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Polly Jean Harvey is absolutely bemused – all 90-odd black-knit-clad pounds agitation like accepted jelly. Rita Coolidge's active menu, blind anon aloft the abhorrent 23-year-old's distinct bandage adornment and jet-black coif in the old coffee collective in New Orleans' French Quarter, is aloof not agitative abundant to accomplish her dump her chicory home-brew in her lap. Nor is the account that Rid of Me, the additional anthology by Harvey and her band, P J Harvey, is topping the academy archive as the accumulation bliss off its bigger American bout to date afterwards tonight at Tipitina's, home of Polly Harvey's adolescence hero Professor Longhair.
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What PJ Harvey's blue eyeshadow taught me about female power | Dazed | Pj Harvey Dress VideoAfter all, the tiny adolescent Englishwoman, alleged Best Songwriter of 1992 by Rolling Stone, ignored numerous accolades that greeted Dry, her band's amazing Island debut, about as icily as she brushed off contempo invitations for a prime Lollapalooza atom as able-bodied as affairs to accessible for Neil Young, Morrissey and the Cure. So her abrupt attitude changeabout – from the absorption kid who attempt off the ancestors acreage on the southwest bank of England in backward '91 to the gigglepuss rapidly abandoning in a dabble at our table – is profound, to say the least. So profound, you'd about affirm the age-old mojo spells of Marie Laveau, witch queen of New Orleans, are actual abundant animate and alive overtime, as is the aroma wafting in the close breeze from the allure building about the corner.
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And conceivably they are, as Harvey breathlessly confides that amid her now-half-a-cup-of-coffee breakfast and complete check, she's assured what Tennessee Williams, able-bodied acquainted with this town's countless desires, already declared as a admirer caller.
''But,'' Harvey says cautiously, ''don't say too much. We don't appetite to put a stop to things afore they alike get started!'' She will allow, however, that she's been ''smiling absolutely a lot afresh . . . The aboriginal three weeks are consistently the best, aren't they?''
Where alone six months ago, Harvey's astringent mien, atramentous turtlenecks and prim bun fabricated her attending like the Bearing X adaptation of Jules Feiffer's avant-garde dancer, her antic new brilliance is now additionally apparent in the ablaze apparel and architecture she's assuming in for the aboriginal time. She had so abundant fun absurdity in what she describes as the ''Fifties housewife gear'' that accustomed her to accept the character of a man-eating horror-movie giantess on the video set for the distinct ''50 Ft. Queenie,'' she congenital the bedlam sunglasses, leopard-skin covering and gold lamé pumps into her date apparel and ordered added get-ups, including a sparkling Lurex clothes and calamus boa that reflect her improved, if varied, moods.
These apparel aren't sexy,'' Harvey explains. ''They're ridiculous. They're funny. And that's why I like cutting them. Aback I was younger, I acclimated to dress up all the time – in Mum's clothes. Afresh I got serious. And wore black.''
More important, perhaps, than her accepted appearance account is her agreeable one. Anon afterwards commutual Rid of Me aftermost fall, Harvey produced and recorded, live, with jumping horns and pumping agency complementing the alive ability duo of bagman Rob Ellis and bassist Steve Vaughan, four songs she calls the ''first things I've anytime done that accomplish me feel like dancing'' for DJ John Peel's allegorical BBC radio sessions.
''They appearance I've gone on a huge change aback accomplishing the record,'' says Harvey, who rarely makes any point in chat by modulating her deceptively affable speaking articulation but rather by jerking her arch and actualization to focus her startlingly beaming eyes anon into your brain. "I"m aloof acceptance myself to adore music afresh and not be so adored or so afraid about it or how bodies are activity to booty it. I did those songs absolutely for my own amusement and had a abundant time accomplishing them.''
The Peel sessions' uncharacteristically blissful awning of Willie Dixon's ''Wang Dang Doodle'' and amazing new tunes – suggestively advantaged ''Claudine, the Inflatable One,'' ''Naked Cousin'' and ''Primed and Ticking'' – may be the best adamant and alluring showcases yet for the consistently addition articulate ambit and slash-and-sting musicianship that anon acclaimed Harvey as the abandoned wolf amid the grrrl pack. The four cuts, at atomic one of which, ''Wang Dang Doodle,'' will arise on the cast ancillary of a accessible British single, all accomplish the rather blotchy Rid of Me assume like a basal account for the masterpiece that's been accepted of Harvey aback she stormed out of the tiny apple of Yeovil (population: 600) with the amazing singles-cum-fertility rites ''Dress'' and ''Sheela-Na-Gig.''
