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Free Leeds Show!

Finally, this one can be announced – The NME reports, doves will play a free show at the Leeds Cockpit December 14th as part of the Adidas Originals House Party. For ticket details visit NME ticket page here. Good luck in getting tickets!

The NME Blrub about it:

Doves are set play a free gig in Leeds on December 14.

The band will warm up for their giant homecoming at Manchester Central at an intimate gig organised by NME Radio.

The band will play the NME Radio presents adidas House Party gig at the city’s Cockpit venue and tickets can be claimed for free in the run up to the show.

To get in, fans have to head to the new JD sports shop at Core Shopping Centre on December 12 or 13 where members of the NME Radio team will be giving away 100 free tickets.

Tickets will be handed out on a first come, first served basis. Head to NME.COM/adidas for more details.

NME Best Tracks Of The Decade

I’m pleased to report (even though these lists are rubbish) that there are two doves tracks in the NME’s top 100 tracks of the decade countdown. Without further to do..

38 The Cedar Room

The Manchester band’s debut single

The longest song on Doves’ mesmerising debut album ‘Lost Souls’ represents the true essence of what this most unassumingly special of British bands are all about. A constant live favourite, it creeps along at a lovely, stoned pace, ever so slowly evolving into a classic piece of colourful psychedelia that even the most addled of ’60s acid-heads would be immensely proud of.
They made much more concise, accessible pop records than this throughout their careers, but never have Jimi Goodwin’s lot sounded as mesmerizingly beautiful as they do here. A dark, brooding, slice of 6am perfection that takes you to places you need to go. HM

24 There Goes The Fear

A proper epic, and the band’s finest moment

The near seven-minute mournful masterpiece remains one of the most cherished UK tracks of the decade, by one of our best bands of the era, being one of those tunes that is both sad and uplifting at the same time. NME writers loved it enough to vote it the song of 2002. Nuff said. AW

For the full list, visit NME.com

Thanksgiving

It is Thanksgiving here in the US tomorrow, whilst means nothing to me personally being a brit here, any excuse to eat & drink loads is fine by me. So to get with the thanksgiving mood, here is a gift to you all as a thanks for all the support since I started the blog back in Febuary. The most requested live track I get is for The Man Who Told Everything. With Thanks to Haruto, I can share this video from the wee tour of Japan doves did back in early 2003.

You can also check out versions of Spaceface (amazing!) & Words from the same show at our youtube channel. Keep checking the channel for more video from the show.

Cheers! Have a good one tomorrow if your in the US, or an expat American elsewhere in the world.

Lincoln & Leamington Spa Support

Support for the Lincoln & Leamington Spa shows will be provoded by Delphic. Their debut album Acolyte is out in January. New single Doubt sounds pretty good to me.

The Leamington Spa show is now sold out!

Jez Williams’ live rig

Here’s one I missed first time around. Jez gave music radar a wee tour of his live rig, pretty cool if your into that sorta stuff.

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More from Jez, this time a cutting from music monthlty October 2001.

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Tons of stuff to post from the past. Expect to see allot of old press cuttings once news is thin on the ground! If you have anything to share, let me know.

BBC 6 Music Top 40 of 2009

6 Music is looking to chart the top 40 songs of 2009. Doves Kingdom Of Rust is featured in the 100 short listed tracks. The top 40 will be played by Steve Lamacq on New Year’s Eve.

New Rebelski Album Out Now!

The new album by Martin Rebelski, Witch In A Bottle has been released to itunes worldwide.

The album features the following 10 tracks..

Shadow In The Woods
Onde
Leaux
Kaonashi
Box Of Delights
The Giant Wheel
Castle In The Sky
Scino
The Silver Toy
Little Wooden Toy

A wee blurb on the album from Felt Music

‘Witch In A Bottle’ is Martin Roman Rebelski’s third and most cinematic and experimental album to date. Drawing influence from the likes of Bernard Herrmann, The Wizard of Oz, John Cage, Erik Satie. It comprises of a collection of instrumental tracks created from prepared piano, orchestral and music box instrumentation.

No word on a physical release just yet. The CD is available with the limited edition version of Anna & The Witch’s Bottle, the book which the music was scored for. Only 300 copies have been printed, to inquire about an order visit blackmaps.

Rebelski Links..

Rebelski Official website

Glasgow Barras 2002

NME picture taken at the Glasgow Barrowland November 19th 2002.

Have had a few requests for the audio from the Glasgow Barrowland show of May 1st 2002. Quite simply the best doves show I have been to. When I first saw doves live late 2000, I wasn’t that impressed to be honest! Saw them again in early 2001 at an NME show. Fast forward May 2002, The Last Broadcast had been released a couple days earlier. You wouldn’t have guessed it from this show, the new songs like Words, There Goes The Fear & Satellites among others sounded like they had been around for ages. A truely amazing show, I was hooked from then on. Took a sickie from work so I could attend the show in Manchester a couple days later!! Great times.

I was hoping to put up some good quality mp3s from the Barrowland gig. Sadly the disc that I had kept in storage, has been damaged. All I have to share from the show is a poor quality mp3 of the Cedar Room that I kept on an old computer. You can get that from here. If you have the full show in good quality mp3, I would love to hear from you.

Archive: Last Call With Carson Daly

As promised, here is a video download of the recent airing of doves performance of 10.03, that was broadcast on Last Call With Carson Daly a couple weeks back. The performance was taped at the Los Angeles Wiltern May 16th.

Once again, many many thanks to our friends at NorthWestTapers for capturing the HDTV source file.

Aeroplane Interview

Thanks to Alan, for sending the link for this interview Aeroplane did, wich has a wee mention of Brazil, which apparently doves didn’t like..

The Doves remix they were kind of upset because there was a really cool guitar that was doing the whole track. We never even tought about keeping the guitar we just skipped to vocal.At the end the remix was completely different than original.That is not what they expected at all.But that is what makes us exciting about remixing

To read the full interview, visit beyondclubbing.com.

Otherwise, not too much going on in doves world. Tickets for the Ritz Dyslexia Awareness benefit gig are now only a fiver. See the new flyer on the right for details. I have got a couple goodies lined up for tomorrow.