PJ Pic of the Day #3

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time for a new thread,

here's PJ's pedals, from 2004-06-02 (NYC Knitting Factory):

and shoes!

from:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bettiemagazine/tags/pjharvey/

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A link to high res pics which have yet to be taken down. I dunno if its been posted yet, but check it out if you missed it:

•CLICK HERE•

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:02 am

that's one marvelous trove of top-quality Polly pics, thanks for showing it.

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Wow I love this one:

And the SHOES!! :smile:

Thank you so much!!

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Pitifuljoy wrote:

A link to high res pics which have yet to be taken down. I dunno if its been posted yet, but check it out if you missed it:

•CLICK HERE•

omg! great pics Very Happy

Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:31 pm

Pitifuljoy wrote:

A link to high res pics which have yet to be taken down. I dunno if its been posted yet, but check it out if you missed it:

•CLICK HERE•

Amazing resolution. Some of them, much better quality than the ones I had. Thank you very much. Cool

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wow. amazing pix!

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oh my

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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:32 pm

DrDark wrote:

Wow. Never seen this. One more new from The Glaston Very Happy

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Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 3:57 pm

^thats a lovely photo, thanks mandelstam!

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Dr Dark,

my jaw just made a very loud sound as it hit the floor,

stunning

DrDark wrote:

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^ Google image search found it:
http://users.telenet.be/tvang/myspace/Polly.jpg

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Oh yeah

DrDark wrote:

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lucy27 wrote:

^thats a lovely photo, thanks mandelstam!

indeed, polly's smile is lovely! :smile:

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hahaha

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Excellent!!! They look amazing thanks so much!!

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Very nice slide show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ4yoe_wUM8

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http://www.rsub.com/discoveryinn/pjharvey.html

pj harvey
june, 1995
academy, new york

Weren't we looking for the exact date and venue for this? Maybe this photographer recorded that info.

Can't find this image on his "regular" web site:
http://www.dannyclinch.com/index2.html

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http://www.kulturprisen.dk/multimedia/2006-KP-PJH1.jpg

sometimes it pays to try a search engine other than google, like MS live search.

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The words about Danny Clinch made me think about this page:

http://www.spinner.com/2007/09/20/photosynthesis-pj-harvey/

I really like that guy's photos.

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NYC 2007:

http://picasaweb.google.com/alisaphoto/PJANDNY#

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both from:
http://www.angelfire.com/la/johnparish/jpframeset.html

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:26 pm

wow that top one is great, I wonder who's house it is? they sure have a record collection I'd die for!

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Could it be Peel acres? To my untrained eye, those look like they could be professional mics and stands.

1996-09-05, - PEEL ACRES (BBC RADIO 1’s “JOHN PEEL SESSIONS”) - SUFFOLK, U.K.
Set List- Taut / Losing Ground / Snake / That Was My Veil.

I have this interview as an mp3. It's quite long and very interesting.

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Maybe, I'm looking around this site -

http://peelacres.com/

You wouldn't have to be a DJ to have that much vinyl, but if you were a DJ you would almost certainly have that much vinyl.

I found this pic there -

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:14 am

peel acres would make sense, that is a hell of a lot of vinyl, Polly's mum is mentioned in John Peels autobiography, apparently she used to write him letters thanking him for giving polly so much air time, and he used to love recieving them

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/elimac/3035764668/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elimac/3034928159/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/foutue/3034821499/

A very interesting set from BDO 2001:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scarydan/tags/pollyjean/

3 nice ones from Summercase 2007 (spaceballed):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roquisimo/tags/pjharvey/

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Perro caja sueña con PJ Harvey:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_trapo/3075305977/

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DrDark wrote:

Perro caja sueña con PJ Harvey:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_trapo/3075305977/

Jajaja¡¡¡Me too dreaming with she...I love you Polly¡¡¡¡ ohyeah

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Did anyone ever get a copy of that issue (and scan the article in)?

http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/283/?show=full#print_description

new ones?

okay, we've seen this one before..

Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:06 am

DrDark wrote:

yumyumyum

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Mart wrote:

DrDark wrote:

yumyumyum

¡¡¡WUUUAAUUU¡¡¡ I LOVE YOUR BACK POLLY ¡¡¡¡ MMMMM¡¡¡ SHE'S HOT ¡¡¡ yummy

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http://www.rockarchive.com/pj-harvey_photo_print_ha001kw.html

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DrDark wrote:

http://www.rockarchive.com/pj-harvey_photo_print_ha001kw.html

Wow! So that was shot in Yeovil!!

Kinda pricey, that's $2500 for the most expensive print.

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*Gasp !!!*

*pant pant*

etc...

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WOW! GREAT!

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DrDark wrote:

http://www.rockarchive.com/pj-harvey_photo_print_ha001kw.html

Great photo.

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My "finds"

These have been seen but this is better quality

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:56 am

nice pics....

these two must be part of the same shoot?? gorgeous Very Happy

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Nice pics, where'd you find them??

cat on the wall wrote:

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are you sure the second one is Polly? never seen that outfit and that guitar before

Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:44 am

^thats what i thought, it doesnt really look like her

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bruise wrote:

are you sure the second one is Polly? never seen that outfit and that guitar before

Hmm, I thought it was, maybe I'm wrong. I found them during a search for pj harvey pics just a general search. I thought that was her , anyways sorry if it's not honest mistake Confused

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Not sure if this is a 'common' photo, but I saw it for the first time yesterday and nearly fell off the couch! PJ is soooo stunning in this... Guess what is on my list to Santa Wink

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:22 pm

FFS, ain't she just gorgeous Very Happy

Cheers MZM, good Christmas Eve pressie Wink

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MeetZeMonsta wrote:

Very nice indeed!! Very Happy

Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:59 am

that picture is from a session related to Polly's winning the Mercury Prize in 2001,

here are the other pics I got (so far) from that occasion:

and here's the video with song and interview:

http://www.mediafire.com/?whrn5imthgz

I only wish this video was available in better quality.

Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 3:16 pm

Thank you two. These are great.

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Thanks MZM & P!

Here's a few that just turned up:

from 2000-12-11, - BOWERY BALLROOM - NEW YORK

from 2006-10-07, - SUPPER CLUB (NEW YORKER FESTIVAL - “A CONVERSATION WITH MUSIC”) - NEW YORK, NY

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eatsdirt/tags/pjharvey/

(spaceballed, dang it)

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DrDark wrote:

Thanks MZM & P!

Here's a few that just turned up:

from 2000-12-11, - BOWERY BALLROOM - NEW YORK

from 2006-10-07, - SUPPER CLUB (NEW YORKER FESTIVAL - “A CONVERSATION WITH MUSIC”) - NEW YORK, NY

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eatsdirt/tags/pjharvey/

(spaceballed, dang it)

I've captured these if anyone is interested.

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:23 pm

Hell and High Water wrote:

DrDark wrote:

Thanks MZM & P!

Here's a few that just turned up:

from 2000-12-11, - BOWERY BALLROOM - NEW YORK

from 2006-10-07, - SUPPER CLUB (NEW YORKER FESTIVAL - “A CONVERSATION WITH MUSIC”) - NEW YORK, NY

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eatsdirt/tags/pjharvey/

(spaceballed, dang it)

I've captured these if anyone is interested.

yes, I (for one) am interested (but it goes without saying that I would be, as always), so please post them (or upload them someplace) - and plentiful thanks for capturing them, by the way. Very Happy

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You are welcome!

You can download them all here:

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=zrz1iuznlzm&thumb=6

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:39 am

Hell and High Water wrote:

You are welcome!

You can download them all here:

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=zrz1iuznlzm&thumb=6

Thank you very much H&HW.

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Thanks, he's added quite a few more now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eatsdirt/tags/pjharvey/

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Has this been posted?

It's a review from March 18, 1995

if the picture doesn't load properly(enough to be read anyway) you can read it •HERE•

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Yes, kindly purchased, scanned and provided by our super great Cat On the Wall!

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I kinda figured! Wink

I'll triple check next time Very Happy

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Happy New Year!!!!!!!

photos from "JALOUSE" in 2004.(french mag)
I love them!

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white chalk, thank you! I've never seen them! I love that kind of PJ treasures.

