PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey performing live in September 2004.
Background information
Birth name	Polly Jean Harvey
Born	9 October 1969 (1969-10-09) (age 42) Bridport, Dorset, England
Origin	Yeovil, England
Genres	Alternative rock, indie rock, experimental rock, folk rock, art rock, electronica
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter, composer, artist
Years active	1988–present
Labels	Too Pure, Island
Associated acts	Automatic Dlamini, Rob Ellis, John Parish, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mick Harvey, Desert Sessions, Marianne Faithfull, Sparklehorse, Thom Yorke
Website	www.pjharvey.net
Notable instruments
Gretsch Broadkaster Gibson Firebird VII Eastwood Airline '59 Custom EP Oscar Schmidt 12 bar autoharp

Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist.^[1] Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and most recently, the autoharp.^[2]

Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini, featuring long-term collaborator John Parish, as a vocalist and saxophone player.^[3] In 1991, she formed an eponymous trio and subsequently began her professional career. The trio released two studio albums, Dry (1992) and Rid of Me (1993) before disbanding, after which Harvey continued as a solo artist. Since 1995, she has released a further six studio albums with collaborations from various musicians including John Parish, former bandmate Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, and Eric Drew Feldman and has also worked extensively with record producer Flood.

Among the accolades she has received are the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)^[4] and Let England Shake (2011)^[5] respectively—the only artist to have been awarded the prize twice—seven BRIT Award nominations, six Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Prize nominations. Rolling Stone awarded her 1992's Best New Artist and Best Singer Songwriter and 1995's Artist of the Year, and listed Rid of Me and To Bring You My Love (1995) on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.^[6] In 2011, she was awarded for Outstanding Contribution To Music at the NME Awards.^[7]

Early life

Harvey was born in Bridport, Dorset on 9 October, 1969 as the second child to Ray and Eva Harvey,^[8] a sculptor and stonemason respectively, and brought up on the family's sheep farm in Corscombe.^[9] During her childhood, she attended school in nearby Beaminster and her parents introduced her to music that would later influence her work, including blues music, Captain Beefheart and Bob Dylan.^[9]

As a teenager, Harvey began learning saxophone and joined an eight-piece instrumental group Boulogne, based in Somerset. She also had other musical endeavors during this time with folk trio The Polekats, in which she played guitar and with whom she wrote some of her earliest material, and as a rhythm guitarist in The Three Stoned Weaklings, a three-piece band formed by Paddy Ashdown, Gus Mackinlay and Graeme White.^[9] After finishing school, Harvey attended Yeovil College and studied a visual arts foundation course.^[10][9]

Music career

Automatic Dlamini: 1988–1991

In July 1988, Harvey became a member of Automatic Dlamini, a band based in Bristol and with whom she gained extensive ensemble-playing experience. Formed by John Parish in 1983, the band consisted of a rotating line-up that at various times included Rob Ellis and Ian Olliver, two later members of the PJ Harvey Trio. Harvey met Parish through a mutual friend, Jeremy Hogg, the band's slide guitarist,^[11] in 1987. Providing saxophone, guitars and background vocals, she travelled extensively during the band's early days, including performances in West Germany, Spain and Poland^[12] in order to support the band's debut studio album, The D is for Drum.^[11] A second European tour took place throughout June and July 1989. Following the tour, the band recorded Here Catch, Shouted His Father, their second studio album, between late 1989 and early 1990. This is the only Automatic Dlamini material to feature Harvey and remains unreleased,^[9] however, bootleg versions of the album are circulating.^[11] In January 1991, Harvey left the band to form her own band with former bandmates Ellis and Olliver, however, she formed lasting personal and professional relationships with certain members, especially Parish, who she has referred to as her "musical soulmate."^[13] Parish would subsequently contribute to, and sometimes co-produce, Harvey's solo studio albums and tour with her a number of times. As a duo, Parish and Harvey have recorded two collaborative albums where Parish composed the music and Harvey penned the lyrics.^[14] Additionally, Parish's girlfriend in the late 1980s was photographer Maria Mochnacz. She and Harvey became close friends and Mochnacz went on to shoot and design most of Harvey's album artwork and music videos, contributing significantly to her public image.

