (Haha the past two years i've got that train to go to London to go and see the Gipsy Kings!!! ) Aww yeah i remember when i was 16/17 it drove me crazy that i didn't have any friends who knew Patrick's music - then when i started uni i thought maybe there'd be a fellow PW fan there who would become my new best friend... but yeah that never happened So i love the wolfboard cos it gives me a place to let out all my fangirlism to people who actually know what i'm talking about! Your stories are reminding me of when i was 14/15 Dirty Pretty Things were my favourite band in the world (they were the one band i could never properly fall back in love with again after discovering Patrick... although a small part of me will always be in love with Carl Barat ), anyway i was dying for their second album to be released when i found out i was going to be in Orkney with my family the day it came out! I had the stereotypical idea that the only shops in Orkney would be like shops selling tweed or tourist tat but it turned out there was a town which had a CD shop!!! So the morning of the release i went straight there and asked if they had it - they hadn't even unpacked it yet! (and apparently the guy was laughing at me when i left ) And i'd brought my ancient wee portable CD player with me just in case (because i had to wait til i got home to put it on my phone - my "ipod" of the time) so i carried that round everywhere with me in my bag to listen to it. Haha i'm impressed that you managed to get S&R before Patrick, Damien! I sometimes get really nervous about gigs too (i know it's really stupid because they're such happy times!) The first time i met Patrick, he'd just gone to put his suitcase inside then he said he'd come out to see me - part of me was almost dreading him coming out because i was so nervous. And i had the same feeling in the days leading up to the next time i was going to meet him, but i was always fine once i got there. And i sometimes get this crazy fear that i'll be ill for a gig (i nearly had to miss a Feeling gig once because i was ill all day so i think that's how it started, i made it through the night though but it took me a few days to recover) - and i become really conscious of how much i eat and drink and worry about trying to compromise between drinking enough water to not be dehydrated and drinking too much and needing the toilet the whole gig I'm not normally so bad now, but i went through a phase of this - the worst was when i saw Owen Pallett because i was so nervous of going to London by myself for the first time - i was too excited/nervous to eat but knew if i went too long without eating i wouldn't feel well (has happened to me before) which made me panicky. It was ridiculous - but i managed to get over it in time for seeing Björk in Manchester the next month (Haha it's so fitting that the first clip i ever heard from her album Biophilia was "it's the sparkle you become when you conquer anxiety" - there was actually a tshirt with those lyrics on it so i had to buy it!!!! ) But the craziest thing happened to me at Beacons - i'd been waiting in the tent for hours and i was completely fine, but then when the band before him came off all of a sudden i got so incredibly nervous, i came close to having a panic attack. It was ridiculous, i'd seen him 4 times before - it was the 25th gig i'd ever been to and i'd even when i'd been nervous before the gig i'd always been fine once i was actually there - this was the complete opposite. I think it was because he'd said to me on twitter he'd play one of my 3 favourite songs (which he actually didn't!), and i can't even explain how wonderful/emotional that would be. I was so furious at myself but i just couldn't get rid of that panicky feeling. And at first i was relieved at every song he started playing because they were all ones i'd heard before. But gradually i relaxed and got back to my normal self (his music cured me! ) and towards the end i was praying he would play Penzance! I think maybe because i normally meet him before gigs, so the gig seems almost secondary to meeting him which is why i'm perfectly relaxed (and insanely excited!) when he comes on stage. But even when i saw Patrick in Edinburgh when i was recovering from a sickness bug and had barely eaten in a week i was fine, so i thought i was over all this anxiety stuff. Really hoping nothing like that ever happens again - it was crazy! So... does anyone else ever get nervous like that, or are you all going to send the men in white coats after me now? The title of Music of Hair comes from the song Two Sisters (it's actually a rather morbid song!), you'll understand when you hear it And there's a song called Glasgow Reel ;D It's one of the first albums of his i discovered (and one of my favourites) even though it's so completely different to his later music. Oh i love the Hairy Song so much!!! ;D Haha i've never associated it with Music of Hair before! Don't worry i'm glad i'm not the only one with such long posts (and i always start telling really long stories which probably bore you all ) Haha last week i didn't have time to go on the wolfboard because i had so much work to do, but now i always think i'll quickly reply and go to bed early, and then 2 hours later i'm still typing! It is 6 weeks exactly!!! ;D (well minus about 3 hours ) Hahaha thanks, i don't really think it fits me though - i just put it because i thought it was lovely and i was amused by the whole "trouble" reference! Anyway now i really need to go to bed before i start thinking of more things to say, haha!
