PJ HARVEY TO EMBARK ON LONG AWAITED NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 

15-DATE RUN TO SUPPORT GRAMMY-NOMINATED THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT 

“Rhythms, in the form of militant drum beats, create a boots-on-the-ground feel. Guitars, jagged and fiery, cut through the groove like a fist in the air. And saxophones are raw, dirty and ready to howl… If times are tough, Harvey seemed to be saying, we may as well go down swinging.” – LOS ANGELES TIMES

“The show transfixed thanks to the skill and versatility of all the players, and the synergy that makes Hope Six… so coolly well-rounded. In all its martial glory, the record, and the show by extension, speaks to the many tiny ways that America hides the truth that it’s a territory that subsists on a dream of prosperity many never live to experience. The music could be beguilingly sweet, but the message burned hotly underneath.” – VULTURE

Following yesterday’s Best Alternative Music Album GRAMMY Award nomination for The Hope Six Demolition Project (Vagrant), PJ HARVEY will embark on her most extensive North American headline tour in more than ten years.

Featuring the 10-piece band that accompanied her on this year’s four sold out and critically lauded U.S. dates, PJ Harvey’s return to North America in April of 2017 will be a full run of dates across the continent. Starting in Toronto at the storied Massey Hall on April 13, the tour includes an April 20 stop at Brooklyn Steel and a May 12 stop in Los Angeles at The Greek Theatre. A full list of tour dates can be found below.

Pre-sale tickets will be available on Thursday, December 8th. General on-sale will commence on Friday, December 9th at 10am ET with the exception of Brooklyn and San Francisco dates, which will go on sale Friday, December 16th.

PJ HARVEY SPRING NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

April 13 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
April 15 – Montreal, QC – Metropolis
April 17 – Boston, MA – House Of Blues
April 20 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
April 21 – Philadelphia, PA – Fillmore
April 22 – Richmond, VA – The National
April 24 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak
April 27 – Dallas, TX – Bomb Factory
April 28 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s
April 29 – Houston, TX – Revention
May 2 – Denver, CO – Fillmore
May 5 – Seattle, WA – WAMU
May 7 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
May 9 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
May 12 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre

PJ HARVEY ANNOUNCES SECOND LOS ANGELES SHOW
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19th AT THE FONDA THEATRE
TICKETS ON-SALE TODAY AT 10am PST

Having just played two sold out shows at New York City’s Terminal 5, PJ Harvey is currently en route to the west coast to play a third sold out U.S. gig August 18th at Los Angeles’ Shrine Expo Hall.

On Monday night’s show at Terminal 5, Kory Grow of Rolling Stone Magazine writes:

“From the first song, PJ Harvey’s current live show is a tour de force of beautiful and savage artistry. Her latest album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, reads like an elegy for imperialism, its songs become a dramatic celebration of hope live…By the time the night was done the audience called for an encore, and when that was done, it screamed for another, chanting and clapping until well after Harvey’s microphone was removed. The show is that good.”

PJ Harvey will now play an additional Los Angeles show at The Fonda Theatre on Friday, August 19th.

Tickets go on sale TODAY at 10am PST: http://axs.com/events/314294/pj-harvey-tickets

PJ Harvey

UK & Europe Headline Tour Announced

PJ Harvey will release the new song ‘Guilty’ globally this Wednesday, July 13, taken from the sessions that produced her current album, The Hope Six Demolition Project (Vagrant). The sessions took place in January 2015 during Harvey’s month long residency at London’s Somerset House — “Recording in Progress” — in which audiences were given the opportunity to see her at work with her band and producers in a purpose-built studio.

Saturday, June 4, 2016
Primavera Sound, Barcelona
PJ Harvey returns to world stage.

For the first time in 4 years, and following the April release of her UK #1 album ‘The Hope Six Demolition Project’, PJ Harvey returned to the world stage with a storming headline performance at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound. The only two-time winner of the Mercury Music Prize kicked off a summer of festival shows backed by her 9-piece band including long-term collaborators John Parish, Mick Harvey, and Jean-Marc Butty, and friends Alain Johannes, Terry Edwards, and James Johnston. Harvey, considered to be one of Britain’s most innovative and important recording artists, played a set including new album tracks as well as songs from her critically-acclaimed 25-year career. The show is directed by leading British theatre director Ian Rickson, with set design by multi-media artist Jeremy Herbert, and PJ Harvey costume by Ann Demeulemeester.

