PJ Harvey – Interview. PJ Harvey: Well, the record is dealing with a lot of things that are happening in the world right now-- conflict, shifts in power, the change in society and in countries' relations to each other. Q&A with Polly Discusses playing piano, live performance and experimenting interview live sets 2007 part 4 download the full set . She clutches her chest and laughs. There had to be hope amongst disaster. So I was trying to find words and sing from a very human point of view, because that's something we all have in common. The only personal detail I can remember extracting is her unexpected love of Wife Swap. PJ Harvey & John Parish; John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey; merge all; Consumer Guide Reviews: Dry [Indigo, 1992] Since she doesn't fancy comparisons to Sinead or Kate Bush--"I'm like anyone as long as they're female. Polly Jean Harvey arrives fully formed as a songwriter on PJ Harvey's debut album, Dry.Borrowing its primitive attack from post-punk guitar rock and its form from the blues, Dry is a forceful collection of brutally emotional songs, highlighted by Harvey's deft lyricism and startling voice, as well as her trio's muscular sound. "She comes from an art school ethos," says Paul McGuinness, who has been managing Harvey since she supported his other clients, U2, in 1993. Miranda Sawyer is joined for a rare interview by PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy to talk about their film A Dog Called Money, a uniquely intimate … 4269. "I can remember looking out of the hotel window and seeing armoured vehicles driving up the street and the Pentagon on fire, so of course everything took on an entirely different perspective. "I think as a creative artist it's crucial to be open – to feel. Some may just be poems or short prose, some may become songs. PH: Mmmm. PJ Harvey's reissue of her 'Dry' demos show how she developed a unique vision for her career early on. 'England', for example, espouses a love and hate relationship with her country, claiming "I love England" one moment and bemoaning its "bitter taste" the next. "There wouldn't be any point in me trying to persuade her to take the steps that I thought were necessary to get her into football stadiums," says Paul McGuinness. - was that specifically inspired by current events? PJ Harvey: Caught in the Act Interview by Susan Corrigan, i-D, September 1995 POLLY JEAN HARVEY IS AN ICONOCLAST WHOSE MUSIC INSPIRES ADULATION WHILE HER IMAGE INSPIRES SPECULATION. – a goofy joke in Cochran's Summertime Blues half a century ago and a bitter one now — an ocean away in New York the UN Security Council was debating what to do about the rebellion in Libya. Do you see this album as a love-letter to England, or is it much more complicated than that? She indicates a volume of Harold Pinter's poetry that she has brought with her. She maintains her sense of mystery, which serves her art but leaves anyone who loves that art wanting to know more about the person who creates it. If they've got dark hair it's even better"--perhaps she'd prefer Cream or the Doors. "I can't recall," she says, unconvincingly. Just simple things like learning that when I come to approach my work every day there's a certain opening that has to take place, and then when I finish my work for the day I give myself time to close that down again. ", I wonder how she was affected by researching Let England Shake. I'm getting that feeling – just reaching the end of every poem, going 'Oh my God!'" "There was so much going on. TS Eliot of course. Like White Chalk, Let England Shake has an ancient quality – in the words of one song, "the grey, damp filthiness of ages and battered books/ Fog rolling down behind the mountains/ And on the graveyards and dead sea captains." A dark, sleek mahogany table separates Polly Harvey from The Quietus. "I've been writing songs for many years, and you become more accustomed to taking care of that – knowing how much to expose yourself, knowing how to pace yourself. PH: Things that I feel need to be said that aren't being said. 'Burning in the ovens in world war two.' People don't allow the metaphor, the imagery, all the things that you work with as a writer… standing completely outside, as the narrator of a story. That's what I wanted to be heard – people who had been eyewitnesses through all different periods in history. I certainly can get very angry about things I hear day to day, and shout at the radio, shout at the television, or actually feel sick or feel like weeping. Still, it's a surprising image: Polly Harvey on a demo, holding a placard. Circa To Bring You My Love three years later, when she adopted a lurid, glam-grotesque look she described as "Joan Crawford on acid," she was asked about eating disorders. So it was a difficult process, particularly when writing this record, because I feel like I've just begun on this whole different way of using words and addressing different issues. PJ Harvey PJ Harvey - PJ Harvey Interview . For a list of stockists, visit the Stool Pigeon website You just close up all your edges and carry on about your day. Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini as a vocalist, guitarist and saxophone player. "Or indeed any of the songs on the record – how you can apply them to different situations. On 9/11 (or "September 11, 2001" as she puts it with typical formality) she was on tour in Washington DC. In the studio, Harvey uses various Marshall, Fender, Mesa-Boogie and Baldwin amps, as listed in an interview that appears on her website. This, in some ways, feels like the start of a whole body of work yet to come. We don't tend to draw distinctions between artist and celebrity. More a purity of voice - not trying to adopt anything, particularly. INTERVIEW: Seamus Murphy on his travels with PJ Harvey December 18, 2020 December 18, 2020 John Soltes 0 Comments Film Forum , PJ Harvey , Seamus Murphy Photo: PJ Harvey, the acclaimed singer-songwriter, is the subject of the new documentary PJ Harvey: A …