PJ Harvey - Meet Za Monster (Hurricane 2004)

2004

PJ Harvey - Meet Za Monster (Hurricane 2004) (2004) Director: Rudi Dolezal & Hannes Rossacher Era: Post-Millennial Alt-Rock Festival Era (2004) - Mid-2000s European open-air festival circuit, capturing PJ Harvey on the Uh Huh Her world tour at Scheeßel, Germany's Hurricane Festival, one of the largest rock festivals in Germany. High curatorial value as a pro-shot broadcast document of PJ Harvey at one of Germany's largest rock festivals during a pivotal album campaign. The footage preserves a transitional moment in Harvey's career, her most self-sufficient record-making period meeting the scale of major festival performance, and sits within a historically notable 2004 Hurricane Festival edition. The fast-cut multi-camera direction by Dolezal and Rossacher provides a technically competent and culturally grounded archival record. Context: 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 contrasted sharply with the introspective lo-fi texture of the new album. The Hurricane Festival in 2004 was a historically significant edition: David Bowie also performed that year and suffered a cardiac event immediately after his set, making it his final live performance. Harvey's appearance thus sits within a culturally charged moment in European festival history. The pro-shot broadcast by DoRo Productions preserved this performance for television audiences, representing the intersection of late-career alt-rock credibility and mainstream European festival culture. Director notes: The Hurricane Festival 2004 TV special is credited to directors Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher per IMDB (tt2632436). This pro-shot capture of PJ Harvey performing 'Meet Ze Monsta' forms part of that broadcast production, filmed at the Eichenring in Scheeßel, Germany on 26 June 2004 during her Uh Huh Her world tour. The footage is consistent with DoRo Productions' established broadcast-grade multi-camera festival documentation style. PJ Harvey's own live DVD On Tour: Please Leave Quietly (2006), covering the same tour period, was separately directed by Maria Mochnacz, suggesting this Hurricane Festival footage is distinct broadcast material captured by Dolezal and Rossacher's crew.