My week in pictures: Patrick Wolf

Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Koko, London

He may play the harp, harpsichord, organ, theremin, ukulele, viola and violin but if he hadn't become a musician Patrick Wolf could have been employed as a safety inspector. Surely few other pop stars could sniff out dangerous situations as readily as this pink-haired polymath. He claims to have cracked his head open three times before the age of ten and been burgled three times in the past 12 months. As for inspiration for his new single - Accident and Emergency - he found it in the time he fell out of a speeding coach.

9.5 out of 10: Leeds, 9.05pm. A ridiculously enjoyable set suggests that 2008 may be the year of the Wolf.

The pop star tells Miranda Sawyer how, after enduring years of bullying for being effeminate, he quit school, left home, changed his name and embarked on 'a mission to prove everybody wrong'

Patrick Wolf doesn't seem to like people praising his work. He better look away now, says Alexis Petridis

Patrick Wolf's contentment with his love life shines through on his jubilant fifth LP, writes Hermione Hoby

The pop whizkid chats to us about making music (and sandwiches). Plus, we chat to Damien Hirst's favourite band the Hours

(Loog/A&M)

Electro-folk singer-songwriter discovers happiness.