Artist.......: PJ Harvey
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: AlternRock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: Oct-30-2007
Str.date.....: Oct-19-2007
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.pj-harvey.net
track title time
Live de la Semaine
01. PJ Harvey - Intro
02. PJ Harvey - The devil
03. PJ Harvey - Grow grow grow
04. PJ Harvey - When under ether
05. PJ Harvey - White chalk
06. PJ Harvey - Silence
07. PJ Harvey - The piano
08. PJ Harvey - The mountain
09. PJ Harvey - Ending
Runtime 24:43 min
Size 30,0 MB
Release Notes:
Recorded : October 19, 2007 (Canal+)
Performed : October 2007 (France)
During the early-'90s alternative rock explosion, several
female singer/songwriters rose to prominence, but few were
as distinctive or as widely praised as Polly Jean Harvey.
Over the course of three albums, Harvey established
herself as one of the most individual and influential
songwriters of the '90s, exploring themes of sex, love,
and religion with unnerving honesty, dark humor, and a
twisted theatricality. At the outset of her career, she
led the trio PJ Harvey, who delivered her stark songs with
bruisingly powerful, punkish abandon, as typified by her
1992 debut, Dry. Following the noisy, uncompromising
follow-up, Rid of Me, the trio fell apart, and PJ Harvey
became the sole property of Polly Harvey. Her next record,
1995's To Bring You My Love, became her mainstream
critical breakthrough, confirming her status as one of the
cornerstone figures of '90s alternative rock.
Harvey was raised on a sheep farm in Yeovil, England,
where she was raised by her quarryman father and her
mother, who was an artist. As a child, she learned how to
play guitar and saxophone, and when she was a teenager,
she played in a variety of bands as a sideman. In 1991,
she formed PJ Harvey with bassist Steve Vaughn and drummer
Robert Ellis, and the trio recorded its debut record for
under 5,000 dollars. The band signed with the British
indie label Too Pure and released "Dress" that fall.
"Dress" became a indie rock sensation, as did its
follow-up, "Sheela-Na-Gig," with both singles receiving
lavish praise in the U.K. music press. Although Harvey was
a reluctant interviewee, she cannily used the press to her
advantage, whether it was through her candid interviews or
startling, occasionally disturbingly sexy photo sessions,
which subverted traditional concepts of female sexuality.
PJ Harvey's debut, Dry, was released in spring 1992 to
considerable praise; it was distributed in America by
Island Records. The trio followed it with an extensive
tour, culminating with an appearance at that summer's
Reading Festival. Shortly after the tour, Harvey moved to
London, where she nearly suffered a nervous breakdown due
to the extraordinary pressure and expectation surrounding
her second album. The group hired former Big Black
frontman Steve Albini (Pixies, Breeders) as the producer
of their second album, Rid of Me. Albini imposed his
trademark noisy, guitar-heavy sound on the record, which
mirrored its harder-edged themes. Rid of Me was a major
critical success and expanded Harvey's cult greatly. She
supported the album with a tour featuring herself in a
fake leopard-skin coat and a feather boa, signaling her
developing interest in theatricality. At the end of the
year, Harvey released 4-Track Demos, a collection of her
original versions of the songs on Rid of Me.
Following the Rid of Me tour, Ellis and Vaughn parted ways
with Harvey, and she recorded her third album as a solo
artist, augmented by producer Flood, bassist Mick Harvey,
and guitarists John Parish and Joe Gore. Harvey developed
a richer, bluesier sound with the expanded band, and the
resulting record, To Bring You My Love, was hailed as a
masterpiece by many critics upon its February 1995
release. Thanks to considerable press attention, as well
as strong support from MTV and modern rock radio for the
single "Down by the Water," To Bring You My Love became a
moderate hit, entering the U.S. charts at number 40.
Harvey spent all of 1995 touring the album, and spent the
following year in relative seclusion. During 1996 she was
relatively quiet, only appearing twice on record: once in
a duet with Nick Cave on his Murder Ballads album -- the
pair were reportedly romantically involved -- and singing
on John Parish's Dance Hall at Louse Point. Is This
Desire? followed in 1998. Two years later, Harvey reunited
with Ellis and Mick Harvey for Stories From the City,
Stories From the Sea, which returned to her earlier, more
aggressive style and was inspired by her six-month stay in
New York City in 1999.
The album won the 2001 Mercury Prize, making Harvey the
first female winner of that award. After extensive touring
in support of the album, Harvey split her time over the
next two years working on new material and collaborating
with like-minded friends and contemporaries. Appearing on
Gordon Gano's Hitting the Ground, Giant Sand's Cover
Magazine, and John Parish's How Animals Move, Harvey's
most prominent collaboration was with the Queens of the
Stone Age side project the Desert Sessions. She performed
on more than half of 2003's Desert Sessions, Vols. 9-10,
including the single Crawl Home. That summer, she also
performed at the V Festival, previewing tracks from her
new album, which she said was close to being finished. The
album, Uh Huh Her, appeared in summer 2004, coinciding
with another string of tour dates, including British and
European festival appearances at Glastonbury, T in the
Park, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and Spain's La Primavera
festival. Stateside, Harvey was scheduled to join the
revived Lollapalooza festival for select dates, joining
Morrissey and Sonic Youth on the main stage. Upon the
cancellation of that festival, however, she mounted a solo
tour of the States with select opening acts. Three years
later the ever-evolving musician released White Chalk, her
first piano-based album.