Patrick Wolf Is Violent

Other publications have previously called Patrick Wolf a drama queen, and while we don't really enjoy the use of that term, his recent behaviour has us a bit concerned.

Two years ago, his drummer apparently passed out during a performance in New York and the New York Times cited a blog entry which reported Wolf jumped up on stage and slapped his drummer before throwing a crash cymbal at his head. That drummer was later fired.

Fed up, he announced he would play his "final show" in November of 2007.

Obviously, the performance was not his last.

This June, he was arrested for allegedly spitting in a bouncer's face in San Francisco. Wolf later tweeted he had done so "in protection of myself" because he was "almost shot in the face by a policeman." (The tweets have since been removed from his Twitter.)

In the middle of his set at Toronto's North By Northeast Music festival about a week later, Wolf smashed a microphone stand, "pitched a fit" and stormed off stage citing sound problems.

On Thursday night, Wolf headlined the C/O Pop Festival in Cologne and his set was cut short.

"The motherfuckers are gonna fucking turn the PA off. Let's have a riot, OK?" Wolf says in the video below, before turning to the side of the stage.

"Listen, can I just see who the fuck is going to turn the fucking PA off, motherfucker?" he continues, before he spots a woman off to the side of the stage (who can't be seen in the video).

"You bitch! Bitch, why are you going to turn the fucking PA off? I come all the fucking way from London..."

He and his band launch into their next number, but Wolf quickly figures out his PA has indeed been turned off. He throws the microphone down, tosses another microphone, chucks a microphone stand and then throws a cymbal down off the stage towards the person who has apparently cut him off.

He then apologizes to the crowd before walking back across the stage and launching what looks like a loogie at the sound person.

Here's the video:

Hopefully, Wolf will not throw things at these dates in support of The Bachelor:

Aug. 14 Hamburg, Germany @ Elbinsel (Dockville Festival)
Aug. 15 Gothenburg, Sweden @ Slottsskogen (Way Out West Festival)
Aug. 21 Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukkelpop Festival
Aug. 23 Erfurt-Hohenfelden, Germany @ Stausee (Highfield Festival)
Aug. 27 London, England @ National Portrait Gallery (Gay Icons exhibition)
Aug. 28 Leeds, England @ Bramham Park (Leeds Festival)
Aug. 29 Reading, England @ Richfield Avenue (Reading Festival)
Aug. 30 Paris, France @ Domaine National De Saint-Cloud (Rock En Seine)
Sept. 28 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
Sept. 29 Munster, Germany @ Gleis 22
Oct. 1 Berlin, Germany @ Lido Berlin
Oct. 3 Nuremberg, Germany @ Kulturzentrum Z-Bau Nurnberg
Oct. 4 Munich, Germany @ Ampere
Oct. 5 Vienna, Austria @ WUK Kulturzentrum
Oct. 7 Zurich, Switzerland @ Mascotte
Oct. 8 Luzern, Switzerland @ Schuur Konzertzentrum
Oct. 9 Paris, France @ Nouveau Casino
Oct. 10 Brussels, Belgium @ L'Orangerie Du parc D'Egmont