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PJ Harvey & Seamus Murphy: Royal Festival Hall, London, October 9,2015

Andrew Mueller, Uncut, December 2015

TONIGHT'S WORLD PREMIERE of PJ Harvey's latest work, The Hollow Of The Hand, is an exciting, occasionally electrifying, 30-minute rock'n'roll show — which, unfortunately, is doled out in small and sporadic morsels over the course of two and a quarter hours otherwise consumed by often less gripping poetry recitals, and what is essentially a slide show.

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