Harvey said of her time while in Automatic Dlamini: "I ended up not singing very much but I was just happy to learn how to play the guitar. I wrote a lot during the time I was with them but my first songs were crap. I was listening to a lot of Irish folk music at the time, so the songs were folky and full of penny whistles and stuff. It was ages before I felt ready to perform my own songs in front of other people,"^[15] and she also credits Parish for teaching her how to perform in front of audiences, saying "after the experience with John's band and seeing him perform I found it was enormously helpful to me as a performer to engage with people in the audience, and I probably did learn that from him, amongst other things."

PJ Harvey Trio: 1991–1993

In January 1991, following her departure from Automatic Dlamini, Harvey formed her own band with former bandmates Rob Ellis and Ian Olliver. Harvey decided to eponymously name the trio PJ Harvey after rejecting other names as "nothing felt right at all or just suggested the wrong type of sound"^[16] and also to allow her to continue music as a solo artist. The trio consisted of Harvey on vocals and guitars, Ellis on drums and backing vocals, and Olliver on bass. Olliver later departed to rejoin the still-active Automatic Dlamini and then went on to form The Dub Liberators. He was subsequently replaced with Steve Vaughan. The trio's "disastrous" debut performance was held at a skittle alley in Sherborne's Antelope Hotel in April 1991. Harvey later recounted the event saying: "we started playing and I suppose there was about fifty people there, and during the first song we cleared the hall. There was only about two people left. And a woman came up to us, came up to my drummer, it was only a three piece, while we were playing and shouted at him 'Don't you realize nobody likes you! We'll pay you, you can stop playing, we'll still pay you!'"^[17]

The band relocated to London in June 1991 when Harvey applied to study sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, still undecided as to her future career.^[9] During this time, the band recorded a set of demo recordings and distributed them to record labels. Independent label Too Pure agreed to release the band's debut single "Dress" in October 1991 and later signed PJ Harvey. "Dress" received mass critical acclaim upon its release and was voted Single of the Week in Melody Maker by guest reviewer John Peel, who admired "the way Polly Jean seems crushed by the weight of her own songs and arrangements, as if the air is literally being sucked out of them... admirable if not always enjoyable."^{[citation needed]} However, Too Pure provided little promotion for the single and critics claim that "Melody Maker had more to do with the success of the "Dress" single than Too Pure Records."^[18] A week after its release, the band recorded a live radio session for Peel on BBC Radio 1 on 29 October and recorded "Oh, My Lover," "Victory," "Sheela-Na-Gig," and "Water."^[19]

The following February, the trio released "Sheela-Na-Gig" as their equally-acclaimed second single and their debut studio album, Dry (1992), followed in March. Like the singles preceding it, Dry received an overwhelming international critical response. After the release of the album Harvey suffered a nervous breakdown.^[9] The album was cited by Kurt Cobain of Nirvana as his sixteenth favourite album ever in his posthumously-published Journals and also in Spin.^[20] Rolling Stone also named Harvey as Songwriter of the Year. A limited edition double LP version of Dry was released alongside the regular version of the album, containing both the original and demo versions of each track, called Dry Demonstration,and the band also received significant coverage at the Reading Festival in 1992.^[21]

Island Records signed the trio amid a major label bidding war in mid-1992 and in December 1992, the trio travelled to Cannon Falls, Minnesota in the United States to record the follow-up to Dry with "controversial" producer Steve Albini. Prior to recording with Albini, the band recorded a second session with John Peel on 22 September and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited," and two new songs "Me Jane" and "Ecstasy."^[22] The recording sessions with Albini took place at Pachyderm Recording Studio and resulted in the band's major label debut Rid of Me (1993). The album was released on 4 May, 1993 and was promoted by two main singles, "50ft Queenie" and "Man-Size." To promote the release of the album, the band began touring in the United Kingdom in May and then to the United States in June, continuing there during the summer. However, during the American leg of the tour, internal friction started to form between the members of the trio. Deborah Frost, writing for Rolling Stone, noticed "an ever widening personal gulf" between the band members, and quoted Harvey as saying "It makes me sad. I wouldn’t have got here without them. I needed them back then-badly. But I don't need them anymore. We all changed as people."^[23] Despite the tour's personal downsides, footage from live performances was compiled and released on the long-form video Reeling with PJ Harvey (1993).^[24]

The band's final tour was to support U2 in August 1993, after which the trio officially disbanded. In her final appearance on American television in September 1993, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Harvey performed a solo version of "Rid of Me." As Rid of Me sold substantially more copies than Dry, 4-Track Demos, a compilation album of demos for the album, was released in October and inaugurated her career as a solo artist.

