2009 -05-06 - NYC - 004 - Magpie intro and Damaris - Patrick Wolf at Le Poisson Rouge

[miguelhp1]

brilliant, patrick

[LAURAISBOB]

please, please can somebody write what he says? please!

[JesseAaronSafir]

Something like this...

"It's been in Las Vegas. You know it's been around the world. I thought I'd keep it pretty old-school for you and there's no setlist. I stopped using setlists two years ago when the costume changes started happening....something back in the day so it's very the genuine article tonight.

[JesseAaronSafir]

Yeah, so if you've got any requests, then we'll try to do as many as possible tonight so. You just want Marianna Faithful to come out, don't you? I can sing both voices. I can try. Do you know the key? Yeah, that really helps. Do you know the chords anyway? This is embarrassing. I'll do. I'm gonna do one I really know. Well, I'll do a new one for you. Like this one.

[JesseAaronSafir]

I wrote it in about 2008. I was riding with my father out to search my family tree and I found out that my family was a family of ferret catchers. I thought they might be millionaires but they're just blacksmiths and anyway, so I found out where they were all buried and in the corner was like this tiny little wooden gravestone and on it it just said Damaris. So I wanted to know if this was a surname.

[JesseAaronSafir]

Is this like Madonna? Is it just Damaris? I was really obsessed with this gravestone so I asked the vicar, and "hey, so who's Damaris?" And he told me the story about this orphan gypsy. She might have been black? Or she was definitely outcast. In those years ago, if you weren't white and Catholic, you were basically, you know, Satan.

[JesseAaronSafir]

Um, anyway, she fell in love unfortunately with the vicar's son and they had this love affair and he denied her marriage because he was a Catholic and then she died of a broken heart that day. And I guess in those days to die of a broken heart was to, you know, commit suicide? Or just to be so broken-hearted that you couldn't go on. And I wrote a song from the perspective of the boy, Lewes, regretting that he had chosen, you know, his dad over true love. So, um, nice and easy song for you."

[sourmelongirl]

I love the bit at 6:15

[damienxxxpele]

he's amazing when he speaks eloquently other times he's not .... but here he's good and not alcohol enduesed.

[xscape13]

thank you thank you thank you for posting this video.

this song is tearing at the seams with emotion.

this man is beyond amazing.

<3

[JesseAaronSafir]

yes, i agree completely

[chrissybloom]

i'm so glad you got this. it's amazing.

[JesseAaronSafir]

thanks, chrissy

[hankydysplasia]

Great recording. Thanks for posting.

I love seeing what's he's really like come out.

He's not a bad musician either.