On Stage At White Air
A couple impressive shots taken on stage last night at the White Air fest in Brighton. Click on the images for full size, especially the panorama shot above. Cheers Dave!
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White Air Festival
Doves take to the stage at White Air last night
Reaction from the show by twitter user @danielm72
doves fucking rocked but no space face though
@dovesmusicblog started with Jetstream, played several tracks from Kingdon of Rust. Black % White Town. Finished with There goes the fear
@dovesmusicblogI haven’t seen doves for a while & was blown away,as were the crowd. Jimi made mention of how ‘Up for it’ the crowd was .
@dovesmusicblog the atmosphere was electric, and the band were brilliant. Best band in this country, and have been for a long time!
Cheers! If you want to submit a review/photos etc drop me a line at the usual address. I believe that was doves last outdoor UK festival appearance for the year.
How’s Kingdom Of Rust been holding up for you? I gave it a rest for a few months there. Been listening to tons of Kraftwerk of late (readying for The Catalogue.. yes please Santa!) went back to KOR yesterday.. Brilliant stuff, hasn’t left my CD player. Its early days yet, but the signs are good. I was not the biggest fan of Some Cities back in 05, it wasn’t til around late 2007 that I really got it. So we’ll have to wait and see.
Check out the Kingdom Of Rust poll on the right, which is just a couple votes away from 1000! Surprised The Outsiders isn’t up there with 10.03/Winter Hill. The poll is open til the end of the year.
If you are eagerly awaiting the new Cherry Ghost album like myself, check out this video taken at the recent London Borderline gig. The video features a medley of old & new songs. The first track is called Black Fang, quality stuff eh?
Lost Sub Sub Gem: Senna
Ever since starting this blog back in Febuary, the most requests I get is for music from doves previous incarnation Sub Sub. Up for download today is a track long forgotten about…
I have offered up the Coast EP previously, just do a search to find that in the archives. Related to Coast is a track titled Senna which was featured on the Angel 12″ double pack in 1994. Senna is an early alternate version of Coast, which was retitled as a tribute to Ayrton Senna.
Please note the quality of this rip is really bad! But as this track has been requested so often, I will offer up this poor quality mp3, straight from my own vinyl so you can at least get a sample of this track. If anyone wants to offer up a better quality mp3, I’d love to hear from you!
Enjoy!
The BBC Electric Proms Website Needs You!
The BBC Electric Proms website is looking for some help from you all. Here’s what they have to say:
We’re trying to gather live memories from people who have seen Doves in
the past and might remember some of their early or landmark gigs.
I hoped you and the members of the Doves forum would be the right people
to ask.We would like short one sentence memories that will eventually go on
display on Doves’ Electric Proms page and on the wall at the Roundhouse
on the night of their gig.
Natalie Curtis Photographic Exhibition
Photos taken by Natalie Curtis of doves in the studio for the final week of recording Kingdom Of Rust, are now on public show at the London Social (5 Little Portland St, W1, nearest tube Oxford Circus). The exhibition which is free, is upstairs and will run through til November 14th.
For more info on Natalie Curtis & doves, visit the exhibition facebook page.
Cois Fharraige 2009 Reviews
doves on stage at Cois Fharraige – Picture by Limerick Leader
Here’s a review & setlist from indielimerick blog.
Then on stage came the festival weekend highlight in the form of “Doves”. I really cant say much more about their new album “Kingdom of Rust” , It’s a serious record and will finishing highly in peoples top albums list of 2009. Go out and get it! I was really looking forward to these guys has I hadn’t seen them before and they were on my list of bands to see before I die.
They hit straight into my favourite song of their new album “Jetstream”. The lead singer doesn’t really portray a lot of emotion up on stage put the music throughout the set was flawless. 3 songs in they played the crowd favourite “Pounding” and the tent went suitable nuts! They boast a great back catalogue and what we got that night was a serious greatest hits set.
It truly was a magic gig played by them. The final song “The Fear” ended in the band all taking to a percussion instrument and leaving the crowd in a daze of brilliants. If I had gone home after Doves I would have been quite content with the festival
Setlist
Jetstream
Snowden
Winter Hill
Pounding
Almost Forgot
10:03
Words
Greatest Denier
Kingdom of Rust
Black & White Town
The Outsiders
Caught By The River
Encore :
Cedar Room
Here It Comes
Last Broadcast
The Fear
For more, visit the IndieLimerick Blog.
Review from Limerick Leader:
the gig of the weekend followed from Manchester band Doves, who opened with the excellent ‘Jetstream’ from their latest album Kingdom of Rust and never let the momentum drop throughout their near 20 song set.
“It’s great to be on the West Coast, what a beautiful day eh?” said lead singer Jez Williams, who was earlier seen wandering down main street in Kilkee. Final song There Goes The Fear, from excellent second album The Last Broadcast, was simply stunning and drew a huge reaction from the crowd that stayed to hear it.
Review & Picture from Limerick Leader
Movie Soundtrack Next?
Gigwise recently conducted an interview with Jimi, who once again talks about the band’s desire to score a movie soundtrack.
“We need to shake things up by doing something…I don’t know what it’ll be,” he said.
“Scoring a film. We’re always saying that and no one seems to pick up on it, but we’d fucking love to score a film.”
When asked about their reasons for wanting to write a soundtrack, Goodwin replied: “We just always have.
“Hopefully you can hear it in your music. Everything is very filmic and we’ve often sampled many of the TV cop films of old.
“We’ve been doing that since we were in [former band] Sub Sub.”
To read the full article, click here.
As expected, tickets for the Electric Proms performance have sold out. Hope you all got the tickets you wanted.
1998 Hop & Grape Show on 6 Music Tonight
Tune into the Gideon Coe show tonight at 9pm to hear a early live doves performance taped at the Manchester Hop & Grape September 1998. Blues Tune was performed at this show, and has previously been broadcast on 6 Music. So maybe another chance to hear this rare track that never made it onto Lost Souls.
Then on Saturday from midday, a 6 Music listener tells Liz Kershaw why Lost Souls still blows their mind in All Killer No Filler.
Magazine For Electric Proms Show
Marc Riley broke the news last night that Doves will be joined by Manchester legends Magazine at the Electric Proms Roundhouse show. Does it get much better than that?!
Doves For Electric Proms
The BBC officially announced today doves will be part of the Electric Proms line-up this year.
Doves will play the London Roundhouse October 22nd. Tickets on sale tomorrow. Press waffle:
Choral arranger Avshalom Caspi will re-work Doves music, altering the arrangements for the 40-strong London Bulgarian choir at London’s Roundhouse on 22 October.
The band will also be joined by North Indian classical musician Baluji Shrivastav, who played on the album track Birds Flew Backwards.
“It is going to be really special,” said frontman Jimi Goodwin, adding: “The voices of the London Bulgarian Choir are just unbelievable, and it is brilliant just to get the chance to play the songs differently for the Roundhouse audience.”
Buy Tickets from this link tomorrow morning at 8am. The show will be broadcast on both BBC TV & Radio. More details as I have it.
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