Glenn Danzig(1995)


http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=IWDaIeV- ... WDaIeV-Osc 3:31 "I like the new PJ Harvey record"

Steve Albini- 2012

"RK: What about your feelings on working with PJ Harvey? What was that like?"

SA: That was a tremendous experience really, all the way round. I ended up becoming great friends with Polly and we're still very close. I think she's a genius. I think she has an enormous amount of integrity. She's very honest with respect to her feelings toward people and about things.

Stylistically, that style of music is not music that I listen to very often, but I think that she's truly remarkable within that genre."

Saffron(Republica)"It was especially great time for female fronted rock/indie bands around the time of Girl Power, empowering for young women definitely. There were some great bands and artists like Garbage, No Doubt, Elastica, The Cardigans, Sleeper, Echobelly, Texas, Saint Etienne, Curve and PJ Harvey plus there was Hole, Veruca Salt and Luscious Jackson in the US."

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Laura Mary Carter and Steve Ansell love Polly.

Guy Garvey of Elbow played an 'Is This Desire' song - a couple of weeks ago - on his BBC Radio 6 show.

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Wiggins is so superbly unassuming, he looks like he's about to say 'Pop the gold medal in the post, I'm nipping out for some biscuits'

Mark Steel

Bat For Lashes:

"You mention the notion of ancestry and English history – did you hear PJ Harvey’s last record, which dealt with a lot of the same things?"

Yeah, I’d actually already written “The Haunted Man” when I heard PJ Harvey’s record, and I thought “That’s so cool.” It’s really felt like, in the last couple of years, this weird portal opened, and there were a lot of people talking about their ancestors, and soldiers in war and England’s history. When I heard Polly’s record, I was like, “That is awesome.”

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!!!! I love PJ Harvey...She changed my life forever ¡¡¡¡¡

Keith Flint(The Prodigy): 9. Who were you listening to yesterday then?" "PJ harvey, smashing pumpkins - the new album, pistols."

Neneh Cherry played - Let England Shake and Carole Pope played The Words That Maketh Murder a little while ago.

Jimmy Page: "One of the albums we played quite a lot was PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me. That's what lead us to wanting to work with Albini"

Miki Berenyi(Lush): "If Polly Harvey was a man, she'd be praised as a great guitarist. But the press instead focuses on her personality, her weirdness, and not her musical achievements."

Simon LeBon: "album of the year - PJ Harvey's Let England Shake, gig of the year - PJ Harvey at Coachella"

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Silversun Pickups played "A Perfect Day Elise" on rage last week.

Neneh Cherry: "“Where we are right now, in 2012 we are coming out of a slightly turgid, over-sexualised era for women,” she tells me with a sadness in her voice. “There needs to be more female producers, more programmers and more bands with women playing instruments in them. Someone like Santigold is great and the other woman I really love at the moment is Azealia Banks – she’s cool. I also like the fact that there is a place for timeless music like Patti Smith and PJ Harvey - women who are an inspiration to all of us and still so vital."

Neneh Cherry: "Listening to PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake. I really appreciate her lyrics and what a great living body of work it is. PJ is a timeless, powerful woman."

Tim Rice-Oxley(Keane): "Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea" is one of my top albums of the decade from Island. The first time I went to the island studio, PJ Harvey was there recording in the studio in the basement. That sense of actual musicians making music right there in the building was
one of the main reasons we signed."

Amy Winehouse: "People like PJ Harvey, I have so much respect for people like that. She looks amazing with her guitar! Not just because like..there's a girl playing a guitar - wow, because she has so much strength. You can see the strength the guitar gives her. You know...it just comes out of her."

Jon Spencer: Played "Henry Lee" on rage a little while back.

Kurt Cobain: "Kurt loved PJ Harvey, we all did. We went to see her, and went backstage. Kurt wanted her to go on tour with Nirvana, he was nervous and really had to work up the courage to ask her because he liked her so much. She politely declined. But, I think that made him like her even more. It really bothered Courtney just how much he liked her(PJ Harvey)."

