Double Mercury Prize winner PJ Harvey has said the recent unrest which spread from London to various parts of the UK last month is partly down to a feeling of suppression being experienced by certain areas in society.
Harvey was speaking to NME at last weekend’s Bestival, where she stated her belief the riots were part of a wider trend of people ‘finding their voices’ in the face of an increasingly commercial world.
“People are finding their voices,” she said. “There’s been an awful amount of suppression and censorship. The world is becoming more and more based on moneymaking and less and less on supporting a good quality of life for everybody, and everything we’re seeing, people getting so frustrated that they feel like have to rise up, is partly because of this.”
PJ Harvey became the first act to win the Mercury Music Prize twice earlier this month when her 2011 album ‘Let England Shake‘ deservedly followed up a 2001 win for ‘Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea‘.