Polly's sentimental status

[soulfadelic]

There was also a rumor in the 90s of some DJ guy whose name I forgot. She introduced her to Aphex Twin and a lot of other experimental electronic artists at the time and expanded her tastes a bit.

Didn't Vincent and Polly record a cover of "Come On Home To Me" for a Lee Hazlewood tribute? Supposedly it wasn't released because they didn't want the press construing it as proof of a romantic relationship.

[DrDark]

^ Yes on the DJ story. It's in Blandford's book. Supposedly the electronica aspects of ITD are due to his influence.

Don't remember the Lee Hazlewood tribute, but there is a live track of Polly and Vincent singing Moon River with John Frusciante that's been around for quite a while. Blandford's book details the Gallo story as well.

[olivier101]

Long gone past.... Nothing for the present apparently.
She could as well be single; I don't think she's the type of person who needs to be in a relationship.

[Seagull]

came across an article/interview with vincent gallo, 2001:

But we're getting ahead of ourselves. The house is perched on Mulholland Drive, where the movie stars live. It's shaped like a concrete and glass rainbow and as you stand on the deck, the view over LA on this bright, warm day is stunning. Gallo has pulled up slightly late in his Jeep and trotted over to shake hands. Today's look is Soho boho; stained white T-shirt, frayed brown slacks and red trainers. His hair is long and straggly and he sports a beard that lends him a passing resemblance to one of his stated boyhood heroes, Leonardo da Vinci. Given that his other boyhood heroes are Chris Squire, the bassist from Yes, and Richard M Nixon, I reckon he looks okay. He's limping badly, because he broke his toe, but doesn't know how.

Imagining that I've been waiting longer than I actually have, he apologises for his tardiness.

'Isn't Polly here?' he asks, opening the door and fussing over his white hound dog.

'Is this Polly?' I say.

'No, this is my dog,' comes the reply. 'She doesn't have a name. It seems kind of weird to give a dog a name.'

I'm still wrestling with this proposition when Polly Harvey, the English diva sine qua non, pads into view. It seems she's staying chez Gallo while preparing for a US tour and I'm trying to imagine them as a workable couple (a match made in the very depths of hell, I decide... though he mumbles something about being just friends) when he asks if I want anything to drink, but she chirps in with 'I expect you might like a cup of tea?'

'What! Tea?' he exclaims, clearly shaken by this sudden outbreak of Britishness in his otherwise staunchly American universe.

Harvey delivers tea and departs, only returning about four hours later, with the words, 'My God, I'd go mad if I had to talk for that long.' Gallo can indeed talk. We settle in the big, open-plan living/kitchen area, around the simple wooden dining table that is Gallo's only piece of furniture. He's acerbic and entertaining, with the fierce intellect of the self-taught. He loves to bate an audience and has one of the driest senses of humour I've ever encountered, even in a New Yorker.

read the whole article/interview here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2001/sep/30/features.magazine

[Black Hearted Love]

[...]Also listed are Joe Dilworth (never heard), Tricky and Eric Drew Feldman...[...]

Tricky could not be possible...
I think she's single too

reading abount Vincent I recall this lovely pic

http://s174.photobucket.com/albums/w99/ ... /?start=20

[Pollyphoniac]

So, you've heard this too Olivier?

Yes, but it was really just a name dropped among others, and I doubt its credibility. Although that would have been amazing, but probably doomed like the Nick Cave romance was.

Edit: I found the old atforumz post, it's there: http://www.atforumz.com/showpost.php?p= ... stcount=14
Also listed are Joe Dilworth (never heard), Tricky and Eric Drew Feldman...

it seems to be easy enough for imaginative music fans or journalists to assume a "romantic" or "more-than-friendly" connection between Polly and any eligible musician she's been collaborating with, but there can be little doubt that these are mostly nothing more than fantasy creations of some gossip-minded people.

it would appear that the only two amours of Polly's whom there is confirmed information on are Nick Cave and Joe Dilworth. that's why it surprises me that you never heard of him.

it appears to be evident through various sources (such as interviews) that Joe Dilworth was Polly's "first boyfriend" whom she met after making her first move to London, apparently it was he who had the motorbike which Polly wrote a song about and with whom the break-up inspired the emotion which resulted in Rid Of Me.

[SaligHund]

Joe Dilworth also said in an interview that "they could have talked about it instead of writing an angry song" (about m-bike) I guess the song Joe from Dry is about him too

[jesuspolly]

I think Polly never had a stable relationship, they are all rumors, including a lesbian (the rumor that she had a relationship with Beth Gibbons), I think for his age and fame would be impossible to hide if she had a relationship with someone more than anything I think that had lovers, I have a 34 year old and I feel that in that sense I'm like her, I have not need to maintain a relationship with someone,I had lovers, but keep em single,and I think she does the same.

[Pitifuljoy]

She does keep her private life private, doesn't she? Damn it, Polly, I wanna know more!

[Polly_Jean_Cave]

I don't know if this sort of speculation is disrespectful. But, look at the "unborn baby" reference in "west country girl" and then all those references to unborn children in "white chalk". Do you think that maybe Polly had an abortion while she was with Nick..or after she left him? Do you think that is maybe the reason(up until a few years ago) he had such resentment for her?