svelte Posted December 7, 2004 Posted December 7, 2004 Biography from PJHarvey.net 'Uh Huh Her' is the seventh album from PJ Harvey and the follow-up to the hugely successful 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea' which won the 2001 Mercury Music Prize. After a summer of live dates - including appearances at the V Festival, the Eden Project and the first rock concert at Tate Modern - Harvey finished work on the new record in the autumn of 2003. The album was written, performed, recorded, mixed & produced by Harvey, who chose Head to assist in additional recording and mixing and Rob Ellis, long time collaborator, to play drums and percussion on the album. Multi-instrumentalist, Harvey, played everything else. From the outset, PJ Harvey has commanded attention. Polly Jean Harvey formed the bass / drums / guitar trio in 1991 in Dorset and by autumn had released the debut single, 'Dress', on indie label Too Pure. With a second single, 'Sheela-Na-Gig', in February 1992, Harvey had begun an impressive critical climb, which set the stage for a highly anticipated album release the following month. 'Dry' was hailed as an astonishing debut, not just in the UK but worldwide and especially in the United States, where Rolling Stone named Harvey Best Songwriter and Best New Female Singer. In 1993, PJ Harvey signed to Island Records and began work on a follow-up album. The band went into the studio with Steve Albini in Minneapolis and the resulting album, 'Rid Of Me', was released in early '93. The album was supported by a lengthy world tour, drawing increasingly wide audiences and Harvey's first Mercury Prize nomination. However, by the end of the tour, Polly made the decision to dissolve the original trio and explore working with other musicians. The album '4-Track Demos' was released in the autumn of 1993, which comprised of 14 songs, a mixture of unreleased material and Harvey's own demos for 'Rid Of Me'. 'To Bring You My Love' followed in 1995, an eclectic and starkly original album. She enlisted a variety of musicians to play on the album, including John Parish (who co-produced along with Flood and Harvey), keyboardist Eric Drew Feldman and guitarist Joe Gore. The tour which followed saw Harvey explore a theatrical edge to her live performance. She received her second nomination for the Mercury Music Prize and was nominated for two Grammies, received '1995 Artist Of The Year' awards from Rolling Stone and Spin and gained album of the year acknowledgements across the board. Recording her fifth album, 'Is This Desire?' in London and Dorset, Harvey once again co-produced the album with Flood and once again worked with Rob Ellis from the original P J Harvey line-up. It was released in September '98 and featured 12 new tracks. It attracted plaudits on both sides of the Atlantic and gained nominations for The Brits and The Grammy Awards. 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea', the much anticipated follow-up to 'Is This Desire?' was released in October 2000. The album, produced and performed by P J Harvey, Rob Ellis and Mick Harvey, picked up the Mercury Music Prize in 2001, the first album by a female artist to win the award. Described by the NME as "a magnificent, life-affirming opus" 'Stories...' was supported by a lengthy world-wide sellout tour. Extra-curricular projects include soundtrack work on 'Basquiat', 'Stella Does Tricks', 'The Cradle Will Rock' & 'Six Feet Under' and an appearance as Mary Magdalene in Hal Hartley movie 'The Book Of Life'. In 1996 she worked with John Parish on the album 'Dance Hall At Louse Point' where her words accompanied the music of John Parish for both the album and a live accompaniment to the Mark Bruce Dance Company production of the same name. She has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians, duetting with Nick Cave, Tricky, How Gelb of Giant Sand, Pascal Comelade, Gordon Gano of Violent Femmes and appearing on Sparklehorse album 'It's A Wonderful Life'. Most recently, she joined Queen's of the Stoneage's Josh Homme on his critically acclaimed 'Desert Sessions' project - released last year - and worked with Mark Lanegan (also of QOSTA) on his forthcoming solo album. Harvey produced the debut album by American artist Tiffany Anders and has most recently written, recorded & produced material for Marianne Faithfull's next album, due for release later this year. In addition to her musical career Harvey has exhibited sculpture in galleries across the country and has had poetry published. Quote
svelte Posted December 7, 2004 Author Posted December 7, 2004 Discography Dry Released: March 1992 01. O My Lover 02. O Stella 03. Dress 04. Happy And Bleeding 05. Sheela-Na-Gig 06. Hair 07. Joe 08. Plants & Rags 09. Fountain 10. Water Rid of Me Released: April 1993 01. Rid Of Me 02. Missed 03. Legs 04. Rub Til' It Bleeds 05. Hook 06. Man-Size Sextet 07. Highway 61 Revisited 08. 50Ft Queenie 09. Yuri-G 10. Man-Size 11. Dry 12. Me Jane 13. Snake 14. Ecstasy 4 Tracl Demos Released: October 1993 01. Rid Of Me (Demo) 02. Legs (Demo) 03. Reeling (Demo) 04. Snake (Demo) 05. Hook (Demo) 06. 50Ft Queenie (Demo) 07. Driving (Demo) 08. Ecstasy (Demo) 09. Hardly Wait (Demo) 10. Rub Til' It Bleeds (Demo) 11. Easy (Demo) 12. M-Bike (Demo) 13. Yuri G (Demo) 14. Goodnight (Demo) To Bring You My Love Released: February 1995 01. To Bring You My Love 02. Meet Ze Monsta 03. Working For The Man 04. C'mon Billy 05. Teclo 06. Long Snake Moan 07. Down By The Water 08. I Think I'm A Mother 09. Send His Love To Me 10. The Dancer Dance Hall at Louse Point Released: September 1996 01. Girl 02. Rope Bridge Crossing 03. City Of No Sun 04. That Was My Veil 05. Urn With Dead Flowers In A Drained Pool 06. Civil War Correspondent 07. Taut 08. Un Cercle Autour Du Soleil 09. Heela 10. Is That All There Is? 11. Dance Hall At Louse Point 12. Lost Fun Zone Is This Desire? Released: September 1998 01. Angelene 02. The Sky Lit Up 03. The Wind 04. My Beautiful Leah 05. A Perfect Day Elise 06. Catherine 07. Electric Light 08. The Garden 09. Joy 10. The River 11. No Girl So Sweet 12. Is This Desire? Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea Released: October 2000 01. Big Exit 02. Good Fortune 03. A Place Called Home 04. One Line 05. Beautiful Feeling 06. The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore 07. The Mess We're In 08. You Said Something 09. Kamikaze 10. This Is Love 11. Horses In My Dreams 12. We Float 13. This Wicked Tongue Uh Huh Her Released: May 2004 01. The Life And Death Of Mr. Badmouth 02. Shame 03. Who The Fuck? 04. The Pocket Knife 05. The Letter 06. The Slow Drug 07. No Child Of Mine 08. Cat On The Wall 09. You Come Through 10. It's You 11. The End 12. The Desperate Kingdom Of Love 13. Seagulls 14. The Darker Days Of Me & Him Quote
Rhett Posted June 5, 2006 Posted June 5, 2006 well, she's got the "musicians" part of "babe musicians" covered. I don't know about the other part, though. Quote
vintagefemme Posted March 6, 2007 Posted March 6, 2007 Thanks Sanja for the pictures. I love PJ Harvey and haven't seen many before Quote
brianwp Posted April 5, 2010 Posted April 5, 2010 Turn your head, Rhett...this could be traumatic... Quote
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