PJ HARVEY On A Roll With ‘DRESS’ At GLASTONBURY 2024
POLLY JEAN HARVEY on a roasting roll at Glastonbury Fest 2024.
with Dress from her sublime 1992 album Dry. That is 32 years ago!
Time flies at the speed of a comet out of control.
C’mon, PJ.
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PJ Harvey
PJ HARVEY About Interviews
15 February 2026
Only music, folks.
PJ HARVEY Released Her Remarkable Album ‘LET ENGLAND SHAKE’ Today 15 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
14 February 2026
The now 56-year-old, unique songstress PJ Harvey released her 8th LP
LET ENGLAND SHAKE on 14 February 2011, today 15 years ago. One of
my beloved PJ albums.
The record was written over a 2+1⁄2-year period, and recorded in five weeks
at a church in Dorset (UK) during April and May 2010. It peaked at #8 in the UK
and #32 in the US.
PJ: “I knew that I wanted the music to offset the weight of the words. That was very important.
I wanted the music to be full of energy and to be very uplifting and unifying, almost insightful
in its creation of energy.
It took me a long time to find out how to sing such words because to sing it in the wrong voice would have given it the wrong feeling– maybe too self-important and dogmatic. I wanted the songs to be much more ambiguous than that. This was the way that the language was best moved from lip to ear.”
Pitchfork said: “On Let England Shake, Harvey is not often upfront or forceful.
Her lyrics, though, are as disturbing as ever. Here, she paints vivid portraits of war,
and her sharp focus on the up-close, hand-to-hand devastation of World War I,
depicting “soldiers falling like lumps of meat, provides a fitting setting for today’s battlegrounds.”
KEY SINGLE
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PJ HARVEY Released ‘GOOD FORTUNE’ Single This Day 25 Years Ago Today
Top singles from the past
14 November 2020
Songstress and musician par excellence (since 1988) PJ HARVEY
released the single Single: GOOD FORTUNE from her 5th album
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea 25 years ago, on
13 November 2000.
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Tell us a story, PJ.
PJ HARVEY – Her Sterling 5th Album ‘STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA’ Came Out 25 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
24 October 2025
Singer-songwriter heroine PJ HARVEY (aged 56 now) released her sterling 5th LP
STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA, her love tribute to New York City,
on 24 October 2000, today 25 years ago.
Upon its release, the album received acclaim from most music critics and earned Harvey several accolades, including the 2001 Mercury Prize. It spent 17 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, and has been certified platinum in the United Kingdom and Australia.
NME said: “A magnificent, life-affirming opus.”
Singles/clips.
– GOOD FORTUNE –
– THIS IS LOVE –
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Album Tracks That Should Have Been Single – ‘LONG SNAKE MOAN’ (1995) By PJ HARVEY
26 March 2025
Artist: PJ HARVEY
Song: LONG SNAKE MOAN
Album: To Bring You My Love
Her 3rd one witch turned 30 last February.
Ferocious psych-o-delic hellraiser.
PJ HARVEY Released One Of Her Best Albums ‘TO BRING YOU MY LOVE’ 30 Years Ago Today
27 February 2025
The ever amazing PJ HARVEY released her 3rd LP TO BRING YOU MY LOVE
on 27 February 1995, 30 years ago today. Her first collaboration with John Parish.
It was her breakthrough longplayer, heavily promoted by her major label Island
Records. In my book one of her best achievements. All killers, no fillers. Intense,
sensual, compelling high-quality songwriting. The album reached #12 in the UK
and #40 in the US.
Rolling Stone wrote at the time: “Harvey has ambitions to remake rock & roll and
its myths in her own guise. So what’s this young, white, bluesdrenched woman doing?
In attempting to create a sexual landscape as charged as the Midnight Rambler’s,
Harvey envisions a teeming underworld where she is victim, aggressor and accomplice,
song by song.” Full review here – Score: 4/5
Singles: Down By The Water / C’mon Billy / Send His Love To Me
– DOWN BY THE WATER –
– C’MON BILLY –
– SEND HIS LOVE TO ME –
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Instagram – Linktree – All Albums
BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 25 In 2025
Back in time
30 December 2024
Band: PRIMAL SCREAM
Album: XTRMNTR
6th one, #3 in the UK.
AllMusic: “XTRMNTR is a nasty, fierce realization of an entire
world that has also lost the plot. It’s simply a protest, sonically
as well as lyrically, and maybe this would be a fine time to once
again rally behind something worthwhile.”
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Artist: PJ HARVEY
Album: Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
Her 5th longplayer. #23 in the UK. Platinum in the US.
NME: “A magnificent, life-affirming opus.”
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Band: THE WHITE STRIPES
Album: De Stijl
The duo’s 2nd one. No. 137
in the UK. No. 38 in the US.
