by Renaud Monfourny https://www.instagram.com/p/DQRR4NzDqX6/

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



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



i knew i had seen this outfit before, so i went to check and indeed it's the 2001 Mercury prize, where she performed "this is love" and got a short interview (all recorded before the TV broadcast, 'cause she war touring at the time); these two pics have quite a better resolution than the available footage, too. the original BBC article that had the first one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1538681.stm


another rare outfit from the same era is this ( shared here 11 years ago by Dax):



i reverse searched the pic, and ended up on this swedish site: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/gP0Qp1/pj-som-playmate;
The photographer is Rikard Laving (site: https://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/artist/Rikard-Laving couldn't find any PJ pics there, though... he doesn't even mention this photo set... how can you take pro-shot photos of PJ Harvey and not boast about it on your site is beyond me ) and the photo was taken surely before 2000-11-29, date of the above mentioned article.
This could be one of the best 2000-2001 era photos, but unfortunately the image quality is quite low.


since we are in the 2000 mood, i'll share this too:



it was taken in Bridport, the same day of the gig, 2000-09-18. This pic overdoses me of early 2000s nostalgia ( look at those beatiful cars!)

Good detective work! that pic was always a bit of a mystery to me, so nice to have some background info about the photo.

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