Mick Harvey is best known for playing guitar in The Birthday Party and forming the Bad Seeds with Nick Cave in 1983 before leaving the band in 2009, and more recently he served as producer on PJ Harvey’s forthcoming release Let England Shake. According to Canadian magazine Exclaim the Melbourne-based national living treasure will release a new solo album this year.
Harvey recently blogged about the album, writing: “I managed to finish my own new album, a songwriting project entitled “Sketches from the Book of the Dead”, which is scheduled for release on May 2nd. I am in the throes of trying to set up some album launch shows for Australia in May and some selected dates in Europe for early June. Hopefully I’ll be able to arrange more extensive live performances later in the year once the commitment to Polly [Jean Harvey]’s principle block of touring has been completed.”
Watch this space…
