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Article: Music review: PJ Harvey
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- Scotland on Sunday
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- September 30, 2001
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PJ Harvey
Barrowland, Glasgow, Wednesday ***
THERE aren't many laughs to be had at a PJ Harvey concert. There
is lots of anguish, plenty of scary screaming and a fair degree of
brooding menace but lighter moments are rather thin on the ground.
It has been remarked, unfairly of course, that it is never difficult
to distinguish between a Scot and a ray of sunshine. Polly Jean
Harvey comes from the Black Country but the same principle could
certainly be applied to her.
Harvey tends towards the Nick Cave school of song writing. In
fact, for a period in the mid-Nineties she was stepping out with the
Goth berlord and while she was pretty gloomy on her own account,
knocking about with Nick didn't ...