The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

Nice find Romario. I did a search for "pj harvey seamus murphy" on that site and it came up with 172 pics. Most are familiar, but there are a few more i don't remember seeing before.

https://archive.reduxpictures.com/thumb.php/15998517.jpg?eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9 ...

New interview with James here (by David Corfield), including a section on working with PJH:
https://www.davidcorfieldcommunications.com/post/the-sound-of-the-studio-inside-the-restless-world-of-james-johnston

The PJ Harvey Years

There’s reverence in Johnston’s voice when he speaks about PJ ...

I looked for live versions of The River and I am now addicted to this version from the LES tour. I think the guitar part has hypnotised me
I think it is closer to the original demo than the album version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SiUQ-KfjYE&t=147s

Sounds good! Looking forward to it already.

Polly Guitar on display at the V&A https://www.artdependence.com/articles/va-east-storehouse-opens-to-the-public-on-saturday-31-may/
I Wish she still played this one!



Most excellent!
I went to their website to see what other PJH stuff they had. Oddly, the guitar didn't come up, but they have ...

Have you ever wondered why "Pig Will Not" is called "Pig Will Not"?
I mean, where does the pig come from? Why isn't it called "I will not"?

If you google "Pig Will Not", the first couple of hits are for the song, but the next ones are for a book:
https://www.richardscarry.com/pig-will-pig-wont
So ...

Romario11 wrote:Heaven reminds me a little of Tropical Hotdog Night by Captain Beefheart


anyone hear that?

Yes!
Polly's guitar part has exactly the same melody, just slightly different speed.

i hadn't seen that either.
There's a couple of others I hadn't seen here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030717002 ... /q2001.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20030717002 ... in1996.htm

A couple of blokes talking about White Chalk and Let England Shake:

https://thequietus.com/subscriber-area/ ... and-shake/

maybe I just read too much into things :smile:

Definitely not, the analogies you found are spot on. It looks like the influence is actually quite heavy, from the structures down to the refined sound sequences. I gotta check the rest, this is very interesting

Have fun! I couldn't find a stand ...

I decided to read "Mercian Hymns" by Geoffrey Hill because Polly has said several times that it had a strong influence on Orlam. It's quite a short book of poems and I enjoyed it, and also found a number of "echoes" between it and Orlam. They share the same idea of having people from different times ...

Good detective work!
It's the same van that appears at the end of the Rapido interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5elYVr50BE&t=1s
It says "Harvey" on the side and "Ham Hill Stone" on the back, so it must have belonged to her dad's stone quarry - very handy for shifting heavy gear about.

That's a great interview, well worth a listen!

I've not seen these before (from @chaosgonewrong on X):