Rolling Stone: “Feisty and clever. Like everything about the White Stripes,
the album proves that you don’t need bombast to make a blues explosion.”
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Band: RADIOHEAD
Album: Kid A
4th LP. No. 1 in the UK, US, Ireland,
Scotland, New Zealand and Canada.
The Guardian: “Even listeners raised on krautrock or
Ornette Coleman will find Kid A a mystifying experience.”
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Artist: RICHARD ASHCROFT
Album: Alone With Everybody
Solo debut.
NME: “Ashcroft’s newly discovered stability has done nothing
to blunt his powers of communication or reduce his belief in
the apocalyptic potential of music.”
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Band: SHELLAC
Album: 1000 Hurts
3rd full length.
AllMusic: “True to Shellac form, the record is a sound purchase.
Within the domain of atonal, anti-commercial rock & roll, very
few are on their level.”
R.I.P. Steve Albini.
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Band: THE DELGADOS
Album: The Great Eastern
3rd longplayer. #12 in the UK, #37 in
their home country Scotland.
DIS: The Great Eastern is a majestic
journey of astounding beauty.
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Band: GRANDADDY
Album: The Sophtware Slump
Second LP.
The New York Times: “A heart-achingly beautiful requiem for
a culture in which progress and technology have led to alienation
and disposability”.
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Band: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
Album: Rated R
Second one. #16 in the US,
#54 in the UK.
AllMusic: “R is mellower, trippier, and more arranged than its predecessor, making
its point through warm fuzz-guitar tones, ethereal harmonies, vibraphones, horns,
and even the odd steel drum.”
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Band: AT THE DRIVE IN
Album: Relationship Of Command
Their 3rd. #33 in the UK,
#116 in the US.
BBC Music: “Mesmerising. A statement of
grand intent that could never be followed.”
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BIG BLASTS FROM THE PAST – 10 Classic Albums Turning 30 In 2025
28 December 2024
Band: OASIS
Album: (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Their 2nd one. The best-selling
album of the 90s in the UK.
Rolling Stone said: “What’s the Story is more than a natural progression, it’s
a bold leap forward that displays significant musical and personal growth.”
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Band: RADIOHEAD
Album: The Bends
Their second LP. It peaked at
#7 in the UK and #88 in the US.
NME wrote: “Radiohead clearly resolved to make an album
so stunning it would make people forget their own name,
never mind ‘Creep’.”
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Artist: PJ HARVEY
Album: To Bring You My Love
Her 3rd one. #12 in the UK.
The Independent (British newspaper): “Harvey’s performance makes the record stand out from its peers. A threatening, nightmarish creature. Imagine Siouxsie and the Bad Seeds”
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Band: BLACK GRAPE
Featuring 2 Happy Mondays.
Bez and Shaun Ryder.
Album: It’s Great When You’re Straight…
Their debut longplayer. No. 1 in the UK.
VOX (British music monthly): “Black Grape buzz with the
life-affirming, innovative, fuck-you spirit of true rock’n’roll”.
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Artist: TRICKY
Album: Maxinquaye
The debut of former
Massive Attack member.
Q (British music monthly): “A highly inventive and intoxicating collection.
With this debut, Tricky proves himself to be more challenging and eclectic
than his peers”.
PlAY
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Band: PULP
Album: Different Class
The 5th one of the Sheffield, led by Jarvis Cocker.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 44 in the USA.
Melody Maker (former British weekly): “Bloody essential. The album’s title
alone announces that Cocker’s broadened his scope, has another axe to grind:
social
antagonism.”
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Band: LEFTFIELD
Album: LEFTISM
London-based duo’s
debut LP.
NME said: “There’s a scope and spirit, an energy and a madness to ‘Leftism’ which’ll
make it one of the few dance derived that’ll stay up there, bouncing around in the great
echo chamber of futurity for years.
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Band: GARBAGE
Album: Garbage
The Scottish/American team’s 1st one.
No. 1 in the UK, No. 20 in the US.
AllMusic: “Garbage’s self-titled debut has all the trappings of alternative rock, off-kilter arrangements, occasional bursts of noise, a female singer with a thin, airy voice but it
comes off as pop, thanks to the glossy production courtesy of drummer Butch Vig.”
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Band: THE SMASHING PUMKINGS
Album: Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
3rd longplayer, a double one. No. 1 in the US, and the UK.
Time USA said: “The group’s most ambitious and accomplished work yet. One gets the feeling that the band charged ahead on gut instincts; the sheer scope of the album (28 songs) didn’t allow for second-guessing or contrivance.”
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Band: THE CHARLATANS
Album: THE CHARLATANS
Their 4th LP. #1 in the UK.
NME wrote: “It feels unequivocally like a statement of intent. With the various
influences, the band was capable of absorbing the sensibility wholesale, while
leaving the incriminating specifics alone.”
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