Blog ≫ 2026 ≫ PJ Harvey thirty years ago today

I have some contemporary evidence of this too, this is shocking! Part of a week of gigs organised by Radio One. This was the first one of the "week" that I went to, I think there were only four, and I think I went to them all. It must have been live on Radio One Evening Session so there ought to be recordings of this.

NME Angst screenshot

And look at that I put the colour version of that right in here! I never usually do that. That's a screenshot from an old nme.com "Angst" forum page. I was working there at that time, on nme.com, and I suppose that's how I got a freebie to that week of gigs.

Just realised that is me using the name "PJ and Harvey" there. You didn't have to register for that, anything went on the internet in 1996.

Belle and Sebastian played in Soho that night too, at The Borderline, but I'd not heard of them yet.

Yes I should fix the SSL on this site so that you don't get that security warning and then more people would benefit from my content.

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