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:23 am

Thanx

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¡¡¡Yeahhh, Happy and Hot New Year!!!!!Ultramegasexy Polly!!!!Wuuuaaauuu!!I never seen before this pics, thanks white chalk¡¡¡¡¡Gooooooodddd and hot legs¡¡¡¡¡

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VERY COOL THANKS SO MUCH!! Mr. Green

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Never seen before here - thank you!

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white chalk wrote:

Happy New Year!!!!!!!

photos from "JALOUSE" in 2004.(french mag)
I love them!

Oh my god... these are simply amazing. You've really made my day with these. Thank you so much!

And of course, the obligatory question, wherever did you find them!!??

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[quote="muselolita"][quote="white chalk"]Happy New Year!!!!!!!

I found them in a french magazine in 2004 .
These come from an interview about "uh huh her" album!
Happy that you enjoy!!!

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:20 pm

Excellent. Thank you for sharing them. All of them are great and new for me.

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:25 pm

[quote="white chalk"][quote="muselolita"]

white chalk wrote:

Happy New Year!!!!!!!

I found them in a french magazine in 2004 .
These come from an interview about "uh huh her" album!
Happy that you enjoy!!!

I love getting these pictures, however I want to ask you:
any chance that you might upload the interview as well?

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It's your day of luck !
I also have the interview,but I'm sorry my scanner doesn't work.
I photographed the interview, the quality of the images is not thus very good.
Of more the interview is in French, I hope that you are a francophile.
Moreover I am French too, it thus explains my approximate English.
Thank you for your indulgence!

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:13 pm

white chalk wrote:

It's your day of luck !
I also have the interview,but I'm sorry my scanner doesn't work.
I photographed the interview, the quality of the images is not thus very good.
Of more the interview is in French, I hope that you are a francophile.
Moreover I am French too, it thus explains my approximate English.
Thank you for your indulgence!

the quality being good enough for reading, I'm indeed enjoying the good luck brought by your scanner.
and French being my preferred language, next to English, I thank you for it.
I'm always eager to read every PJ interview available, even though it vexes me a little when I can't get her very own words (because they've been translated from the original English into another language). but I've had some experience with very good interviews from French magazines, above all those that have appeared over the years in Les Inrockuptibles.

this here interview certainly proved to be no disappointment. its only flaw is that of erroneously describing Polly as "the enchantress of Devon", even though she is in fact from Dorset (which is geographically right next-door to Devon, yet an error it is - and in this interview Polly is even being quoted as saying "Devon" instead of Dorset when referring to her time spent there).

and right now I'm considering whether I should make the effort of translating this text back into English, for the benefit of all the gardeners who can't read the French, because this interview is really well worth reading. let me just mention, for the moment, one particular piece of information I gathered from this interview: Polly mentions that she wrote The Desperate Kingdom Of Love as a poem, originally, before making it into a song (and that's something I didn't know before).

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Pollyphoniac wrote:

and right now I'm considering whether I should make the effort of translating this text back into English, for the benefit of all the gardeners who can't read the French

Yes, please do!

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 6:47 am

Hey White Chalk your “approximate English” is very good (& funny in a very nice way),
it’s lovely to read all the none English speakers here joining in brilliantly & doing far more in an unnatural tongue than most of us lazy English speakers would dream of doing, thanks for your “gifts” Very Happy

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:28 am

^well said mart!

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:04 am

indeed, "broken" English occasionally comes out far better than "regular" (because the irregular speaker is free from the shackles of habit and social convention).

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 11:26 am

DrDark wrote:

Pollyphoniac wrote:

and right now I'm considering whether I should make the effort of translating this text back into English, for the benefit of all the gardeners who can't read the French

Yes, please do!