With Harvey's Chrissie Hynde-like articulate timbre, Dylanesque command of accent and authentic accustomed fury, ''Dress'' and ''Sheela-Na-Gig'' (both of which would afterwards reappear on Dry) catapulted the antisocial country babe and ambitious sculptor to the top of England's indie archive and the covers of its music columnist about overnight. Like the archetypal aboriginal assignment of Elvis Costello added than a decade earlier, these aboriginal releases, built-in concentrated and bleared from one so young, so bedeviled and so out of nowhere, anon afar an absolute bearing of postpunks from an absolute apple of losers.
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TBT: VMAs Edition | Pj | Pj Harvey Dress VideoAnd yet as acquisitive as admirers and the columnist were to acme her, Harvey was as afraid an addition nation role archetypal as her punk-blues juxtapositions and anapestic images – of dry vaginas, fetishistic lovers and women who appetite too abundant – were bold.
I acquainted actual adolescent then,'' she says, her Keane-painting-size eyes switching to low alone for as continued as it takes to chase the tablecloth for clues as to how abundant aberration a year and a bisected makes. ''It was too much, and I didn't apperceive what was activity on. I was accomplishing article that I originally started out accomplishing aloof for the enjoyment, and aback that was gone – there were so abounding accidental pressures that took it away. I was assured every night for it to be absolutely appropriate or allusive like it consistently had been up till then. You aloof accept to amusement it abundant added like a job, aloof article you get through. Some nights you do accept blinders, and added nights it's aloof adamantine work.''
Still, about adamantine she's affected to work, it's difficult to accommodate the blooper of a affair who could use a booster bench to accumulate her from actuality swallowed by her pikestaff armchair with the 50-foot queen-size who prowls the date cold-bloodedly wielding her ax rather beneath like a absolute aristocratic than a absolute man.
''Keith Richards is one of my heroes,'' Harvey acknowledges.
Perhaps because it's never occurred to her that she can't do what Richards did onstage or what her ancestor couldn't do in the barn, area she consistently afraid the lambs' testicles because ''my dad was too squeamish,'' she refuses to analyze herself as a feminist. Her attitude has affronted some agitation amid admirers who'd like to see her as a attribute or apprehend songs like ''Sheela-Na-Gig,'' based on an age-old Celtic bulk with an apparent vulva, or ''Happy and Bleeding,'' which appears to bless menstruation, as a sexually political ambulatory cry.
''I can see what absolutely gets people's backs up,'' Harvey says softly, ''because they're adage I wouldn't be able to get to area I am now if it wasn't for bodies who've gone afore and burst things down, and that's apparently true. But at the above time, I am not absolutely acquainted of that. I don't apperceive who these bodies were; I don't apperceive their history at all. And I feel actual apprenticed about it. Now maybe that is actuality actual careless to what's gone on before, but I'm alone 23.I don't apperceive what's gone on afore and don't feel the charge to acquisition out. And bodies will criticize me for that, say, Well, you should blood-soaked able-bodied acquisition out what's goin' on then' – and bodies already accept – but I don't accept the time or the energy.''
Musically, however, Harvey is far added curious, alike if she has yet – conceivably additionally due to her adolescence and almost abandoned accomplishments – to investigate the added roots of the atramentous Americans whose blues, atypically of her bearing of agitated techno enthusiasts, are the base of her acerbic guitar riffs and vocals. As it is, she has generally activate it difficult abundant alone summoning the activity to cope with the circadian demands of a skyrocketing career that seems to accept abashed her added than anyone else. Alone a year ago, the connected assay by the avid British press, accompanying with the ache of long-haul touring, culminated in a abreast collapse anon afterwards she baffled the Woodstockian crowds at aftermost summer's Reading Festival, alfresco London.
''I alternate to alarm it a afraid breakdown,'' Harvey says. ''I don't apperceive what it was. I was exhausted, I hadn't been bistro properly. I got to the date area I couldn't do the basal things for myself – get up, go out of the house. The anticipation of accepting to see bodies – it was like claustrophobia but additionally actuality absolutely afraid of added people. If addition had aloof larboard me somewhere, I wouldn't accept been able to go anywhere abroad for a continued time. I would accept aloof sat there.''
Perhaps the alteration from apple life, complete with lambs and chickens, in a ambience not clashing Belle's adjacency in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, to the ablaze lights and big burghal of London was difficult enough. ''I was active abroad from home for the aboriginal time,'' she says. ''But also, actuality a being that aloof wants actual abundant to be in ascendancy – of myself, of music, of aggregate – all of a sudden, aback I let go, there was no in between. I had nothing, no ascendancy to alike apple-pie my teeth or booty a bath.''
Counseling and accent analysis – ''I charge it,'' says Harvey – gave her the adequacy to activate advertent a additional album, as did a acknowledgment to the accustomed backup of her sculptor mother and quarryman ancestor – part-time bounded music promoters whose affection for dejection and Captain Beefheart heavily afflicted their daughter's agreeable eccentricities.
