PJ Harvey - Meet Za Monster (Hurricane 2004)

What this video is

Captured at the Hurricane Festival in Scheeßel, Germany on 26 June 2004, this performance documents PJ Harvey deep into her Uh Huh Her world tour — an eight-month global campaign supporting her self-produced sixth studio album released that May. 'Meet Ze Monsta', originally from her 1995 breakthrough To Bring You My Love, was a live staple showcasing Harvey's capacity for visceral, physical rock performance that…

Why it matters

PJ Harvey's performance of 'Meet Ze Monsta' at Hurricane 2004 stands as a document of British alternative rock's sustained international festival presence in the post-Britpop mid-2000s. The song itself, originally a Captain Beefheart-referencing blues-rock provocation from 1995, demonstrates…

The director

Rudi Dolezal (born 5 February 1958, Vienna) is an Austrian film producer and director renowned for music videos, having directed for Queen, Tom Waits, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, and Whitney Houston. He…