Any PJ Harvey fans in the comm?

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First vid from her upcoming Feb 2011 album Let England Shake:

PJ Harvey - The Last Living Rose

Wikipedia

Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is a English musician and singer-songwriter. She was raised in Corscombe, Dorset and Yeovil, Somerset. Growing up, her parents were both fans of American blues music. Their record collection exposed Harvey not only to the blues but also to Captain Beefheart. Both the blues and Beefheart would become major influences on Harvey’s own musical style.

Harvey is primarily a vocalist and guitarist, but is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and autoharp. She began her professional career in the early 1990s by forming a band she named PJ Harvey. She recorded her first two albums with this trio, and when they broke up she continued as a solo artist. Since 1995 she has recorded her albums with various musicians including John Parish, Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman. She has also worked extensively with the producer Flood.
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PJ Harvey - Water live @ Paris Grand Rex

PJ Harvey - Interview 1995 - Toronto

Good Fortune - PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey Pitchfork 2007 Interview

Earlier this year, PJ Harvey released her eighth LP, White Chalk, and scheduled two American concerts, one in New York and one in Los Angeles. The afternoon following her New York show, Pitchfork talked to Harvey about touring alone, playing piano, and writing scary songs.

Pitchfork: People seem easily intimidated by you. Are you ever surprised that more listeners and critics aren’t able to separate art from its creator?

Harvey: I suppose I've just got very used to it now. The only time it surprised me was when I first started out, in 1990, 1991. It seemed really odd to me that when I would meet people for the first time, they [would be] a little guarded. I never associate the creator with the piece of the work, or [think of them] as the piece of work. Probably because I [create art] myself. If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I think that my work shows many, many different sides. There's a lot of humor, a lot of gentleness. It's not just aggression. And so I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate. MORE

PJ Harvey - "Dress" (Live)

PJ Harvey – Interview on HipOnline

Which is your preference: writing, recording or performing live?

PJ Harvey: If I had to put in order of preference, writing, recording or performing, I think, without a shadow of a doubt, that I would say performing because that is for me where the music makes sense. For me music is something that is intangible and I like the beauty of the fact that its moving in time and you can’t nail it down and you can’t pin it down. And I always think that songs are at their most beautiful when they are performed live and it just passes by you in the air and then its gone. And you have one of those sensations that that was a beautiful moment in time and it passed through and its gone. And sometimes when you are just driving around you have a sensation like that, of just being overwhelmed by something beautiful and that feeling, like a taste in your mouth, is just gone. That’s why music is endlessly fascinating and untamable to me. So that is why the performance of music would come first but also because it is such an enjoyable thing for me and to see the enjoyment that it can give very directly. You know, when you make a record, you don’t actually see the reaction of people when they are listening to that record or what it does for them, but when you are playing in front of people that are visibly getting lost in the moment and you are too, it’s really an uplifting and life affirming experience.MORE


PJ Harvey - To bring you my love

Recently she did a collaboration with John Parrish

PJ Harvey & John Parish - Black Hearted Love

Also dueted with Thom Yorke of Radiohead:

pj harvey & thom yorke 'this mess we're in'