The singer was honored alongside human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and journalist Neal Ascherson

The singer will accept the accolade from Goldsmiths University

Band also state their influences as Fugazi, Bloc Party and Battles

He says Nick Cave, Morrissey, PJ Harvey and Brian Eno have inspired his solo album

It didn’t get a lot of press over here, possibly because most of us only have the vaguest idea what it means, but last month, Queen Elizabeth II presented one Polly Jean Harvey with a royal honor, the Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire medal. And thanks, perhaps, to that unexpected jolt of societal [...]