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In January 1991, following her departure from Automatic Dlamini, Harvey formed her own band with former bandmates Rob Ellis and Ian Olliver.

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.

The trio consisted of Harvey on vocals and guitars, Ellis on drums and backing vocals, and Olliver on bass.

Olliver later departed to rejoin the still-active Automatic Dlamini and then went on to form the Dub Liberators.

He was subsequently replaced with Steve Vaughan.

The trio's " disastrous " debut performance was held at a skittle alley in Sherborne's Antelope Hotel in April 1991.

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.

There was only about two people left.

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 realize nobody likes you!

We'll pay you, you can stop playing, we'll still pay you!

'"