patrickwolfpalisade:

31/05/12 - a day + night in Barcelona with Buffy Sainte-Marie. A true original, a true artist and the true originator of singer/songwriting + fearlessness in the music industry. her album “illuminations” was the main reason my “wind in the wires” sounds how it does + her work remains forever a great inspiration to me. I hope for those who don’t know of her music, now is the time to explore and expand your hearts + minds. <3 Heres to unexpected days of illumination we must hold + live on for… xx PW

“It was at a Dylan Thomas poetry festival in Wales. I was invited to play in the tiny front room of his boathouse. Patti was supposed to play the next day… All my instruments were in the hotel lobby and she’d just arrived and put out a call to ask if anyone had a spare Dylan Thomas poetry book, and I had one – in fact, it was the one my grandmother left me in her will. I went to the staircase and she was standing there at the top, and she said, ‘Whose instruments are those?’ and I said, ‘Mine.’ And she said, ‘Can you play them?’ ‘Yeah.’ And she was like, ‘Great, let’s do a show.’ She said, ‘What’s your name?’ so I told her, and she just said, ‘I’m Patti.’ It was so great. She taught me four songs in her bedroom and the next day we played in the boathouse and again that night in the town hall. It was all really improvised and nobody really knew what they were doing. I just love that! So many musicians are so precious. You try to do a duet with some, and it’s so complicated. I think from the old Offset days I’m really spontaneous. It’s so thrilling to make spontaneous music or art. I haven’t ever met anybody like Patti in the music industry, who is so exactly how I want to be. She’s timeless, ageless. She turned up with no tour support, wandered through the village with her camera taking photos, falling into conversation with people. She lives with her heart and eyes open. The last few shows I got to play with Lenny Kaye and all the old band. On the last show I did back-up vocals for People Have The Power and Ghost Dance!”

patrick wolf
i will never get tired of reading/hearing this story. ♥

the irrepressibles - cloudbusting (bbc radio2 session)


everytime it rains
you’re here in my head
like the sun coming out
oh, i just know that something good is going to happen
i don’t know when
but just saying it could even make it happen

the sun’s coming out

@_patrick_wolf the lyrics, i just thought of you… youtube.com/watch?v=zDY2tU… xx

— fabia (@birdsheart) January 27, 2012

@_PATRICK_WOLF I SENT YOU THE R.E.M. LINK AND YOU GOT PHOTOGRAPHED BY MICHAEL?!!!! OH MY GOOOD

— fabia (@birdsheart) January 28, 2012

leonard cohen - chelsea hotel #1 (live ‘72)


you said, “well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.”

kristeen young feat. david bowie - saviour

are you having trouble breathing? do you find it hard to breathe?
did you wake-up to find you’re buried, semi-alive?
do you need a hand…?