January 2012
Seamus Murphy's 12 Short Films for 'Let England Shake' will be screened at the Watershed in Bristol on February 26th at 6pm as part of their Film & Music Festival. Tickets available here.

Most setlists for the Australian tour are now on the Tour page.

'Let England Shake' has been nomimated in the Best Album category in the 2012 UK Brits.

January's 'The Word' magazine features a cartoon Polly on the cover with a feature entitled "Whatever happened to singing?" - you can see the cover on the Magazine Gallery (see links above - Gallery)


December 2011
Well it's the end of an amazing year for PJ Harvey and all related personnel. Here is a list (thanks to John P) of the many acolades bestowed upon 'Let England Shake' at the end of 2011.
Roll on 2012... enjoy the Australian tour!
Merry christmas to you all.

#1 Album of the year - Mojo
#1 Album of the year - Uncut
#1 Album of the year - NME
#1 Album of the year - Sunday Times
#1 Album of the year - Hot Press (Ireland)
#1 Album of the year - Oor (Netherlands)
#1 BBC Music Writers picks
#1 The Quietus
#1 The Washington Post (Alison Stewart's picks)
#1 Sunday Telegrapgh (James Delingpole's picks)
#1 LA Times
#2 Spin
#2 The Sun
#2 The Observer
#2 Amazon UK
#2 Q
#3 Clash magazine
#4 Time Magazine
#4 Time magazine
#5 New York Magazine
#5 New York Magazine
#7 Under The Radar
#8 Stereogum
#5 Best selling Vinyl albums of 2011 - Record Collector

...and of course... 'Let England Shake' winner of the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2011.

December 12th 2011 'Let England Shake' 12 Short Films by Seamus Murphy is released on DVD.
You can order here at Amazon or Play.
The DVD includes all 12 short films and a bonus solo recording of 'England'

Let England Shake - 12 Short Films


November 2011

  PJ Harvey - Uncut Magazine - Artist Of The Year
This month's cover of Uncut magazine features Polly and names her as Artist Of The Year. A new interview and extensive article is printed in this edition of the magazine.

Another Rankin photographed cover for the 'Dazed & Confused' magazine.
And as an extra, watch a video about the cover here: http://www.dazedtv.com/20-covers---pj-harvey-x-claire-foy/648/page/1







October 2011
Australian dates announced for January 2012. More on the 'Tour' page.

Polly performed a solo "The Last Living Rose" on The Andrew Marr Show on Oct 2nd. Polly was also briefly interviewed with UK Prime Minister David Cameron and challenging him on the UK Government's cuts on the Arts in the UK. Go Polly!
Click here to see the interview and the fantastic performance.
You can watch Polly's previous performance (an early version of "Let England Shake") on the Andrew Marr Show in 2010 by clicking here


September 2011
A new exclusive iTunes E.P. is available NOW direct from iTunes. More details on the 'Singles' page.



Polly is up for 2 awards with Q Magazine - click here to cast your votes!

Post Mercury Music Prize videos:
The Guardian interview
Q Magazine interview
Mercury Prize speech
Mercury Prize 'The Words That Maketh Murder'


 
  PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
*** Barclaycard Mercury Prize Winner 2011 ***

Congratulations to Polly, John, Mick, Flood and Jean-Marc for winning the Mercury Prize 2011.

It's great to see Polly win the Mercury Prize for a second time and well deserved with perhaps Polly's most compelling album 'Let England Shake'.

September 6th 2011 'Let England Shake' wins the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2011 and rightly so!
Polly and the boys played "The Words That Maketh Murder" at the ceremony as broadcast on BBC2/BBC HD and BBC 6 Music on the night.


August 2011
UK Magazines NME & Uncut have published a special collector's magazine titled '501 Lost Songs'.
A two page PJ Harvey feature is included detailing their suggested 10 favourite 'lost' PJ Harvey tracks (B-sides/Rarities).




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*** BARCLAYCARD MERCURY PRIZE COMPETITION *** - COMPETITION CLOSED NOW
If you have not seen the competition pop-up window then click here to enter our PJ Harvey Barclaycard Mercury Prize competition with a truly amazing prize!
Prize supplied with many thanks by Barclaycard Mercury Prize.
Competition closes on August 29th 2011 - CLOSED
UPDATE: A winner has been chosen and will be notified by Fri 2nd Sept - MANY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO ENTERED THE COMPETITION
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Another date (31st October) added at the Royal Albert Hall, London. These RAH shows will be spectacular, the venue is fantastic.

Extra date added for Stockholm and a date (Oct 30th) for PJ Harvey's debut concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London!

You can hear a new exclusive PJ Harvey Live album at Spotify if you are a Premium member.
"PJ Harvey Live at La Maroquinerie, Paris 2011"
There are no plans for this to be released officially on CD at present.