Gerard Way(My Chemical Romance) on twitter: @pwntz Listen to Bikini Kill, Helium,Sleater-Kinney,PJ Harvey,Blonde Redhead,Breeders,Santigold,Scarling,Siouxsie,Amanda Palmer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Jared Leto(30 Seconds To Mars...good actor...band...not so much!!!!!) on twitter - I know you love them both, so do do I. (Followed by a link to the Brits performance of "satisfaction".

Rob Thomas(Matchbox 20) on twitter: officialMB20 matchboxtwenty Apr 06, 02:31 AM
Currently having my mind blown by PJ Harvey's "Let England Shake". Holy fuck.

Trent Reznor - played Black Hearted Love a little while back on one of his shows

Clint Conley(Mission Of Burma): "Which artists are impressing you most this year? Is there anyone who really stands out from the crowd?" "It hasn't been a very good year in my opinion - a couple of things by Wye Oak, OFF!, and PJ Harvey's record was interesting yet troubling."

Wayne Hussey: "What would be your choice if you were allowed to choose someone to collaborate with? "First choice - I would choose my PJ Harvey. I love her records, her voice, her style, everything."

Stuart Braithwaite(Mogwai): "We don't actually sound like Slint at all. A couple of songs had little sections that maybe did, ‘Christmas Steps' has a little bit in it that's Slint-ish, but I think a lot of the people that said that just didn't like us and just said that. A lot of those people probably adore Rid Of Me by PJ Harvey, which does sound like Slint! That's a great record too, but musically sounds a lot more similar to Slint than anything we did."

Stephen Malkmus: played both dress and 50ft queenie on rage years ago.

James Lavelle(UNKLE): "james lavelle recommends - The Dessert Sessions (PJ Harvey and Josh Homme out September)." - also did a remix of 'the slow drug'

Alisa Xayalith(The Naked & The Famous): "I adore PJ Harvey because she's so strong and aggressive but fragile at the same time."

David J(Bauhaus, Love & Rockets): "A dream stricken modern living Ophelia?" - "P. J. Harvey circa To Bring You My Love. I toured with her in the early nineties, an awesome talent. Due to visa problems, she and her band did not make the first gig in Atlanta. The promoter gave us the option of pulling the show or playing it on our own. We, (Max Eider, Owen Jones, Karl Wallinets and myself, were the support act.) We chose to headline that night. The theatre (The Variety Playhouse) put posters up to explain the situation, offering money back or half price entry. We had a pretty full, very enthusiastic crowd. I started the set with Polly's 'Oh, My Lover' and we had a great night."

Jessica Origliaso(The Veronicas) on twitter: "As hot as the Victoria Secret Models were..I still would've preferred Brody Dalle, Pj Harvey, Fiona Apple, Jessicka Addams & Gwen Stefani <3

Jessica Origliaso(The Veronicas): "I do love her so...https://mobile.twitter.com/Jessicaveron ... 8956204032 twitter

Amy Lee(Evanescence) on twitter: SergioEv21 @AmyLeeEV You'll die with this pic! PJ Harvey, Björk and Tori Amos!! Your Idols! Read more at http://twicsy.com/i/Ett6Lc#2J71qfZAsrm2P14L.99

Eli Janney(Girls Against Boys): "Can you name your three favourite European bands?"
"It's a shame that Evil Superstars broke up, because I thought they were great. I also like Air and the new PJ Harvey album." (03/99)

Sarah Peacock(Seefeel): "• What kind of music were you interested in before joining Seefeel?" "In 1991 I placed an ad in the NME to find people into My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth, Mark rang me and asked if I liked the Cocteau Twins too. At the time I also loved the Too Pure bands (PJ Harvey, Th' Faith Healers and Stereolab), Moonshake, Babes in Toyland, Pixies, Lush, Pale Saints, Ride, Blur, and the beginnings of more interesting electronic music —808 State, LFO, the Orb. I'd been a pop kid who'd grown up listening to John Peel."