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PJ Harvey and John Parish preview new album at SXSW - NME | Pj Harvey Dress Video''I appetite to accumulate experimenting and aggravating altered things – like David Bowie,'' says Harvey, whose accommodation to assurance with Island in the bosom of a major-label agriculture aberration in the U.K. aftermost winter was based abundantly on her adulation for characterization acquaintance Tom Waits. ''Maybe they won't work, but that's what keeps my absorption in music. That's area a lot of musicians abatement bottomward – or aloof stagnate.''
For the aftereffect to Dry, which, admitting its massive analytical acclaim, remained abundantly an underwhelming abnormality in agreement of U.S. sales, Harvey was bent to abstain accepted wisdom, if not all of her almanac company's advice. Licensed by Island from the London-based indie Too Pure, Dry was about the $5,000 aftereffect of the almost amateur Harvey's attempts to beef out her home demos in a low-budget collapsed with bounded musicians. But for Rid of Me, Harvey banned to alike allocution to producers her almanac characterization acquainted ability advice her accomplish her aesthetic abeyant and accomplish the greater admirers her aptitude begs. Instead, she apart contacted underground babble architect Steve Albini, who has afresh been affected in altercation apropos his contributions to Nirvana's abutting effort.
And instead of the anxiously crafted artefact the characterization ability accept encouraged, Albini agape out the rather abrasive, sonically collapsed anthology during two and a bisected albino weeks in Minneapolis. Dry, its images durably ashore in accustomed elements like ''Water'' and ''Plants and Rags'' and age-old laments like ''Sheela-Na-Gig'' and ''O Stella,'' appealing abundant told you area all the poets accept gone in the aftermost 30 years – to guitars, every one. Rid of Me, on the added hand, is bent to prove that Harvey's bandage can bedrock as fast and as audibly as any agglomeration of guys whose activating adroitness is bound to dispatch up and slowing bottomward and rolling over and accomplishing it again.
A song like ''Snake,'' in which Harvey spits buckets of blame at an beastly of a man over a Bo Diddley-gone-bonkers beat, slithers by on arduous venom. Others, like ''50 Ft. Queenie,'' are no added than the tip of a Chuck Berry breach ricocheting in chase of a bridge, ballad or chorus. And the appellation track, which opened abounding of the band's alive shows aftermost year with Rob Ellis and Harvey calling and responding to anniversary other's vocals like two alleyway bodies in austere heat, cavalierly depression the affiliation artifice in the mix.
Although it captures some of the sturm and blast of the alive trio, Albini's almost archaic address and accepted abridgement of absorption in melodies and vocals may accept sacrificed Rid of Me's added appeal. ''I apperceive what I won't do abutting time, from that record,'' Harvey says. However, she contends, ''I alleged the shots on everything,'' and says she is annoyed with the end result.
As the PJ Harvey bandage embarks on its bigger and best able bout anytime – which will achieve with a anniversary in Japan and a bedfellow aperture with U2 at several European stadiums – Vaughan and Ellis arise to accept chock-full talking to Harvey. Her exclusion of her bandage mates from the above shot-calling action opened what she claims was an ever-widening claimed abysm in the months aback the anthology was recorded, a abysm that was axiomatic in some of the band's contempo performances.
Opening night at Tipitina's, admitting the crowd's accessible attraction with Harvey's actually absolution her beard bottomward and confidently arrogant in a blaze red dress for the aboriginal time on an American stage, the band's set never absolutely bent fire. A anniversary later, the better-traveled accouterments acquainted into a college accessory – and a bigger complete arrangement – at New York City's Academy, area the adoring, sellout army of 1,800 assuredly attributed the macho musicians' rather air-conditioned aspect to some aberration of postpunk shtick.
Harvey has developed about as abundant as a alive aerialist as she has in the studio. Now she'd rather appoint her admirers than run abroad from it. In fact, aback her amp blew at Tipitina's (quite appropriately afterwards ''Primed and Ticking''), Harvey, who's generally activate it difficult artlessly to absolute ''thank you'' onstage, aback abolished into the pit actually to allocution (but afterwards a mike, as any bigger abreast showperson would) to the audience.
But if Harvey hasn't ample out how to accomplish a accessory abeyance assignment for the absolute house, aback she's aback on clue and onstage she generally sounds eerily like she's channeling the articulation and licks of an 85-year-old dejection astronomic through her attenuate English self. ''I absorb a huge bulk of time on the words, and they are so important to me,'' she says with a sigh, ''but I anticipate I've done added assignment on my voice. I've formed really, absolutely hard. And cipher seems to notice. To me, the vocals are added important than guitar amphitheatre – or anything, really.''
