Jimi is sitting in for Guy Garvey on BBC 6 Music Sunday night. Show starts at 1opm, should be worth a listen!
edit: On the page linked above is the show’s playlist. Def tune in if you want to hear new music from Jimi!
How about something from the fantastic new My Morning Jacket album? They don’t need any promo, but what a cracking tune..
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.
Thank you to those who have donated recently. The downloads will always be available from echoesinthealleyway.com. Donations are being accepted until the end of the year at our Teenage Cancer Trust page.
There are tentative plans to maybe do another project next year. It would be different, though it will again be for the Teenage Cancer Trust. More on that in 2012!
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..
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.
With the impending closure of the official doves forum at doves.net, we have set up a new forum. Doves have given it their blessing, so the new official doves forum can be found here.
Don’t be shy, stop by and say hello!
Here is an update from Jimi on what he is currently working on:
Hello
Im involved in the below exhibition in Liverpool
Im currently writing the music for a documentary called The Bird Effect. Directed by my good friend Ceri Levy.
I will be performing one of the pieces on Friday 20th May around 7pm at The Ghosts of gone birds exhibition in the theatre of the Liverpool School of Art and Design.
Very best to y’all
Jimi
For more info on the exhibition:
We’re taking over the Liverpool School of Art & Design with established artists, like Ralph Steadman, Jamie Hewlett, Billy Childish, Charming Baker, Kai & Sunny, Olly & Suzi and Marcus Coates all creating their own particularly unique artistic memorials to the birds we have lost over the last two centuries. As well as paintings, sculptures and installations, there will be talks, poetry and live performances. The show will raise money and awareness for BirdLife International’s Preventing Extinctions Programme (http://www.birdlife.org/extinction/)
You can get project updates by following the Ghosts of Gone Birds facebook page and twitter feed.
For more info on the Liverpool exhibition, visit the facebook event page.
With thanks to Nick Yates (aka Substance) we have added Kingdom Of Rust to the Tablature section of the blog. Nick is currently working his way through Doves catalogue, we previously brought you the three previous studio albums plus the Best Of. Up next will be Lost Sides then pretty much whatever is left to do.
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.
XFM today revealed the top 30 Manchester songs of all time as voted by its listeners & DJ’s. All the usual suspects are on the list of course, including two from Doves which are listed below.
29. There Goes The Fear
13. Pounding
For the complete top 30, visit XFM Manchester. Can’t argue with the number 1 choice!
Rebelski this weekend updated his Myspace blog with this post:
I recently composed the soundtrack to a BBC documentary called ‘Around The World In 60 Minutes’. Excerpts of the soundtrack can now be heard on myspace profile player. The film is currently being shown on BBC Four and iplayer. More info here :
Fascinating documentary, with some beautiful music. Well worth checking out on the iplayer. For users outside the UK, try the expat shield. ;)
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.
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