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I’ve been quite a fan of PJ Harvey, she has an amazing voice and her songs are beautiful, so here I am standing inside Shepherds Bush Empire watching her showcase her latest album “A Woman a Man walked by”

This is the second album they’ve collaborated and produced an album on, John would provide the music whilst Polly provides the lyrics. Together you get a musical bliss in front of your eyes. Nom. The queue to the venue already started to sliver round the back and curl back to the venue again, people were eager in seeing her play at such an awesome and fairly intimate venue.

The support act was ace, he was very friendly and joked around about how this will only take 30 minutes and then its over. He also noted on the striking resemblance of him and Giovanni Ferrario, the bassist / guitarist for our headline act. His music was nice and had loads of crazy wah wah and whammy effects added onto the vocals which was quite unique.

After an impatient wait in the audience PJ Harvey and the band came out to grace us with Black Hearted, the first song off her latest album. This was then followed with 16, 15, 14. She also played a few songs from the first album including: Rope Bridge Crossing, Civil War Correspondent and Un Cercle Autour du Soleil. She sported the same dress featured on her latest album whilst the other band members wore cowboy outfits.

She ended on Pig Will Not which featured her on the distorted vocals and going “woof woof” occasionally (like on the album), the crowd goes wild and demands an encore (which they gladly provide). Polly finishes the set with False Fire which she taught everyone to play and ended with April.

http://www.pjharvey.net/