If you missed the 3AM GMT Sub Sub set for UNITED WE STREAM. You can watch back here. Starts 9 hours in.

Here’s the ‘setlist’ thanks to Ollie, aka our good pal Anal Beard!

Candido – Jingo
Roxy Music – Love us the Drug (Todd Terje mix)
Grace Jones – Pull up to the Bumper
Rotary Connection – Black Gold of the sun
The Clash – Magnificent Dance
Bastone – The Real Life
De-Lite – Wild Times (Mayday mix)
T-Coy – Carino
Jaydee – Plastic Dreams
Gwen Guthrie – Seventh Heaven
Meat Beat Manifesto – Radio Babylon
MFSB – Love is the message
Annette – Dream 17
RP Boo – Bang’n On King Drive

The Making of The Universal Want. Better late than never! I’ve put together all the band tweets from The Universal Want listening party along with some additional info Andy & Jez kindly provided to give you the definitive track by track commentary on how Doves created The Universal Want.

Link: The Making Of The Universal Want

I’m currently in the process of updating the live archive section. Thanks to Remo for providing the setlist for a show in Milan from October 2002 that previously wasn’t listed on the tour archive.

If you’ve got a copy of a setlist from a show you’d like to share, get in touch at dovesmusicblog@gmail.com

Snowden, the website & forum mascot wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Here’s a better year ahead.

Thanks to all of you who’ve contributed to this website over the last year. The release of The Universal Want and all the related promo definitely helped make 2020 a bit more tolerable.

It is with regret that we have to announce the postponement of the planned in-store performances in Kingston Upon Thames, Leeds and Dundee in February ’21, due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation.

We will keep an eye on developments and hopefully we’ll be able to reschedule them as soon as possible.

For refunds, please contact your point of sale.

Doves announced today joining them at Delamare Forest next June are This Is The Kit and Jane Weaver. Fingers crossed this show gets the go ahead as that’s a line-up well worth seeing.

OK, you’ve had enough time to digest the album. You can only pick one track, go for it! Can’t decide yet? The poll will be on the sidebar alongside the rest of the polls DMB has run over the last decade.

I’ve also updated the long running ‘Your Favourite Doves album’ poll to include The Universal Want. With over 2200 votes so far, it may be a bit unfair on the new album. But if it is your new favourite album..

Doves returned to the live stage earlier today for the first time since Gunnersville back in September 2019! That feels like a lifetime ago right?

They performed for BBC 6 Music live in London. The session went live to air, they did three tracks, all of course from the new album. Great to hear live versions of Carousels, the latest single and 6 Music A playlist song ‘Broken Eyes’ and strong next single contender ‘Cycle of Hurt’.

After a year away from the live stage, of course there were imperfections. But I’m not here to discuss that, though if anything those imperfections reinforced how much we all miss live music, willing the band on to play the best version they possibly can, ‘endearing’ as many on the socials called it. Listening to the live session with fellow fans as we all ‘work from home’ it was a rare moment of joy and pleasure during the monotony of the lockdown wherever you are.

A big thank you to all who made the live session possible. It genuinely was a rare highlight of 2020. It should also be mentioned the new album was listed on 6 Music’s top 10 albums of 2020 (#9!) well deserved too. Saturday, December 5th will be ‘The Universal Want’ day on BBC 6 Music! More on that soon…

If you missed the live session, you can listen back to the show here. Starts 2 hours 34 minutes in.