Patrick Wolf Quits Music
Patrick Wolf has announced that the pressures of talking about himself in interviews and flying around the world have proved to much. He will forth hence be retiring from music. The nation is, no doubt, in mourning.
Earlier this week Patrick Wolf announced via his website www.patrickwolf.com that he would be quitting music, and that his last show will be in November.
He has now released – in our opinion – a remarkably self absorbed, cosseted and generally twattish statement explaining his reasons. It reads:
"I don't think when I was 16 and dreamt of releasing records there would ever be so much crazy speculation about the person I am and what you want me to be.
"I have made a decision; my final concert will be this November"
"I have become so tired of this behaviour, sometimes I wake up and have to do six hours of interviews before doing a show, then go straight to bed to sleep a couple of hours then fly to a new country to be cross-examined in the same way...I don't know what is left of me".
"I have made a decision, my final concert will be this November, a retrospective with an orchestra in London.
"I am not sure whether there will be anymore public communications after that, in fact I am pretty sure there will be none.
"Of course, this has nothing to do with my drummer*, but a creative clock is ticking and I have many, many projects to be creating with my time left on this earth. I hope to share my last shows with you this year".
If you have any messages of consolation to fellow Wolf fans, or if you’d like to express your gratitude that he managed to endure the hardships of record promotion for so long, email us by clicking here.
Despite this statement, we can confirm that Patrick Wolf is set to appear at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk this July.
*Which we assumes refers to this Youtube clip.
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