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Oct 16, 2012 4:23:12 GMT
Post by jessie on Oct 16, 2012 4:23:12 GMT
@cat No I get nervous too! But only if it's music that really means something to me. I was excited to meet Patrick, but nervous that I would cry because the music means so much. Usually it's a nervous+excited mix. I love your stories! Most things like that are funny later. I just hate being shy! That makes it worse. You do have to eat though!! I have done that as well, just because I was so excited I forgot. It's just funny because I've been to so many shows and Patrick is one of the few I was that nervous at. I'm just really always worried I'm going to bother someone so I'm glad Patrick did that meet & greet in NYC although I really wish I'd gotten a chance to say goodbye. Just because I know it could be a year or longer before I can see him live again. I have to do my homework!
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Oct 17, 2012 13:43:12 GMT
Post by jessie on Oct 17, 2012 13:43:12 GMT
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Oct 17, 2012 20:24:04 GMT
Post by niwo on Oct 17, 2012 20:24:04 GMT
argh damien!!!!! and they had given me a room with THREE beds in it in dublin!!!!! dammit. well, the flooding was kinda annoying haha. i've never been so wet in my life. i don't even get this wet when i take a bath! O.o
anyway, you all have to physically kick me to actually write the reviews for those gigs at some point. otherwise, you'll never hear much about them as i'm too random to remember myself.
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Oct 17, 2012 23:25:06 GMT
Post by schizoeclectic on Oct 17, 2012 23:25:06 GMT
So yeah I'm still beaming at Patrick's tweet to me ''Wow even I haven't got a physical copy yet'' haha trust me to be the first. It's the one good thing about Ireland that we get all CD's, DVD's etc first thing on the Friday morning. I must have broke the girls heart in HMV making her look for it lol. But yeah she found it eventually not even unpacked or even on the shop floor and she gave me a student discount too as I go there so often. I had to head straight into work afterwards so I wasn't happy about having it up in my locker while I worked downstairs ... Jessie, the vinyl is on it's way to you. Sorry I never got a chance to take a pic. Let me know as soon as you get it. Argh niwo don't tell me that! Hmmm next time will be better organised I hope you will come to Ireland again If you feel like having another ''bath'' in 2013 I don't know what it is about Patrick but I got so shy when I met him. I'm not the most confident person in the world but any other singers/celebrities I've met I have been fine. I think it's because he is my idol and such an inspiration that I just went into shock. Of course his reaction to meeting little old me blind-sided me and I kind of just went quiet on him haha To be honest I have a total personality transplant at gigs. I'm not a nice person haha. I hate whenever anyone else gets the Setlist or ahead of me for front row etc I'm always eavesdropping on conversations and it annoys me when people get song names wrong or albums wrong etc. Let me explain though, to get to Dublin from where I live takes a 4 hour bus journey or 2 1/2 hour train journey and then on top of that I usually have to get changed and prepare myself etc and that's all before even queuing so I'm usually exhausted/ running on adrenaline and cause nothing ever happens where I live going to a concert is such an event that I have to soak in every second and I'm not about to let some casual fan from Dublin take it away from me lol. Examples include. An aquantice of mine took her own life before Avril Lavigne's gig and her friend, who didn't want to go anymore, asked us to try and sell their tickets up in the queue aka to any passers by or friends of people already in the queue etc and when we asked we got this really bitchy reaction of ''Why would we want tickets we are IN the queue'' from these wannabe goth's so that soured my pre concert experience. It was the same for Lady Gaga, we were waiting for the support act to come on and two girls shuffled up to the front which annoyed everyone but then everyone started pushing and these two other girls in front of me who were about 15 got pushed forward and one of them put their hands out to stop from falling on to one of them girls who cut in front and she turned around and freaked and started pulling the girls hair and hitting her saying ''Get your hands off me you nigger'' it was disgusting. Of course nothing was done about it. And I hate that word and I'm sorry but it's what happened. So to be honest from the second I get into the queue to the second the artist comes on stage I'm never in good mood. It's just everyone else there that annoys me. Queuing for Patrick was the only time I actually enjoyed and I made some actual friends. Even when the doors opened everyone just sauntered in. I never experienced such a mature audience as his. Ye weird thing is none of my real life friends like Patrick but for a song here and there. To be perfectly honest I'd prefer that. Patrick isn't really an artist to share or go to as a big group. He's too intimate and so is his music. Pardon the pun but I've always been a lone wolf and can feel alone in a crowded room but his music helps me feel like that's ok you know.