Solo career: 1993-present

As Harvey embarked on her solo career, Harvey explored collaborations with other musicians. In 1995, she released her third studio album, To Bring You My Love, featuring former bandmate John Parish, Bad Seeds multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey and Belgian drummer Jean-Marc Butty; all of whom would continue to perform and record with Harvey throughout her career. The album was also her first material to be produced by Flood.^[25] Both a more blue-influenced and more futuristic record than its predecessors, To Bring You My Love showcased Harvey broadening her musical style to include strings, organs and synthesizers and also generated a surprise modern rock radio hit in the United States with its lead single, "Down by the Water."^[26] Three consecutive singles—"C'mon Billy," "Send His Love to Me" and "Long Snake Moan"—were also moderately successful. During the successive tours for the album, Harvey also experimented with her image and stage persona, a style she later dubbed "Joan Crawford on acid."^[26] The album was a worldwide commercial and critical success, selling over one million copies in the United Kingdom alone, according to BPI.^{[citation needed]} In the United States, the album also received a positive critical response and was voted Album of the Year by The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, USA Today, People, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Rolling Stone also named Harvey 1995's Artist of the Year ^[27] Spin also ranked the album third in The Greatest 90 Albums of the '90s,^[28] behind Nirvana's Nevermind (1991) and Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet (1990).

In 1996, following the international success of To Bring You My Love and other collaborations, Harvey began composing material that would end up on her fourth studio album, during what she referred to as "an incredibly low patch."^[29] The material diverged significantly from her former work and introduced electronica elements into her song-writing, similar to The Smashing Pumpkins Adore (1998). During recording sessions in 1997, original PJ Harvey Trio drummer Rob Ellis rejoined Harvey's band and Flood was hired again as producer. The sessions, which continued into April the following year, resulted in Is This Desire? (1998). Though originally released to mixed reviews in September 1998, the album was a success and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Alternative Music Performance.^[30] The album's lead single, "A Perfect Day Elise," was moderately successful in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 25 on the UK Single Chart,^[31] her most successful single to date.

She reunited with her old bandmate Rob Ellis and multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey – who is no relation – for her 2000 album Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea. Written in Dorset, Paris and New York, the album was a critical and commercial success, selling over one million copies worldwide and taking the Mercury Music Prize in the following year. It mixed uncharacteristically lush, melodic pop rock sounds with the gritty, thrashing, guitar-driven punk energy of her earlier records. Radiohead singer Thom Yorke was featured on three of the album's songs; he took lead vocal duties on "This Mess We're In", and provided backing vocals for two others.

In 2001 she topped a readers' poll conducted by Q magazine of the 100 Greatest Women in Rock Music. Her sixth studio album, Uh Huh Her, was released 31 May 2004. For the first time since 4-Track Demos, Harvey produced it alone and played every instrument but the drums. She told Rolling Stone "when I'm working on a new record, the most important thing is to not repeat myself ... that's always my aim: to try and cover new ground and really to challenge myself. Because I'm in this for learning."^[32]

Harvey performing live during the White Chalk tour in 2007.

