English singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey has announced two nights at 3Olympia Theatre this September.
The concerts, on Friday September 22 and Saturday September 23, will be part of her upcoming UK and European tour to promote the release of her tenth studio album "I Inside the Old Year Dying". Alongside with the announcement, Harvey has released the second track of the album which shares its name.
The album will be Harvey’s first since 2016’s Grammy-nominated "The Hope Six Demolition Project" - will be released on July 7 via Partisan Records and is produced by long-time collaborators Flood and John Parish. Harvey has also contributed compositions for stage and screen; most recently for Sharon Horgan’s acclaimed Bad Sisters mini-series.
The upcoming album’s story goes back six years, when at the end of touring around her last album in 2017, Harvey "keenly felt" that "somewhere in the endless cycle of albums and tours, she had lost her connection with music itself, a realisation that was troubling beyond words".
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Harvey first announced "I Inside the Old Year Dying" with the release of a first single "A Child’s Question, August" at the end of April. The new songs, Harvey says, "all came out of me in about three weeks".
The album has been described as "very tactile, human record, that is partly because just about everything on it is rooted in improvisation: spontaneous performances and ideas, recorded at the moment of their creation". Harvey also said: "The studio was set up for live play, and that's all we did."
Tickets for her Dublin gigs go on sale Friday, June 16 at 10am. They will start from €70 including booking fees and can be purchased from Ticketmaster and PJ Harvey's official website.
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