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April 14, 2009

Doves At BBC Radio One Big Weekend

Doves have today been confirmed as playing at the Big Weekend’s ‘In New Music We Trust’ stage.

This report is from The Swindon Advertiser:

RADIO 1 DJ Zane Lowe joined Chris Moyles on his breakfast show this morning to announce the line-up for the Big Weekend music festival, which is taking place at Swindon’s Lydiard Park next month.

On the In New Music We Trust stage, a number of top bands will be performing, including Fightstar, The King Blues, Florence and the Machine, DeadMau5, Friendly Fires, Doves and Basement Jaxx.

More follows…

The annual event is the biggest ticketed free music festival in the U.K. and is this year being held at Swindon’s Lydiard Park on the weekend of May 9th – May 10th. For more information on obtaining tickets, visit the official website at bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/

April 11, 2009

Archive: BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends Show, April 4th 2009

Doves performed a semi-acoustic version of Kingdom Of Rust, on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends show, broadcast April 4th. The show will no longer be available to “listen again” via the BBC’s iPlayer, after today.

Click here to download a zip file containing an archived MP3.

Please note that the MP3 file is of low-quality, due to it being transcoded from its original lossy source.

April 9, 2009

Archive: BBC Radio 1 Evening Session

Here is a gem from the past. As requested at doves board.

Steve Lamacq’s Evening Session Sept 25th 2000. Many thanks to Jag, I can offer these mp3s in good 320 bitrate quality.

Tracklisting:

1. Valley
2. Blue Water
3. The Man Who Told Everything
4. Gone ‘Til November

Enjoy!

April 8, 2009

Maida Vale Session Video

I’m back from my vacation. Brilliant time was had. But back to business:

Especially for those of you in the US who could not view the BBC iplayer video. Here is the video of the Dermot O’Leary session available for you to download. Video is very poor mp4 quality.

Kingdom Of Rust

Winter Hill

The Outsiders

Recorded on the same day at Maida Vale, this time for 6 music video ..

Jetstream

April 4, 2009

Later… With Jools Holland

Doves will appear on the second show of the new season of the BBC’s ‘Later… With Jools Holland’ show, to be broadcast at 22:00pm BST, April 14th on BBC Two.

Visit the IMDb UK TV & Radio guide, here, for further information.

March 30, 2009

New Interview With Steve Lamacq

BBC 6music today broadcast a new interview with DJ, Steve Lamacq.

Lamacq had a special chat with Doves and played out 2 tracks that they recorded especially for him from Maida Vale last week

Click here to listen again via the BBC iPlayer.

Non-U.K. visitors may be able to listen via Real Player, if unable to use the BBC iPlayer. The Real Audio archive is located at:

rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk:554/6musiccoyopa/6music_-_monday_1600.ra

Scroll to around 1:17 to hear the start of the interview.

March 30, 2009

BBC Radio One Maida Vale Session

IMDb’s UK TV & Radio Guide lists Doves as performing a Maida Vale session on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio One show, April 8th at 07:00pm BST.

Two hours of the best new and cutting-edge music, featuring Doves in session from Maida Vale.

No further details are available at present, so it’s more than likely that this may be the same session broadcast recently across BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6music. Bookmark Zane Lowe’s Radio One page, here, for future developments.

Listeners outside of the U.K. can hear Radio One live (via a Real Audio stream) by clicking this link. The Real Audio codec must be installed on your computer, in order to listen.

March 28, 2009

DERMOT O’LEARY LIVE SESSION

Doves live session from Maida Vale, London has just aired on Radio 2. Recorded yesterday, whilst they were also performing for Lamacq live. They ran through three tracks:

The Fear
Winter Hill
Almost Forgot Myself

Sounded great. Check out out the Dermot O’Leary BBC page for video of the band playing Winter Hill.

March 28, 2009

LIVE SESSION LATER TODAY/WINTER HILL

If you are still holding out to hear the album on release day. Then you can head over to Stereogum to hear Winter Hill with the band’s blessing. This will be the next single. Out June I’m told.

Don’t forget later today doves will be performing a live session from Maida Vale in London on the Dermot O’Leary show BBC Radio 2 at 2PM.

Here is a review of the Kingdom Of Rust single as featured in the California Chronicle…

DOVES Kingdom Of Rust ***

With a futuristic glow and vintage rhythm, this sounds like far- flung folk music from a planet spinning off its axis. Four Doves- free years have whetted the appetite for the Manc trio’s return, and the title track from their imminent album is suitably grand, lustrous and melancholic. Not exactly a departure, but still a cut above mere mortals.