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Oct 18, 2012 17:45:24 GMT
Post by jessie on Oct 18, 2012 17:45:24 GMT
Haha Okay I'm glad we were all at least somewhat nervous with Patrick! I'm the same, I've met plenty of people and he is the only one I've been that nervous/shy about. For real, I was shaking and I just couldn't speak to him at first. LOL. My friend told me to go talk to him and I was like, "You don't understand, it's Patrick Wolf!" How embarrassing. I'm so glad he was sweet about it. I think it would be nice to go to a Patrick show with some other fans. He said he makes music for loners and that music has brought all of us like-minded people together I really feel like the wolfpack are some of the sweetest most sincere people I've met. I don't know a single "casual" Patrick fan so it has to say something that we all feel so deeply for his music. Yes! I feel the same way after listening to him a while I realized it's perfectly okay to be the lone wolf (I LOVE THAT!). People just assume if you're reading a book or not talkative that you're not having a good time and I always feel out of place because of that. And I'm really just thinking, please leave me alone and let me read or hear this music! After talking to you guys I did try to be more social at Patrick's shows. I'm usually quite shy and get nervous talking to people, but I decided not to do that and met tons of sweet people that I've still been talking to online. It sounds like if I went with you I might have gotten that set list those boys swiped from me! I have a friend who would get mad about everything so I've just tried to learn to relax a little, but some things like that are extremely annoying. If I'd been at that Gaga show I would have been furious!!!! Some people just aren't suited for crowds! I've had the craziest experiences at shows! At a big outdoor venue the singer called everyone from the back to come down to the pit (crazy!). This one security guard decided to block everyone causing this crowd of like 100 people to come to a halt on the stairs. I was fine with where I was but this girl fell and was about to get trampled. We were climbing under people to try to help her. A fight broke out and we were being screamed at by security who came from the top of the stairs and couldn't see her. The female security sprayed mace in the crowd twice! She actually sprayed it directly in the eyes of a security guard that was trying to help me get to this girl. They dragged everyone out of the crowd. I seriously thought I was going to be arrested even though I hadn't done anything! As soon as the (nice) guard got the mace out of his eyes he bitched that lady security guard out. He ran to me and my friends to make sure we were okay and let us leave. That lady was crazy! I really felt like she was trying to start a fight. The band wasn't even that great And they didn't bother to warn us not to use water to get the mace off. It was horrible! I actually got punched in the face by a girl last year! I expect shoving to a certain degree at rock shows. This girl thought we were trying to get in front of her (we weren't, we were getting shoved and we'd been there an hour or two longer than she had anyway, she was just drunk and hateful). I always feel protective over my friends and any younger people around me.My friend is like 5'2". This girl started elbowing her really hard on purpose. My friend was upset & It was ruining the show for her so I held my arm in between them. The girl elbowed her in the stomach & my friend shoved her. I jumped in the middle to keep them separated and the girl punched me in the face! Haha. There is no need for violence! Especially from short people! I just laughed, but security didn't see her hit me and threatened to make us both leave. I wanted to see this band for years so I let it go and tried to keep my back to her. It wasn't 10 minutes before she started kicking my friend. I am not a violent person! I expect the normal crowd behavior, but she was way overboard and wasted. I finally grabbed her by the shirt and got in her face and told her she would either stop or I'd take her out! Haha. I should have done it sooner because we had 3 feet space around us the rest of the night! The thing that annoyed me most was she didn't even know the songs! I'm really sorry about your friend That's really sad. People can be really inconsiderate jerks for no reason.