Th' Faith Healers: " I found out in an interview that the band made "My Loser" by basically chopping up lyrics from PJ Harvey's "Oh My Lover"

Ella Hooper(Killing Heidi): " I don’t see a lot of high gloss, modern rock-pop records, I see more of The Kills and Lykke Lee and PJ Harvey, especially her latest album Let England Shake. And then of course a lot of old recordings – 99% of my record collection is very old and very rootsy and dusty so I feel like that’s finally coming out too."

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Peter Lindgren(Opeth): "At this moment the tape cuts off for a minute or two, as I didn’t notice the cassette had run out. Hence, a few questions/answers are wiped out – incidentally, they were of the more interesting end, further discussing this ever-interesting theme of beautiful music, conversing the beloved PJ Harvey and what have you."

Chino Moreno(Deftones):"What band would you most like to tour with?" "PJ Harvey, just so I could see her everyday."

Damon Albarn: "“You have probably also heard PJ Harvey’s album Let England Shake last year. She digs almost as deep in the national history as you.” "Absolutely. She actually did exactly the same as me, in the same spirit. It is interesting to examine the English identity because it is in constant motion. Funny is: I know a Nigerian artist who lives in Somerset and completely fascinated by our standing stones. I myself am again interested in African rituals."

Justine Frischmann: "Probably PJ Harvey actually, is the person who made me think I really want to be doing this! When I went to see her..I thought she was extraordinary, and it just sounded amazing; and I guess this tiny chick with her huge guitar, making this amazing noise - and there was something in that first record which just..sounded like - I don't want to say a war cry, because that sounds too aggressive really. There was just something that sounded very brave, and I think that bravery was kind of contagious."

Carrie Brownstein old tweet "Sometimes it takes an autumnal album to get through the stickiness of summer. (PJ Harvey “Is this Desire?)"

Corin Tucker(Heavens To Betsy, Sleater Kinney):"I think most of our influences do come from earlier eras, truthfully. I do like current dance music, like Daft Punk, and current artists like PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple."

Tad Doyle(TAD): posted a link to rid of me on facebook.

Alison Mosshart: played to bring you my love on Jarvis's bbc6 radio show a little while back.

Cerys Matthews(Catatonia):Often plays Polly's music on her bbc6 show.

Scott Kirkland(Crystal Method): "Are there any vocalists you would like to work with?" "I’d love to work with P.J. Harvey. I’ve always loved P.J. Harvey."

Carla Azar(Autolux): "Who else would you like to play with (in a band) alive or dead?" "David Bowie (from 1976), Nick Cave, Polly Harvey, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Raymond Scott – but not necessarily in that order."

Maynard James Keenan: LAST ALBUM BROUGHT:"It was the new PJ Harvey album Rid of me. It was
recommended to me by a friend, and then I saw it on MTV and that decided
it for me. It's a good record. I like it."(93)

William Gibson("Cyberpunk" novelist): "MR: What music are you listening to right now? What strikes you?" "PJ Harvey's second album. A San Francisco band called Come, that's see oh em ee. A West German band called Plan B who have an album out that's unfortunately titled Cyberchords and Sushi Stories."(93)

Miles Kane(The Last Shadow Puppets): "I've been listening to PJ Harvey, Stories From the City album because there’s a song on there called kamikaze that I really like and I think the lyrics on it are really good."

Dave Gahan: "Funnily enough, the music that I enjoy the most doesn't really use any electronics. Be it Nick Cave or the White Stripes or PJ Harvey or Muddy Waters or Neil Young, you won't find much synthesizer on any of that."