I shall translate this piece, but you'll have to wait for it until tomorrow (because I got other things to do tonight).

more than that, we should consider the other interview articles available, those from Les Inrockuptibles which I mentioned, and I also got two issues with PJ cover articles (whether with interviews I'll have to check) from a French magazine called Rock & Folk (one from 1998, another from 2004), it might be worth the while to translate them all into English unless somebody else would already have done it - and I know for a fact that at least one of those Inrockuptibles articles was translated (the one from 1995, if I remember right).

perhaps you could help me out by making a search for them on the Internet, in case somebody would have made translations and posted them somewhere, on some other website; here I'm thinking especially of those lengthy interviews in Les Inrockuptibles, that magazine had big PJ cover articles with interviews, the first one in 1992, then one in 1995, 1998, 2000, 2004 respectively, plus another one in 2007 which, however, was somewhat less of a gem than the previous ones.

furthermore, there's a German interview magazine, Galore, its October 2007 issue had a very interesting interview with Polly, and I bought it just because I couldn't resist the tempation (after reading only a short excerpt from it); here's the link (with text so minute that it's practically impossible to read online, that's why I ordered that magazine issue):

http://galore.de/index.php?id=47&interview=559

I could translate that one too and post the text in one of these forums, but first we'd have to make sure that nobody else has done a translation already.

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thanks a lot for your understanding!
You're very nice!

If you're interested, i also have some interviews in french magazines among which "les Inrocks" and "Rock and Folk" 2007-8.
I've also have one of a less known magazine "MAGIC revue de pop moderne".

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found some pics after random searches...these are new to me...maybe someone already posted them..well well here they are anyways

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:05 pm

yes yes, I'm very interested in all those interviews.

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Sorry ,my scanner is always out of order .
I hope that you can read it .

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:29 pm

I already have all the Inrockuptibles interviews (or at least, those that came in issues featuring PJ on the cover), but thanks anyway for posting this.

I'll be looking forward to reading those interviews you mentioned from other French magazines.

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:30 pm

anyway here's my picture of the day, of Polly Jean at the Rancho De La Luna (in 2003, I suppose):

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Very nice photo !
thanks !

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White Chalk your pj pics are divine thank you so much!!!

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Thank you, really happy that you enjoy!
I love the photo of your avatar!
I've never seen it before.

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white chalk wrote:

Thank you, really happy that you enjoy!
I love the photo of your avatar!
I've never seen it before.

oh thanks I bought it from e bay its coming to me & I'll scan it here's a pic till then in color

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oh thanks I bought it from e bay its coming to me & I'll scan it here's a pic till then in color

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Thanks for sharing !
It's really a good find .

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from a nice collection of all the 'standard' ones:
http://www.last.fm/music/PJ+Harvey/+images

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I 've found a clone of PJ !

The name of this band is SLANT6

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white chalk wrote:

I 've found a clone of PJ !

The name of this band is SLANT6

Wow! That does look like a copy, but I think this is the band?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slant_6

The Wiki says they broke up in 1995? Before PJ adopted the curly hair? I dunno. Interesting. :smile:

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:24 pm

Hell and High Water wrote:

white chalk wrote:

I 've found a clone of PJ !

The name of this band is SLANT6

Wow! That does look like a copy, but I think this is the band?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slant_6

The Wiki says they broke up in 1995? Before PJ adopted the curly hair? I dunno. Interesting. :smile:

could it be that PJ was cloning her curly hairstyle from them? in which case it might be labelled her "SLANTed coiffure".

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DrDark wrote:

from a nice collection of all the 'standard' ones:
http://www.last.fm/music/PJ+Harvey/+images

Here is the full pic, I joined the two halves in photoshop years ago.

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NICE!

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A second clone of PJ!

PJ (Petra Jean) Philippson
Café de la danse,Paris 29/06/2007

Did she copy the dress of stage of Polly Jean?
Or, is it just a coincidence?

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:41 am

wow that freaky! shes called pj as well?

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I've never seen this one!

contrary to this one

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lucy27 wrote:

wow that freaky! shes called pj as well?

Yes, it is really surprising, her exact first name is Petra Jean.

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another clone, sally hawkins

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:22 pm

mandelstam wrote:

another clone, sally hawkins

She looks like Chrissie Hynde too (form Pretenders). But certainly, a lot of PJ indeed.

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:26 pm

^ i was about to say chrissie hynde as well! weird, all these lookalikes, i reckon its just the hairstyles i bet if they were all bald they would look totally different. haha pj bald.....ok im going now..