More dates have been announced for October in Oslo, Stockholm and Prague. See the 'Tour News' page for more information.


July 2011
Congratulations to Polly, John, Mick and Flood for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize nomination. This is the fourth time Polly has been nominated, winning the prize in 2001 with "Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea". This years result will be announced on 6th September and Polly will be in attendance. Offical Mercury Site here

Also nominated is the Rob Ellis produced album "Anna Calvi" by Anna Calvi. Congratulations to Rob too!

The track "Let England Shake" has now been released as a Promotional CD Single backed by "Written On The Forehead" though I believe there are no plans for this to be released as an official single. Various radio stations have been playing the track in the past week.

"Let England Shake" films are on tour! See here for more information...

Seamus and Polly will perform a Q&A session at the Prizren Dokufest Film Festival 2011 - more info here



June 2011
More UK dates announced for Manchester and Glasgow in September... see Tour News page (and possibly more to come???)

The Observer on Sunday gave away a free PJ Harvey print on 5th June



May 2011
While Polly and the boys are off to Portugal, Spain and Holland (as am I!) you can read some great PJ Harvey articles in this month's editions of The Word & Q magazines.



A REMINDER: you can still order copies of the PJ Harvey illustrated magazine "Zoetrope". More details here - look up "Back issues".



Date added in Luxembourg on July 13th 2011

The "Let England Shake" channel on You Tube here now includes all the filmed videos for the Let England Shake album.

The John Parish website (http://www.johnparish.com) has some limited Automatic Dlamini 12"s and John Parish Tour T-shirts available. (The 12"s do not feature Polly but do feature John and Rob Ellis). Click on News on the John Parish site for more information.



April 2011
Polly and the band will be appearing on Later... with Jools Holland on Tues 26th April and also the longer show on Fri 29th April.
UPDATE: The band played 'Let England Shake', 'The Words That Maketh Murder' and 'The Glorious Land' on the show.

Great interview with The Observer magazine. Click here to read it.

The tribute album to Ian Stewart produced by Ben Waters is out now and includes Polly's vocal and saxaphone contributions to 'Lonely Avenue' - a lovely track! All proceeds from the album go to the British Heart Foundation so do buy a copy! More details on the Guest page and the Lyrics are now posted too.

April 18th 2011 'The Glorious Land' is the new single on 7" and Digital Download featuring the exclusive track 'The Nightingale'.

THE GLORIOUS LAND



March 2011
I have been alerted to an unearthed track that I never knew about. Apparently from an XFM session in 1997, Polly Harvey and John Parish recorded a cover version of Jim Yamouridis's 'The Rider'. Click here to listen to this amazing track. I am trying to get more information on this from the guys...

More dates have been announced and more to come... See Tour Dates page for details

March 25th 2011 PJ Harvey interview and solo session on BBC Radio 3's 'The Verb' at 21.15pm.

September 10th 2011 PJ Harvey to play Bestival in the UK



February 2011
You can watch an interview with Polly backstage at the Q Awards 2011 here.
Channel 4 will be televising the Awards ceremony, probably including the performance by PJ Harvey ("The Words That Maketh Murder" and "Down By The Water"), on Saturday 26th Feb at 11.25 (T4 behind the scenes) and 23.20 (Actual Show), more details here.

Latest editions of Q and Mojo magazines (UK Magazines) feature excellent interviews/articles with PJ Harvey.

"Let England Shake" video can been seen here. Read the text below the video for the Making Of... the Let England Shake videos

"The Nightingale" has appeared on You Tube. Listen to it here. I expect this to appear as a future B-Side (hopefully).

Another New York gig added... see Tour page...

Feb 23rd 2011 The NME will be honouring Polly with the Teenage Cancer Trust Outstanding Contribution To Music Award at the Shockwaves NME Awards Show. PJ Harvey will also be performing at the Awards Ceremony. Click here to see a video on Polly's reaction. The full show will probably be televised by Channel 4. Details to follow...

Feb 17th 2011 PJ Harvey will be performing in session for Rob Da Bank's show on BBC Radio 1 at 5am. Click here for more info. (See 'Radio' section for details)

Feb 17th 2011 PJ Harvey will be performing in session for the Geoff Lloyd's Hometime show on Absolute Radio. Click here for more info. (See 'Radio' section for details)

Feb 14th 2011 Live Webcam performace here (Deezer) and here (ARTE) and the official site at 8pm. Update: See Tour page for Setlist

Feb 8th 2011 PJ Harvey interview with John Wilson on BBC Radio 4's 'Front Row' at 7.15pm. (See 'Radio' section for details)
Feb 8th 2011 PJ Harvey will be performing in session for the The Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 1 at 8pm. (See 'Radio' section for details)
Feb 9th 2011 PJ Harvey will be talking to Steve Lamaq on his show on BBC 6 Music at 4pm. (See 'Radio' section for details)
Feb 10th 2011 PJ Harvey will be interviewed and performing on BBC2's 'The Culture Show' at 7pm (Interview + 'The Last Living Rose' Live in the studio).

