PJ Harvey announced as 2016 Field Day headliner

PJ Harvey will headline Field Day 2016 during the weekend of June 11th-12th.

Now in its tenth year, the event is to be staged at London’s Victoria Park and has also added the likes likes of Deerhunter, Four Tet, Beach House and John Grant to its bill for next year.

Harvey’s booking comes after she was last seen publicly sharing recording sessions for a new album with the public – sessions which followed her unprecedented second Mercury Prize triumph for 2011’s extraordinary ‘Let England Shake‘.

“Polly Jean is a musical genius, and now she’s practically cemented the fact,” Live4ever’s review reads. “The depth of the composition woven from sound through lyric now ascends the ages, and proves to show that what is now the eighth album from Harvey is possibly the most accomplished.”

“A stand-out line from the song ‘All and Everyone‘ pertains that “Death was in the stare of sun, fixing it’s eyes on everyone”. Beautifully personified and a perfectly universal metaphor.”