Photos: PJ Harvey [New York, NY; 10/10/07]

Photos by Kathryn Yu

Like the slightly more prolific Robert Pollard, PJ Harvey has decided to grace U.S. audiences with but two live appearances this year, the first of which went down last night at New York City's Beacon Theatre. Adorned in a vintage white dress with writing scrawled on the arms-- not unlike the one she sports on the cover of the just-released White Chalk-- a solo Harvey treated the gathered to selections spanning her diverse catalog, including the raw "Man-Size", alt-rock radio hit "Down by the Water", and plenty of the new Chalk material.

Ghostly Harvey haunts Los Angeles' Orpheum on October 15.