Feb 7th 2011 New Single "The Words That Maketh Murder" is released as an exclusive 7" featuring the new track 'The Big Guns Called Me Back Again'. The single comes with lovely artwork and an inner bag with printed lyrics.

Feb 14th 2011 New PJ Harvey Album - "Let England Shake"
The new album is produced by Flood. Musicians John Parish and Mick Harvey also perform on the album. This is the fantasic bird sleeve (click to enlarge):

LET ENGLAND SHAKE

More tour dates announced for USA and Spain.

The UK Promos are now listed in the Promos section

Great interview in the NME dated 29th January 2011

John Parish and Rob Elli's respective web sites have been updated. Click here for John Parish's site and here for Rob Ellis' site.




January 2011
More tour dates announced for USA (Coachella) and Belgium festivals.

Jan 14th 2011 New Single "The Words That Maketh Murder" will be released as a Digital Download. An exclusive 7" with be available from Feb 7th 2011 featuring the new track 'The Big Guns Called Me Back Again'.
Click here to hear a sample of "The Words That Maketh Murder". Note: Amazon have a release date of 16th Jan!



PJ Harvey has been announced as the special guest at one of Portishead's All Tomorrows Parties shows here in London in July. Sat July 23rd will feature PJ Harvey's guest spot(Grinderman are the speical guests on Sun 24th July). Click here for ticket details

Ben Waters pays tribute to the late Ian Stewart(the 'sixth Stone') with a tribute album released on March 9th. 'Boogie for Stu' will feature The Rolling Stones, Jools Holland and PJ Harvey.

French Webzine 'To Discover Absolutely' has made a French Tribute to the PJ Harvey album 'Dry' available as a FREE download + artwork.
Click here for more information (in French) and the download link on the page (on the right!). Enjoy!

I will try and document any UK magazine appearances in January...
Album Reviews:
Uncut ****
Mojo ****
Q Magazine *****

Eype (18 Dec 2010) setlist now on the site (thanks to John Parish). See Tour page.



December 2010
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL THAT VISIT THIS SITE.
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
AND I HOPE WE ALL ENJOY POSSIBLY THE BEST PJ HARVEY ALBUM COMING IN FEBRUARY.

The band played a secret show last Saturday in Devon. Very upset but due to the bad weather I was unable to attend so if anyone has any reviews/pics/setlist then please let me know!

A Short Film by Seamus Murphy for the new track "The Last Living Rose" is now showing at the official site (wow! fantastic): http://www.pjharvey.net

A You Tube channel has been set up for Let England Shake - click here

More shows announced for Lisbon & Amsterdam.(Extra date in Lisbon on the 26th too!)
May 25th: Lisbon's Aula Magna and May 31st: Amsterdam's Paradiso.



November 2010
Feb 14th 2011 New PJ Harvey Album - "Let England Shake"

The new album is produced by Flood. Musicians John Parish and Mick Harvey also perform on the album. This is the fantasic bird sleeve (click to enlarge):

LET ENGLAND SHAKE

Tracklisting:
Let England Shake
The Last Living Rose
The Glorious Land
The Words That Maketh Murder
All And Everyone
On Battleship Hill
England
In The Dark Places
Bitter Branches
Hanging In The Wire
Written On The Forehead
The Colour of The Earth

Radio Interviews on Zane Lowe (Radio 1) and Namone (BBC 6 Music) Radio Shows. Both featured the new fantastic track 'Written On The Forehead' which you can hear in full at the official PJHarvey website here.

NME Feature in the issue week commencing November 2nd - Interview and new pictures.

February's issue of Mojo will have a PJ Harvey feature.



October 2010
Feb 2011 PJ Harvey Tour!
I would imagine these dates will coincide with the release of the new album (Mr John Parish confirmed to me a few weeks ago that the album is finished and is fantastic!).
February: 18th+19th Brussels / 21st Berlin / 24th+25th Paris / 27th+28th London



April 2010
April 18th - Suprisingly Polly appeared on the BBC's Political programme - The Andrew Marr Show today! As well as an interview, Polly performed the new track 'Let England Shake' live in the studio.
The performance is on YouTube here.
UK viewers can watch via the iPlayer here.



January 2010
Polly has donated her Uh Huh Huh tour dress to Oxfam to raise funds for the Oxfam Haiti Appeal... Click here for more details


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