Picture This – PJ HARVEY At CABARET VERT Festival 2024 In France
CABARET VERT FESTIVAL
Charleville-Mézières, France
15 August 2024
Great poster to announce the event.
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PJ: Instagram
I Inside the Old Year Dying
PJ HARVEY’s Wonderful Tiny Desk Concert This Day
17 November 2023
Tiny Desk Concerts is a video series of live concerts organised by
NPR Music at the work desk of host, musician and media personality
Bob Boilen in Washington, D.C. The series started in 2008.
All sorts of music genres was/is featured, starting artists and a series
of big names such as Sharon Van Etten, Yo La Tengo, The National, Jake Bugg,
Wilco, Coldplay, and The Flamings Lips (full list here) did their acoustic thing
in a small, yes, very tiny little place.
Today singer-songwriter legend PJ HARVEY (10 albums since 1988, aged 54) was
the guest. She did a 6-song set, 5 pieces from her new album I Inside the Old Year
Dying and one oldie.
“I Inside the Old I Dying”
“A Noiseless Noise”
“A Child’s Question, August”
“I Inside the Old Year Dying”
“White Chalk”
Her performance is nothing less than wonderful, gripping and masterly.
Down to earth, genuine, and wholehearted.
Enjoy.
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PJ: Instagram – Linktree
PJ HARVEY Announced Massive Open Air Show In LONDON In 2024
PJ HARVEY Invited JOHNNY MARR On Stage For 3 Songs Last Night In Manchester
Last July PJ HARVEY released her 10th album, titled
I Inside the Old Year Dying (you can stream it below).
NME said: “The Dorset-born musician’s first album since 2016 is both elusive
and mesmerising. It takes a little time to immerse yourself in Harvey’s world,
but once there, you won’t want to leave.”
She’s on tour now to promote the album. Last night, she played
the 2nd of two consecutive nights at the Albert Hall in Manchester.
PJ invited former The Smiths‘ guitar hero Johnny Marr (who joins
someone on stage every other week) for these 3 (old) songs.
– C’MON BILLY –
(From 1995 album ‘Bring You My Love’)
– WHITE CHALK –
(Title track from her 2007 LP)
– THE DESPERATE KINGDOM OF LOVE –
(From 2004 album ‘Uh Uh Her’)
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PJ: Instagram
Enigma Is Her Middle Name – PJ HARVEY Released Her 10th Album ‘I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING’ Today
7 July 2023
Artwork album
PJ HARVEY has her 10th LP, named I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING
out today. Order info here.
PJ: “After many years of work I am very happy to release this collection of new songs.
It was a difficult album to make and took time to find its strongest form, but it has
finally become all I hoped for it to be.”
Press statement: I Inside the Old Year Dying marks her first release in seven years, following UK number 1 LP The Hope Six Demolition Project. On this album, which was recorded with long-time creative collaborators John Parish and Flood, PJ Harvey builds
a sonic universe somehow located in a space between life’s opposites, and between
recent history and the ancient past. Scattered with biblical imagery and references to Shakespeare, all of these distinctions ultimately dissolve into something profoundly uplifting and redemptive.
NME says: “The album follows the life of a young girl, Ira-Abel Rawles, as she navigates a thorny path from childhood to adolescence. It’s set within an ever-changing landscape – like the one Harvey came from, and still inhabits, today – and it sounds like it’s from another era thanks to Harvey enunciating in dense, archaic Dorset dialect. Words like “drisk”, “drush” and “gawley” roll lushly from Harvey’s tongue, while field recordings of the surrounding countryside make it feel like Harvey’s most immersive album yet. “I think the album is about searching, looking… and seeking meaning,” Harvey said recently. While the meaning part is sometimes tough to decipher – far more so than her previous work – it’s not the answer here that’s important but the journey. It takes a little time to immerse yourself in Harvey’s world, but once there, you won’t want to leave.”. Score: 4/5.
TUTV: It’s hard, near impossible, to get into the dark corners of Harvey‘s mind, it always was. And this new record is no exception to it, unless you pick some things up here and there when she talks to the press about the LP, like here in an interview with British newspaper The Guardian. Enigma is her middle name, lyrically and sonically. But it’s
such a thrill to get into a PJ album, on repeat, and TRY to get to the core of it.
Singles/clips: A Child’s Question, August / I Inside The Old I Dying
– I INSIDE THE OLD I DYING –
– A CHILD’S QUESTION, AUGUST –
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All tour dates sold-out despite the very expensive ticket prices.
PJ HARVEY About Working On Her New Album
7 July 2023
You still have it, PJ.
Full interview with British newspaper The Guardian here.
New LP I Inside The Old Year Dying is out tomorrow, 7 July.
TURN UP THE VOLUME’s JUKEBOX 2023 – 10 New Tracks Added Every Week
Every week 10 new rad tracks added
In order to not miss a beat Turn Up The Volume scans the musical
horizon daily (doing it for years now, actually) to stay in touch with
all new things sonically great and shares the results on a weekly
basis.
