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19/07/2004 PJ Harvey, Simon & Garfunkel: music for grown-ups/old people
Two local gigs last week helped highlight the difference between music for grown-ups and music for old people. PJ Harvey, in their set in the exquisite courtyard of Somerset House, on the Strand, demonstrated how some poprock can be suitably grown-up. Polly Harvey's ever-expanding songbook presents a coherent worldview well worth unravelling. She's a creative artist who's got a lot of creating still to do. Her live act is exciting, high risk perfromance art - it could go very wrong any moment (but, generally, doesn't). Harvey's a credible rock artist with something to say - and she says it with considerable style. Meanwhile, in another part of town… Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were applying balm to soothe the frayed nerves of a cross-section of the tedious middle aged, many of whom seemed to have gone along for a nostalgic singalong. Bridge Over Troubled Water? Tee hee. The overly precious ethereal '60s ballads didn't convince me first time round; they now sound even weaker. And, apart from Simon's ground-breaking Graceland, neither musician has since made any music which has caused even a flicker on my radar. Music for grown-ups? You can not be serious.
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