PJ Harvey

Adele wins two Ivor Novello Awards

Music Gossip

17 May 2012

Adele picked up two prizes at the 57th Ivor Novello Awards today (17.05.12). The 'Someone Like You' hitmaker - who was nominated in four categories - was honoured with the accolades for PRS for Music Most Performed Work and Songwriter of the Year…

PJ Harvey - Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Sun 4 Sep 2011

Assured and powerful set from artist in command of her own medium

16 Sep 2011

Forty-eight hours after this concert finished, PJ Harvey would have her second Mercury Prize safely in hand. While the award was an open field this year in terms of the albums submitted, the assurance and power in Harvey’s set here spoke of an artist…

PJ Harvey throws out majority of songs

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8 Sep 2011

PJ Harvey throws out 75 per cent of the songs she writes. The 'Written on the Forehead' singer - who became the first artist to win the Mercury prize for the second time earlier this week, for her eighth album 'Let England Shake' - rejects a lot of…

PJ Harvey hopes for third Mercury win

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7 Sep 2011

PJ Harvey hopes she can win the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for a third time. 'The Words That Maketh Murder' singer became the first artist to take home the award twice - for her eighth album 'Let England Shake' - last night (06.09.11) which she said…

PJ Harvey set for 2011 UK tour

Dates include Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

24 Aug 2011

Since releasing her caustic debut, Dry, in 1992, PJ Harvey has been hailed as a powerfully emotive and dazzlingly uncompromising artist, equally capable of shaking your bones and getting stuck in your head. As ambitious as she is forward-thinking…

PJ Harvey finds modern pop unoriginal

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8 Aug 2011

PJ Harvey finds contemporary music "largely unoriginal". The 'Words That Maketh Murder' hitmaker - who is joint favourite to win the Barclaycard Mercury Prize this year for her album 'Let England Shake' - does not listen to modern music because she…

Crate Digging: Before he lays waste to the Slam tent techno titan Dave Clarke takes us though his favourite albums

22 Jul 2011

I’m going to go completely vinyl, as you are probably aware I haven’t actually played professionally with vinyl for at least nine years so I’m going to go ‘back in the box’. I’ve had Devo Freedom of Choice (Warner Brothers) since it came out, I…

PJ Harvey drained by songs

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22 Jul 2011

PJ Harvey says performing her songs is "draining" because she puts so much emotion into them. The 'Words That Maketh Murder' hitmaker - who is joint favourite to win the Barclaycard Mercury Prize this year for her latest album 'Let England Shake'…

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

8 Feb 2011

(Island) There she goes, marching forth, marking irretrievable distance between her military coat-tails and the rest of the contemporary rock battalion flagging in her wake. Again. A glance at the track-list and a cursory scan through PJ Harvey’s…

PJ Harvey to receive top NME honour

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8 Feb 2011

PJ Harvey will be presented with the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution To Music prize at the NME Awards. The British singer-songwriter - who won the Mercury Prize in 2001 - will receive the evening's top honour at the music magazine's…

'War songwriter' PJ Harvey

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28 Jan 2011

PJ Harvey aims to be a "war songwriter". The 'Let England Shake' singer's latest album deals with many different aspects of war through its lyrics, which required a great deal of research into historical conflicts, as well as listening to songs…

PJ Harvey to release new album Let England Shake

Hear Written On The Forehead and The Words That Maketh Murder

12 Jan 2011

PJ Harvey's eighth studio album ‘Let England Shake’ is set to be released on the 14th February 2011 through Island Records. 'Written On The Forehead' is the first taste of what Harvey has been creating, after a lull of over three years since her last…

PJ Harvey's wordy two years

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11 Jan 2011

PJ Harvey spent two years writing only words in preparation for her new album. The singer and songwriter is poised to release her eighth album, 'Let England Shake', next month and said she has only now reached the level of confidence in her writing…

PJ Harvey to Let England Shake

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23 Nov 2010

PJ Harvey has announced a new album, 'Let England Shake', to be released in February. The 'Good Fortune' singer - full name Polly Jean Harvey - will release her eighth album on Valentine's Day (14.02.11) which she has revealed was partly recorded in…

PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By

19 Mar 2009

ROCK From topless indie pin-up to tormented folk mythologist, cult pop monarch Polly Jean Harvey has long exposed and scrutinised the predicaments of the human condition. She’s populated copious roles over her swaggering, nigh-on 20-year career…

Sound Advice - 10 Best gigs: Scotland (March–May) 

1 Mar 2009

Franz Ferdinand Thu 5 Mar, 7pm, Barrowlands, Glasgow (H5), 0141 552 4601, £20 The cream of Scottish indie play their home town; it doesn’t get much better than this. The Xcerts Sun 8 Mar, 8pm, Kings Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow (E3), 0141 221…

PJ Harvey - album review

Indie

4 Oct 2007

Over the years we have come to expect the unexpected from this Yeovil-born indie legend. However, no one could have prepared us for the radical departure of White Chalk; eleven stark, stripped down ballads inspired by Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Arvo Part…