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mandelstam wrote:

another clone, sally hawkins

Yes it's really striking!

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A new clone of Polly Jean !

It's Carla Azar ,she's a member of the band Autolux (drums) and she's a frequent collaborator of PJ.In January 2008, Carla entered the studio along with Polly Jean Harvey, John Parish, Eric Drew Feldman and Giovanni Ferrario, to provide drums on the follow-up to Harvey and Parish's 1996 collaboration "Dance Hall At Louse Point" .

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:28 am

carla is such an awesome drummer, i saw autolux last yr, shes just as small as pj as well!

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I have a couple more to "PJ clones" to add to the discussion, even if they're not quite as good as the ones that others have brought up (and btw, I adore Sally Hawkins).

Charlotte Gainsbourg (French musician and actress)

Emily Perkins (Canadian actress, of Ginger Snaps fame)

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:08 am

although I'm prone to appreciate some of those comely "clones", I still prefer to peek at pictures of the original, the one and only Polly.

and today, while listening to the excellent audio recording from Oslo 2001-04-03, I suddenly felt the urge (as I often do) to make a search for pictures from that particular concert. here is what I found:

and it may very well be from that particular concert (though I cannot be totally certain), as the link with this picture refers to the major newspaper in the Norwegian capital:

http://oslopuls.aftenposten.no/multimedia/archive/00011/_sp0e72e2_jpg_11394d.jpg

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New for me! thanks pollyphoniac !

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NEW!!

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I came across this while going through archives, the title of the file is -

Is This PJ?

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Hell and High Water wrote:

I came across this while going through archives, the title of the file is -

Is This PJ?

Really a great find !!!
Thanks , very much!

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No, thank you for what you've posted! There's several I've never seen before.

This went up at PJH.net some years ago, and I don't remember what the consensus was. It sure looks like her...

Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:32 am

Hell and High Water wrote:

This went up at PJH.net some years ago, and I don't remember what the consensus was. It sure looks like her...

yes, and no. it sure resembles her. but I strongly suspect this may be somebody else. is there any indication of where this picture came from?

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it doesn't look like her..wasnt she thinner in that era? :P

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Yeah, there's no overstating how skinny she was back then.

There's no source for this pic, that's part of the controversy. It doesn't look like something PJ would do, but it sure looks like her.

Someday, Google will be able to do picture searches - you submit a picture and it will come up with similar ones. Just you wait! Cool

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mandelstam wrote:

NEW!!

That has to be a mask. I wonder if her choices in masks will become more extreme in the future?

Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:37 am

DrDark wrote:

Pollyphoniac wrote:

and right now I'm considering whether I should make the effort of translating this text back into English, for the benefit of all the gardeners who can't read the French

Yes, please do!

I’m sorry that I’ve been delaying in getting this done, but here is my translation of this interview article from “Jalouse” in 2004.

let me just say that I found this particular piece of translation a bit more difficult than normally, perhaps because whoever made the first translation (from the original English into French) may have deviated too much from the original.

the task of translation is very much a matter of searching for synonyms, trying to find the most appropriate corresponding word (or turn of phrase). and the very difficulty of wishing to reconstruct the original English, coupled with the practical inability to do so, while working from a text produced by somebody who appears to have taken a little too much liberty with the synonyms, straying farther from the original than I would have preferred, this can make it a fairly awkward task.

in making my translation now I have chosen to adhere to my own belief in not straying farther than necessary... even though I find it easy to tell that Polly wouldn’t have used those precise words. so I could have tried to refashion the text, going by my knowledge of Polly’s idiom as I know it from reading and listening to her interviews... but I haven chosen not to do this; what I present here is a close enough rendering of the French text, which also means that some of the sentences may seem somewhat awkward. (and I've also kept the obvious error which occurred in the French text, letting Polly say that she's from Devon.)

I don't know the exact date of this interview, though somebody might be able to give us this information, on which particular issue of "Jalouse" this article appeared in (and which was the date of publication).