Download a selection of live shots here:
https://we.tl/TF6W1HtJWT

SET LIST:
CHAIN OF KEYS
THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
THE COMMUNITY OF HOPE
A LINE IN THE SAND
THE ORANGE MONKEY
LET ENGLAND SHAKE
THE WORDS THAT MAKETH MURDER
THE GLORIOUS LAND
MEDICINALS
WHEN UNDER ETHER
DOLLAR, DOLLAR
THE WHEEL
THE MINISTRY OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS
50FT QUEENIE
DOWN BY THE WATER
TO BRING YOU MY LOVE
RIVER ANACOSTIA

PJ HARVEY 

THE ORANGE MONKEY – VIDEO

Watch here: http://po.st/TheOrangeMonkeyYT

THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT
AVAILABLE NOW ON VAGRANT RECORDS

Taken from PJ Harvey’s UK #1 album The Hope Six Demolition Project, released in April on Island Records. Video directed by award-winning photo-journalist and film-maker Seamus Murphy.

The video for The Orange Monkey, the third track to be taken from Harvey’s chart topping album The Hope Six Demolition Project, was shot in Afghanistan and follows videos for ‘The Wheel’ and ‘The Community of Hope’, also directed by Murphy.

PJ Harvey and her band will perform a number of festival dates across Europe this summer, including Primavera Sound, this Saturday 4th June ahead of London’s Field Day on Sunday 12th June, and a return to Glastonbury on Sunday 26th June, twelve years after her last appearance at Worthy Farm. In August, she will perform in the U.S. for the first time in five years at Terminal 5 in New York City and Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles.

June 4 – Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain‬‬‬‬
June 5 – We Love Green Festival, Paris, France‬
June 7 – Release Athens, Athens, Greece
June 8 – Zorlu Performing Arts Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
June 10 – Primavera Sound, Porto, Portugal
June 12 – Field Day, London, United Kingdom
June 17 – Sideways Festival, Helsinki, Finland‬
June 18 – Ahmad Tea Music Festival, Moscow, Russia‬
June 20 – Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany
June 22 – INMusic, Zagreb, Croatia‬
June 24 – Down The Rabbit Hole, Beuningen, Netherlands‬
June 26 – Glastonbury, United Kingdom
June 27 – Eden Sessions, Cornwall, United Kingdom
June 29 – Open’er Festival, Gdynia, Poland‬
June 30 – Roskilde Festival, Denmark‬
July 2 – Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium‬
July 3 – Beauregard Festival, Herouville St Clair, France‬
July 7 – Pohoda Festival, Trenčín, Slovakia‬
July 8 – Harvest of Art Festival, Vienna, Austria‬
August 11 – OYA, Oslo, Norway‬
August 12 – Way Out West, Gothenburg, Sweden‬
August 16 – Terminal 5, New York City, NY (SOLD OUT)
August 18 – Shrine Expo Hall, Los Angeles, CA
November 6 – Iceland Airwaves, Reykjavik, Iceland

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Director’s Notes for The Orange Monkey video

With the films I make for Polly Harvey’s music I try to reflect the song’s tune and mood, which means tapping into emotion. I find emotion a truer compass than intellect when it comes to finding images and creating sequences for music.

The Orange Monkey has warm, earthen colours with a pleasant, unrushed feel to it. There’s an underlying melancholy, which is leavened by the strength and energy of the Afghan people. We know there is tragedy but what we see is resilience.

All the material for the film was shot in Afghanistan over two trips I made in 2012 and one in 2014. In December 2012 Polly joined me and we travelled together in Afghanistan. Places featured are Kabul, Parwan, Nangarhar and Helmand Provinces. 

The country is different each time; different politics, different conditions, different dangers and then there’s the physical differences brought about by the change in seasons. Songs gets drawn from many experiences and events in a writer’s life and some elements could equally fit other songs about other things. Films work in similar ways. Would the shot of the baker drinking his Chai Sabz (green tea) be any different had it been taken on an earlier or later trip? This film comes from work made over several recent trips but also from a reservoir of memories dating back to my first visit to Afghanistan in 1994.   – Seamus Murphy

PJ HARVEY

U.S. SHOWS FOR 2016 ANNOUNCED

August 16 — Terminal 5 – New York, NY
August 18 — Shrine Expo Hall – Los Angeles, CA

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY MAY 13

NEW ALBUM THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT OUT NOW ON VAGRANT RECORDS

PJ Harvey is to perform in the U.S. for the first time in 5 years, accompanied by her nine-piece band. She will play in New York and Los Angeles, her only 2016 U.S. concerts in support of her ninth album, The Hope Six Demolition Project.