Ben Goldwasser(MGMT): ""This is definitely going to be one of those records that makes a lot more sense when everything is put in context," Goldwasser explained. "The whole experience will be more of a headphones album than a party album." Yet the same could be said of PJ Harvey's Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, Radiohead's OK Computer and Arcade Fire's Funeral – albums considered to be among rock's most lauded, singular statements – and all of those yielded singles."

Billy Martin(Medeski, Martin & Wood): "I’ve good a secret crush on PJ Harvey. So does my wife. I wanted to cover this whole Uh Huh Her record with MMW. We did perform three of them for a while and it felt so good! I hope PJ reads this and asks us to be her band sometime."

Billy Martin(Medeski, Martin & Wood): "PJ Harvey kind of on the edge. she's a great songwriter, performer and player. Her new album "Uh Huh Her" is fantastic."

Vanessa Carlton: "So I have this odd combination of influences that grew to include everything from Mozart, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac to PJ Harvey, Neil Young and Chopin."

Corrine Bailey Rae: "I loved that P J Harvey and Courtney Love had this sexuality that had nothing to do with the male gaze, it was ‘This is how I want to look.’ It made me feel like there was something defiant about being a black girl with short hair and an electric guitar."

Mark Stoermer(The Killers) iTunes playlist: ""These tracks make me feel like I never left the dark romance that is vegas. Particularly, 'This Is Hardcore.' This song is like a Bond film and porno flick rolled into one." 06. "Going to Town" by The Afghan Whigs
07. "This is Hardcore (Original Version)" by Pulp
08. "This is Love" by PJ Harvey
09. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" by ABBA
10. "Very First Lie" by Material Issue"

Trentemoller iTunes playlist: "Beautiful Feeling by PJ Harvey. Beautiful PJ! I have so much respect for her. Her songwriting and her voice is so unique and raw."

Eskimo Joe iTunes playlist: "May 25, 2009 – "This Mess We're In" by PJ Harvey: "Thom Yorke features on this duet with Ms. Polly. His beautifully dreary voice works so well with her, and a great song"

Sarah Blasko iTunes playlist: "This Mess We're In" by PJ Harvey: Their voices work really well together in this song.

Pony Da Look iTunes playlist: "Down by the Water" by PJ Harvey: " Speaking of tough, Sting WISHES he wrote this bass line."

Lucid 3 iTunes playlist: "C'mon Billy" by PJ Harvey: "There is so much about the album 'To Bring You My Love' that defines what I love in music."

KT Tunstall iTunes Playlist: "A Perfect Day Elise by PJ Harvey: "She's a fire, and this song is a good, big spark."

Feist ITunes Playlist: "Long Snake Moan by PJ Harvey: Pure wall of riff. Maximum tension."

Alison Moyet iTunes playlist: "The Piano by PJ Harvey: Clags my throat like clay slip."

Gorillaz iTunes playlist:
Dec 19, 2011 – "Let England Shake" by PJ Harvey: "Still blasting this out of my hi-fi."

Beatrice Eli: "Discovering/rediscovering people like PJ Harvey and Beck impacts on my music too."

Beatrice Eli: "We’ve talked a lot about credibility in this interview, but seeing how Beatrice Eli is a total hustler, if you had to get your own diamond studded platinum chain what would it be of?" "I tend to get obsessive about things. My current obsession is PJ Harvey so I’d say PJ’s face hanging on a big silver rope chain."

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Emily Barker(Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo): "Are there any artists that you look at and think, 'Wow, I wish I'd written that.’? Anyone that you're in awe of?" "Plenty! I’m certainly in awe of PJ Harvey. The poetry in her latest record ‘Let England Shake’ blows my mind. And the melodies and production of the songs too. A masterpiece."

Sharon Van Etten: "In what ways did PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me inspire Tramp?

I loved how direct she was and how badass she was. She’s really focusing on the vocals and being really loud on the guitar and keeping it super stripped down. That must have been some badass recording she’d done for that record. She gets aggressive, but it doesn’t feel staged. I just think it’s powerful."