Indomitable PJ Harvey

Last March, PJ Harvey (pronounced PidJi), the enchantress of Devon, had taken her spring quarters at Château-Marmon, in Los Angeles. The weather was beautiful. The bar was practically empty by the time we arrived there, in view of the terrace still so well frequented by some adventurous naiads. A good day, for this hotel which knows the going of all that movies and music have of the most camp, the most rock’n roll.

It’s there that we met PJ Harvey, unassuming and frail, at the back of the room, seated in a Renaissance armchair of washed-out colors, but nonetheless imposing her aura on the whole room. And the person who had been described to us as indomitable, flippant, mercurial, gave proof above all of generous courteousness.

You have just made the longest break of your career: may one deduce that the process of recording your records is a priesthood, a constraining ordeal to surpass?
It’s a slow progression that I find constraining and that becomes something which I seek not to repeat too often. That forces me to not prolong the experience too much. For this record, I spent only six weeks in the studio, which is very short. But beyond this aspect, this break was also due to problems of a personal nature, as well as the desire to distance myself from my universe, in order not to sink into a disguised routine. The fifteen months of touring which preceded my withdrawal also contributed a lot to that. And that even if the sap of this craft is essentially made of scenic experiences, of concerts that cannot leave room for pretence.

You still seem as angry but, this time, could one say that you have managed to channel this aggression?
I have enormously cultivated my sense of humour, notably in the texts that I have written for this album. If you pay attention to it, you will notice that they are full of that, and that one can as well laugh while listening to them. Which is not necessarily an element that people are used to with me. But that takes nothing away from the fact that I am still on edge. Life is as much a source of perpetual anger as of fleeting joys. The simple act of watching the news on the telly is enough to put you in a bad mood for the rest of the day. This apathy so well shared and in which everybody seems to indulge annoys me prodigiously.

Creation such as you conceive it does it induce a great solitude?
From time to time, even if that isn’t systematic. All the more so as I think I have a need for less solitude than many artists that I know. I come across it essentially in the moment of writing. At that precise moment, I am entirely seized with my topic, so I cannot communicate with the exterior, have a normal discussion with people - so much that I cannot have that at all. And ever since I was 18 years old it happens like this. However, there is nothing specific, no given formula, nor particular discipline. I even have difficulty in mentioning this subject because I have never managed to formulate it clearly. But the only thing of which I am sure, is that when I enter into this process, I find a peace unlike any other, a genuine home.

Are you a night person?
I have phases, like everybody, no? They depend exclusively on my environment. When I am at home, in Devon, be it in the countryside or in a non urban environment, I go to bed very early and lead a sound life, almost spartan, to the point of ending up by having the habits of an old maid. Whereas in the city, when I am with friends, we can set off on long car rides which will end in long-drawn discussions around early morning.

You also write poetry. How do you make the distinction with “song-writing”?
Poetry implies a much greater liberty in the writing, which the song doesn’t have, being very tied to a rigid structure no matter what one makes of it. The section between them therefore is not difficult to determine. It’s being laid down almost by itself. Sometimes it comes about that the two zones mix. Thus I first wrote the peace Desperate Kingdom of Love in the form of a poem, before it became a song. But these collisions are quite rare.

In the texts that appear on this new record, it is often a question of old age. Does that represent a source of recurrent questioning with you, an anxiety?
I don’t know. I realised, a short while ago, that I was losing lots of time on trifles, that it became more and more difficult for me to concentrate on one fine thing. Nonetheless a healthy attitude. And then, yes, I grow older. I am going to be 35 this year. It’s an important age. You begin to feel your body react differently. It begins to cock up, in fact, but you only realise it by spasms. And everything that you took for granted cracks. But to grow old require so much humility that it cannot be fundamentally bad.

Sometimes, when one listens to your words, one gets the impression that love is more an illness than a balm?
No ! It is not an illness, it’s you who interpret it thus. It’s just a rather beautiful process of which one isn’t able to control the evolution. It’s like breathing or sleeping. One needs it to survive. That’s all.

* PJ Harvey, Uh Huh Her (Island/AZ).
In concert at the Zénith on 1st June, and at the festival of Fourvières, as well as at the Eurokéennes de Belfort on 1st and 3rd July. A world tour is also foreseen in 2004-2005.

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^ Interesting interview. Thanks!