Recorded in public view at London’s Somerset House The Hope Six Demolition Project was released on April 15 and topped the Official UK Album Chart.

The U.S. dates are confirmed as August 16 at Terminal 5, New York City and August 18 at Shrine Expo Hall, Los Angeles. Tickets for both shows will go on sale at 10am ET in New York and 10am PT in Los Angeles on Friday, May 13.

PJ Harvey and her band will arrive in the US following appearances through the summer at landmark European festivals such as Glastonbury, Primavera Sound, Roskilde, and Rock Werchter. She will be accompanied on-stage by: Alain Johannes, Alessandro Stefana, Enrico Gabrielli, James Johnston, Jean-Marc Butty, John Parish, Kenrick Rowe, Mick Harvey, and Terry Edwards. The show’s additional creative team includes Ian Rickson (Director), Jeremy Herbert (Set Designer), Adam Silverman (Lighting Designer), and Ann Demeulemeester (Costume Designer).

The Hope Six Demolition Project draws from Harvey’s observations made during journeys to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, D.C. over a four-year period.

PJ Harvey has released nine critically acclaimed albums, been nominated for six Grammy Awards, and is the only artist to have been awarded the UK’s prestigious Mercury Music Prize twice (for her albums Stories from the City, Stories From The Sea and Let England Shake). In 2015 she published her debut collection of poetry in collaboration with photographer Seamus Murphy entitled The Hollow of the Hand.

For further information, check www.pjharvey.net

“The Community of Hope”
NEW VIDEO DIRECTED BY SEAMUS MURPHY

THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT
OUT APRIL 15TH ON VAGRANT RECORDS

Video: http://po.st/TheCommunityOfHopeYT
Stream: http://po.st/TCOHSpotify

“The Community of Hope” video was directed by award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Seamus Murphy, drawing on footage filmed during trips to Washington, D.C. undertaken by Harvey and Murphy. This is the second single taken from PJ Harvey’s forthcoming album The Hope Six Demolition Project, out April 15th on Vagrant Records.

PJ Harvey and her 10-piece band will perform a number of festival dates across Europe this summer, including London’s Field Day on Sunday 12th June, and a return to Glastonbury on Sunday 26th June, twelve years after her last appearance at Worthy Farm.

06/04/16 – Barcelona, Spain‬‬‬‬ – Primavera Sound
06/05/16 – Paris, France‬ – We Love Green Festival
06/07/16 – Athens, Greece – Release Athens
06/08/16 – Istanbul, Turkey – Zorlu Performing Arts Centre
06/10/16 – Porto, Portugal – Primavera Sound
06/12/16 – London, UK‬ – Field Day
06/17/16 – Helsinki, Finland‬ – Sideways Festival
06/18/16 – Moscow, Russia‬ – Ahmad Tea Music Festival
06/20/16 – Berlin, Germany‬ – Zitadelle Spandau
06/22/16 – Zagreb, Croatia‬ – INMusic
06/24/16 – Beuningen, Netherlands‬ – Down The Rabbit Hole
06/26/16 – Somerset, UK – Glastonbury
06/27/16 – Cornwall, UK – Eden Sessions
06/29/16 – Gdynia, Poland‬ – Open’er Festival
06/30/16 – Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07/02/16 – Werchter, Belgium‬ – Rock Werchter
07/03/16 – Herouville St Clair, France‬ – Beauregard Festival
07/07/16 – Trenčín, Slovakia‬ – Pohoda Festival
07/08/16 – Vienna, Austria‬ – Harvest of Art Festival
08/11/16 – Oslo, Norway‬ – OYA
08/12/16 – Gothenburg, Sweden‬ – Way Out West
11/06/16 – Reykjavik, Iceland – Iceland Airwaves

www.pjharvey.net

 “The Community of Hope”

NEW SINGLE TAKEN FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM
THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT
TO BE RELEASED APRIL 15TH ON VAGRANT RECORDS

“The Community of Hope” is the second single taken from PJ Harvey’s forthcoming album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, to be released 15th April on Vagrant Records, and is available to stream here.

The Hope Six Demolition Project draws from several journeys undertaken by Harvey, who spent time in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, D.C. over a four-year period. The album was recorded last year in residency at London’s Somerset House and is produced by Flood and John Parish.

