Doves Live On Stage In Perth
Doves are currently on stage at the Capitol in Perth Australia. Here are a couple pictures from twitter.
From twitter user @stephenwalker78
From twitter user @mikeycunningham
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Sydney #2 Review & Setlist
For more pictures of doves second night at the Sydney Metro, visit the fastlouder gallery here.
To show we are not completely biased, here is a not so glowing review of the second Sydney show.
I was a bit letdown that the band didn’t delve into any of Kingdom Of Rust’s second half. Spellbound and Compulsion in particular would have been welcome, especially considering some of the other new songs didn’t quite hit the highs they do on the record (I’m looking at you, The Outsiders). Having said that, Kingdom of Rust was absolutely fantastic. Delivered with passion by the band, it was greeted by the crowd as if it was an old classic.
The main set ended with one of my favourite Doves tracks (still after all these years), The Cedar Room. The band then left the stage before returning for a pretty spectacular encore. They started with Lost Souls‘ moody instrumental Firesuite (!!!) before Andy stepped out from behind the drums to deliver Here It Comes. The show then ended with a couple songs from The Last Broadcast culminating in another anthemic, percussive performance of There Goes The Fear. How can you not love that song?
Was it a spectacular gig? Nope. But it was certainly enjoyable. Which, come to think about it, is pretty much what I think about Doves.
To read the full review and see the reviewer’s pictures, click here.
Sydney Metro Second Night setlist
Jetstream
Snowden
Winter Hill
Pounding
Almost Forgot Myself
10:03
Words
The Greatest Denier
Ambition
Kingdom Of Rust
Black And White Town
The Outsiders
The Cedar Room
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Firesuite
Here It Comes
Last Broadcast
There Goes The Fear
Sydney #1 Review
A fairly positive review from the Sydney Morning Herald of the first Sydney show.
The undisputed star of the show, however, is Jimi Goodwin. He spends most of his time on bass and lead vocals but before the end makes effective cameos on drums and a nylon-stringed classical guitar. Notably, he knows his way around a good groove –a remnant of Doves’ past as dance-pop one-hit wonders Sub Sub –giving yet another appealing dimension to the music.
It’s a predictably structured set, with the newer material generally at the front. While there is much to admire in the band’s continued growth, these songs are not without some stodginess.
As if to show them up, late appearances from classic oldies The Cedar Room, with its mid-tempo grind, the slinky Here It Comes and There Goes the Fear, which evolves from a shimmering guitar opening to a final percussion free-for-all, combine to provide a thrilling climax.
To read the full review, click here.
Sydney Metro Second Night Live
Doves are currently live on stage in Sydney for a second night at the Metro..
Posted on twitter by user @FauxPink
Latest heard on twitter (before I have to shoot off to work!!)..
zach_thom Cedar Room. Yes! @dovesmusicblog
Sounds like its going well then! More later on..
The Vine Melbourne Review
thevine.com.au has posted a good review of the Melbourne Palace Theatre show, along with some excellent pro-shot photos.
A relatively warm Tuesday night was the setting for Dovesreturn to Melbourne and, four years after their last sold out visit, there wasno shortage of excited smiles among the crowd hanging out front.
It wasn’t long before Jimi Goodwin and the Williams brothersambled out onto the stage to a roar from the crowd. Kicking things off with‘Jetstream’, the first tack from new album,Kingdom of Rust they followed itup with crowd favourites, ‘Snowden’, ‘Winter Hill’ and one of their best-lovedoldies, ‘Pounding’.
To read the full review, and see more pro shot photos visit the vine here.
If you are attending the Sydney show tonight at the Metro. Remember to smile for the cameras! The guys at moshcam will be filming the show, you will be able to view the show on their website soon.
Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour Replay
Some of you may recall, a couple of years back Jimi let Guy Garvey air a demo on his Finest Hour radio show. The track was called Devils In The Detail. As Guy is currently in the US with Elbow, the show this past Sunday was a “highlights package” thing. So if you missed Devils In The Detail first time around, then here is your chance to hear it again legit on the bbc iPlayer. You have until Sunday!
Go to the BBC iPlayer here (its available to anyone outside the UK too) then fast forward to 1.18 into the show, for the feature demo heaven. Check out the jingle also sung by Jimi! Listen to Jimi & Guy waffle on, before Guy plays the track around 1.24. Of course I never bootlegged this first time around, not sure how it got on my ipod! :)
Enjoy!
ps: If you are in the US, Don’t forget Elbow are on Letterman tonight!
Sydney Metro First Night Pictures
Some pretty cool pictures of doves on stage at the Sydney Metro as found twitter. Click on the images for full size view.
By twitter user @SarahlClark
Doves performing Here It Comes. Picture by twitter user @johnmdoyle
By twitter user @melvynknipe who also had this to say “Amazing. No more words to express it. The Doves are the greatest”.
Melbourne Review
Picture by goattube
Here’s the goat review as printed at fasterlouder.com.au
Doves appeared in the darkness with the opening beats of Jetstream clambering out of the speakers. Jez William’s voice sung out the verses, but it was the song’s break, when brother Andy’s beating bass drum kicked in, that the band really made their presence known. Just as it is on the record, the opening track was a perfect intro, weaving Doves’ dark majesty into the room.
The gloominess turned to a bevy of brighter spotlights as Jimi Goodwin stepped up for lead vocals (and Jez took to dancing) on Snowden and then Winter Hill, which proved early that Doves deserve their reputation as a great live act –they were tight, energetic and more than a pleasure to watch. Old favourite Pounding was next, as the band began to “heavy” up their act, moving from the more subdued introductions to the real rock show. Being English, the inevitable cold weather quotes emerged; Jimi likening the chill outside to their summer and telling us how much he loves it. Did anyone agree? Not likely.
For the full review at fastlouder click here. To see more pictures & video from the show, visit goat’s own blog here.
Better Late Than Never..
Blogger Stefania of Melt Your Face Off has just posted her review of the recent May 29th Chicago Vic Theatre show.
It seems as if she had a great time:
On Friday, May 29th I finally saw one of my favorite bands live…Doves: http://www.doves.net/. I can’t even recall the last time they played in the States. If they did they totally missed Dallas, DC, and NYC (any of the cities I could have seen them in since I discovered them in 2000). I am on their listserv and always get so jealous when I see dates in their native England. So I could hardly contain my excitement that after 4 years of releasing a new album they were doing a US tour, and one of the stops was going to be Chicago. At my favorite venue, The Vic. Could it be more perfect?
The show was not only amazing because the band is, but also because the crowd was so excited to be there. As you can tell in the videos the cheers and singing along were pretty consistent. In fact the band at one point got embarrassed that we were so adoring towards them. Well when you rarely come to see us, what do you expect?
To read the full review, visit Melt Your Face Off here.
To read our own sorta review of the Chicago show, click here
See the Chicago setlist here.
If you have a review of an older show, let us know, we’ll flag it up. Doesn’t have to be from this year.
Melbourne Setlist
The setlist from last night’s show at the Melbourne Palace Theatre.
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