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Oct 19, 2012 23:59:19 GMT
Post by catwolf on Oct 19, 2012 23:59:19 GMT
That Divine Intervention/Armistice video's so gorgeous Jessie - i'm sure i'd be crying if i heard that live! Haha, yeah it really is made for you I don't even know why i get nervous, i think it's just because i'm so so excited and because it'll be so wonderful it'll almost be hard to listen to. Yeah i'm a bit of a "lone wolf" as well (haha i love that too!). I'm quite shy normally (not nearly as much as i was at school though!) - and i've always been happy spending time on my own. A lot of people can't understand that though - my mum used to always tell me i spent too much time on my own in my room listening to music And my sister likes to be constantly surrounded by friends and won't even go up to the shops by herself. I do like to be around people but sometimes i need to be by myself and listen to music and think or daydream Yeah i never used to talk to people at gigs because i was too shy and everybody else seemed to be there with friends. But in the past year or two i've started speaking to people in the queue - i've made quite a few friends at Feeling gigs (i'm the only obsessed fan up here but now i've started travelling down south to see them i've met lots of like-minded people - they're like a big group of friends). I don't know any PW fans in real life though - i met a few people in Edinburgh but i haven't really spoken to any of them since. Yeah it would be so good to meet all of you - it'd be so cool if he did another Palladium-type gig that we were all able to travel to somehow, and have like a big wolfboard meet up Haha the weird thing is i've never been shy meeting the musicians i like (incredibly nervous, but not shy). I think i just know i'll regret it forever if i miss a chance to talk to them. I just run right up to them and start talking (haha well nowadays i tend to wait patiently until they've finished speaking to everyone else and come over to me.) The first couple of times i met Patrick i was incredibly nervous though, i had to plan in my head everything i wanted to say because i knew my mind would go blank, and i remember suddenly noticing while i was talking to him that my heart was POUNDING. I wasn't so bad in Edinburgh though, i was more excited than nervous. It was the best thing ever seeing his face when he saw me at the meet and greet because he recognised me and looked really happy to see me (he kept thanking me for travelling through - it was less than an hour and a half away so obviously i wasn't going to miss it! But i think i just said something stupid like "i love Edinburgh") It was a bit stupid at the meet and greet though because it was really dark and the soundcheck was going on so i kept having to shout in his ear! Although i think i must annoy the hell out of him on twitter now so i'm sure next time he sees me he'll be like "oh god, not her again" I'm probably being stupid but i'm worried i might have scared him off with my fangirlism - he used to sometimes reply to me but ever since i started spamming him all the time (which i don't even mean to do - i can't help it, i've got Patrick Wolf on the brain ) he hasn't replied to me once I think Patrick's really approachable though (not that it's not nerve-wracking meeting him because he's such an incredible genius!) He's just so lovely and modest - it seems like he almost can't believe we listen to his music!!! And when i told him how nervous i was he told me not to be nervous, and i felt really bad because i knew i shouldn't be, but i just couldn't help it. Oh and the first thing he ever asked me was what my name was - no one else has asked me that unless they're signing something. Anyway now when i meet musicians i try my best to act calm and friendly, because i'm worried about overwhelming them. Which i think i did all the time when i was younger - my first "conversation" with The Feeling involved me screaming "I LOVE YOU!!!" And em... i've never chased anyone, honestly... Hahaha it's not nearly as bad as it sounds though, i'd been waiting all afternoon to meet Carl Barat before his show on my 18th birthday but he must have already been inside... then after the show he came out and was completely ambushed by this mob of very pushy drunken people. He spend a while signing things and getting photos with people, i couldn't get anywhere near him, then all of a sudden one of the bouncers came and got him and they made a run for it for the bus. So i chased after him and stepped in front of him like "Carl, it's my birthday!!!" So i got a happy birthday and a kiss on the cheek from him, and talked to him for like 30 seconds! Hee hee But given the sort of atmosphere it was, it was entirely acceptable - i was the least pushy person there! Yeah so now when i'm meeting musicians i try and be really calm and polite, and just happy instead of crazy When