PJ Harvey Sheela-na-gig Reading Festival 28 August 1992

[@Aoddie]

Great song dedicated to Celt fertility

[@DavidMatias79]

sometimes I wish I could just live the 90s over and over again

[@cherichub]

Me too, but then I cant remember most of it......

[@sorearm]

best decade for music. I hit university as nirvana broke. was already into nirvana, pj, tad, alice in chains, stone temple pilots, soundgarden, nine inch nails. It was the best man

[@kdsowen2882]

Then YOU should have seen..the 70's ! Dave NZ

[@citizenpb]

@@sorearm Everyone thinks that the decade in which they turned 18 was the best decade for music.

[@Zimbokasa]

@@citizenpb I just turned 18 a month ago and this is an awful decade for music - I would rather be physically incapacitated for the rest of my life than continue to deal with the shit I do in this era lmfao

[@MarinaVerdi]

This woman is one of my hugest musical inspirations. As an artist, she's a shining example of how someone can explore every facet of themselves in front of the world, creating something amazing in the process.

[@cahillgreg]

@Lars Poen Shiny facets, two boys, funny dwarves amazing

[@Jane-ho5hl]

Bow to theQueen

[@SpamNapkin]

That crowd is having the time of their lives

[@phlarrdboi]

John major was prime minister

[@anneross1021]

I was part of that crowd

[@davidtingley9978]

I was obsessed with going to a European festival or concert ever since seeing Mudhoney's set from this festival on Seattle Public Access. A drummer could almost keep time off that crowd

[@TheFullyBookedCoach]

So underrated as a singer songwriter. Classic.

[@brendaruiz5617]

+Tim Brownson underrated ???? shes pretty famous

[@thomasmerkle2428]

Pretty famous. But not anywhere near as famous as she certainly deserves to be.

[@sdmcgreevy70]

Underrated?

[@TheFullyBookedCoach]

Walk down 5th avenue and stop 100 people and ask them who PJ Harvey is. 99 will have no clue and the other will be PJ Harvey. Ask the same 100 who Miley Cyrus is? 99 will know and the other will be a dude from Ulan Bator. 9 albums released in the US and the highest got to #29 and the last one didn't even crack the top 50. I think that's fairly underrated. I know she's better known back home in the UK, but still nothing like as highly rated as she should be.

[@pecahndasmu]

Tim Yes she is underrated for sure. I did not even know who she was just today when I was browsing the "tube". I found her here.

[@the_katman2181]

This album was unbelievable.

[@lupodelupis3672]

Dry is so raw and powerful!

[@adrianjround7263]

Was lucky enough to be there all weekend. 19 yrs old and not a care in the world. One of the best weekends ever😊

[@srdjanzugic5415]

look at the public than and now at the concert

[@catherineturnell4091]

She stole my heart that day.

[@RataStuey]

Did you see the show?

[@AthelstanEngland]

That crowd will have better memories than the new iPhone film everything brigade who pretty much miss the moment.

[@mattmacneil3424]

coolest gal ever

[@anodreams]

Such a nice, deep throaty voice! A real "Rock 'n Roll voice"

[@1chienandalou]

Actually, don’t limit her like that. She takes her voice every which place.

[@rlsmith7792]

Love this album - but then everything she's done is fantastic.

[@TheVegan6]

im quaking omfg this era was such a Look,, I'm l i v i n g for the jacket, the earring, the bun,,,,, she's killing me i love it

[@1chienandalou]

Look?! Nothing was about “look” then. It is all about BEING… In your case I suggest: Die. And get reborn proper. Live proper. This approximation you kids attempt.. it isn’t life. It won’t satisfy. You will look back with regrets. What is the point of living like that? If you at all relate to what she does, make your own way and luck. It’s not gonna happen on its own. It’s not about earrings and buns and stuff (honestly….🙄) . It’s not about aesthetics... That’s a byproduct. Trivial almost…. If you find the real meaning that would already be there, no effort. No reverence needed either. Even if I sound ornery, what I’m trying to say is a good wish: Good luck, young people, you’re gonna need it!

[@lucianaabril1799]

Christ yes 😭best outfit ever

[@eddie20307]

The Bun is the best ❤

[@michaelsands442]

Oh then you guys must love the video for Judith by a perfect circle... when Paz rushes to put her hair up in a bun. The video is slightly sped up because she couldn't do it fast enough for the break. But it's absolutely adorable, fellas. It's one of those things that is so hot in stolen glance kind of way.

[@cementheed]

PJ's playing is awesome, such an underrated guitarist.

[@gergelysmit9273]

Egyetértek. Az egyik legjobb női zeneszerző-gitáros nem mellékesen énekes is 👍

[@josephcarew3594]

Say it to their race

[@NoSheep2]

PERFECTION...I can listen to it 50 times and get chills FIFTY times.

