Patrick Wolf: Wake up you lazy sod!

Patrick Wolf says he plans to quit music at the end of the year. He has used the excuse that the drain of touring and constant promotion has become too much.

Talking on his official web forum he said:

“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 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”.

He adds:
“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”.

He also explained that he’d had to sack his drummer because of drug problems.

Wolf is set to appear at the Latitude festival in Suffolk this July.