The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

Got tickets to see Portishead, Queens of the Stone Age, Patti Smith and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds next summer. So far anyway, have to see what else comes along...

An amazing collaboration by Warpaint, Mark Lanegan and Martina Topley-Bird. Mixed by Massive Attack. Hope there's more to come...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II4ReOZftws

In case someone here isn't on Facebook. From PJ's facebook page today:

We have two rare signed Artist laminates to give-away from PJ Harvey’s one-off solo show at The Music Hall Theatre - St Petersburg back in 2008. To be in with a chance of getting your hands on one of them - just e-mail ...

Pretty surprised to find out that Mick Harvey is doing a gig in my hometown. Definitely going to see that one.

Old news now I guess but it seems Polly went to see Jack's gig (and/or Carla?) in London:

http://twitter.com/TimeOutMusic/statuse ... 5436493825

Well, this is one way to cover 'Send His Love To Me'. Extremely unusual to see a band doing a cover of Polly anyway in my country.

http://vimeo.com/39828020

^ I'm not young but have to admit I've never heard of him either.


ATP IBYM London - Mogwai, Slayer, Melvins, Afghan Whigs etc
Seriously thought about that too but can't travel in May. And though very good the line-up isn't quite as stellar (for me) as last summer.

Instead I just booked for ...

The speech is on YT, Polly quote starts at 9:55:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyMN3hmcoHE

The President talks about the interview with David Cameron and Polly and quotes lyrics from The Last Living Rose. And he praises LES. A very cool man for a President, lucky Estonians.

^Yes, that must be the one.

There are a few more songs here (including Mick's version of 'Sonny Boy'):
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Album looks to be released April 9th on AmazonUK.

And I only now realised that this is actually part 2 of Pierce tributes, the first one being 'We Are Only Riders' from 2009 (also featuring ...

Samples from the upcoming Jeffrey Lee Pierce (The Gun Club) tribute album 'The Journey Is Long'.

Very interesting artists involved in the project: Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Warren Ellis, Mark Lanegan, Debbie Harry, Lydia Lunch, The Jim Jones Revue etc.

There's no less than two different duet ...

Came across this, hasn't been posted has it?

Serge Pizzorno (Kasabian):

How do you feel about PJ Harvey winning this year’s Mercury prize?
Serg: “I think it’s fantastic. She’s one of those artists I’d love to work with one day. I’m very happy she won, she is really beautiful and talented.”

I ...

Geoff Barrow (twitter): "After a heavy pub conversation we rekon that little John might be right that "let England shake" might be the best album in a decade"

In case there are other Dead Can Dance fans here who haven't noticed: there are still tickets available for many of the autumn 2012 shows. Just booked mine for Barcelona.

http://deadcandance.com/

I googled a bit just out of curiosity. On LinkedIn I found the profile of this person who claims to be PJ Harvey's assistant manager: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/missy-iredell/8/373/293
She's also on Facebook and Twitter so maybe she could be contacted. She might be only handling the management in the US though, don't know..

Not sure if this been posted before. A "jazzy" cover of ROM...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpVNEGDzNsw