PJ Harvey announces first North American tour dates in 7 years
PJ Harvey.
Samir Hussein/WireImageA year later PJ Harvey has released her tenth studio album, the art rock icon is hitting the road.
Harvey, 54, announced on Monday, February 26 that she will perform in support of 2023’s I’m dying in the old yearthe album adapted from her epic poem, Orlam (published 2022). The tour kicks off in June in Barcelona, Spain, before working its way through Europe. In August, Harvey will visit the United States to play The Anthem in Washington DC, kicking off her first North American tour in seven years.
With a total of 16 North American dates, from there Harvey will visit Philadelphia, New York and Boston before heading to Canada to play Leval, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario. She returns to the US via Detroit before reaching cities such as Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco.
Along with the tour announcement, Harvey shared the music video for “Seem an I.” The picturesque visual was directed by Colm Bairead (The quiet girl, the joy) and features actress Ruth Wilson (The Affair, Luther, His Dark Materials) that runs through the landscape of the English Kennel Farm.
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“Ruth and I became friends after working together on Clio Barnard’s film Dark river”, said PJ Harvey in a press statement. “I have always greatly admired Ruth’s work as an actor, so I have long harbored a dream that we could somehow work together again. When the opportunity arose to work with Colm Bairéad, I knew him as a director that Ruth highly respected, as did I, so it felt right to ask her to be in the film. I find the resulting short film beautiful and moving because of Ruth’s magical presence and Colm’s unique vision.
“I’ve always been a big fan of PJ so it was a great privilege to work with Colm and Polly [Jean Harvey] to bring ‘Seem an I’ to visual life in this mysterious and hypnotic short film,” Wilson added in the statement. “There’s no better way to spend a day in the magical world of PJ Harvey.”
Havey started her career in the late 1980s as part of the British band Automatic Dlamini. She formed a band of the same name in 1991 Rob Ellis And John Parish. After two albums the trio split up. Harvey continued as a celebrated solo artist, often collaborating with Parish and other like-minded musicians.
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She became an icon of the alternative and underground music scene with albums like 1993 Get rid of me ae 1995 To bring you my love, the latter of which includes “Down by the Water,” her highest-charting song on the US alternative charts. In 1994, Harvey appeared alongside her fellow alternative icons Bjork And Tori Amos on the cover of a British magazine QAlthough the feature helped establish PJ Harvey as a powerhouse in the public eye, the feature’s title (“Hips. Lips. Tits. Power.”) angered many, with some fans calling it misogynistic.
I’m dying in the old year is Harvey’s tenth album, her first since 2006 The Hope Six demolition project. It earned Harvey a nomination for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2024 Grammy Awards. Critics praised the work with The guard called the project “scarily daunting, but intoxicating and easy to lose yourself in.”