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Win Hop Farm Tickets

Music Festival listings site, Virtual Festivals.com, currently has a competition to win tickets to this year’s Hop Farm Festival (featuring Doves).

Virtual Festivals.com

After the success of its inaugural year in 2008, The Hop Farm Festival is set to return in July as an extended three-day event. The event will be held on The Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge in Kent, which is less than an hour from London and is set to bring the festival back to basics. With acts like Paul Weller, Pigeon Detectives, Florence & The Machine, Editors, Doves, Noah and the Whale, 2 Many DJs, Super Furry Animals, The Fratellis. It’s set to be an amazing 3 days of pure festival feeling, with no sponsorship, VIP areas or registration.

The closing date of the competition is June 25th. Click here to enter the competition. You will need to register at the site, prior to submitting your entry.

Fan-Photos From D.C. Show

CMG Street-Team member, Thomas (pictured below, with Jez), has posted a great gallery of fan-photos from Doves’ performance last night, at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club.

Jes & Thomas

Click here to view his full gallery.

Jez Advises Fans To "Get Ready"

In a recent telephone interview with phillyBurbs.com, Jez has strongly hinted that Doves’ next output will be a departure from the current album, Kingdom Of Rust.

phillyBurbs.com

The Doves, who also includes vocalist-bassist Jimi Goodwin and Jez’s brother/drummer Andy Williams, believe that “Rust” is a good stepping-off point for the band.

“It’ll be interesting where we can go from here,” says Williams. “I think that ‘Rust’ proves that we can do anything we want to do. We challenged ourselves a great deal this time because we’re not content to put out the same old thing. It worked out as well as we could have ever hoped. It’ll be interesting to see what we do next. Just get ready for it.”

To read the full interview, click here.

Spaceface In DC

Sounds like it was a great night in Washington DC. Setlist below, thanks to friend of the blog, NLF.

You can add Spaceface to the setlist! First time on the US tour. Must have been a good one. Reviews as we get them.

Photos & Review of NYC Show

Jimi at Terminal 5, NYC Music site, Prefix, has a small photo gallery of Doves’ recent show at N.Y.C.’s Terminal 5, taken by photographer Paul Bachmann.

Click here to view the full gallery.


The Manhattan-based Sentimentalist Magazine has also posted a short review of the N.Y.C. show…

At one point, Goodwin, obviously warmed by the fans’ thunderous applause, says, “You’re so f***in’ kind! We don’t deserve it, really!”

Banter was all around, as Goodwin seemed ever-so-grateful to his New Yorkers, interrupting one of the more solemn songs to joke about having a vodka tonic with the rest of us.

To read the full review, click here.

Philadelphia Setlist

Thanks to blog-follower, Chris Newman, here’s the setlist from last night’s performance at Philadelphia’s Trocadero venue.

Jetstream
Snowden
Winter Hill
Rise
Pounding
Almost Forgot Myself
10:03
The Greatest Denier
Kingdom Of Rust
Ambition
Black And White Town
The Outsiders
Caught By The River

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Firesuite
Here It Comes
The Last Broadcast
There Goes the Fear

Chris stayed sober all night, just to document the setlist for us!

Philadelphia Review

An excellent review of last night’s show at Philadelphia’s Trocadero:

The Doves thankfully hit the stage to musically deodorize the stage after that Hampshire funk was spread out like grandma wrecking the bathroom after fudge and crab cakes on a humid July day.

I came away with two things after seeing The Doves live : #1 Jimi Goodwin’s voice is f***ing amazing, #2 The Doves really write great songs. I was blown away at the endurance of Jimi Goodwin’s pipes. This guy belts out each song with everything he’s got, yet from song one to the final encore, his voice was perfect. And it’s no lilting, Thom Yorke-y type voice, it’s powerful, soulful, and gravely.

To read the full review, click here.

Archive: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (AVI)

Here’s an AVI file of Doves’ performance of ‘The Outsiders’ on last night’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show, as promised earlier.

Jez on Jimmy Fallon

Click here to download the performance.

The video is an Xvid-encoded MPEG4 AVI file which should be standalone-compatible with most new DVD or AV players which are equipped to play DivX files.

Archive: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

Here’s a HD MPEG2 of Doves appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, as promised.

Click here to download the video. An AVI file download is to follow also, for those of you who prefer that.

Thanks very much to our friends NorthWestTapers for capturing the HDTV source file.

New York City Reviews

Photo by musicsnobbery.com

While this would not rank among my Top 5 Doves gigs, it needs to be pointed out that these guys are the most consistent live performers I’ve seen while I’ve been blogger. You know you’re going to get an aural and visual assault of emotions. Sometimes, in those rare moments, you just forget everything in the outside world and you submit yourself to their music and live show.

When you see a band 11 times in nine years, there is plenty you can count on. First, it’s all the hits we love from their previous three albums. Although “Catch the Sun” has been vanish from their setlist since 2003

To Read the full review, click here.

So count these dudes among those beating U2 at their own game in the last decade or so, i.e. the Soaring, Grandiose, Unapologetically Bombastic Arena Rock game, the sort of anthemic, overdriven guitar rock that’s actually a pretty good fit for an airport terminal. Every song an epic, every chorus a budding soccer-stadium sing-a-long. Except Doves are (relatively) unassuming about it, affable and casual Brits who take their time (their new Kingdom of Rust was nearly a half-decade in the making) and don’t have much in the way of an agenda

To Read the full review, click here.

Fresh from taping a performance for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, UK indie-rock trio Doves packed the house in many ways last night at Terminal 5—first of which was filling the venue to the brim with fans. What the group lacked in physical presence (although they play with a fourth member on tour) they absolutely made up for in aural presence. Not a note was spared from the first few rows of people packed tightly against the metal barrier up to the crowded VIP balcony on the third floor in the back.

To read the full review, click here.