[@stephenmark6781]

Great song from one of the true musical geniuses of Rock. A Sheela-Na-Gig is a Celtic fertility idol found on many medieval churches and castles in Britain and Ireland. A vestige of pagan times, it is a nude female figure with exaggerated genitalia. Women wishing to have a child but having trouble getting pregnant would place money in the err... appropriate hole, hence the lyric "put money in your idol hole."

[@guedelhas]

I was there! 1992!!!

[@anneross1021]

So was I...fun times

[@darylkilgallon4220]

@@anneross1021 and me lol was great

[@anneross1021]

@@darylkilgallon4220 it was epic

[@rossclaughton6068]

Aahh, the good old days..........Thank god for Polly and her amazing songs that never get old and after twenty years I never tire of listening to them Fucking genius ;)

[@rebeccabowers6615]

Bless this woman!

[@clatn75]

PJ is awesome! I can hear the Pixies and Patti Smith in this song, amazing

[@gabrielzander5987]

This woman is incredible!!! One of the best female artists ever to exist !!!

[@hansperdigiorno]

pj is the most beautiful woman in the world!

[@neroltecneops59]

2023 new album coming!!!!!

[@jaspermystic]

I was there. Saw her several times at the White Horse in Hampstead for her first London gigs. That was a fantastic time for music.

[@smogity]

She's just the best.🎉

[@alund1306]

Show me a group of people having a good time, and I'll show you...this crowd.

[@peterzang]

And no violence

[@mickeymadden8064]

The Amazing PJ Harvey what a wknd I was there somewhere in the mosh pit!😁🤘

[@garythain76]

So in love with this woman~!

[@adrianjround7263]

Was lucky to be there the whole weekend. Brilliant!!

[@hardloper070884]

damn she is so wonderful

[@UpChinaski]

PJ, I just love your music and your huge huge huge style and stage presence. I saw you live in Imola (Italy) in 2004. Thanks, for your music.

[@litteisaaclovespaige5938]

Loving that slap bass excellent

[@alejandrobuenrostro8687]

She's so cool.

[@Julia-di1sf]

omg I just found this - I was there somewhere in the crowd, I have a vivid memory of her doing this!

[@awakening-ug4ip]

Man what of a year I was 20 listening to this a trippy moment

[@Prizzy999]

She's so beautiful without make up it's insane.

[@RWR1911]

Perhaps, but she's most certainly wearing makeup in this clip.

[@brettpope5962]

Great song and guitar rythym

[@Sea_witch_]

And we never had anyone like her again, only her ♡

[@IrvoDominguez]

I got this on a VHS tape. Early nineties...

[@jayoakes7874]

everything seems on point here

[@SimianShakenspere-qx1tr]

Me yes me yes me! xxxx.

[@millafargo]

What a woman 🙌

[@user-hb4nl3bl6c]

Just awesome

[@kaylaluquias]

gonna take my hips to a man who cares

[@andrewmiddleton3202]

I'm in that crowd somewhere.

[@markbradley6602]

'I was,at that concert; revelation; first time i heard of her; john peel introduced her; brilliant ⏲ time!'

[@foxyfoxyyumyum8511]

Miss the 90,s

[@mikerandall3819]

Ahhh PJ is great!

[@madziencja]

great video. she looks very happy :)

[@kimlec3592]

thank you Scottish TEE VEE for bringing my brother back to me.

[@denisefreitas6727]

She's a goddess!

[@Mikee22ification]

the most confident and consummate perfromer, song writer and gutarist

[@gallowspole]

hey Nirvana played this same festival two days later

[@tanyalowe7150]

CLASSIC PJ

[@kevinmichaelcallihansr5053]

I salute the date as my 37th birthday to me now in 68th year of a life of music in no small part to Google/KZbin/Alphabet Empire: calson associates circa 1920. 🐬

[@ivanferencuk2387]

PJ i JUST LOVE U.

[@hanawana]

soooo goooood

[@JM-ij1om]

God I fucking miss the 90s

[@wildmercuryfilms]

Yes: Nirvana kicked opened the door to the return of Guitar-Rock. Oasis, PJ Harvey, Blur, Pulp. Thom Yorke said that without Nirvana, Radiohead wouldn’t exist. He said that Nirvana’s enormous success meant that record companies were suddenly trying to sign young Guitar Bands, and Radiohead was a Young Guitar Band. Pulp started way before Nirvana, obviously, but their big successes came after Nirvana made it big in 1991. Nirvana was like The Beatles in that Record Companies were signing “similar artists” that were playing their type of music. PJ Harvey DEFINITELY fit into that category. I love PJ Harvey, by the way.

