Polly in Mojo magazine - September 2020

[sallytbyml]

A new article with a short oral history (with Rob Ellis, Head, Ben Groenevelt, Ian Olliver and Richard Roberts) of the making of Dry and the early days of PJ Harvey.
https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/moj ... avid-bowie

[TheNightingale]

[bruise]

Many many thanks for this! Super-appreciated!

[AineteEkaterini]

Discovering that Ian Olliver worked for Ray was quite a revelation. I had wondered why he dropped out of the band. Amazing this takes nearly 30 years to be mentioned! Does anyone know what Head's band was?

[bruise]

Mark Vernon teasing us with another demo cassette on his instagram:




A brief trip down #memorylane Here is the treasured #c60cassette mailed to me in May #1990 by Polly Jean Harvey now #pjharvey of her early acoustic demos recorded on her 4 track #tascam . The info on the cassette cover was neatly annotated and chronicled by Polly. On hearing it I was immediately transfixed. ‘Happy And Bleeding’ ‘Plants And Rags’ and ‘Sheela Na Gig’ from the cassette were subsequently electrified with @robellisdrums and Ian Olliver at the Icehouse Studios in #yeovil in July of that year. Two of these recordings are featured on her first album ‘Dry’. It now occurs the arrival of this cassette/ artefact is probably why those who were subsequently involved are where we are today 30 years later in this #paralleluniverse

[hopewell]

Thanks for posting the interview, TheNightingale. Lots of stuff I didn't know before.

[simonvdl]

Ah, Ben Groenevelt. Lovely man and great bass player. Gives the occasional lunchtime concert in Bristol, playing mostly jazz. Check out his stuff if you can.

[desperateK]

oh, god, that cassette from 1990...

[GoddamnEuropeans]

And it features Wait! Which later turned up on one of the White Chalk b-sides.