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Homecoming Queenie: PJ Harvey: Arts Centre, Bridport

Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 15 August 1998

PERCHED ON A rocky coast in deepest Dorset, sleepy Bridport is Polly Harvey's home turf. Approaching this outpost of rural Britain on humid summer nights, you half expect to encounter the voodoo sprites and feral banshees who haunt her fevered lyrics.

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