In May 2006, Harvey played her first UK gig of the year, revealing that her new album would be almost entirely piano-based. Later in 2006, she released her first concert DVD, Please Leave Quietly, directed by Maria Mochnacz, which contained songs from her entire career as well as behind-the-scene video clips between performances. On 23 October 2006, she released The Peel Sessions 1991–2004. In November 2006 she started working on her seventh studio album, White Chalk, with Flood, John Parish, and Eric Drew Feldman. It was released in Europe on 24 September 2007, and in the United States on 2 October. The album marked a radical departure from her usual style, consisting mainly of piano ballads.^[33] Of this album Harvey said: "When I listen to the record I feel in a different universe, really, and I’m not sure whether it’s in the past or in the future," she says, laughing quietly. "The record confuses me, that’s what I like – it doesn’t feel of this time right now, but I’m not sure whether it’s 100 years ago or 100 years in the future. It just sounds really weird."^[34]

Her next album, Let England Shake, was released on 14 February 2011 and on 6 September 2011, won the Mercury Prize, making her the first artist to win the award twice.^[35]

Collaborations

John Parish and Harvey performing live in 2009. Parish – who Harvey describes as her "musical soulmate" – has been working with Harvey for over 20 years.

Besides her own work, she contributed to eight tracks on Vol. 9 & 10 of Josh Homme's The Desert Sessions and appeared on Nick Cave's Murder Ballads (on the song "Henry Lee" and the Bob Dylan cover "Death Is Not the End") and Tricky's Angels with Dirty Faces (on the song "Broken Homes"). She lent guitar, bass and background vocals to Sparklehorse's album It's a Wonderful Life (on the songs "Eyepennies" and "Piano Fire"). In 1996 she recorded a collaborative album Dance Hall at Louse Point with Parish under the name Polly Jean Harvey. Parish wrote all the music, and Harvey the lyrics, with the exception of the song "Is That All There Is?", which was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and made famous by Peggy Lee in 1969. Harvey has since gone on to produce Tiffany Anders' Funny Cry Happy Gift. Harvey produced, performed on and wrote five songs for Marianne Faithfull's 2004 album Before the Poison. Harvey sang vocals on two tracks of Mark Lanegan's 2004 album Bubblegum. Harvey reunited with John Parish to follow-up 1996's Dance Hall with A Woman a Man Walked By, which was released on 30 March 2009.

In January 2009, a new stage production of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler opened on Broadway, directed by Ian Rickson and starring Mary-Louise Parker in the title role, featuring an original score of incidental music written by Harvey. The production was poorly received, and little or no mention was made of Harvey's contribution.

Non-musical work

Outside her better-known musical career, Harvey appeared as Magdalena, a modern-day character based on Mary Magdalene in Hal Hartley's 1998 film The Book of Life, and had a cameo as a singing Bunny Girl in the Sarah Miles directed short A Bunny Girl's Tale. She is also an accomplished sculptor who has had pieces exhibited at the Lamont Gallery and the Bridport Arts Centre. In 2010 she was invited to be guest designer for the Summer issue of Francis Ford Coppola's literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story. The issue featured Harvey's paintings and drawings alongside short stories by Woody Allen, Ann Packer, and others.

Musical style, influence and image

Harvey has been noted to dislike repeating herself in her music, resulting in very different-sounding albums. She has experimented with such musical styles as rock, pop, electronica, and folk. She is also known for changing her appearance from album to album by altering her mode of dress or hairstyle. Each look is then incorporated into the album's artwork, music videos, and live performances. She often works closely with friend and photographer Maria Mochnacz in developing the visual style of each album.

At an early age, she was introduced by her parents to blues music, jazz and art rock, which, she told Rolling Stone in 1995, would later influence her: "I was brought up listening to John Lee Hooker, to Howlin' Wolf, to Robert Johnson, and a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart. So I was exposed to all these very compassionate musicians at a very young age, and that's always remained in me and seems to surface more as I get older. I think the way we are as we get older is a result of what we knew when we were children."^{[citation needed]} Her time was then spent listening to new romantic bands such as Soft Cell, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. In her teenage years, she became a fan of American indie rock bands like Pixies, Television and Slint, though not, as many critics have suspected, Patti Smith (a frequent comparison that Harvey dismisses as "lazy journalism"). More recently she has claimed inspiration from Russian folk music, Italian soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone and classical composers like Arvo Pärt, Samuel Barber and Henryk Górecki.