i was meeting Andrew Bird i was terrified of overwhelming him so i was trying to be really calm and friendly, even though i was having trouble getting sentences out i was so nervous. Aww Damien, some of those people sound horrible! I hate it so much when people are like that. And pushing at gigs is one thing i don't understand - what is the point?! Luckily it never really happens at the gigs i go to - the only time i've really experienced that was at Carl Barat/Dirty Pretty Things gigs. Basically as soon as the music started everyone would push forwards as hard as they could, and being a small person determined to be at the front was not good I'd end up stuck in a sort of semi-crouched position so i wasn't flattened against the barrier, and have to push as hard as i could in every direction the whole night or die! And people try and shove in the front so you get arms in your face and all sorts. One time i actually asked to be let out because i genuinely thought i was going to die (and that's when you can really tell it's bad because i'm so stubborn about being front row), but the bouncer just said there was nothing he could do! But yeah at most of the gigs i go to now people are nice and civilised I don't mind people moving around and dancing and stuff but it makes me so angry when people start shoving for no reason. When i saw The Feeling this summer near Newcastle, the support was a boyband called Lawson (i hadn't heard of them but i think they're in the charts and stuff... i'm a bit clueless about chart music nowadays ) Anyway when we were queueing there were 6 of us Feeling fans and everybody else seemed to be 14 year old Lawson fans. It was a free gig and it was absolutely mobbed, we were near the front of the queue (my friends had been queueing all morning) but just before the gates opened people started coming at the last minute and standing at the other side of the gate, just skipping the queue. And as soon as the gates opened it was a stampede. I ran as fast as i could and managed to get us a second row middle spot (one of my friends was behind me, the others gave up and went to stand further back), but then these all these girls came and started trying to shove me out my spot. I was determined not to move so for an hour i had to stand with my legs apart to stabilise myself, leaning as hard as i could into this girl who just would not stop trying to shove me. But luckily just before the band came on all those girls disappeared to "meet Lawson...". Then when Lawson finished a space opened up at the barrier just in front of us so we grabbed it (we're so used to being at the barrier we finally relaxed and put down our bags and everything). And then this girl pushed in beside me and started shoving me. I was furious because i did NOT want to have to put up with this while i was watching The Feeling so i kept asking her to stop pushing but she wouldn't! Then i turned round and had this big rant, telling her i was not moving however much she pushed, i'd got up at 6.30am and travelled down from Glasgow for this, i'd been there since 11am, so if she tried to push me out my spot i would push back. And then she just started taking the piss, saying "oh, well i travelled half an hour on a bus from Newcastle" and "why don't you see them in Glasgow then"... urgh i was so furious!!!! But then like 5 minutes later she disappeared - i don't know where she went but she must have realised i was not moving! So in the end i was finally able to relax and enjoy it Sorry that was a very long rant, i'm still so pissed off at people trying to ruin my only Feeling gig of the year for me! I guess i'm quite lucky i don't generally experience things like that.
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Oct 20, 2012 5:20:34 GMT
Post by jessie on Oct 20, 2012 5:20:34 GMT
@damien - sorry! I saw your post about the album and I haven't gotten it yet, but I will let you know as soon as I do I'm excited. Thank you so much!! I've got that and some things off Discogs (that I HOPE I get b/c the person isn't answering my messages anymore). I paid extra for shipping confirmation, they said it was shipped but won't message me the tracking #. And my album should be here soon. I hope. Haha. Every day I'm crossing my fingers and checking the mail and I get mad when there's nothing in there! I have a cd that hasn't shown up either I don't understand people being so crazy at gigs. I want to be just as close as anyone else, but I try to be a little courteous about it. (lol, when I'm not getting maced or punched in the face that is!). I've been telling my husband we need to go to England next summer. He can see all the Beatles stuff he wants if I can just be in London and hear Bermondsey Street I don't know if we will have the money by then, but it would be awesome if we could. @cat I'm trying to give Patrick a break on Twitter! I don't want him to hate me for being obnoxious. lol.
