The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

As stated by PJ's official Facebook account, yesterday was the 10th anniversary since the release of THSDP. I have a bit of mixed feelings about this album, 'cause it is for sure my least favourite PJ Harvey album... it simply wasn't a worthy successor to LES both musically and lyrically. Yet i don ...

It's a trend I've seen many major artists and songwriters have been going through over the past years. It is possible their contracts have expired and there's this collective tendency to leave major labels, which seem in fact more keen on promoting pop acts and less alternative artists/bands. Look ...

Dear Prof Ab,
off the top of my head i would suggest:
- contacting the staff of/ looking into PJ's gigs at Evershot Village Hall (Dorchester): https://evershotparishhall.org/band-on/hall-of-fame/ , which by the way features Polly's mother, Eva, as one of the band promoters over the years. Pj did a ...

thank you! that's surely an unexpected collab!

I’ve been listening to a lot of Eels recently and just clocked John Parish reconnected with Mr E for Eels’ “Extreme Witchcraft” album.

I’ve thought for ages Polly and Mr E could work well together - anyone know if they have, or have even just met?

And if you were suggesting new collaborations for ...

You do make a really good point on bots, i'm quite old-fashioned and i tend to forget the novelties of the 2020s internet; yet, it is normal for people visiting virtually every site to not make any comments or leave almost no trace of their passage: the majority of people can't be bothered to engage ...

ooof, another year gone. What a disgustingly sad year this was, good God. Nothing new under the sun.

On a happier note, I was a bit too optimistical on her progress on the new album, but ... maybe ... brand new year brand new Polly?

during these months i did notice something really positive ...

i've found something special: the complete audio-recording of the poetry reading in Genoa. First time, to my knowledge, this was shared here. Thank you very much to the lady (federica2002) who uploded it on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/PJHarveyReadingGenova150416

in case you're ...

couple of pics that were not, as far as i know, shared here before:


https://live.staticflickr.com/3590/3379668427_c4646eaf05_c.jpg
Jody Denberg and PJ Harvey in KGSR Studios

https://live.staticflickr.com/3467/3380485704_63c6a878b4_c.jpg

Jody Denberg, PJ Harvey and John Parish at the KGSR ...

12 photos from Heineken Jammin' Festival, Imola, 19.06.2004 by stefano masselli
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanomasselli/albums/72177720329322817/
Darn, that is an high quality picture!




by alper.bahcekapili ( https://www.instagram.com/p/DA3RGxVI5tc/?img_index=1 ):

https://media ...

as far as i know, yes, that's true. Even checking on Setlist.fm brings me to the same conclusion. The first time the river was performed should be 10 years later (2008-02-20), in Melbourne, Australia.

Scrolling through a page of Polly pics, i found this one:

https://iv1.lisimg.com/image/5548779/150full-pj-harvey.jpg

a very similar photo from the same set was posted here 11 years ago by Kub91:

https://www.ondarock.it/photo/Harvey.jpg

i knew i had seen this outfit before, so i went to ...

i've found a new-ish interview with John, dated 2025-04-03; Logan (the interviewer) and John have a very friendly chat about John's career; obviously PJ's name comes up pretty soon; most of the information given by John was already revealed in past interviews, but it's still a really friendly and ...

yep, 56! Bless her.

Mummy, put your needle down
How did you feel when you were young?
'Cause I feel like I've just been born
Even though I'm getting on

While surfing the internet I found an article suggesting a possible mistake in the Gigography, so i started digging a bit and i would say there's most definitely a mistake in the gigography... here's my findings:


We are talking about this Gigography entry:
1998-08-31, - ARENA FESTA DELL'UNITÀ ...