Around the time of To Bring You My Love, Harvey began experimenting with her image and adopting an elaborate, theatrical, almost cabaret edge to her live shows. Where she once performed on stage in simple black leggings, turtleneck sweaters and Doc Martens, she now began performing in ballgowns, pink catsuits, wigs and garish, vampish make-up – including false eyelashes and fingernails – and using stage props like a broomstick and a Ziggy Stardust-style flashlight microphone. She denied the influence of drag, Kabuki or performance art on her new image, a look she affectionately dubbed "Joan Crawford on acid" in a 1996 Spin interview, but admitted that "it's that combination of being quite elegant and funny and revolting, all at the same time, that appeals to me. I actually find wearing make-up like that, sort of smeared around, as extremely beautiful. Maybe that’s just my twisted sense of beauty."^[26] However, she later told Dazed & Confused magazine, "that was kind of a mask. It was much more of a mask than I’ve ever had. I was very lost as a person, at that point. I had no sense of self left at all", and has never again repeated the overt theatricality of the To Bring You My Love tour. She also sang the theme song from Philip Ridley's adult fairy tale, The Passion of Darkly Noon.

Personal life

Offstage, Harvey has acquired a reputation for eccentricity to match her music; for example, Steve Albini claimed she ate nothing but potatoes while making Rid of Me.^[36] Harvey describes herself as "an extremely quiet person, who doesn't go out much, doesn't talk to people", and rejects the notion that her songs are autobiographical. She told The Times in 1998, "The tortured artist myth is rampant. People paint me as some kind of black witchcraft-practising devil from hell, that I have to be twisted and dark to do what I am doing. It's a load of rubbish". She later told Spin, "Some critics have taken my writing so literally to the point that they'll listen to 'Down by the Water' and believe I have actually given birth to a child and drowned her." In 2006, Blender included her in their list of the hottest women of rock, calling her a "blues-rock sorceress trafficking in social politics and dark, tormented songwriting."^[37] In a 2007 interview, Harvey stated that she would like to reunite with fellow artists Tori Amos and Björk, as all three were featured on the cover of Q magazine in 1994.^[38]

Harvey had a relationship with Nick Cave in 1996 and collaborated with him on two songs on the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' album, Murder Ballads. Their subsequent break-up also influenced Cave's follow-up album, The Boatman's Call with songs such as "Into My Arms", "West Country Girl" and "Black Hair" being specifically about her. She has one older brother, Saul, and four nieces and nephews through him. Harvey has said she would like to have children, adding, "I wouldn't consider it unless I was married. I would have to meet someone that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. That's the only person who I would want to be the father of my children. Maybe that will never happen. I obviously see it in a very rational way but I'd love to have children."^[39]

In April 2008, she was a guest on Private Passions – the biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3^[40] – and on the show, selected some of her favourite music, including pieces by Arvo Pärt, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Howe Gelb and Nina Simone.

Discography

Main article: PJ Harvey discography

Studio albums Dry (1992) Rid of Me (1993) To Bring You My Love (1995) Is This Desire? (1998) Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) Uh Huh Her (2004) White Chalk (2007) Let England Shake (2011) Compilation albums 4-Track Demos (1993) The Peel Sessions 1991–2004 (2006) Collaborations with John Parish Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996) A Woman a Man Walked By (2009)

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Further reading

• Blandford, J. R. (2004). PJ Harvey Siren Rising. London: Omnibus. ISBN 1 84449 433 0. OCLC: 56541646. 
• Frost, Deborah (19 August 1993). "Primed and Ticking: PJ Harvey beat the sophomore jinx and get their mojo workin' with an American tour and a powerful new album, "Rid of Me"". Rolling Stone (0663): pp. 52–55. 
• Sandall, R (23 September 2007). "PJ Harvey steps into the light". Music (The Times). http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2500051.ece. Retrieved 24 September 2007. 
• Stieven-Taylor, Alison (2007). Rock Chicks: The Hottest Female Rockers from the 1960's to Now. Sydney: Rockpool Publishing. ISBN 978-1-921295-06-5. 
• Strauss, Neil (28 December 1995). "PJ Harvey". Rolling Stone (0663): pp. 68–79, 144–145. 
• Udovitch, Mim (14 December 2000). "PJ Harvey". Rolling Stone (0663): p. 51. 

External links

• PJ Harvey – official site
• PJ Harvey on Myspace

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Name	Harvey, Pj
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Short description	English singer-songwriter
Date of birth	9 October 1969
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