Doves are featuring in the 29 March to 4 April of the Big Issue in the North Magazine. Feature on the front cover (could not find a picture so far) and a 2 side article about “Doves. At peace with temselves, in our music special”
Jimi reflects on songs on ‘the places between’ and also recalls the long way they’ve come from. Jimi also is thinking back to the struggles while recording Kingdom of Rust. In the magazine it states: Today he’s (Jimi) more positive for the future, stating – if not exactly confidently then at least hopefully – that there’ll be one more studio record before the band consider calling it a day. Looks like the recent rumours about doves splitting up were only hot air, fingers crossed.
doves will be headlining the Green Man Festival in Wales along with the likes of the Flaming Lips. The event takes place over the weekend of August 20-22, which is the same weekend as V that doves are also playing. Doves will be playing the Friday night at Green Man. Good to see Wales get some love!
Just an updated line about the UK tour support. Cherry Ghost will support all the UK shows apart from Folkestone. Cherry Ghost will also play their own show at the Korova in Liverpool May 7th. Get your tickets here.
For more Doves photos by Wendy Lynch Redfern Click On image above
Doves PR doing the rounds in North America to reflect the new album release date/single details at this side of the pond with a word on the digital release.
Single Release Date: April 6, 2010
The Places Between: The Best of Doves
NEW Release Date: April 20, 2010
To celebrate twelve years since Doves formed and to chronicle a career to inspire envy- with two Mercury nominated albums and worldwide sales of over 2 million- the band will release their definitive collection, The Places Between: The Best of Doves on April 20, 2010. To coincide with this release a new single, “AndalucÃa” will be released on April 6, 2010.
“AndalucÃa” was recorded in the barn in Cheshire, England where last year’s critically heralded Kingdom of Rust was recorded. Much of Doves body of work is an ode to the north of England but this song appears to tell of warmer pastures. The song surges towards its rousing final chorus with orchestration colliding with a tender vocal from Jimi Goodwin. “AndalucÃa” stands alongside Doves finest work and will no doubt seamlessly sit amongst classics such as “Black And White Town”, “Kingdom Of Rust” and “There Goes The Fear”.
The Places Between: The Best of Doves
will be released on April 20 as a deluxe 3 disc package comprising 2 CDs featuring 34 tracks plus a DVD with all of the Doves’ videos. There will be 3 digital versions available: a single component 15-track version, a 2-component 34 track version (there will be an iTunes deluxe version featuring 35 tracks), and a digital video album.
On April 6 the Doves’ new track, “AndalucÃa” will be available as a digital download single which includes an unavailable elsewhere acoustic version of “Jetstream”.
Andalucia will be released April 5th in the UK, same day as the release of The Places Between. The single will be released by Heavenly with the catalogue number HVN201. Check out the Lovely artwork, shame it’s not seeing a physical release but that’s how music is these days.
Alright, I asked you all to pick your five favourite doves songs from the entire back catalogue and you have spoken! Some interesting results.. Tracks from Kingdom Of Rust already already proving to be instant favourites.
Here is the top 20 with the number of times each track was voted for. I will be posting a full list of results next week.
Pounding 396 There Goes The Fear 393 The Cedar Room 391 Caught By The River 362 Kingdom Of Rust 356 Black And White Town 355 Snowden 352 Sea Song 349 Rise 346 Here It Comes 343 Catch The Sun 341 Words 337 The Man Who Told Everything 333 Jetstream 290 10.03 278 Winter Hill 258 Firesuite 257 Last Broadcast 250 Satellites 231 Almost Forgot Myself 227
As you can see the results were all fairly close, as was the case for the top 50 in truth. Darker was only three votes from getting into the top 20.
To make it a bit more interesting, here is a new poll to determine your ultimate favourite doves song. You only get one vote instead of five like before…
As the promo for the best of starts to crank up, Jimi has given Metro an insight into what’s playing on his ipod at the moment.
History Of Man by Amanaz
I heard this on Steve ‘Sex Pistol’ Jones’s short-lived but ace BBC 6Music show late last year. It’s Zambian psych rock from Amanaz’s 1975 Africa album. It sounds like a black Black Sabbath.
Irene by Caetano Veloso
I love songs that break down and sort of start again. And what a riff. It sounds like they had a ball recording this. You can actually hear the joy.
Ancestors by Gonjasufi
This is super-weird hip hop from Warp Records. I love the blasted vocal on it and the ridiculous beat. Check out the album, A Sufi And A Killer.
If you have nowt going on next Thursday and you are in/or can be in London then this may just be for you…
Doves will be on Evo Music Rooms being recorded in London next Thursday the 1st of April in the evening. Tickets are free, but they’ll go fast head to sroaudiences.com click on “current shows” and scroll down to “Evo Music Rooms.”
Good luck! If you do attend, do let us know how it went!
So that Hot Press yesterday had allot of us going. But fear not as Andy has had his say over at the official forum..
I’d just like to reassure you all that we’re definitely not splitting up & this is definitely not our farewell tour!!
So there you have it! Great news, though that was quite the jump made by Hot Press! I doubt this blog will be flagging up any further “news” from that lot again.
To read the rest of what Andy had to say about the article and what doves are doing right now, head over to the official forum.
Some good news today! Its been confirmed Cherry Ghost will be supporting doves on the UK tour in April/May. Cherry Ghost who have a new album in the pipeline due sometime in the summer are fantastic live, this is welcomed news as far I’m concerned. Well worth checking out if you are seeing a show.
Today Doves visited Jodrell Bank in Cheshire to perform a couple tracks for the Guardian Newspaper. Jimi & Jez played acoustic versions of Andalucia and Kingdom Of Rust.
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