What about Let England Shake?

I like that record, but she got some shit for it: about letting her travels influence her production and being a lot more experimental with her instrumentation, which she’s never done before – and singing differently, trying different scales, things like that."

Colin Meloy(The Decemberists): "We used to drive from Helena [Montana] to Seattle or Portland to see shows. I saw PJ Harvey in Portland – and that's a ten hour drive. Also, we'd go to Seattle on occasion."

Kathryn Calder(New Pornographers): "I’m a really big fan of strong female vocalists, like of course there’s Nina Simone who is amazing, and I love PJ Harvey. I think her voice is incredible."

Matt Aveiro(Cold War Kids): " On the homefront, we are super excited about playing the downtown LA Orpheum. Aveiro saw PJ Harvey play a year or so ago there and he still has not recovered."

Martin Whithead(The Flatmates): "What’s on the turntable?" "My CD player however has recently hosted “Live City Sounds” by Mary Lou Lord, “Is This It” by The Strokes and “Stories From The City…” by P.J. Harvey (who I remember being the shy guitarist in Automatic Dlamini, the band fronted by The Chesterfield’s producer, John Parish)."

Dan Le Sac(Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip): "So instead, we ask who he would like to work with in the future. The list would be too long to place here, but it includes Thom Yorke, Tom Waits, Regina Spektor, Jake Bugg, PJ Harvey, RZA and Cat Power."

Mike Patton: "Seriously, have you ever approached someone like Diamanda Galas or PJ Harvey about working together?" "Actually, no. I try and kind of think about who is already in the improvisational realm. Diamanda’s great, but I don’t know if she does much improvising. PJ seems even less likely to be into the concept. What she does is wonderful, but I’m not sure how she would do in the improvisational structure. It might not be the wisest thing to do! (Laughs) It’s not for everyone. When I first started improvising, I was very uncomfortable doing it. It was something that Zorn opened me up to."

Aimee Echo(Human Waste Project): "Record you'd love to guest on?" "Any PJ Harvey record. Any Janes Addiction record. God ... the last Deftones record!"

Zim Zum(Marilyn Manson): "Em: Who/What are you listening to these days? Any specific bands that you are really into?" "I really like Jeff Buckley, Girls against Boys, Sonic Youth, Suede, James Hall, Melvins, PJ Harvey, and Shudder To Think."

Jennifer Charles(Elysian Fields): " I love this. Jean-Marc Butty, the drummer in White Hotel is a friend of mine. He's an amazing drummer. He used to play with PJ Harvey, he was on 'to Bring You My Love'. He's a really great drummer."

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CoCoRosie played "this is love" on rage, as did The xx

Adam Levine(Maroon 5) on twitter : seriously @adamlevine @MelanieLBBH should do a Portishead or PJ Harvey song @kidvive95 @MelanieLBBH that's actually an awesome idea!

Patrick Wilson(Weezer): "If you could be any woman, who would you be?"
"Giselle. That sounds horribly bad, but there's nothing wrong with being beautiful, rich, and young. I don't have any women role models cause all I do is watch shit TV...Giselle's got all kind of money. Let's assume she's not smart because most models aren't. But you can get smart if you want to be smart...PJ Harvey. She's a woman artist with substance."

Brian Bell(Weezer): " which female singer would you guys most like to sing with?" "PJ Harvey"

Ed Droste(Grizzly Bear): "PJ Harvey, "Rub 'Till It Bleeds" This is a song I totally love and have a history with. I was obsessed with female singer-songwriters in high school. Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, all those people. I even went through a minor Tori Amos phase. But I could tell—even when I was sort of clueless—that PJ was the most badass of them all. This song is really intense, and it gets really wild at the end.

Do you like the new one, White Chalk?" "ED I like it a lot, surprisingly. I think a few tracks are a little too intense, like they can border on grating, but I would have to say that 80 percent of it, I really like. Especially the first song and the title track. It was definitely one of my top albums of the year."

