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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:55 pm 
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This is a few days early, I know, but The Quietus already has their retrospective up. It's a great read, give it a look.

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In 1995, Polly Harvey reinvented herself as a pink catsuit-wearing vamp peddling an album of stormy gothic American blues. But was it really such a surprise? Ben Hewitt argues the transformation only put up in lights what Harvey had already shown: she was an actor as much as a singer


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:35 am 
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Sorry for not getting this post up sooner :blush:

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:33 pm 
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No worries :)

Discogs also has a retrospective up!

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Though now twenty-five years old officially on February 27, there are few – if any – albums that successfully navigate the treacherous seas of creativity, weirdness, beauty, and intelligence on such a mythic level, appealing to the casual fan and the devoted purist alike.


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:56 pm 
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Some comments from Joe Gore on this tour...

Q;Your PJ Harvey show at Glastonbury looked incredible.

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For my money, that was the most exciting concert I’ve ever played. It was my favorite show that I played with Polly. The quality of the shows varied a lot. Polly was in a great deal of emotional back-and-forth about whether she wanted to be a slick, tight, knock-em-over-the-head rock pop star, or a gnomic cult singer songwriter not at all interested in pandering to the audience. She was only 25 at the time, and it was back-and-forth a lot. We’d have one show that would be very put together, and then she’d have a change of heart and do a show that was more willfully amateurish and ramshackle, less lights and production, less volume and less transition. That was a dynamic that went back-and-forth for a lot of the time that I was playing with her. But the Glastonbury show was the pinnacle of the big tight rock show.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:54 am 
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^ Excellent read! Thanks for posting.

Joe wrote another anecdote about the time David Bowie wanted to play a duet with PJ, but she would only do it with her band, not his, so it never happened. That article is also great, but more about Bowie:
https://tonefiend.com/music/brushes-with-bowie/

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:02 am 
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seems she donated to pink catsuit to the V&A museum, although its not on display https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1553252/costumes/


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Romario11 wrote:
seems she donated to pink catsuit to the V&A museum, although its not on display https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1553252/costumes/


Ooh, good find! It seems she donated quite a few things: various tour dresses (from the Uh Huh Her tour, the White Chalk gowns, the Ann Demeulemeester costumes from 2011/2016), the "A Perfect Day Elise" video outfit, the "This Is Love" white leather suit, three guitars (including the red Gretsch Broadkaster), two TASCAM tape recorders she used to demo songs for Uh Huh Her and White Chalk, a painting of her with Rob and Mick from the 2003 tour...

It's all credited as the 'PJ Harvey Archive'. Maybe there were plans to open some kind of exhibition, like Nick Cave or Björk have done in the past?


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