Patrik Fitzgerald

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Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart 00:00 Tools
Irrelevant Battles 00:00 Tools
Babysitter 00:00 Tools
Set We Free 00:00 Tools
George 00:00 Tools
all my friends are dead now 00:00 Tools
Banging and Shouting 00:00 Tools
The Little Dippers 00:00 Tools
Work. Rest. Play. Reggae 00:00 Tools
Trendy 00:00 Tools
Optimism/Reject 00:00 Tools
As Ugly as You 00:00 Tools
All My Friends Are Dead 00:00 Tools
Buy Me Sell Me 00:00 Tools
Little Fishes 00:00 Tools
Animal Mentality 00:00 Tools
Adopted Girl 00:00 Tools
When I Get Famous 00:00 Tools
one little soldier 00:00 Tools
Backstreet Boys 00:00 Tools
All the Years of Trying 00:00 Tools
Conventions of Life 00:00 Tools
Improve Myself 00:00 Tools
The Paranoid Ward 00:00 Tools
My Secret Life 00:00 Tools
Cruellest Crime 00:00 Tools
All Sewn Up 00:00 Tools
Island Of Lost Souls 00:00 Tools
Tonight 00:00 Tools
Live Out My Stars 00:00 Tools
The Bingo Crowd 00:00 Tools
Life at the Top 00:00 Tools
Ragged Generation (For Real) 00:00 Tools
Personal Loss 00:00 Tools
Exist 00:00 Tools
Grey Echoes 00:00 Tools
The Bingo Crowd (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Pop Star Pop Star 00:00 Tools
World Is Getting Better 00:00 Tools
Don't Tell Me Because I'm Young 00:00 Tools
Nothing To Do 00:00 Tools
Solve 00:00 Tools
My Death 00:00 Tools
Suicidal Wreck 00:00 Tools
Gifts And Telegrams 00:00 Tools
Punch 00:00 Tools
But Not Anymore 00:00 Tools
Lover's Pact 00:00 Tools
Smile 00:00 Tools
Work 00:00 Tools
No Fun Football 00:00 Tools
Make it Safe 00:00 Tools
Mrs & Mrs 00:00 Tools
Your Hero 00:00 Tools
Parentgames 00:00 Tools
Drifting Towards Violence 00:00 Tools
Family Outing 00:00 Tools
One by One 00:00 Tools
Travel Through A Dark Through Scented Country 02:30 Tools
My Perfect World 00:00 Tools
Volcano 00:00 Tools
Waiting For The Final Cue 00:00 Tools
A Superbeing 00:00 Tools
Mrs. and Mrs. 00:00 Tools
Domestication 00:00 Tools
Buy me, sell me 00:00 Tools
Babysitter (Tippy Toe Music) 00:00 Tools
Safety-Pin Stuck In My Heart 00:00 Tools
The Early Warning 00:00 Tools
Working Hu-man's Casino 00:00 Tools
The Serving Classes 00:00 Tools
Ragged Generation for Real 00:00 Tools
Cruellist Crime 00:00 Tools
Travel Through A Dark Though Scented Country 00:00 Tools
Straight Boy 00:00 Tools
A Life Sentence 00:00 Tools
All My Friends 00:00 Tools
Poor John 00:00 Tools
Breathing's Painful 00:00 Tools
Little Dippers 00:00 Tools
Sleepers 00:00 Tools
putting wings on aeroplanes 00:00 Tools
Dance Music Late Night 00:00 Tools
Irrelvant Battles 00:00 Tools
Frozen Dreams 00:00 Tools
down mexico way 00:00 Tools
down 00:00 Tools
03 all my friends are dead now 00:00 Tools
All The Splattered Children 00:00 Tools
Travel Through A Dark Scented Country 00:00 Tools
Hammersmith Odeons 00:00 Tools
Parent Games 00:00 Tools
Dying For Someone Else's Money 00:00 Tools
Charlie Leads A Life of Crime 00:00 Tools
Boy On A Motorcycle 00:00 Tools
Moon In The Gutter 00:00 Tools
We Seemed So Suited 00:00 Tools
10,000 Years of Weeping 00:00 Tools
He Wants To Hold the Baby 00:00 Tools
Tears 00:00 Tools
No Reason 00:00 Tools
Restless 00:00 Tools
Mrs and Mrs 00:00 Tools
Author 00:00 Tools
Give it up 00:00 Tools
Background Paints the Picture 00:00 Tools
Back Street Boys 03:48 Tools
Don't Feel Safe 00:00 Tools
Saftey Pin Stuck In My Heart 00:00 Tools
Company Bus 00:00 Tools
Inside Me There Is Nothing 00:00 Tools
Bingo Crows 00:00 Tools
All Sewn Up - Demo Version 00:00 Tools
Birth Of Human Beings 00:00 Tools
All Sewn Up [Demo Version] 00:00 Tools
Without Sex 00:00 Tools
Perfect Childhood 00:00 Tools
dtv domestication 00:00 Tools
What if... 00:00 Tools
Acid Wisdom 00:00 Tools
Factory of Wines 00:00 Tools
The Next Revolution 00:00 Tools
Concrete Jungle 00:00 Tools
Bones in a Graveyard 00:00 Tools
Love Limbo 00:00 Tools
Knockabout 00:00 Tools
Improve Myself - New Version 00:00 Tools
Safety Pin Struck In My Heart 00:00 Tools
Museum 00:00 Tools
The Backstreet Boys 00:00 Tools
Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart (Radio 1 Session, 8 Feb 1978) 00:00 Tools
Amateur 00:00 Tools
Teacher Teacher 00:00 Tools
All Sewn Up (Demo) 00:00 Tools
No Cause For Concern 00:00 Tools
Bingo Crowd (John Peel session 8th Feb 1978) 00:00 Tools
Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart (John Peel session 8th Feb 1978) 00:00 Tools
Optimism - Reject 00:00 Tools
Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart (Album) 00:00 Tools
Junior Gangstas 00:00 Tools
Routine Never Stops 00:00 Tools
Poll Tax Payers' Street 00:00 Tools
the cruellest crime 00:00 Tools
Safety Pin Stuck in 00:00 Tools
All My Freinds Are Dead Now 00:00 Tools
As Agly As You 00:00 Tools
Improve Myself (new version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Tell Me Because I'm Young (John Peel session 8th Feb 1978) 00:00 Tools
Pilgrimage 00:00 Tools
Bingo Crowd 00:00 Tools
Irrelevant 00:00 Tools
All My Friends Are Dead Now (Album) 00:00 Tools
Safety Pin 00:00 Tools
Babysitter (Album) 00:00 Tools
Shadow of a Man 00:00 Tools
Little Dippers (Radio 1 Session, 8 Feb 1978) 00:00 Tools
the finger of lesotho 00:00 Tools
In This World 00:00 Tools
Laughter Far Away 00:00 Tools
All Sewn Up (demo version) 00:00 Tools
The Sound Of My Street 00:00 Tools
SAFETY-PIN STUCK IN MY HEART (AUDIO ONLY 00:00 Tools
irrelevent battles 00:00 Tools
who'll be my jah 00:00 Tools
Dressing Up in Funny Clothes 00:00 Tools
Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart - Patrik Fitzgerald 00:00 Tools
The Bedroom Tapes 00:00 Tools
My New Family 00:00 Tools
The Bing Crowd 00:00 Tools
travel through dark though scented country 00:00 Tools
Mr. And Mrs. 00:00 Tools
Set We Free (Album) 00:00 Tools
Irrelevant Battles (Album) 00:00 Tools
Working Hu-Mans casino 00:00 Tools
Safetypin Stuck In My Heart 00:00 Tools
M,Y Secret Life 00:00 Tools
A Mixed Kid 00:00 Tools
Patrik Fitzgerald - Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart 00:00 Tools
Backstreet Boys (Album) 00:00 Tools
The Little Dippers (Album) 00:00 Tools
SAFETY-PIN STUCK IN MY HEART ( ONLY 00:00 Tools
Scattered Villages 00:00 Tools
Work, Rest, Play 00:00 Tools
The Very Best - 10 - Babysitter 00:00 Tools
god's song 00:00 Tools
Palace Of Dreams 00:00 Tools
WORK. REST. PLAY. REGGAE. 00:00 Tools
tunisian twist 00:00 Tools
Trendy (Album) 00:00 Tools
pilot of a private yacht 00:00 Tools
Banging And Shouting (Album) 00:00 Tools
Convention Of Life 00:00 Tools
31 Suicidal Wreck 00:00 Tools
A Life Sentance 00:00 Tools
Dying for someone else`s money 00:00 Tools
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Patrik Fitzgerald (born as Patrick Joseph Fitzgerald in Stratford, London, March 19, 1956) is a singer/songwriter. The son of working-class Irish immigrant parents, he began recording and performing during the punk rock movement in 1977, after working briefly as an actor. Early recordings His early songs were generally short, sarcastic efforts, recorded with just an acoustic guitar and occasional studio effects, with lyrics containing a large amount of social comment. Fitzgerald was soon regarded as an original of his genre, somewhere between a punk-poet and an urban folksinger, and was lauded in some circles as "the new Bob Dylan". After starting out as a busker, he approached David Bowie's original manager, Ken Pitt, requesting his services; Pitt declined but an audition was set up with Noel Gay in 1975 who also turned Fitzgerald down. In 1976 Fitzgerald auditioned, alongside Mick Jones and Tony James for the band London SS, again without success. After a spell acting in a communal theatre group, he drifted towards the developing Punk scene. He was a regular customer at the Small Wonder record shop in London, and when Small Wonder launched a record label Fitzgerald was one of the first to submit a demo - and got a deal, with the new label releasing his first three EPs, the first being Safety-Pin Stuck In My Heart, still his best-known work, and one which he subtitles "a love song for punk music". Patrik became a regular performer at London Punk gigs, and supported The Jam on their national tour. Polydor Era These early recordings attracted interest from Polydor who signed him up to record his first LP, Grubby Stories in 1979, recorded with established punk musicians including Robert Blamire of Penetration and John Maher of the Buzzcocks. The LP contained 17 tracks, 7 of them recorded with these musicians. Two singles were also released by Polydor, either side of the album, and Fitzgerald