Thanks to her new album I Inside the Old Year Dying, PJ Harvey is finally playing shows again. The singer-songwriter kicked off her first tour since 2017 this weekend in Dublin, performing her new LP in its entirety before dusting off some old favorites. Check out clips of the concert below.
Harvey’s latest work keeps up the folk-tinged sound she’s been cultivating since her 2009 reinvention White Chalk. As such, new tracks like “A Child’s Question, July” feature rumbling percussion and maudlin keys as the singer reaches for her upper register. It makes sense, then, that after her I Inside the Old Year Dying set, the artist would dust off a song like the ghostly “Angelene,” from Is This Desire?, for the first time since 2012.
Elsewhere in the set, Harvey performed Uh Huh Her track “The Desperate Kingdom of Love” for the first time since 2013, while lucky concertgoers also got to hear “Dress” and “Man-Size” — from early favorites Dry and Rid of Me, respectively — for the first time in years as well. The songwriter wrapped up the show with classics “Down by the Water” and “To Bring You My Love” before performing “C’mon Billy” and “White Chalk” for the set’s encore.
Harvey’s European tour continues through October, and tickets are on sale here. Here’s hoping she adds a North American leg for 2024.
Setlist:
Prayer at the Gate
Autumn Term
Lwonesome Tonight
Seem an I
The Nether-edge
I Inside the Old Year Dying
All Souls
A Child’s Question, August
I Inside the Old I Dying
August
A Child’s Question, July
A Noiseless Noise
The Color of the Earth
The Glorious Land
The Words That Maketh Murder
Angelene
Send His Love to Me
The Garden
The Desperate Kingdom of Love
Man-Size
Dress
Down by the Water
To Bring You My Love
Encore:
C’mon Billy
White Chalk
