PJ Harvey Tickets

The only artist so far to win the Mercury Music Prize twice, PJ Harvey is one of England’s most celebrated singer-songwriters. She began her career in her teen years, playing guitar with folk duo the Polekats and beginning to craft songs. In 1988, Harvey joined Automatic Dlamini, playing saxophone and guitar and providing backing vocals. She worked and toured with the group until the beginning of 1991, when she left with bandmates Rob Ellis and Ian Oliver to form a new group. The three of them became the PJ Harvey trio.

The group’s debut single, ‘Dress’, was released in October 1991 to huge critical acclaim. Their debut album, Dry, followed in March 1992, also to an overwhelmingly positive response, with PJ Harvey named Songwriter Of The Year and Best New Female Singer by Rolling Stone. The group were immediately back in the studio to write and record their follow up, Rid Of Me, released in May 1993. Shortly after a 1993 tour supporting U2, the group officially disbanded, and Harvey embarked on a solo career.

Harvey’s third studio album and her first solo project, To Bring You My Love, was released in 1995. Its lead single, ‘Down By The Water’, was a radio hit and hailed as Harvey’s mainstream breakthrough. Following the success of To Bring You My Love, Harvey embarked on her most experimental project yet: an collaborative album with former Automatic Dlamini bandmate John Parish entitled Dance Hall At Louise Point. Sessions for Dance Hall bled into the writing of Is This Desire?, Harvey’s fourth studio album, which won her a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.

In late 2000, Harvey released her fifth studio album, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, which celebrated her love for New York City. It saw her nominated for a BRIT and two Grammys, and also won Harvey her first Mercury Prize. Her sixth studio album, Uh Huh Her, was written, recorded and produced over a two year period entirely by Harvey herself, with the singer-songwriter playing every instrument on the record as well – with the exception of some drums from Ellis. Her seventh album, White Chalk followed in 2007.

In March 2009, Harvey released her second collaborative album with John Parish, A Man A Woman Walked By. Just under two years later, her eight studio album arrived. Let England Shake was a brazen look at British history and its modern legacy of conflict and war. It earned Harvey her second Mercury Prize – and a Guinness World Record for being the only artist to have achieved this twice.

Fans would have to wait five years for Harvey’s ninth record, The Hope Six Demolition Project, which she began recording in front of a live audience in a custom studio in Somerset House. The album reached #1 on the UK Albums Chart and was nominated for a Grammy. Another long wait of six years followed for Harvey’s tenth studio album. I Inside The Old Year Dying was released in July 2023. Later that year, Harvey announced a special performance at Gunnersbury Park in August 2024, which would mark her biggest live show to date.