The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

Alexandra Dimitroff:Tell me, are you in love with them?

Ralf Lepsch: Not me (our Mr. T. (Olaf Tost?) was on the road with her back then) - but above all, our bands played a GDR tour together in the summer of '89, she sent me a few letters + saxophone cassettes, after the fall of the wall she visited us with her mum and of course I am very proud to know such a crazy lady - luckily there are not only Madonna and Lady Gagarin...

Oh - that's a sad/beautiful story - we wrote lots of letters, she sent me cassettes full of great saxophone music (she plays the sax herself) - then the Wall came down and we all went a bit crazy, she went to Berlin a few more times (also with her mum) - and then everything disappeared into a fog...
We only knew Polly in corduroy trousers and turtleneck sweaters - three years later we were driving through Paris, there was a poster from the FNAC cultural department store hanging from the roof down to the street, on it was a woman with crazy make-up, skimpy panties, skimpy bra - and my wife said as we drove past - If only I didn't know that it couldn't be - she looks like our Polly!
And of course it was her.
The start of a global career.

Consolidation - dear Polly, who said quite innocently - maybe we should play in fourths (back then in 1988 she was more 22 than 17), looked at us on our trip to Paris in 1992 as P.J. Harvey from a poster, as big as the whole "Fnac", wearing only panties, a bra and a lot of lipstick - my wife rubbed her eyes and said - if it wasn't completely impossible - the lady looks like our Polly. Grin.

Romario11 wrote:

bruise wrote:Isn't the fifth guy from the left Polly's brother?

I talked to a few more people after the show. My estimates had been correct...a good number of attendees thought this show was as good as the 95 show...PJ Harvey had risen to the challenge. And the after show vibe was friendly, with fans talking to one another outside the venue. There was one problem, however...
While I cannot speak to the particulars of this event, I can piece together what may have happened from a few different sources. Apparently over-zealous fans followed/chased Miss Harvey after she left the building to wherever she was headed. I did not have a first hand view of the event, but all auditory indications match this conclusion, as do the accounts of such by other less deranged fans in the area. I felt ill when this happened. I hope that either my information was wrong, or that Polly realizes this is not, as far as I know, the norm for her fans. It is my hope that fans at future concerts will respect Polly's privacy, and not chase her down the street as they did in Chicago.