31/05/2004-31/05/2024 20 years ago UHH was released... what should i say? this album means the WORLD to me.




one could share countless videos or photos, but i think this will suffice:

-24.08.2004 PJ Harvey BBC 4 Session at St Lukes Church, in my opinion one of the best PJ shows ever recorded.

on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlQlbJnAmg4

just for the sake of preserving this piece of art, i dared to put it here too:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/j0t767ypz1nh3gp/24.08.2004_PJ_Harvey_BBC_4_Session_at_St_Lukes_Church.mp4/file

-"PJ HARVEY LIVE On Tour: Please Leave Quietly" documentary.

on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UI0iDgw5rA


-Pj Harvey Live KCRW. Famous acoustic live. .
on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-06rsijA3s


By the way, PJ here wears the same t-shirt you can see her wearing in the cover photo of the 1997 "is this desire?" album:









Do you have a favourite live recording or a favourite photo of this era?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdGIwUHCb8w&t=1s
I love this one - Live at Eurockennes de Belfort.
Great audience participation (!) in Evol.
Polly gets the giggles in DBTW
and the huge sunglasses

As an album it’s near the bottom of the list for me, unfortunately; a collection of lesser-quality songs than what we usually get from Polly, with only a few exceptional tracks sprinkled throughout (“Shame” is a classic, so is “The Desperate Kingdom of Love”). But I really enjoy the ironic/self-referential/handmade/punk/scrapbook feel of the visuals for this era; fits the messy/unfinished vibe of the LP well, I guess. Everything that came afterwards has been much more polished and curated.

Great live performances on that tour, too—obviously the last time Polly was in her rock mode but the intimate, semi-acoustic gig at Royal Court Theatre comes to mind as well. I wonder if that’s when she met Ian Rickson?

That was the first time I experienced a new PJ release, since I started listening to her just a year prior, so I share the same fondness for that album. I was lucky to get my hands on a digipack copy, and I adored the artwork. She was (well, still is) so mysterious to me, that collection of self-portraits and notes felt like a goldmine.
As far as the music is concerned, the mere fact that she was going back to a lo-fi, almost DIY sound, after years of big productions, elevated her status in my eyes as a fierce creative soul with no boundaries. "Shame" was and still is one of the standouts, and I will never forget the excitement of watching her appearence on Letterman and how thrilled I was listening to "The Letter" for the first time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCsO9t4HnTI

Other performances I still love are the acoustic set she recorded for VH1 (NY, 7th or 8th June):

The Letter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HhnnQezfKs
Uh Huh Her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FtXzD5x2g4
You Come Through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7szvgBiiw8
Shame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rx5r_JqNUU

And last but not least, her aestethics back than provided some indelible eye-candies!