Both singles from The Hope Six Demolition Project, “The Wheel” and “The Community of Hope”, are available instantly via iTunes when pre-ordering the album.

PJ Harvey and her band will perform a number of festival dates across Europe this summer, including London’s Field Day on Sunday 12th June, and a return to Glastonbury on Sunday 26th June, twelve years after her last appearance at Worthy Farm.

PJ HARVEY
2016 TOUR DATES

06/04/16 – Barcelona, Spain‬‬‬‬ – Primavera Sound
06/05/16 – Paris, France‬ – We Love Green Festival
06/07/16 – Athens, Greece – Release Athens
06/08/16 – Istanbul, Turkey – Zorlu Performing Arts Centre
06/10/16 – Porto, Portugal – Primavera Sound
06/12/16 – London, UK‬ – Field Day
06/17/16 – Helsinki, Finland‬ – Sideways Festival
06/18/16 – Moscow, Russia‬ – Ahmad Tea Music Festival
06/20/16 – Berlin, Germany‬ – Zitadelle Spandau
06/22/16 – Zagreb, Croatia‬ – INMusic
06/24/16 – Beuningen, Netherlands‬ – Down The Rabbit Hole
06/26/16 – Somerset, UK – Glastonbury
06/27/16 – Cornwall, UK – Eden Sessions
06/29/16 – Gdynia, Poland‬ – Open’er Festival
06/30/16 – Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07/02/16 – Werchter, Belgium‬ – Rock Werchter
07/03/16 – Herouville St Clair, France‬ – Beauregard Festival
07/07/16 – Trenčín, Slovakia‬ – Pohoda Festival
07/08/16 – Vienna, Austria‬ – Harvest of Art Festival
08/11/16 – Oslo, Norway‬ – OYA
08/12/16 – Gothenburg, Sweden‬ – Way Out West
11/06/16 – Reykjavik, Iceland – Iceland Airwaves

www.pjharvey.net

Taken from the forthcoming LP The Hope Six Demolition Project, to be released April 15th on Vagrant Records

Directed by award-winning photo-journalist and film-maker Seamus Murphy

PJ Harvey releases the video for “The Wheel,” the first track to be taken from her forthcoming albumThe Hope Six Demolition Project, to be released on April 15th through Vagrant Records. Her last body of musical work was 2011’s Let England Shake.

PJ Harvey and her band will be perform at these festivals across the summer:

06/04/16 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound
06/04-05/16 – Paris, France – We Love Green Festival
06/12/16 – London, UK – Field Day
06/17-18/16 – Helsinki, Finland – Sideways Festival
06/18/16 – Moscow, Russia – Ahmad Tea Music Festival
06/20/16 – Berlin, Germany – Zitadelle Spandau
06/22/16 – Zagreb, Croatia – INMusic
06/24-26/16 – Beuningen, The Netherlands – Down The Rabbit Hole
06/29/16 – Gdynia, Poland – Open’er Festival
06/29-07/02/16 – Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07/02/16 – Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
07/03/16 – Herouville St Clair, France – Beauregard Festival
07/07/16 – Trenčín, Slovakia – Pohoda Festival
07/08/16 – Vienna, Austria – Harvest of Art Festival
08/11/16 – Oslo, Norway – OYA
08/11-13/16 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Way Out West

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Director’s Notes on “The Wheel”

Polly and I wanted to initiate a project together working in places we thought interesting and relevant. We met through her seeing my photographs from Afghanistan, and I later showed her more work, including some from the war in Kosovo in the late 1990s. I had experience and contacts in both places and Polly had long held a fascination for Afghanistan and was caught up following the events in Kosovo when it was topical. Both had troubled histories and because of the news were familiar in name to everybody; the detail and nuance was maybe lacking or forgotten. I had returned to Kosovo in 2004 when the conflict erupted again, finding unresolved disputes and a deep frustration on every side with the pace and handling of events.

An invitation came to both of us early in the summer of 2011. We were asked to attend a screening of the complete 12 Short Films I had made for the Let England Shake album, and to be part of a Q and A afterwards at the Dokufest in Prizren, southern Kosovo. Not something Polly would normally do, yet there was something inevitable about it all and it would get the project started. So we went.

