PJ Harvey

...approve of). Now signed to Island Records, home of Amy Winehouse, Florence looks set set to skip barefoot through 2009 as a sort of surreal-folk PJ Harvey with lungs the size of the bellowing sails on an 18th-century ship. From...

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...causing the stress for the artist." However Marot, who signed artists such as Pulp, Tricky and PJ Harvey when he was boss of Island Records, rejected claims that this would shackle artists' behaviour. I find it hard to accept the idea that...

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...Killers, Smashing Pumpkins, Erasure, and many more. The music is courtesy of John Parish whilst the lyrics are from the often intense creativity that has become PJ Harvey's trademark. The lead single, "Black Hearted Love" opens the album...

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...(home to Bob Marley, Cat Stevens, Traffic, Roxy Music, Tom Waits, U2, Sly & Robbie, Grace Jones, Pulp and, latterly, Amy Winehouse, PJ Harvey, Keane and Portishead) will be celebrated with a travelling photo and memorabilia exhibition and...

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...college radio airplay for the first single "Down by the Water" - with its eccentric, eye-catching Maria Mochnacz-directed music video of Harvey drowning in an emerald pond while wearing an extravagant wig, heavy make-up and a slinky red...

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...a year of intense promotional activity for her own To Bring You My Love album in 1995. Reportedly, bosses at Harvey's Island Records label feared the avant-garde venture was "commercial suicide", despite it winning generally positive...

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...collaborated with PJ Harvey once more, on a joint album, "A Woman A Man Walked By". Parish wrote all the music, and performed most of it, while Polly Harvey contributed lyrics and vocals. The album was released on Island Records in March 2009.

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...specifically to women; I offer it to people who write music. That's a lot of men." Harvey then signed to Island Records amid a major-label bidding war. In 1993, she released two albums in quick succession: Rid of Me (engineered by Steve...

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