last night Mark and I went to see PJ Harvey at Colston Hall. Sometimes you need to go and see someone perform who is confident in their creativity. It reminds you how confining culture might be if we all saw things in the same way. PJ Harvey has this ability to shift into the character of her songs and become the subject as well as the object. Being alone on stage she is so small and last night she wore a Chekhovian black dress - as if she was 'in mourning for her life' (see Chekhov - The Seagull). She was able to effortlessly shift from Polly to PJ - she generously gave us insight into her humour between songs then, after being lulled into a false sense of security, plunged us into the depths of PJ's inner world. Bonkers and beautiful, exhilarating and painful.
This is Mansized (an old song)
This is the title track from her new album 'White Chalk', this version was recorded for Danish TV - she did this last night and it was haunting powerful.
and this is a review of the new album on late review - Aired 2007-09-07.
About Me
- Ellen Loudon
- I have lived in Liverpool since I was 18years old. I came here to study drama, pop music and be an actor. I spent a couple of years in a theatre company in Leeds during the mid 1990's returning to start an academic career at Edge Hill University in 1998. In 2001 I started to explore the possibility of full time ministry in the church of England. After a long period of discernment I started at Trinity College, Bristol in 2006 and trained be a vicar. I was ordained as a Deacon in Liverpool Anglican Cathedral in June 2008 and ordained priest in June 2009. I am serving as the assistant curate at St John Chrysostom and St Peter's churches, Everton.
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