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Patrik Fitzgerald

About Me

NOW AVAILABLE : a great double album vinyl and cd compilation ( All Sewn Up - a tribute to Patrik Fitzgerald ) has now been released by Crispin Glover Records (Norway). It features cover versions of pf songs by many artists, including Benjamin Zephaniah, Milk Kan, Jello Biafra with Motorpsycho, Jackie Leven, Attila the Stockbroker, Max Lorentz and the best of the local norwegian bands Dog and Sky, BC, Bladed and others..............A documentary film ( All the Years of Trying ) by Dom Shaw ( Anonymous Films ) was recently premiered at the Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway. A live PF performance and tribute concert ( by several artists featured on All Sewn Up ) were also filmed at the Kosmorama festival and will be added to the film for future screenings and dvd release................Wikipedia has a very good and detailed Patrik Fitzgerald biography as do Vivonzeureux (includes an interesting virtual cd) and Hanshan ( http://hanshan.org/musikk/patrik.php )...............Other biogs, interviews, references and lyrics can be found on the internet and in various Punk and music books. Videos are also on Youtube...............BASIC DISCOGRAPHY (1978 TO PRESENT DAY)............. * STILL AVAILABLE (see notes below ).................3 eps (small wonder) safety pin stuck in my heart backstreet boys the paranoid ward ..........2 singles (polydor/ small wonder) all sewn up improve myself .........lp grubby stories (polydor/ small wonder) .........ep (final solution) tonight .............single (ellie jay records as josef garret) without sex .........lps (red flame) gifts and telegrams tunisian twist .............single (red flame) personal loss ..............lp (red flame/ himalaya) drifting towards violence ...........cd (red flame) treasures from the wax museum .............cd (anagram and individual pay per downloads on cherry red site) safety pin stuck in my heart very best of patrik fitzgerald * ...............cd (lazy dog) pillow tension .............cds (beat bedsit) room service floating population * dark side of the room (with pog/ half a cd each) * ...............vinyl ep ( crispin glover ) spirit of revolution ( co-release with attila the stockbroker ) * .............double vinyl lp and cd ( crispin glover ) all sewn up - a tribute to patrik fitzgerald * ................RELATED MYSPACE SITES : All Sewn Up - a tribute to Patrik Fitzgerald - features tracks from the tribute album ................ Crispin Glover Records - features tracks from the upcoming Patrik Fitzgerald album ................. Cherry Red - pay per download individual tracks including now deleted material .............. Jessica Denton - features Patrik Fitzgerald backing music to Jessica's words which is an ongoing joint project.

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Member Since: 20/02/2006
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

pf film

Thanks to everybody for the nice comments on Dom Shaw's film ' All the Years of Trying ' and to everybody who has taken the time to watch it.Hopefully the film will play at a variety of festivals arou...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:36:00 GMT

press cuttings in my pics

 we have been gradually uploading press clippings including reviews, book covers and entries, posters and stuff from over the years - they are now in a folder in the my pics section - we will be addin...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:08:00 GMT

the film- the guided tour

 we've been given a sneak preview of the film on dvd and i have to say that it's very watchable and represents a pretty good cross section of my work and a bit of general background.it uses some older...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:29:00 GMT

pf film at raindance london october 4th

 dom shaw's film is at raindance at the apollo cinema october 4th.the live footage in it (which is a big chunk of the film) may represent the last chance to see me playing 'live' and it may be the onl...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:41:00 GMT

pf quick glance discography

although there are good detailed pf discographies on wikipedia and hanshan as well as in my very first songography blog on herei thought it might be good to give a quick run through of my recordings.....
Posted by on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:33:00 GMT

poems april 2009

waves of resounding silence he's cycling acrossthe distance of the tiny islandheading for the vegetables thathe is almost paid to growand pickit's just another daya wireless broadcasts cricketor would...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:39:00 GMT

poem for christchurch show week and election

effluence it was the end of a disappointing week when all the children crept out of the woodwork and became their own parents for a day or two in imitation thousand dollar sunglasses white bags white...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:20:00 GMT

2 poems

1. what's one lost vote? we received a letter from the power company today saying: "due to the increased cost of supplying power to your household and due to the lack of any meaningful competition and...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:38:00 GMT

patrik fitzgerald songography/discography/a-z of officially released songs written by me

there have been 125 songs instrumentals and poems released written by patrik fitzgerald (including four co-writes)A key is directly underneath the A-Z (examples: PPD means pay per download/TWM means T...
Posted by on Sat, 26 May 2007 21:49:00 GMT

patrik fitzgerald biography

i was born in stratford east london in 1956. i auditioned for the london underground (with mick jones of the clash and tony james of generation x) but failed and was guided initially by david bowie's ...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:26:00 GMT