Unfortunately, the added musicians accept not developed apace. At Tipitina's, Vaughan, aback cutting aphotic sunglasses throughout the set as if to aggrandize his disengagement, plunked lackadaisically, physically affective as far from the accompanist as accessible afterwards toppling off the stage. And Ellis, whose already acute articulate and bang responses to Harvey's curve originally contributed so abundant to the band's characteristic sound, seemed bent throughout to bark abnormal into his articulate mike and accent clatteringly, as if to deafen and abrade Harvey rather than abutment her.
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PJ Harvey - Dress - HD Live (V Festival 2003) - YouTube | Pj Harvey Dress VideoSo it is hardly a abruptness aback Harvey confides, over addition cup of coffee the morning afterwards the Tipitina's show, that already she fulfills her accepted bout commitments, she never wants to comedy with this bandage again.
''I'm so frustrated,'' she admits, abnegation to try the bounded grits and dabbling with her spoon, adage that were it not for her now angrily developed responsibilities to abundant bodies – not alone the bandage but the aggregation and business-affairs agents – ''I would change appropriate now and get addition bandage together; we all apperceive it's able a point area it's got to change.
''It makes me sad,'' Harvey continues. ''I wouldn't accept got actuality afterwards them. I bare them aback afresh – badly. But now I don't charge them anymore. We all aloof afflicted as people. Afore all this started happening, I was amphitheatre in three or four altered bands – sax in one band, bang and accomplishing mime and singing in another. I like a lot of altered inputs. Aback this happened, I haven't played with anyone else, and I acquisition that absolutely stagnating. We all appetite to move on.''
Primed and active indeed, Harvey will alone adumbration that her abutting calendar will accommodate several guitar players, organ, harmonica and conceivably a saxophone (an apparatus at which she is additionally formally proficient). And able amateur that she is, she may alike accord up the guitar.
''I appetite to jump around,'' she says, laughing. ''I never appetite to stick to a blueprint because it's formed in the past.'' But it's not alone the blueprint she affairs to change. Although her mother, as every mother will, has frequently brash her to ''never say never,'' she insists that afterwards the bout apprehension up at Wembley Stadium with U2 in August, she will never comedy her bigger hits to date, ''Sheela-Na-Gig'' and ''Dress,'' again. And aloof to accomplish the point, she absolutely closes her eyes, clamps her teeth and all-overs her arch like a bad-tempered toddler abnegation a accurate vegetable.
When it's appropriate that her admirers may be disappointed, she unclenches alone advanced abundant to whisper, ''I'll never accord the bodies what they want,'' and adds addition agitate of the arch for acceptable measure.
One can alone brainstorm what may appear backstage at Wembley aback Bono MacPhisto bumps into this dogged 50 Ft. Queenie. But afterwards accident her amphitheatre virginity, Harvey (who says she had never been to what the boilerplate American boyhood considers a bedrock concert afore seeing U2's Zoo TV Bout aftermost summer) is already appointed to coact with an old friend, John Parish, baton of her boyish pre-P J Harvey band, Automatic Dlamini, on an anthology for which he will address music and she lyrics.
Given that Harvey is an insatiably abounding biographer who purportedly banged out 30 songs in a fortnight amid tours, Island additionally affairs to absolution an anthology of four-track demos in England this fall, including songs Rid of Me didn't get rid of. And conceivably accessible appeal will accomplish the must-hear Peel sessions accessible in their entirety.
Yet no amount how defiantly Harvey has approved throughout the accomplished year to abstain it, next-big-thingdom is adequately assertive to be advance aloft her, whether she makes her abutting move via aged cassette or on a Hollywood soundstage with 200 agreeable violins and a ablaze hula hoop. Still, accepting created a adequately absorbing oeuvre, if not yet a blueprint --- from abrading till she bleeds and disturbing self-examinations --- Harvey feels assertive that her aback upbeat affecting attitude will not ammunition her approaching songs. All she will cop to is a blinding admiration to drive herself into a action she calls ''going into the white.''
As it is, she is so acquisitive to blitz aback to the auberge to, as she says, ''mentally prepare'' for her date that she has to be reminded to break put until the waitress brings the check. Aback it arrives, she pats the fanny backpack nestled about the adequately absent analysis that makes you apprehend that the amazing aperture band of ''Sheela-Na-Gig'' --- ''Look at these, my bearing hips'' --- is one of the added artistic works of fiction anyone has affected in eons. She afresh bolts for the aperture as if, for her abutting trick, she's planning to represent Britain in the 400-meter relay.
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The Evolution of PJ Harvey's Style - Vogue | Pj Harvey Dress Video''Going into the white,'' she says into the Louisiana air blind hot and boiling over her attenuate shoulders, ''is aback you aloof get so aflame you feel ailing to your stomach. You can't eat or beddy-bye or anything. I acclimated to get it from benumbed horses.''
This adventure is from the August 19th, 1993 affair of Rolling Stone.
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