Check the 10 new rad tracks just
added to this rad 2023 playlist.
1. ‘Gorilla Guerilla’ by MANTRA OF THE COSMOS (UK)
The smoking punk-disco debut by new supergroup with Shaun Ryder
and Bez (Happy Mondays/Black Grape), Andy Bell (Ride/Oasis) and drummer
Zak Starkey, yes Ringo‘s son, who played with Oasis and The Who among others.
Party time!
2. ‘Road To Joy’ by PETER GABRIEL (UK)
Gabriel keeps on dropping singles from his upcoming i/o
(release date still unknown). This one is a funktatsic upper.
3. ‘Gilla Monster’ by KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD (Australia)
Dragonic slam dunk from the Aussies 24th LP in 13 years (!) out next Friday.
4. ‘Undergrowth’ by SQUID (Brighton, UK)
Top piece from the British post-punks’ second,
highly lauded, LP O Monolith.
5. ‘This Town’ by VALA (Manchester, UK)
British gunslingers who infuse pop melodies and lyrics with indie riffs
and a nu-wave feel. On This Town – a bang-on cut from their debut EP
I Love The Sound – the swagger of NYC’s darlings The Strokes‘ comes
to mind.
6. ‘They Live In My Head’ by BUSH TETRAS (NY)
Tense and feverish serpent of a track, going forth and back, from NYC’s
indie heroes BUSH TETRAS (1979–1983, 1995–1998, 2005–present). It’ll
feature on their new longplayer out, named Things I Put Together, landing on 23 July.
7. ‘The Chasm’ by JUSTINE AND THE UNCLEAN (Boston, MA)
Garage power-pop-punk juice from this Boston hit team’s
brand-new fireworks album The Signal Light
8. ‘Mine’ by CLAUDIA CAPPELLETTI
With this captivating vocal pearl, Italy-born songstress Cappelletti wants to inspire and unite all the people around the world to fight for the rights for women to live free from violence and discrimination, to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical.
9. ‘I Inside The Old I Dying’ by PJ HARVEY (UK)
The title track – a mesmeric reverie – from PJ’s 10th LP,
coming up on 7 July.
10. ‘Otherworld’ by CELESTIAL NORTH (Scotland)
The life affirming and glorious dreamscape title track from this
compelling artist’s debut album Otherworld, out on the 7th of July.
Steam to Spotify to stream them all.
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PJ HARVEY Shares The Mesmeric Title Track From Her New Upcoming Album And Also Tour Dates
New striking strokes
7 June 2023
Last month, PJ HARVEY spread the news of the arrival of a new LP, on her socials.
It’s her 10th and is entitled I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING. It lands on 7 July.
Pre-order info here.
Artwork new album
PJ: “After many years of work I am very happy to release this collection of new songs.
It was a difficult album to make and took time to find its strongest form, but it has
finally become all I hoped for it to be.”
Along with the news PJ shared the first single, named
A Child’s Question, August . A somber and very magnetic piece.
Today the title track went online. A reflective reverie that wanders in the same
mysterious place as the first single. My ears and my gut-feeling tell me that another masterly PJ Harvey opus is waiting around the corner.
PJ: “This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until the very last day in the studio. Over the previous five weeks we had tried so many times to capture it and failed, and/but then John reinvented the feel of the guitar pattern. As he was demonstrating it in the control room, Flood handed me a microphone and pressed record whilst I sat next to John trying to work out how to sing to it. The result somehow captures the ethereal and melancholic longing I was looking for. In the lyric everyone is waiting for the savior to reappear – everyone and everything anticipates the arrival of this figure of love and transformation. There is a sense of sexual longing and awakening and of moving from one realm into another – from child to adult, from life to death and the eternal.”
Watch/listen.
PJ HARVEY Announced Her 10th LP – Listen To Ominous Lead Single ‘A CHILD’S QUESTION, AUGUST’
26 April 2023
Artwork new album
Only 2 days after she teased new music on her socials PJ HARVEY announced
the arrival of a new LP. It’s her 10th and is named I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING.
It lands on 7 July. Pre-order info here.
PJ: “After many years of work I am very happy to release this collection of new songs.
It was a difficult album to make and took time to find its strongest form, but it has
finally become all I hoped for it to be.”
Press statement: I Inside the Old Year Dying marks her first release in seven years, following UK number 1 LP The Hope Six Demolition Project. On this album, which was recorded with long-time creative collaborators John Parish and Flood, PJ Harvey builds
a sonic universe somehow located in a space between life’s opposites, and between
recent history and the ancient past. Scattered with biblical imagery and references to Shakespeare, all of these distinctions ultimately dissolve into something profoundly uplifting and redemptive.
Lead single: A CHILD’S QUESTION, AUGUST
This new piece resonates like a slow-downed
track from her ‘Let England Shake‘ album.
Ominous, somber but also quite magnetic.