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Andy’s Bolton FM Interview

Andy recently spoke with Jayne Hinton for Bolton FM. If you missed the interview, Jayne has kindly shared the audio so you can listen to the full interview. It’s a brilliant listen, so much is covered from why Jez sings lead vox on Cold Dreaming, the setlist for the upcoming tour, Sub Sub vinyl reissues and so much more.

LP6 Release Date

It has now been confirmed that Constellations For The Lonely will be released on February 28th. Pre-order your copy now at dovesofficial.com

Q&A’s Round-up

Andy & Jez did a Q&A with Chris Hawkins this past week in Leeds, Manchester & Liverpool. The above photos was taken at Liverpool Rough Trade by Gibbo. They also did short acoustic versions of Here It Comes, The Cedar Room, Carousels and Cold Dreaming.

Andy & Jez Q&A at Manchester YES. Photo by Manuel Da Costa

Andy & Jez Q&A at Manchester YES. Photo by Jonathon Hotrocks

Andy & Jez performance at the Q&A at Leeds Wardrobe. Photo by John Richmond

Jordell Bank Listening Party

Doves present a specially commissioned 5.1 surround sound mix of their new album ‘Constellations For The Lonely’ with accompanying visuals on Thursday, February 13 at The Space Dome in the First Light Pavilion at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, brought to you in partnership with Wax and Beans.

These seated playback sessions will play out as an immersive story that’ll take you through an audio-visual journey of the album.

There are only three sittings (3.30PM, 5.30PM, and 7.30PM) with 130 attendees each, making this a unique and exclusive opportunity to discover the new album before anyone else.

Along with the tickets, the band is releasing an extremely limited edition CD to commemorate the evening.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Tuesday, Jan 28th) at 10AM here. Now sold out.

Doves 2000’s playlist

Doves joined 6 Music to look back at the 00s with a curated playlist of their favourite music of the era. Above are the tracks they picked. You can listen to the playlist at BBC Sounds here. Above are the tracks they choose.

Andy & Jez Live In Conversation

Andy & Jez will discuss all-things Doves with Chris Hawkings in Leeds, Manchester & Liverpool. Note change of venue for Manchester. The event will take place at Yes instead of the Gorilla. Dates & ticket links:

Sunday, January 26th Leeds, Wardrobe Tickets

Wednesday, January 29th Manchester, YES Tickets

Friday, January 31st Liverpool, Rough Trade Tickets

My Constellations For The Lonely Thoughts

The press reviews are now starting to drop for Constellations For The Lonely. Here are some of my thoughts on the sixth Doves album. There is course, plenty of spoilers within, so I’ve put the review on its own page for those of you who don’t want to read any of it….

DOVES AT THEIR SOULFUL, WISTFUL BEST

Constellations Bonus Tracks

EMI North has announced a new Doves store exclusive CD version of Constellations For The Lonely. This budget release is advertised as a 1 CD card wallet containing the album plus 3 additional bonus tracks. The regular CD that does not contain the bonus track is being advertised as a digipack. The CD wallet tracklisting:

1) Renegade
2) Cold Dreaming
3) In The Butterfly House
4) Strange Weather
5) A Drop In The Ocean
6) Last Year’s Man
7) Stupid Schemes
8) Saint Teresa
9) Orlando
10) Southern Bell
11) Cally
12) Lean Into The Wind
13) Saint Teresa (Drautwerk Version)

You can order the expanded tracklisting CD at the official Doves store.

Cold Dreaming

Doves have released their latest single today, the second track to be released from the upcoming album Constellations For The Lonely. Andy says about the track:

Cold Dreaming’ is a song about forgiveness. Trying to forgive and move on. As a minimum, these days, resilience is the thing that you need more than ever, certainly as a musician. Perhaps the lyrics do touch a bit on what we’ve been through.

Jez spoke to NME about the track and added:

We were always obsessed with Northern Soul, and we wanted to write our version of a cinematic Northern Soul song. Jimi wasn’t around so Andy and I took the vocal duties on that one. We just wanted to go for a really wide panoramic, filmic sound. Lyrically, it’s all about anxiety and trying to move on from it.”

You can read the full NME piece here.

Jez also spoke to Far Out Magazine. Jez recalls how the new album first came to be:

After the tour cancellation, it was a dark period of uncertainty for everyone involved, lasting “three or four months”. Reflecting on that time, Jez says, “We just thought, ‘What the fuck are we going to do?’”. Rather than continue to revel in their misery, the Williams brothers sought solace in songwriting. Initially, it was their coping mechanism, but quickly, it became clear they were making a new Doves album, “This picture started to emerge, and we thought, there might be a way through this,” Jez recalls.

Read the brilliant full interview at Far Out Magazine.

Mosely Folk & Arts Festival

Doves have been confirmed as the Sunday (Aug 31st) headliner for the Mosely Folk & Arts festival. The festival takes place at Mosley Park in Birmingham. Tickets are on sale now at moselyfolk.co.uk