The Quietus has announced that Doves are to play the Obelisk Arena at this year’s Latitude Festival, taking place in Southwold, Suffolk, between July 16th and 19th.
Doves and Editors have also been announced to appear at the Obelisk Arena where Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds will be headlining.
For more information about the Latitude Festival, visit the official site, here.
The BBC’s 6music website has today posted two more videos from Doves’ recent live session at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios, for U.K. viewers.
The two new videos are live versions of ‘Kingdom Of Rust’ and ‘The Outsiders’.
The new videos and the previously posted ‘Jetstream’ are available by clicking here.
‘Winter Hill’ is currently still available to view at the BBC’s Radio 2 website, here.
NME.com have today posted a live review of Doves’ recent show at Glasgow’s ABC on March 15th.
They open with ‘Jetstream’, the curtain-raiser from new album ‘Kingdom Of Rust’ and a lush, melodic wave of eerie krautrock that’s audibly inspired by Vangelis’ Blade Runner soundtrack. Yet it’s not until the grand arabesque strings of ‘Snowden’ gallop into life that we realise just how we’ve missed them.
To read the full review, visit NME.com’s dedicated Doves minisite at www.nme.com/doves and click “Reviews”.
Click here to download Doves’ first live TV performance of ‘Kingdom Of Rust’, as broadcast earlier today in the U.K., on T4.
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.
Glasgow ABC
Sunday Mail Avril Adden ****
It’s four years since Doves’ last album and the sold-out ABC was full of anticipation. New songs went down well, especially powerful opener Jetstreamand anthemic The Greatest Denier.
Winter Hill wasn’t as well received as I expected but Kingdom Of Rust sounded even better live thanks to Andy Williams’ drumming.
There’s an easy chemistry between the trio as they swap vocal duties and instruments and they have honed their craft, making it look effortless.
There could be no other ending than euphoric anthem There Goes The Fear
King hearts in tune with hard times
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Several short gig reviews from the warm up tour:
Digital Spy have wrote a small article on Kingdom Of Rust.
With the band now back into the grove playing live. Thoughts will now turn to promoting Kingdom Of Rust, as the release date draws near. Live sessions are scheduled for several BBC radio shows towards the end of next week. I will post more on those over the coming days.
The Kingdom Of Rust single is now available for pre-order. The best deal I have found so far is at Record Store. Both formats for £3.50.
Drowned in Sound have put up a great interview with Andy & Jez. Another great read. Check it out.
A cracking read. Looking forward to the next installment.
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