PJ Harvey performed brand new tracks at the Guardian festival, Hay-on-Wye over the weekend. In her only live appearance this year, Polly took the piano and explained to the crowd “I’ve never played the piano in front of people before, so I’m incredibly nervous. Every time I play a duff note, I’m going to pull a face like Les Dawson.”
The Guardian reports that two new songs were played, The Mountain and Bitter Little Bird, both tracks are described as вЂhaunting’ with the latter recalling ‘Liz Fraser‘s elegiac reading of Tim Buckley‘s Song to the Siren’.
Polly also told the crowd that she has written an entire album on the piano.
PJ Harvey Performs Haunting New Material
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