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Article: Harvey's happy to be outsider, going own way
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 10, 2001
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U2, P.J. Harvey
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday
United Center,
1901 W. Madison
Sold out
(312) 559-1212
In 1995, iconoclastic rocker P.J. Harvey toured the arenas as the
opening act for Live and vowed she'd never do anything like it again.
"But I ended up here," she says with a sigh.
"Here" is the much-coveted support slot on U2's "Elevation Tour,"
which comes to the United Center for four sold-out shows starting
Saturday. It's a gig that any musician in search of fame and fortune
would kill for. But Harvey has never been just any musician, and she
isn't circumspect in voicing her complaints.
"It's a challenge for me to be playing in front of a U2 audience,
and some nights, ...