[@SethHesio]

Such a good song

[@sidDkid87]

*"you exhibitionist!!"* 💪🎸🎶

[@DelilahMaya-fl1ur]

2024, anyone?

[@fabiolopes5700]

2057 here

[@graveswhitlock3276]

helloooo

[@perksdon1597]

Oh yeah

[@XharlotteBennett]

🎉❤😊

[@V1111b]

🙏🤍💫

[@kingkurtzig]

just founf this and I was there, Great!

[@davecraft61]

Gotta love that woman

[@danielbressanim1814]

Como és linda .....

[@user-hb4nl3bl6c]

So good

[@whssy]

I made the mistake of completely failíng to see the immense potential of this amazing performer when this album came out, as it didn't stand out all that much from other stuff I was listening to. She's easily the greatest British performer to appear in the 90s and she keeps on getting better and better.

[@mare_de_la_mar]

Gonna take my hips to a man who cares...girl, you defined feminism in the 90s. Love you and what you gave to us.

[@LOUARAS]

Super!!!!!!!!

[@georgequeiroz]

Perfect

[@trevorbarnes4731]

Thanks for this i was there it was awesome

[@sehmir79]

GRANDE!

[@willstone7451]

I was there … there I am

[@petr3840]

MY QUEEN

[@maurobueno5835]

depois desse dia tudo foi diferente,, i love you Pj

[@simonbennettalbertst]

She's almost too good. Honestly.

[@jahwobble5214]

Was here she was fantastic that day

[@1chienandalou]

@@jahwobble5214 goddam lucky you

[@user-zg1gs7df5o]

ＳＯＯＯ excited💥💥💥 I want go her livestage😍😍😍

[@terezinharosario5447]

❤❤❤belíssima bjos

[@bizzybone951]

shes so hot in the 90s cool song

[@mariliareis7075]

E so personalidade

[@quintas22]

Next year, 30 years ago!

[@benjo71472]

True power trio!

[@adrianround5213]

Was there all weekend.one of the best weekend of my life.proper music!!!

[@lekilleurdu6405]

ça c'est du son pj est la meilleure!!!!

[@dairydawg]

I just watched it a few times. Love it. Thanks for uploading.

[@Jack_nnn_]

Id love this full set

[@skippercharleston689]

tectonic

[@micaelbenloulou4262]

Tu es belle Polly !!

[@Megamaniac610]

Holy shit. This happened on my 1st birthday. I'm a baby. O:

[@airbornerat]

YES

[@David-h4z2s]

Did not know Dot Cotton played Reading The cab back to Walford must have cost a fortune Good stuff Mar!

[@FaithNewEarh]

Return of the GODDESS/GoOdness 💜💜💜

[@Kayem967]

Not a mobile on sight. Not a tattoo in sight. Just talent

[@kirsten2415]

what a woman

[@jircitano524]

@screamingcockatoo I've been told it's an early 70s hollow-body Gretsch Broadkaster.

[@panagiotischaralampopoulos7152]

THIS IS INDIE ALTERNATIVE BROTHERS THERE IS NO GROUP TODAY TO PRODUCE SUCH SOUND

[@louisemaggs1063]

TUNNEEE!

[@marknasia5293]

If she could just sing the lyric, “say my name” i would... every time

[@lupodelupis3672]

I've been trying to show you over and over Look at these, my child-bearing hips Look at these, my ruby red ruby lips Look at these, my work strong arms and You've got to see my bottle full of charm I lay it all at your feet You turn around and say back to me He said Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig, you exhibitionist Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig, you exhibitionist Gonna wash that man right out of my hair Just like the first time he said he didn't care Gonna wash that man right out of my hair Heard it before, no more Gonna wash that man right out of my hair Turn the corner, another one there Gonna wash that man right out of my hair Heard it before, he said Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig, you exhibitionist Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig, you exhibitionist Put money in your idle hole Put money in your idle hole Gonna wash that man right out of my hair Just like the first time he said he didn't care Gonna wash that man right out of my hair Heard it before, no more Gonna take my hips to a man who cares Turn the corner, another one there Gonna take my hips to a man who cares Heard it before, he said Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig, you exhibitionist Sheela-na-gig, sheela-na-gig, you exhibitionist Put money in your idle hole Put money in your idle hole He said, "Wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean" He said, "Please, take those dirty pillows away from me" He said, "Wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean" He said, "Please, take those dirty pillows away from me" He said, "Wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean" He said, "Please, take those dirty pillows away from me" He said, "Wash your breasts, I don't want to be unclean" He said, "Please, take those dirty pillows away from me"

[@BoogyBarro]

..... ❤️🌍❤️😎😎😎