I’m very happy to be releasing the Is This Desire? demos for the first time.
When I am writing an album the demos of the songs capture the atmosphere of the moment in a way that can never be replicated.
I made this collage for Nick during the time I was writing this album...
PJ Harvey's new song 'A Child’s Question, August' is out this Wednesday April 26th. Pre-save here
Here's a clip from the accompanying music video directed by
#SteveGullick
.
A photograph taken in 1997 when I was writing the album 'Is This Desire?'. The photographer is my friend and working partner of many years, Eric Drew Feldman, and we were on a road trip in California, stopping to see the ghost town of Bodie.
"Here is a playlist I made to say farewell to 2023. Thank you so much for your support. I look forward to playing more shows in 2024." - Polly
Playlist 17: I Wanted to Leave
A photo of me taken at the time I was writing To Bring You My Love, lying beside Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Wiseblood’, my notepad and my headphones. This book was a huge influence on my writing as I began to explore story-telling through song.
PJ Harvey's tenth studio album 'I Inside the Old Year Dying' will be released July 7th 2023 on Partisan Records, and is available to pre-order on gatefold 140g vinyl and CD, along with some newly designed merchandise:
#iinsidetheoldyeardying
Like many musicians I came out of art school and drawing has been an ongoing part of my life. Nick and I made a lot of drawings for each other, and here are two lovely drawings of his currently on display in his ‘Stranger Than Kindness’ exhibition at The Black Diamond, Copenhagen
25 years since its original release through Island Records, the vinyl reissue of PJ Harvey's Mercury Music Prize nominated To Bring You My Love, featuring the singles Down By The Water, C'mon Billy and Send His Love To Me, is out now.
For the vinyl re-release of Dry and Dry Demos I wanted to share a photo of myself at Yeovil Art College, Somerset, taken in 1991/1992. This would have been the time I was writing the songs for Dry, and demoing them. I am in the life drawing...
PJ Harvey's new song 'I Inside the Old I Dying' is out today with a music video directed by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña.
Listen and watch now
#iinsidetheoldidying
#iinsidetheoldyeardying
The stage set for the PJ Harvey tour is the work of award-winning designer Rae Smith, who made these drawings during rehearsals.
#iinsidetheoldyeardying
Photo by Maria Mochnacz taken at the back of The Electric Cinema, Bridport where myself and the band were rehearsing for the Uh Huh Her tour. The yellow dress was made out of old PJH tee-shirts, and features one of Maria's photos taken around the release of Rid Of Me in 1993.
PJ Harvey announces a run of tour dates in the UK and Europe later this year, with tickets available to the general public on Friday June 16th.
#iinsidetheoldyeardying
'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea', PJ Harvey's
@MercuryPrize
winning 5th studio album, is reissued on vinyl today.
Official store:
Other retailers:
Watch PJ Harvey's performance at L'Olympia, Paris, as the band perform the album 'I Inside the Old Year Dying' followed by a selection from her catalogue:
#iinsidetheoldyeardying
‘Dry’ vinyl reissue and ‘Dry - Demos’ vinyl/CD/download – released 24th July 2020. Full back catalogue of vinyl reissues and stand-alone demo albums to follow.
Pre-order:
Dry - Demos:
Dry vinyl:
The original drawings for the suit I wore in the 'This Is Love' video by my friend the designer
@ToddLynnLondon
. The last photo is us pictured together in London in 2017 - photo by Sumit Bothra.
Announcing PJ Harvey's first North American tour in seven years, taking place this autumn. General sale Friday March 1st 10am local.
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📷
#SteveGullick
. Clothes by Todd Lynn
Re-pressed for the first time since its original release in 1993, the vinyl edition of Rid Of Me, produced by Steve Albini, is out today.
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A second studio clip… filmed, directed and edited by
#SteveGullick
.
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The cover art for 'I Inside the Old I Dying' was designed by Michelle Henning, together with the artwork for 'A Child's Question, August' and the album cover for 'I Inside the Old Year Dying' - out tomorrow Friday July 7th.
#iinsidetheoldyeardying
The artwork for 'I Inside the Old Year Dying' was directed and designed by Michelle Henning, with additional design and typesetting by Rob Crane. Photography by Michelle Henning, Steve Gullick and PJ Harvey. Drawings by PJ Harvey.
Back in print for the first time in 20 years, the vinyl reissue of PJ Harvey’s debut album Dry is out today through
@beggarsarchive
on behalf of Too Pure.
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, PJ Harvey’s critically acclaimed
@MercuryPrize
winning album, will be reissued on vinyl on 26th February.
Pre-order:
Official store
Other retailers
To mark the release of the vinyl reissues and Demos albums, PJ Harvey's back catalogue of official music videos are being restored and upgraded to HD.
C'mon Billy is the latest, to mark today's release of To Bring You My Love:
Watch here:
I loved working with composer Tim Phillips
@electrictp
on the new tv series Bad Sisters. When
@sharonhorgan
approached me to be involved I said yes immediately and it is a thrill to now be working with her.
More info:
📸 Dearbhla Walsh
#badsisters
One of the original contact sheets from the Is This Desire? photo shoot by Maria Mochnacz. This week marks 21 years since the album's release.
📷Maria Mochnacz
Orlam, a beautiful and profound narrative poem set in a magic realist version of the West Country by PJ Harvey, will be published in
@picadorbooks
hardback in April 2022, with a special collector’s edition following in October 2022
The 'I Inside the Old Year Dying' tour of the UK and Europe has officially started, with two sold out nights in Dublin this past weekend and sold out shows in Glasgow under way.
Highlights from PJ Harvey’s 2004 Glastonbury set on the Pyramid Stage will be broadcast tonight between 8:30pm-10pm on BBC Two.
The full set will also be streamed on
@BBCiPlayer
at 4pm on Monday
"I want to thank you all so much for coming out to the poetry readings and for your support for
#Orlam
."
📸
@toddlynnlondon
at Handelsbeurs Antwerpen for
@crossingborder
First access to presale tickets for PJ Harvey's UK and European tour dates is now open.
If you pre-ordered the album from the UK store, or registered for access, you will have received an email with instructions.
Coming tomorrow: a deeper look into ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, exploring the creative process song by song, starting with ‘Lwonesome Tonight’. Join the mailing list for exclusive first access
PJ Harvey and band pictured with the tour crew in Oslo.
Check for upcoming live dates in the UK and Europe, plus North American tour dates on the way.
📸 Sumit Bothra
#iinsidetheoldyeardying
PJ Harvey’s seventh album White Chalk will be released as a vinyl reissue on 25th June, alongside an album of previously unreleased demos available on CD, vinyl and digital.
Pre-order:
A new playlist is now available on Spotify, featuring tracks co-produced alongside
@JohnParish50
and Flood:
New studio clip filmed, directed and edited by
#SteveGullick
.
An original flyer from one of the first PJ Harvey shows at the White Horse, Hampstead, organised by Paul Cox from Too Pure, which was the record label Dry was originally released through in 1992.
The Dry vinyl reissue and Demos album is out this Friday.
Vinyl reissue of To Bring You My Love, released 25 years ago, and To Bring You My Love - Demos album released 11th September.
Official store *limited number of signed art cards* :
Other retailers:
Uh Huh Her, PJ Harvey’s 6th studio album, will be reissued on vinyl on 30th April and released alongside a collection of previously unreleased demos, available on vinyl, CD & digital.
Vinyl reissue:
Demos vinyl/CD:
"I first met James in the early ’90’s when I was playing with my three-piece band and he was playing in Gallon Drunk.
We were often on the same bill at UK venues and began a friendship.
'Orlam' is published in
@picadorbooks
Poetry hardback today (North America to follow Aug 1st): . Special edition incorporating illustrative artwork published October, 2022.
📷 Polly with the final chosen cover design.
Photo by Sumit Bothra.
Watch the official music video for PJ Harvey's 'Seem an I'. Directed by
@colmbairead
and filmed at Kennel Farm outside Salisbury, England, the video stars actor Ruth Wilson - .
A Woman A Man Walked By, the second collaborative album between PJ Harvey and John Parish, will be reissued on vinyl on 23rd July
The album was mixed by Flood and co-produced by PJ Harvey and John Parish.
📷 Maria Mochnacz
PJ Harvey plays her only London summer performance of 2024 at Gunnersbury Park on Sunday August 18th alongside
@bigthiefmusic
, Tirzah and
@ShahabiShida
.
Tickets now on sale
The Other Voices, part 2
"Colin Morgan and I became friends when we realised our mutual appreciation of Seamus Heaney and we would meet to read his work. He sings with me on the choruses of 'I Inside the Old I Dying'."
PJ Harvey's new song 'I Inside the Old I Dying' is out this Wednesday June 7th. Pre-save here
Here's a clip from the accompanying music video directed by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña.
#iinsidetheoldidying
#iinsidetheoldyeardying
Is This Desire? vinyl reissue + Is This Desire? - Demos album released 29th January.
Co-produced by Flood, Head and PJ Harvey, and recorded in Somerset and London, the 1998 Grammy nominated album features the singles 'A Perfect Day Elise' and 'The Wind'.
In her conversation with
@rahrahraina
, PJ Harvey talks about writing in the Dorset dialect of her childhood home on her new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying,’ and plays four songs live.
Hear the full session now via
@nprmusic
at
Today the programme for the 2024 Ruhrtriennale season has been announced, to be opened with the world premiere of 'I Want Absolute Beauty', a music theatre production created by Ivo van Hove, using songs from PJ Harvey's back catalogue.
📸 Jan Versweyveld
Pleased to announce that 'A Dog Called Money’, Seamus Murphy’s documentary film will be released in the UK in cinemas and on streaming service
@mubiuk
on 8th November. It will also be screened as part of
@docnrollfest
at London’s
@BarbicanCentre
on 1st November.
📷 Seamus Murphy
PJ Harvey announces three new concerts taking place next summer, in Berlin, Halifax and Belfast.
If you would like pre-sale access from Tuesday November 28th at 10am local time, join the mailing list community .
General sale this Friday 10am local.
The trailer for ‘A Dog Called Money', Seamus Murphy’s film of our travels together in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Washington DC. Finally, this wonderful film is soon to be released as the last part of the journey. It is in UK cinemas and on
@mubiuk
on 8th Nov