The English singer-songwriter PJ Harvey will present her upcoming tenth studio album, entitled I Inside the Old Year Dying, at concerts that will take place on October 18 and 19 in the large hall of Lucerna in Prague. He will return to the Czech capital after seven years.
Tickets will be on sale from next Friday in the GoOut and Ticketmaster networks or on the website Fource.cz, announced the organizing agency Fource Entertainment, which organizes both events. PJ Harvey she has played in the Czech Republic twice so far, in 2011 in the large hall of Lucerna and five years later in Foru Karlín.
The 53-year-old singer, guitarist and two-time winner of the Mercury Prize debuted at the turn of the 80s and 90s of the last century with music combining various genres from alternative to punk to blues. She advocated feminism and refuted female stereotypes. She sang openly about herself and her sex life.
She released her first album Dry in 1992. From the beginning she collaborated with musician John Parish, who is also one of the producers of the upcoming album I Inside the Old Year Dying. The musician will publish it on July 7. So far, she has presented the first single called A Child’s Question, August.
According to the organizers of the Prague concert, the new album represents a departure from the big themes that PJ Harvey dealt with on previous albums such as the award-winning and strongly political Let England Shake. “I had the urge to focus on something really small – and I ended up with one person, one village,” said the author.
According to the ČTK agency, the native of Dorset got into music thanks to her parents, a stonemason and a sculptor, who, as followers of the ideas of the hippie movement, lived on a sheep farm, where they “returned to nature”.
The Harveys led their daughter to the blues, playing her Captain Beefheart or Bob Dylan records, and family friends included the now-forgotten co-founder of the Rolling Stones, Ian Stewart. The first group was founded by PJ Harvey as a teenager, and came to the public’s attention in the early 90s thanks to, among other things, the famous BBC DJ John Peel.
She recently released the album The Hope Six Demolition Project reflecting the stories of people from Kosovo, Afghanistan or Washington. The singer, who most often uses the guitar and piano at concerts, also started to pick up the alto saxophone on that occasion. In the Czech Republic, for a change, she used to play the so-called autoharp, which is a modified chordal zither.
Single A Child’s Question, August from PJ Harvey’s new album. Photo: Steve Gullick | Video: Partisan Records