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Oct 22, 2012 22:13:42 GMT
Post by catwolf on Oct 22, 2012 22:13:42 GMT
Aww, i hope you manage to get them soon! When i bought my PW EP from discogs the seller was so unresponsive! After i paid i didn't hear from him for weeks, i sent loads of messages + it was only when i threatened to open a paypal dispute if i didn't hear from him that he finally responded! Haha i added a ridiculous amount of records to my wantlist on discogs the other day so now i'm getting an email every morning with a whole list of new items for sale Hope you manage to go to England, that'd be so cool I'm now (even more) desperate to go to London again because i've fallen in love with the Sundark and Riverlight version of London + i really want to wander round London listening to it The Feeling really need to do Christmas shows again this year (within the 5 day period i'm free) to give me an excuse to go to London! I was going to try and give Patrick a break on twitter... it never works! I actually thought he must have started to hate me until he wished me happy birthday! I'm sure he loves your tweets, you say such nice things to him so how could he hate you?! (And i probably spam him way more than you! ) I think he just doesn't reply to people all that often cos he's so busy. Just keep trying - he will reply eventually (it took me like a year to get him to reply to me for the first time) Hahaha he only replied to me yesterday because i got a bit carried away and wished him a happy national pumpkin cheesecake day (what is wrong with me?!!!) I think he was amused - he actually favourited it!!! But it wasn't in his favourites list so he must have changed his mind straight after and decided to wish me happy birthday instead This time last year i was waiting outside the Edinburgh Liquid Room for Patrick to come out! Waited 2 hours with a girl i met + we nearly froze to death... and then Patrick came out carrying a bucket of ice!!! And he was still wearing my necklace + he said "Hello Catriona" ;D (actually he pronounced it Cat-ree-oh-na but i'd given up trying to correct him! ) Hee hee hee such happy memories... sorry i'll shut up, i always go on about these things way too much! Haven't spoken to him since, i miss him Haha the thing i actually remember most about that encounter was that he had a very cold ear when he gave me a hug bye! (his ear was against my cheek)
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Oct 23, 2012 9:12:19 GMT
Post by niwo on Oct 23, 2012 9:12:19 GMT
i've just read back on this thread and now i'm grinning like mad and i also think it must have been armistice for us as well when he played a bit of divine intervention as an introduction <3 and now i'm actually slightly motivated to start my reviews, so i'll leave this short before that motivation fades
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Oct 26, 2012 18:09:34 GMT
Post by jessie on Oct 26, 2012 18:09:34 GMT
How many shows did you go to niwo?? Hey.... I found this fanart thread and for some reason now I can't find it, but there was a girl making Patrick bags.... does anyone know her & if she still makes them? Sorry I am (supposed) to be working and I can't seem to locate that thread again. Also, I'm sorry I don't have a photo up... I just can't figure out how to get it to stay when I add it...
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Oct 26, 2012 22:36:23 GMT
Post by catwolf on Oct 26, 2012 22:36:23 GMT
That sounds like Kayleigh, yeah she makes amazing stuff! I don't really know her but i've found the fanart thread where she was mentioning the bags a while ago and i think there's links and stuff there patrickwolf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=media&action=display&thread=2096&page=79I remember having trouble getting a photo up at first... i think i did it in a very roundabout complicated way I use a site called imageshack - i can't quite remember how i got my avatar but it gives you codes to post your photos on forums and stuff. I think i might have had to try quite a few of the links before the avatar worked, i can't really remember... and make sure it's not bigger than 100x100 Thanks again for the necklaces Jessie, they're so pretty! By the way, do you have Lemuralia? Because (if my boxset ever comes!!!) i realised i'm going to have spare copies of the Lupercalia CD and Lemuralia, so if you don't have it i could send you it to thank you for getting helping me get S&R early
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