⭐🌟𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐏𝐉 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐘🌟⭐

We are still partying, celebrating the birthday of an amazing artist who is one of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐's biggest musical influences.

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English singer, songwriter and musician 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑱𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚 was born on October 9, 1969 in 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕, 𝑫𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒕. In 1988 she joined the band 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑫𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊 as singer, guitarist and saxophonist. In 1991 she formed an eponymous trio "𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚" with two members of her former band and in 1992 their first album "𝑫𝒓𝒚" was released. After recording their second album "𝑹𝒊𝒅 𝑶𝒇 𝑴𝒆" (1993), the trio disbanded and 𝑷𝑱 continued as a solo artist. 𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚 stands out by reinventing herself in each one of the nine albums she has released to date, in which she experiments with different genres, instruments and even her image, creating a particular aesthetic that encompasses the album artwork and her live performances as well.


🎤 "When I'm working on a new record, the most important thing is to not repeat myself ... that's always my aim: to try and cover new ground and really to challenge myself. Because I'm in this for learning."

▪️𝑃𝐽 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦, 𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟺.

Besides being a multi-instrumentalist, 𝑷𝑱 has complemented her musical career with sculpture, painting, photography, poetry and sometimes acting. Among the artists she has collaborated with are 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝑪𝒂𝒗𝒆, 𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝒀𝒐𝒓𝒌 (𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅), 𝑩𝒋𝒐̈𝒓𝒌, 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒉 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆 (𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑨𝒈𝒆) and 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒉, former member of 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑫𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊 and whom she has referred to as her "𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆" as she has continued collaborating with him ever since.

Her great talent has been recognised with several awards throughout her career, including being the only artist to have won the 𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒚 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆 twice. She also was named a 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆 (𝑴𝑩𝑬) by 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒉 𝑰𝑰 in the 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 in June 2013 for her services to music and the following year, she was awarded an 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑫𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 by 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒔 𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏.


⭐✨🎶⭐✨🎶⭐✨


🎸 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 & 𝐏𝐉 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐘 🎸
As I wrote at the beginning of this post, 𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚 is one of the artists 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 admires most along with 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉. 𝑷𝑱's music has marked him so deeply that it has influenced not only 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's sound but also his songwriting, as he expressed it in the quotes below:

Placebo & PJ Harvey in Australia 2001. Photo credit unknown

🎤 "After I moved to London I heard PJ Harvey for the first time and the emotional intensity and depth of the album, Dry, also had a very, very big effect on me. I guess when I went into the idea of a band I kind of wanted to marry the kind of dissonant, atonal beauty of Sonic Youth's experimentalization with the kind of pained confessional and highly emotional quality that PJ Harvey's music has."

▪️𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟿.


🎤 "Music is about expressing things you can’t in everyday life. A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire and I have expressed that in my songwriting – perhaps because it’s safer! I’ve always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way. [...] A lot of Polly Harvey’s early work was tapped into a sense of yearning and desire which I understood.”

▪️𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, '𝑊𝒉𝑎𝑡 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘’𝑛’𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙 𝐻𝑎𝑠 𝑇𝑎𝑢𝑔𝒉𝑡 𝑀𝑒', 𝑁𝑀𝐸, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟿.


In the article "𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆" published in 𝑲𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 in June 2006, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 mentioned the song "𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒂-𝑵𝒂-𝑮𝒊𝒈" from 𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚's first album "𝑫𝒓𝒚", revealing that

🎤 "Steve[Hewitt, drums] introduced me to PJ Harvey when we were at university. Her songwriting instantly became a big influence on me. I was struck by how individual her voice was and then by how taut and nervous the instrumentation was. It was so expressive of internal torment, desire, lust and rejection. She’s always been very brave, she’s not afraid to make a record that sounds like someone bleeding on you."


A few years ago, in another rather similar article published by 𝑵𝑴𝑬 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 in October 2017 called "𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑶𝒇 𝑴𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆", 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 again mentioned this song as "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎".
🔊 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐚-𝐍𝐚-𝐆𝐢𝐠 - 𝐏𝐉 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 🎶
https://bit.ly/3DcRrc9


In 2001, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 dedicated to her 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's song "𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑴𝒐" during their performance at the 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑾𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 in Belgium.
🔊 https://bit.ly/3DgEVsh 🎶


That same year, a few months earlier, the paths of 𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚 and 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 crossed and they eventually met, as they both headlined Australia's 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍. 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 wrote some great memories of those days.☀️


⭐𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑫𝒊𝒂𝒓𝒚, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏 📖✨
𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚 - 𝟐𝟐𝒏𝒅 𝑱𝒂𝒏
✒️ Me, Steve and Bill feel like death warmed up and moan all the way to Sydney. We invite PJ Harvey and her band to come on a Sydney harbour cruise organised by Virgin. They accept and we spend a beautiful evening seeing the sunset behind the Opera house. Fruit bats fly above us and we can see people walk the arch of the Sydney bridge. If I thought the tower in Tokyo was bad, that walk would definitely bring on my heart attack. I can hardly string a sentence together and go to bed. Bri's over the moon as he got a chance to properly talk to Polly and feels there is a connection. Maybe time to ask about a duet? He goes for dinner with Mick Harvey and some of the PJ crew.

The hotel's in Coogee bay just by the beach and the temp is around 35 all week. Inevitable sunburns.

Ah yes, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 has always wanted to do a collaboration with 𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚. I still have hopes that one day his dream will come true. 🤞🌠 That would be completely awesome! 🤩

Brian Molko & PJ Harvey in Australia 2001. Photo credit unknown

🔹𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒖𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈? 𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐?

🎤 Well, no, she's one of my favorite singers so I think I would need to have the guts to ask her, you know? (Laughs)".

▪️𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐𝒉 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟶.


Well, while that happens…
🎤 "𝑾𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑. 𝑰𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕, 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝑩-𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒏 '𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓-𝑬𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒉𝒚' 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝑷𝑱 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒆𝒓 '𝟒 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 - 𝑫𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒔' 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒕, 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚!“

▪️𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝒉𝑜𝑤 𝑇𝒉𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑋𝐹𝑀, 𝟷𝟹.𝟷𝟸.𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟿.


🔊 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭 - 𝐏𝐉 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟓 🎶
https://bit.ly/3lbcOo2


🔊 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 🎶
https://bit.ly/3oylebd


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