Posts Tagged ‘doves’

Some more news on what Jimi is currently up to. Taken from an interview posted at hitfix.com.

I’m currently collaborating with Jimmy Goodwin from Doves

Guy Garvey also mentioned on his 6 Music show last week that he & Jimi had been working together at Real World Studios. All sounds very cool! Hope to hear more on this.

If you missed out on hearing Jimi’s Bird Effect track on 6 Music the other week. A different version, which sounds like the track intro was aired on Domino Radio last week on a show presented by the good folks at Caught By The River. The show is archived online here, well worth checking out to hear more new music from Jimi! Listen to the full show, some great music on it including Dave Rofe’s brilliant Richard Burton-King Tubby – Under Dub Wood mash up.

M62 Song – A lomographer’s daydream

A stunning video for M62 Song, all work by Teppin of Doves forum.

One of the best fan videos I reckon, stunning job. Teppin also created a video for the Last Broadcast Intro which can be viewed here.

If you have a Doves video you made yourself, feel free to let me know will put it up on the blog for all to see.

This evening Jimi filled in for Guy Garvey on 6 Music’s Finest hour. Of course the show was filled with some cracking music! Def checking out Dungen who I hadn’t heard of before to be honest.

The show’s highlight was Jimi giving his latest ‘piece’ The Bird Effect its radio debut, written for the documentary of the same name by Ceri Levy, who joined Jimi in the studio for some chat.

Listen to the full show here. If you don’t have the time or just want to hear the Bird Effect then jump to minute 1 hour 21.

INTRODUCING JIMI GOODWIN & THE BIRD EFFECT ENSEMBLE.

As the lights went down and the first Ghosts images flickered up on screen,Jimi Goodwin’s haunting soundtrack came to life,conducted by Joe Duddell, performed by Jimi and a fantastic group of musicians,all organized by Ali Hudson,creating the perfect accompaniment to Ceri Levy’s film images.A truly spine-tingling Ghosts moment – and a wonderful way to end the show.

Taken from the Ghosts of Gone Birds facebook page, for more pictures and info on the project join the group.

Glad to see the new Doves forum is going down well, probably hasn’t been as busy in years.

If you use a mobile device to surf the web, you may want to try Tapatalk an app that optimises forums for use on mobiles. To learn more, visit Jag’s thread on the forum here.

Anyone heading out to the Ghosts of Gone Birds exhibition in Liverpool on Friday? If you are going and would like to send in some photos or a write-up, please get in touch!

From the archive, been asked if Doves have done much acoustic. They have, usually radio sessions. The last gig in Glasgow they did last year was acoustic, sadly no audio has surfaced of that yet! You can listen to their two performances at Seattle’s KEXP..

2002 & 2005

There is also a ton of stuff up the Dutch Radio station 3voor12 here.

Finally,  I recently got to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor live. Supporting them was a Canadian guy called Eric Chenaux. With his latest album, all the song titles come from the names of real English ales! He was fantastic, check out his tunes at myspace.

Peter Kay introducing Doves December 2002

Big thanks to tarquinlive again, this time they have uploaded a pretty good recording of the second Manchester Apollo gig of 2002. The better of the two imo, complete with the hilarious Peter Kay intro.

Get the flac recording here.

Obviously not too much going on Doves. But if you do enjoy a bit of Kraftwerk/OMD then check out my favourite band at the moment Mirrors who are on Skint records. Their debut album Lights and Offerings is superb.

We recently caught OMD on tour, their first tour of North America since 1988. Well worth seeing if you didn’t see them first time around. We saw the Architecture & Morality shows in 2007, but they have stepped it up since then especially with some great new tracks from the new lp. Our friend Lori is doing a blog of the tour ‘Across Every Ocean’, which you can read here.

Ok to bring it back to Doves… I recall Q back in 2002 compared The Last Broadcast to OMD’s Organisation, particularly the last track Stanlow. Anyone got that article they could scan? Wouldn’t mind seeing it again.

With thanks to Nick Yates (aka Substance) we have added Some Cities to the Tablature section of the blog. Nick is currently working his way through Doves catalogue, we previously brought to you the Best Of tabs, Lost Souls & The Last Broadcast. Up next will be Kingdom Of Rust then all the b-sides, lost sides pretty much everything else really.

The tabs are designed so that you can strum along to Doves tracks. The tabs may not reflect exactly how Doves play the songs as some of the recordings are detuned and they are designed so that you don’t have to be Jez or play a right-handed guitar upside down to enjoy them!

We invite you to any corrections where necessary.

Some Cities Guitar Tablature

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With thanks to Daniel Olvera, we have added lyrics to the 2010 version of Blue Water. See what you think, let us know if you agree/disagree!

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As I mentioned a couple weeks back Doves would be featured on the new Manchester Aid to Kosovo compilation album. ‘Ten’ will feature 10.03 which I presume to be the regular version taken from Kingdom Of Rust. You can order the album at the Ten website here. CD/Ticket bundles are also available for the charity launch gigs in London & Manchester.

Purchase Ten Manchester Aid to Kosovo

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Finally, Sorry to read today of the split up of the fantastic Oceansize. Thanks for the memories!

Manchester Aid to Kosovo today announced details of a compilation album titled Ten which is to be released April 4th on Sideways Saloon. Ten features music from Doves, as well as the likes of Elbow and Cherry Ghost among others. The 18 track album is curated by Jo Dudderidge of the excellent The Travelling Band.

Ten is the follow up to the compilation album Cohesion, which was released 10 years ago which featured the Doves track Valley.

No word on a track listing as yet, will post up more details as I have it. The album will be launched with shows at the Manchester Deaf Institute (April 4th) and London’s Union Chapel (April 7th).

For more info, visit makonline.org

As the snow begins to fall here in Chicago. I know you folks back home in the UK have been pounded for awhile. Take care and stay warm! No video, just a cracking Low cover as recorded last year.

With thanks to Nick Yates aka Substance, we have added Lost Souls to the Tablature section of the blog. Nick is currently working his way through Doves catalogue, we previously brought to you the Best Of tabs.

The tabs are designed to be played on a guitar and may not be the exact way doves play the songs, but are Nick’s interpretation of them. We invite you to submit any corrections where necessary.

Links:

Lost Souls Tablature

Best Of Tablature