Ewan Pearson: "PJ Harvey - White Chalk: Beautiful and austere, and still so recognisably her despite the shift in instrumentation. The moment when she belts out "Silence" is absolutely spine-tingling."(top albums of 07)

Emily Haines(Metric): " Early influences included Carla Bley, Robert Wyatt, and later PJ Harvey"

Roger Stevens(Blind Melon): "Rogers Stevens of Blind Melon was raving about her"

Shaun Morgan(Seether): "Are there certain female singers you enjoy?" "PJ Harvey I would say is probably my favourite. There's many songs though where I just find the female vocals to be really quite soothing, and just really creative."

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Neko Case on twitter: "PJ Harvey's "England" has reduced me to sobbing in the kitchen." And "@somehillbilly She's bitch-slapping me with her awesome."

Someone on twitter said that Dbtw was played at a Fleetwood Mac show. "@Optimistispark Fleetwood Mac show playing PJ Harvey's Down By The Water"

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I went to the Fleetwood Mac show in Washington DC (Apr. 9). About 10 minutes before the show started they played DBTW, made the whole night for me. Was wondering who was responsible, the arena?, the band?, or something else?

EMA: "Harvey writes about that could be considered "women's issues", but she's always been insistent on beîng taken seriously as an artist, as a human being, and I find that very inspiring. Like, "okay, I'm writing about a female experience of violence, from a female perspective, but I'm going to refuse to be marginalised". I want to play with that imagery and stereotypes. With (Let England Shake), she's really reinventing herself and breaking away from her own vocabulary, but the thing that made the most impact on me, sonically and otherwise was 4-track demos. Hearing her make the noises she made on that record was thrilling; they seemed almost obscene. I couldn't believe something like that was even released. There's a willingness to showcase the grotesque as well as the feminine, and the short skirts and whatever else-that's really important."

Justine Frischmann: "I'd definitely go weak in the knees if I was even in the same room as her."

Jarboe: "I'm interested in female artists and what they're doing and what they're saying. I really feel an alignment with PJ Harvey's lyrics, because she has used some of that vocabulary in a straight delivery with a lack of artifice."

M.Shawn Crahan(Slipknot) on twitter: I am in Bristol where Massive attack, Portishead and PJ Harvey are from. I had a glass of red wine in a pub that black beard drank at.

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The Donnas on twitter: PJ Harvey - You Said Something
Ode to NY summer luvin!! @SwiftFm http://bit.ly/9ex1Hp

Foals (old tweet):pj harvey is the babe to end all babes.

John Taylor(old tweet): IN LOVE WITH THE NEW PJ HARVEY ALBUM

Tracey Thorn(old tweet): I just can't help picturing people throwing their dinners at the belly dancers when I listen to that PJ Harvey song. Sorry I'll get my coat.

Tracey Thorn twitter: I hope PJ Harvey doesn't NOT win the Mercury tonight just cos she's won before. It's such a deserves-a-medal record.

Simon Le Bon twitter: My congrats to PJ Harvey who thoroughly deserves her 2nd Mercury award for the very moving album Let England Shake.

Michael Hutchence: "..I love PJ Harvey, but 14 songs in demo version [4-Track Demos]? What a strange thing to do"

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Marc Riley(ex fall) often plays a lot of Polly on his Bbc6 radio show.

JG Thirlwell(Foetus): "best of 2011 - Poul Ruders; Dramaphonia, etc.
Various Artists, Tradi-Mods vs. Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics
Liturgy, Aesthethica
PJ Harvey, Let England Shake - gigs: 4/19-20 PJ Harvey, Terminal 5 (so good I went twice)"

William Orbit on twitter : I seem to be experiencing a P J Harvey discovery thing. How did I miss all this music before??????

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Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee spotted performing in a PJ Harvey t-shirt
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