![]() admirable if not always enjoyable.' However, Too Pure provided little promotion for the single and critics claim that ' Melody Maker had more to do with the success of the 'Dress' single than Too Pure Records.' A week after its release, the band recorded a live radio session for Peel on BBC Radio 1 on 29 October featuring 'Oh, My Lover', 'Victory', 'Sheela-Na-Gig' and 'Water'. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Dress' received mass critical acclaim upon its release and was voted Single of the Week in Melody Maker by guest reviewer John Peel, who admired 'the way Polly Jean seems crushed by the weight of her own songs and arrangements, as if the air is literally being sucked out of them. Independent label Too Pure agreed to release the band's debut single 'Dress' in October 1991, and later signed PJ Harvey. During this time, the band recorded a set of demo songs and distributed them to record labels. The band relocated to London in June 1991 when Harvey applied to study sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, still undecided as to her future career. And a woman came up to us, came up to my drummer, it was only a three piece, while we were playing and shouted at him 'Don't you realise nobody likes you! We'll pay you, you can stop playing, we'll still pay you!' Problems playing this file? See media help. Harvey later recounted the event saying: 'we started playing and I suppose there was about fifty people there, and during the first song we cleared the hall. The trio's 'disastrous' debut performance was held at a skittle alley in Charmouth Village Hall in April 1991. He was subsequently replaced with Steve Vaughan. ![]() Oliver later departed to rejoin the still-active Automatic Dlamini. The trio consisted of Harvey on vocals and guitars, Ellis on drums and backing vocals, and Oliver on bass. Harvey decided to name the trio PJ Harvey after rejecting other names as 'nothing felt right at all or just suggested the wrong type of sound', and also to allow her to continue music as a solo artist. In January 1991, following her departure from Automatic Dlamini, Harvey formed her own band with former bandmates Rob Ellis and Ian Oliver. ![]()
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