undertook a tour with a new group of musicians: Colin Peacock (guitar), Charlie Francis (bass) (later to join Toyah), and Rab Fae Beith on drums (later of The Wall). Fitzgerald appeared in the post-punk documentary 'Rough Cut and Ready Dubbed' in 1979/80 contributing the title song 'Island of Lost Souls' and one performance of 'Tonight' with Colin Peacock on keyboards. Early 1980s After being dropped by Polydor, he continued to play solo acoustic concerts, gradually forsaking the ironic, sarcastic mode for a more deeply-etched, darker formulation. Now without a manager, Fitzgerald returned again to acoustic solo performance, then releasing a single under the pseudonym Josef Garrett, then, using a borrowed Revox, he began recording a series of backing tapes to use in live performance. These recordings, based partly on the former group's unreleased material, with Patrik playing everything, were released in 1982 by Red Flame as his second album 'Gifts and Telegrams'. At this point, Patrik Fitzgerald formed a small group of solo performers, working under the banner, Ghosts of Individuals, and featuring himself, David Harrow, U. V. Pop, Kevin Hewick and Anne Clark (known for her solo albums on Red Flame). The forerunner of London's cabaret scene, the Ghosts, like Fitzgerald's music, was aimed at, and appealed to London's loners[citation needed]. Following this, in mid 1983, Patrik Fitzgerald formed a collusion with a peripheral musician from the Ghosts, clarinet player Alistair Roberts, and along with three more brass instruments players he recorded his next LP, Drifting Towards Violence. The music on it is mostly acoustic, accompanied by the gloomy sound of the brass section and hard-hitting lyrics. Released by the Belgian label Himalaya the record went completely unadvertised, and, consequently, sank without leaving a trace. The release was followed by a solo tour of Europe, where Fitzgerald has retained a loyal following. Return in 1986 In 1986 he released Tunisian Twist, which introduced a radical change of style towards a more commercial sound. The album features a guitar/bass/drums/keyboards band, with a brass section; its sound is thus much fuller than Fitzgerald's previous work. The lyrics deal with subjects as diverse as terrorism, surrogate birth and trade unionism in the climate of Thatcher's "economic realism". While some of the songs are heavy with ironic humour in the manner of Patrik Fitzgerald's early days, there remains the biting incisiveness which has always been his hallmark. In that year he also contributed a duo with Anne Clark to the compilation LP Abuse - Artists For Animals, dealing with the controversy of bullfights. In the absence of commercial success, Fitzgerald took a job as a waiter at the British House of Commons, before relocating to Normandy in 1988. However, he found himself disenchanted and unable to find gainful employment, and so returned to England three years later. 1990s and beyond The early 1990s saw Fitzgerald return to playing gigs again, and he also re-launched an acting career, the most high-profile engagement of which was a version of Molière's The Miser at Stratford. Seven years after his last release, 1993 saw the release of a new album on Red Flame, Treasures from the Wax Museum, a compilation of early 80s material, with four new tracks. In 1995 he released Pillow tension on the Greek label Lazy Dog and relocated to New Zealand. Beat Bedsit Records issued Room service a CD with new bedroom recordings in 2001. The album Floating Population (2006) was issued to coincide with a European tour with Attila the Stockbroker. It contains a few new songs and alternative versions/recordings of songs spanning his entire career. Dark side of the room (2006) is a split CD with the band POG. It contains 12 tracks by Fitzgerald, mostly versions of old songs. Spirit of Revolution (2007) is a split 7" single with punk poet Attila the Stockbroker. It contains 5 tracks, 2 new Patrik Fitzgerald recordings. The Next Revolution recorded live in Norway and Tired recorded in New Zealand and sent by email to Norway, where industrial classical musicians and the sound of rainfall were added and the track was mixed. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.