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Article: To bring you the electro-shock blues Pop; PJ HARVEY COLSTON HALL BRISTOL
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 14, 1998
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PJ AND Bjork, Bjork and PJ. The maverick chanteuse stakes is
still a two-horse race. If Bjork's recent gigs left her typecast as
Alice In Wonderland, however, Harvey's on-stage persona seems a
little more difficult to second-guess. On 1995's To Bring You My
Love tour, Polly Jean vamped it up in shocking pink, whilst batting
false-eyelashes that your average pantomime dame would have thought
garish. Tonight, she went for a slightly scatty, girl-next-door
look. As she explained to The Big Issue recently : "It's no longer
about performing. It's about being."
Perhaps the reason that PJ is finding it easier to be herself
lately is because she has had ample opportunity to be someone else.
In a ...