I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING – 2023 Tour Dates

[bad_whore]

Thanks for the setlist hopewell! Honestly, I would have liked to see more oddities in the repertoire at this point in her career, but I understand she wants to give their audience a taste of hits.

[revenire]

Yes, thanks for the setlist. I am looking forward to videos on YouTube.

[hopewell]

Hope this works

Stage setup


At the end of the main set

[ct4spinner]

Thank you for the information and the pictures. Jean-Marc Butty looks fetching.

[BobSimms]

I’m practically ecstatic to learn that she played “Man-Size”, my favorite song by her (and my favorite song by anyone in general). Hopefully it stays in the set list if/when (surely it’s a matter of ‘when’) they come to the US. Caught a few video snippets online (YouTube and Twitter/X) of a couple of the new songs and thought they sounded great, too.

[TheNightingale]

OMG, "Dress", "Man-Size", "The Garden", "Send His Love to Me"...

Here's one more where you can see the setup clearly:

Spoiler! :

What a cool set! So "The Colour of the Earth" was like an interlude between two parts of the show?

[an tha]

Wow she played new album all way through on 1st night of tour!

Looking forward to this even more now!

First part: I Inside the Old Year Dying

Prayer at the Gate
(Live debut)

Autumn Term
(Live debut)

Lwonesome Tonight
(Live debut)

Seem an I
(Live debut)

The Nether‐edge
(Live debut)

I Inside the Old Year Dying
(Live debut)

All Souls
(Live debut)

A Child’s Question, August
(Live debut)

I Inside the Old I Dying
(Live debut)

August
(Live debut)

A Child’s Question, July
(Live debut)

A Noiseless Noise
(Live debut)

Interlude

The Colour of the Earth
(Without Polly, band only)

Second part

The Glorious Land

The Words That Maketh Murder

Angelene
(First time played since 2012)

Send His Love to Me
(First time played since 2009)

The Garden
(First time played since 2008)

The Desperate Kingdom of Love
(First time played since 2013)

Man-Size
(First time played since 2008)

Dress
(First time played since 2015)

Down by the Water

To Bring You My Love

Encore:

C'mon Billy
(First time played since 2015)

White Chalk

[an tha]

Yes, thanks for the setlist. I am looking forward to videos on YouTube.

One here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTkZJi-2 ... xpbiAyMDIz

[Sebastiano Boina]

Hope this works (...)

thank you!

PJ performing songs from the first two albums is something completely unexpected: in an interview back in 2010/2011, she said she couldn't see herself performing songs written when she was 18. looks like a 180 on PJ's part, and a welcome one. Furthermore, i find the mix of songs satisfactory.

I’m practically ecstatic to learn that she played “Man-Size”, my favorite song by her (and my favorite song by anyone in general).

yep, Mansize was the first PJ Harvey song i've ever heard, and from that moment on i fell in love.


numerous videos are popping up on youtube like mushrooms:

https://youtu.be/IP6tK5ZYo-A?si=SzAJpK2kmlX_zdAj
https://youtu.be/5KAy2-7TMSM?si=OojBif9kGUI3Dn6I
https://youtu.be/sbbmxYYZU7Y?si=Z4r-ImvtwiqiNvJC

PJ says:

The stage set for the PJ Harvey tour is the work of award-winning designer Rae Smith, who made these drawings during rehearsals.

last thing: I like the whiteness theme of the band's clothes, it goes well with the album's vibe!
Polly's look reminds me of... Venus


well now i'm even more hyped for Polly The White and her magic band!

[TheNightingale]

Has anyone stumbled upon any pro-shot photographs from the gig? The only ones I've seen are audience's phone pics

[an tha]

Man-Size:

https://youtu.be/uB-ZGYw4Rtg?si=bw2M52JjGubKm4yJ

[hopewell]

Five-star review from Eamon Sweeney of the Irish Times:
https://archive.ph/udvqw

Polly Jean Harvey hasn’t performed live since a festival in Mexico City in 2017. You have to go back much further to when she previously graced an Irish stage. While Harvey did a speaking engagement at the 2013 Festival of Writing and Ideas at Borris House, Co Carlow, her last Irish live appearance was a solo show without a band at Electric Picnic in 2006.

This isn’t your usual case of a musician taking a hiatus or career break, but a performer blossoming into an even more distinguished artist. Last year, Harvey published an epic prose poem entitled Orlam. Her latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, is loosely based on this work, which is one of the first books written in the Dorset dialect in years and her second volume of poetry, following The Hollow of the Hand with the photographer Seamus Murphy in 2015.

Harvey used to soak up her inspirations from punk rock, Steve Albini, and Captain Beefheart, but now views herself as a creative in the mould of the Turner Prize-winning director and visual artist Steve McQueen, who reportedly instructed her to address a disconnection with music by focusing on the three methods of expression she loves the most – namely words, images, and sound – without any obligation to create.

She walks onstage at this historic and hallowed theatre on Dame Street just after 8pm, looking radiant and youthful in a white dress, Harvey and her current four-piece band, featuring her long-term collaborator and producer John Parish, launch into performing I Inside the Old Year Dying from start to finish live for the very first time. It has clearly been rehearsed to perfection by a singer, band, lighting designer, and crew who are on top of their game.

The stage set and backdrop is by the Olivier, Tony and OBIE award-winning set and costume designer Rae Smith. Polly and her band theatrically use benches and pieces of furniture on the stage, while a few scrawny branches of a tree is reminiscent of Waiting for Godot. Rather than Beckett’s Dublin mountains, the set reflects Harvey’s imaginative hinterland of deepest Dorset.

There is an unwritten rule that if you perform an album in its entirety you reward the faithful with a few classics. Harvey and company work their way through a bumper set of twelve jaw-dropping encores from selections culled from Let England Shake to the skeletal raucous punk of Man-Size and Dress.

Polly doesn’t utter a word until she introduces her band at the end of the show and closes the main set with To Bring You My Love. After a standing ovation, she returns to deliver C’Mon Billy and White Chalk. In addition to being a multidisciplinary artist, she is also a highly-accomplished multi-instrumentalist, playing harmonica, acoustic and electric guitars, bone-like percussion on Down By the Water, and an autoharp on The Words that Maketh Murder.

After another bow, she’s off. A dream-like evening and two hours of live music at its most magical is over in a flash.

[Sebastiano Boina]

The desperate kingdom of love:https://youtu.be/sfalvyNV240?si=Hig9vrAFG3LMHMbx
white chalk: https://youtu.be/VqEdc9H9TEk?si=Q02eQhB2YaEFh2db

goosebumps, like the first times i heard these songs.

the lights in the shows are masterfully controlled for now, fantastic work!

[revenire]

I hope people at the shows recording them get a lot of the new songs. I most want to hear those.

[revenire]

New interview full of interesting bits, and news of a US tour for fall of 2024.

https://www.vulture.com/2023/09/pj-harv ... dying.html