Artist.......: PJ Harvey
Album........: Live aux EurockΘennes de Belfort
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: jul.-12-2009
Str.date.....: jul.-03-2004
Quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.pjharvey.net/
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01. Live aux EurockΘennes de Belfort 70:24 min
- Uh Huh Her
- The Whores Hustle & The Hustlers Whore
- Who The Fuck?
- The Letter
- Dress
- Evol
- A Perfect Day Elise
- You Come Through
- The Darker Days Of Me & Him
- Down By The Water
- Life & Death Of Mr Badmouth
- Good Fortune
- Meet Ze Monsta
- Cat On The Wall
- Harder
- Taut
- Big Exit
Runtime 70:24 min
Size 93,64 MB
Release Notes:
Recorded : July 12, 2009 (CAP24)
Performed : July 03, 2004 (France / Belfort)
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, which delivered her stark songs
with bruisingly powerful, punkish abandon, as typified by
the 1992 debut effort 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 grew up on a sheep farm in Yeovil, England, where
she was raised by her quarryman father and her artist
mother. 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. She formed PJ Harvey in
1991 with bassist Steve Vaughan and drummer Robert Ellis,
and the trio recorded its debut record for under $5,000.
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 Vaughan 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 later on
Dance Hall at Louse Point, a collaborative album that
found her teaming up with John Parish. 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 likeminded friends and contemporaries. She appeared
on Gordon Gano's Hitting the Ground, Giant Sand's Cover
Magazine, and John Parish's How Animals Move, but 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 claimed 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. She then resumed her partnership
with John Parish for another collaborative project, A
Woman a Man Walked By, which arrived in 2009.