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  • Jimi Chooses Q The Music’s Friday "Track Of The Day"

    For the last installment of doves guest editors appearance at Q music online. Jimi has chosen ‘Omega Time’ by Malakai, to be Q The Music’s Friday “Track Of The Day”, as part of Doves’ role as guest editors of the website this week.

    Jimi Goodwin (Doves): “From their album ‘The Ugly Side of Love’. Bristol madness! Think Jeff Barrett (Doves’ label boss at Heavenly Records) turned us on to this. Reminds me of things like Madvillain/Madlib/Edan psychedelic hip hop. Really thrilled that they’re going to be supporting us on our April/May tour.”

    Here’s a quick recap of the week’s picks.

    Monday: Jacob and the Angel by the Invisible (Jimi)
    Tuesday: Tonight’s Today by Jack Penate (Jez)
    Wednesday: Sea Within A Sea by the Horrors (Andy)
    Thursday: Extinction by the Soft Pack (Jimi)

    Andy & Jez also talked to Q about all the albums. Here are the links:

    Lost Souls (Andy)
    The Last Broadcast (Jez)
    Some Cities (Andy)
    Kingdom Of Rust (Jez)

    If you still have not got enough doves at Q. Then check out doves greatest hits page here.

  • New Interview At ClashMusic.com

    The online presence of Clash Magazine, ClashMusic.com, has a revealing new interview with Andy & Jez Williams, discussing free downloads, maintaining their mystique and Rick Myers’ albums artwork.

    ClashMusic.com

    Of course, new bands are under great pressures to succeed. Do you think things have changed in this area since your first album?

    Both: Yeah.

    J: I think it’s very tough for young, new bands nowadays. There are no development deals available. You can put a first album out and if it doesn’t do well you’re dropped, seemingly no questions asked. At the other side of the spectrum, there’s what happens if your debut does really well: this thing called the second album. It depends what kind of band you are, but I get the impression there are more bands today who will look to do their first album again –the public knows their sound, and they get it, so the band responds and makes more of the same. I’ve seen that happen enough times. But then again a band might not develop their sound ‘til the third album, and if the second one doesn’t work out they never get the chance to get that far. It’s just tough, y’know.

    To read the full interview, visit this link.

  • Jimi & Andy In Conversation With The Quietus

    Pop-culture website, The Quietus, has a great new interview with Jimi and Andy.

    The Quietus

    Andy: “‘Jetstream’ started life as a more rocky song and it was later on that we added those 16s on the hi-hats and it showed us a different pattern.”

    Jimi: “Then we added a phase to it. Then we added the chugga chugga chugga bassline which was really staccato.”

    Andy: “We’re massive fans of Kraftwerk but we’ve never really touched that sort of thing in Doves. We were like ‘Ah!’ because there were some really big possibilities to introduce a Kraftwerk vibe. A Teutonic vibe if you like. We’d never managed to do that before so we were pretty chuffed you know.”

    To read the full interview, visit this link.