PJ Harvey Nominated For 4th Mercury Music Prize
PJ Harvey’s eighth studio album, Let England Shake (Vagrant) has been nominated for the UK’s 2011 Mercury Music Prize.
Harvey said, “I am thankful for this recognition of my work, and look forward to finally being able to attend the event in person in September.”
This is Harvey’s fourth nomination; she was previously nominated for Rid of Me in 1993 and To Bring You My Love in 1995, and in 2001 she won the award with Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea. She accepted the award from her hotel room in Washington DC on September 11, 2001.
This latest nomination also marks 10 years since she became the first female to win the Mercury prize and Harvey now stands alongside Radiohead as the most nominated artist in the prize’s history.
Released in February, Let England Shake is the fastest selling record of Harvey’s career featuring long-standing collaborators Flood, John Parish, Mick Harvey and Jean-Marc Butty. On release, Let England Shake received 10 out of 10 in the NME, “this deathly sombre but sweetly sung anti war record might just be Polly’s most affecting and impressive work so far.”
PJ Harvey is currently on a festival tour in Europe including a sold out gig at Alexandra Palace (as part of the Portishead curated ATP) on Saturday July 23.
