PJ Harvey/John Parish

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John Parish and PJ Harvey have made two albums together: 1996’s Dance Hall At Louse Point and 2009’s A Woman A Man Walked By. The pair had previously been musical collaborators for several years. As a teenager growing up in rural England, Harvey contributed saxophone, guitar and backing vocals to Parish’s band Automatic Dlamini before forming her own band in 1991. Parish later served as co-producer, guitarist, percussionist and keyboard player on Harvey’s 1995 album To Bring You My Love and was featured heavily on her 1998 album Is This Desire?. On Dance Hall at Louse Point, Parish wrote and played the music, while Harvey sang vocals and wrote the lyrics. The album was viewed by many of Harvey’s fans as a minor side project, perhaps due to the top billing accorded the more obscure Parish and her own accreditation as Polly Jean Harvey rather than the more widely recognised PJ Harvey name. Consequently, it sold more poorly than any of her solo releases, entering the UK charts at #46 and barely denting the U.S. Billboard charts at #178. It yielded only one single, That Was My Veil, which spent a week at #75 in the UK charts. Harvey later admitted that she let Parish handle all promotional duties for the record because she was exhausted following a year of intense promotional activity for To Bring You My Love in 1995. Reportedly, bosses at Harvey’s Island Records label feared that the avant-garde venture was “commercial suicide”, despite it winning generally positive reviews.

top songs

albums

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Black Hearted Love

A Woman A Man Walked By

Dance Hall at Louse Point

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SiriusXMU

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SiriusXMU with Julia

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Dance Hall at Louise Point+sin

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KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

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A Woman A Man Walked By (2009)

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Live at the El Ray

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B-Sides, Demos & Rarities

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Dance Hall at Louse Point (w/ John Parish)

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Screenplay (2xLP version)

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