Whether Patrick Wolf is performing at or attending a concert, there’s often a bit of drama and his recent onstage freak-out at Cologne, Germany’s C/O Pop Festival was a prime example. As Pitchfork reported Wolf threw a few mic stands, a piano bench, and spit at a soundperson offstage who he thought turned off the PA system.
Wolf first defended his actions as a form of protest against the festival’s organizers, but now he’s really trying to get the controversy to blow over by posting a “public apology” on MySpace.
Wolf frames his apology by using his last name as a metaphor for his “animal instinct,” but eventually cuts to the excuse portion of the blog, insisting that he “was throwing the stool and the microphone at a black hole part of the stage where no one would get hurt but there would be a statement made… the spit did not land on anyone but was in general a display of ‘I don’t respect you’.”
He goes on to defend his feminist cred and promote his next album “about hope and romance and love,” before ending in a more humble place than where he started: “being 26 years old and should have known better = bad wolf.”
And… scene.