The song “The Wheel” has the journey to Kosovo at its centre. Who is to say what else has influenced and informed its creation? The sight of a revolving fairground wheel in Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje near the capital Pristina is the concrete reference point for the title. I can tell you its date – 4th August 2011- from the piece of footage I made as we walked up the street to our parked car near the train station. It was a passing observation of a commonplace image, one of many that day. While Polly took notes I might have been more interested in something else happening across the street and not bothered to shoot or even have seen it. That day we were gathering material in a blind, optimistic endeavour; characteristic of the way we tend to work together. We had no idea if any of it would ever be seen, heard or would make sense.

Was that sight alone the inspiration for the song? Without being told the stories of people who had suffered during the war, without visiting villages abandoned through ethnic cleansing and cycles of vengeance, without experiencing the different perceptions of people with shared histories, could the song have been written?

I made a return trip to Kosovo in December 2015, armed this time with the knowledge of how the project had developed. In addition to Kosovo, there had been journeys to Afghanistan and Washington D.C. A book, The Hollow of the Hand, had been published of Polly’s poems and my photographs and a words/images/music launch on the stage of the Royal Festival Hall over two nights. A recording session turned art installation in Somerset House which I filmed. The album was mastered and on its way. Disparate elements finally coming together of a project that started with the premise of curiosity and interest.

Making the film for “The Wheel” involved a mix of footage from the first trip in 2011, rehearsals I shot of Polly in London and the most recent trip to Kosovo. The enormous refugee crisis in Europe had been news for months. I spent some time on the Greek and Macedonian borders, and in Serbia, before travelling into Kosovo. It was happening in and through territories associated with recent conflicts in Kosovo and the wider Balkans. The idea of cycles, wheels and repetition once again being all too apparent and necessary to make.

We salute the life of Nesim Kryeziu (1938 – 2016) the wonderful man in the film performing a traditional dance with a glass of water on his head at a wedding in his village of Brezne in the Opoja region of Kosovo.

– Seamus Murphy

THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT

TO BE RELEASED APRIL 15TH ON VAGRANT RECORDS

Artwork and Creative Direction by Michelle Henning

Watch the new album trailer by Seamus Murphy featuring tracks
“The Community of Hope” and “The Wheel” here: http://po.st/THSDPVEVO

Lead single “The Wheel” received its first play today on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music show

This spring sees the release of PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album,
The Hope Six Demolition Project, on April 15th through Vagrant Records

The Hope Six Demolition Project draws from several journeys undertaken by Harvey, who spent time in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, D.C. over a four-year period. “When I’m writing a song I visualise the entire scene. I can see the colours, I can tell the time of day, I can sense the mood, I can see the light changing, the shadows moving, everything in that picture. Gathering information from secondary sources felt too far removed for what I was trying to write about. I wanted to smell the air, feel the soil and meet the people of the countries I was fascinated with,” says Harvey.

The album was recorded last year in residency at London’s Somerset House. The exhibition, entitled ‘Recording in Progress’ saw Harvey, her band, producers Flood and John Parish, and engineers working within a purpose-built recording studio behind one-way glass, observed throughout by public audiences.

Watch the new album trailer by Seamus Murphy featuring tracks “The Community of Hope” and “The Wheel” here: http://po.st/THSDPVEVO

The Hope Six Demolition Project will be available on vinyl, CD and as a digital download. The full track-listing is:

01. The Community of Hope
02. The Ministry of Defence
03. A Line in the Sand
04. Chain of Keys
05. River Anacostia
06. Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln
07. The Orange Monkey
08. Medicinals
09. The Ministry of Social Affairs
10. The Wheel
11. Dollar, Dollar

This new album follows the 2011 Mercury Prize winning Let England Shake.

PJ Harvey will play select festival dates across Europe this summer with her new 9-piece band:

06/04/16 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound
06/04-05/16 – Paris, France – We Love Green Festival
06/12/16 – London, UK – Field Day
06/17-18/16 – Helsinki, Finland – Sideways Festival
06/20/16 – Berlin, Germany – Zitadelle Spandau
06/22/16 – Zagreb, Croatia – INMusic
06/24-26/16 – Beuningen, The Netherlands – Down The Rabbit Hole
06/29/16 – Gdynia, Poland – Open’er Festival
06/29-07/02/16 – Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07/02/16 – Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
07/03/16 – Herouville St Clair, France – Beauregard Festival
07/07/16 – Trenčín, Slovakia – Pohoda Festival
08/11/16 – Oslo, Norway – OYA
08/11-13/16 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Way Out West
www.pjharvey.net