PJ Harvey has said she is going to treat the recording of her new album as an art installation, with fans invited to watch the process as it unfolds at Somerset House in London over four weeks, from 16 January.

Whether the ninth album from the British singer-songerwriter will be a classic in her oeuvre remains to be seen. But as Harvey has won the Mercury Music Prize not once but twice, there is a good chance that you might see something special – if, that is, you can get hold of tickets, which are already selling fast.

Imagine that you could go back in time and be present in the studio at the recording of one of your favourite albums. Which record would you most like to witness the making of? And would you like to have been there purely for musical reasons, or as much for the accompanying rock’n’roll antics?