Live Review: PJ Harvey
Call it an imperial hangover if you will, but no-one is quite as bum-wincingly uncomfortable with the idea of patriotism as the inhabitants of England’s green and pleasant land. It’s different in the US, of course. Americans are never more in...
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)
April 25, 1915. World War I is less than a year old, and the Western Front is locked in stalemate. On the orders of Field Marshal ‘Your country needs you’ Kitchener, Anzac troops lay siege to the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire....
Live Review: Camp Bestival
What with a River Cottage tent and groups of little Mungos and Tallulahs frolicking in animal costumes so professional they could’ve been nabbed from a dress rehearsal for a David Attenborough programme, you’d be forgiven for mistaking Camp...
PJ Harvey: 'White Chalk'
Although she’s been knocking out albums for over 15 years, no two PJ Harvey records are ever the same. In fact, each is a total reaction to the last one. When we last checked in on Planet Harvey with 2004’s ‘Uh Huh Her’ , she’d...
PJ Harvey
So, does Miss Contrary mark her long-awaited return with a hook-laden pop belter? A brash, raw, garage rocker? A techno-infused thumper? No, after three years away Polly Jean has chosen to come back with a whisper rather than a scream, but...
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Yeah, there are tight leather-wrapped symbolist poets sat on the roof by the water tank all night, watching junkies and rent boys and the boys are always called Johnny and fucked-up flotsam and jetsam go by. It's a place of 24-hour noise, of...
PJ Harvey : New York Knitting Factory
href="http://www.nme.com/artists/37906.htm">PJ Harvey[/url] is polite. Yes, she's also a sexed-up nymph in love with God and fucking, and almost certainly a genius. But she's a polite sexed-up genius. Tonight all of these aspects of her...
PJ Harvey : Uh Huh Her
Seeing PJ Harvey 's debut album 'Dry' in Kurt Cobain's list of his 50 favourite records of all time recently was a startling reminder that Polly Jean Harvey has certainly seen them come and go. Grunge, Britpop, nu-metal, Eminem, the New...
PJ Harvey : Glasgow Barrowlands
Everyone says I love you, but no-one says it with quite as much carnal glee as Polly Jean Harvey. In the scramble to find the most apposite title for Somerset's most difficult daughter, it's often forgotten that Harvey is Lust's finest...
PJ Harvey : This Is Love/You Said Something
A most worthy winner of that most worthy of awards, the Mercury Music Prize, the strength in depth of Polly Harvey's excellent 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea' album is underlined by the presence of two of its tracks on this, the...
