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Ben & Jerry’s Sundae On The Common

efestivals.co.uk reports that Doves are to headline Ben & Jerry’s Sundae On The Common taking place on London’s Clapham Common over the weekend of Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July 2010.

Doves are reportedly headlining the Sunday night. They also report playing that day are Cherry Ghost, Exit Calm and the festival season staple Billy Bragg.

Tickets on sale Monday June 7th. For all the info go to efestivals.co.uk.

One thing is for sure, the concessions will be awesome. If they do it in the UK.. I would highly recommend Ben & Jerry’s Dublin mudslide!

Cardiff Tomorrow / Carson Daly Tonight

Doves are back on the road tomorrow. They provide the main support for Stereophonics massive homecoming show at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Doves are due on stage at 7:15pm and are due off at 8. The phonics on at 8:30pm all times approx and subject to change.

If you are going, as always do send in your pictures/review whatever you want to send in. Have a good night!

Next Tuesday see’s Doves make a return to Douglas on the Isle Of Man. Then its a busy weekend playing the Isle Of Wight Festival, Thetford Forest in Suffolk & Rockness in Scotland.

Finally, if you are in the US. Once again Doves are featured on Last Call With Carson Daly. They filmed the May 16th 2009 performance at the LA Wiltern Theater. Several cuts have already aired which you can read about here. The show airs 12:35am Chicago time.

Cover Album Project: Album Title

Thanks to you all who have shown an interest in the cover album project. What first started off as a drunken idea after a Doves show, is now going to happen! Deadlines have been set, the project is now well underway. Even if you are not recording music, you can still be of help. I have had a ton of suggestions for the album title. So I have put all the ideas to a poll, just pick your favourite.. Its not too late to make a suggestion for the title if you have a good one.. I will accept ideas until the weekend so that I can update the poll one last time.


Final Call

If you are interested in taking part in the cover album project, I will be accepting entries until late Monday night Chicago time at dovesmusicblog@gmail.com Then next Wednesday I will be in contact with you all who have registered interest, so that we can move forward with the project.

To answer a few questions I have recieved… Yes you can cover Sub Sub if you do so wish. Female vocals are fine, in fact this is encouraged! No CDs will be pressed/sold. This is purely a not for profit fan project. A free download will be available via a microsite with the option to make a donation direct to a Manchester based charity. At the moment, I’m looking at putting this out late September/October time.

Thanks to doves board, I have some fantastic album titles to choose from. I will put these to the vote next week. If you have any suggestions for the album title, please let me know. Otherwise cheers for the support on this, I didn’t expect it to take off like it has.

Happy Birthday Jimi!

A big congrats to Jimi for turning 40 today! Happy Birthday Jimi.. hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Cover Album Project Update

Firstly a big thanks to all of you who have wrote in wanting to be involved, the response has been overwhelming! Thanks allot guys.

Right now I have enough tracks to make this project worth doing, so it is full steam ahead. Don’t let that put you off. If you want to be involved I’m going to leave this open until next Monday for you to register your interest. Then we will be getting on with setting a deadline for putting the tracks together and all that stuff. The more the merrier!

So far favourites such as There Goes The Fear, Caught By The River, Here It Comes or Snowden have not been picked yet..

Cover Album Project

In the last post I floated the idea of putting together a Doves cover album, not quite sure if there would be any interest. That was only a few hours ago and the response already has been pretty good. So let’s make this happen…

Like similar projects done by fans of other bands, the album would be not for profit. I’m thinking of looking into the possibly going with a charity where we could put up an optional donation link so any money goes straight to that charity. But otherwise this will be a free download for everybody to enjoy.

So if you are interested, email me at dovesmusicblog@gmail.com to register your interest, if you can let me know which track you would like to cover, so we can avoid having say three versions of There Goes The Fear. You do not need to have the cover ready now, but if you do already have something to submit that is cool also. Once I know how many tracks we have, I will starting putting out more details such as a deadline etc.

The album will have artwork/sleeve notes so we can put some info on that about each track/artist. If you have any questions do feel free to get in touch at dovesmusicblog@gmail.com

The Man Who Told Everything Live

Thanks to John for sending in the above video of Doves performing the rarely heard The Man Who Told Everything in Bradford. Whilst the video is not the best you will ever see, the audio is excellent. Cheers John! Good to hear this one done live again.

Whilst I’m at it.. check out this cover version of the same track. Very cool!

This reminds of a conversation I had in the UK, somebody suggested that maybe we should put together an album of Doves covers done by fans. So if you think you would be interested in doing a Doves cover then let me know. It would not be for profit.. Either it would be a free download album or I could look into possibly going in with a charity where we could put up a donation link so any money goes straight to them. So if there is any interest, give me a shout at dovesmusicblog@gmail.com You don’t need to submit anything right away, just let me know if you would like to submit a track for the lp. Then we can look into deadline and all that stuff asuming there is enough songs..

PS: My favourite fan cover of any song: The Who’s Baba O’Riley on piano.

World Cup DJ Set

NME.com reports of some World Cup DJ sets featuring Doves..

The likes of Doves, Mani and Starsailor’s James Walsh are set to perform at special gigs around England’s World Cup games.

London club night Thisfeeling.co.uk/club is staging live performances and DJ sets around screenings of the games at the Relentless Garage.

England vs USA: Kid British (live), Mani (DJ set) (June 12)
England vs Algeria: Doves (DJ set), Sound Of Guns Live (18)
England vs Slovenia: Ian Broudie (live), The Twang (DJ set) (23)
England second round match (if they qualify): The Rifles (live), Jersey Budd (live), Soccer AM DJs (June 26/27 depending on fixture)

For more, visit NME.com.

Scarborough Show

Tickets for a show in Scarborough went on sale earlier today. Doves are due to play the revamped Open Air Theatre on Saturday August 7th.

Get tickets from ticketline here.