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Edinburgh Tix/Weekend Festivals

Tickets for Edinburgh’s Edge festival gig go on sale at 9:30am in the morning. Priced at £21.25 including the usual fees.

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Doves are off out doing the festivals this weekend. Tonight its the Isle Of Wight Festival. Doves take the main stage at 6:35pm til 7:20pm. ITV2 are covering the festival (thanks to an optional extra for the heads up!) so expect to see some Doves. If you manage to get some Doves on tape, let us know!

Saturday its the big headline show at Thetford Forest. Then on Sunday Doves play Rockness near Inverness in Scotland. That show is headlined by the Strokes. You may recall The Strokes supported Doves on the first US tour back in 2001. So maybe a festival collaboration there?

If you attend one of the shows. Do send in your reviews/pics/setlist etc as always! Personally, I will be glued to the World Cup. You can catch a Doves DJ set at the Relentless Garage for the England v Algeria match next Friday, more info here.

Whatever you are doing have a great weekend!

Isle Of Man Setlist

With many thanks to Team Madders!

Edinburgh Edge Festival

The Line up for the Edinburgh Edge festival is due to be announced at 12pm today. The Scotsman says Doves are part of the line-up, the festival takes place in August. The Edge Festival was previously known as T on the Fringe.. Doves took part in the 2002 festival at a fantastic sold out Edinburgh Corn Exchange which I wrote about here. The first time I saw Peter Kay on stage!

More concrete info as I have it.

Edit: Gig will take place at the HMV Picture house on August 8th. Tickets priced £18.50 on sale at 9:30am tomorrow.

All the info now up at the Edge Festival website.

Outline Online Interview

Norwich based Outline recently spoke to Jez about the upcoming Thetford Forest show. As well as talking about the Thetford gig, the interviewer asked some interesting questions for a change. There may be a hint as to what to expect in the future outside of Doves..

You recently announced a two year break from touring and recording and I wondered what your thinking was behind that?

The main reason is to get off the carousel of tour, studio, tour, studio, tour, studio which just got a bit boring. We’re gonna do some individual projects and then hopefully come back and do the Doves fifth album with something to bring to the table. I think we all need to do individual things for our own sanity really. We’ll come back revitalised ‘cause we’ll have been to different musical territories than we would with Doves so it’s gonna be a good thing.

Are you going to be doing individual music projects or will it be other stuff?

Well we’ll be doing music separately but I can’t tell you anything about it yet.

You were Sub Sub before you were Doves. Have you ever been tempted to release a dance track under an alter ego?

Well that might be part of one of our projects outside Doves, so you might see that, yeah.

There’s been a rumour floating around for a while that you’re going to be doing something with Guy Garvey. Is that still on the cards or has it gone on the back burner?

Yeah that could still be on the cards, absolutely. We’re good mates with Elbow so that could well be a reality.

To read the full interview, click here.

Doves Live In Cardiff

Picture by @shell150675

Picture by @jophster

Doves live at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Review by walesonline.co.uk

Doves have no need to worry about their vagaries of success. The Manchester band are assured competitors on the big stage. Their ether-scraping psych-rock is perfect accompaniment as the sun sets over the stadium.

Kingdom Of Rust, There Goes The Fear, Pounding and Caught By The River are songs that swell to a crescendo built on swathes of glistening electric guitar, all sweet surges and soaring choruses.

Setlist with thanks to an optional extra at doves board.

Snowden
Push me on
Pounding
Jetstream
Black and white town
Catch the sun
Kingdom of rust
Caught by the river

The Fear

New Cherry Ghost Video

Beautiful new single Kissing Strangers by Cherry Ghost, as debuted on youtube by Heavenly Recordings.

Taken from the album Beneath This Burning Shoreline. Taking pre-orders for the album already are.. Roughtrade / Record store (signed copies)

You can see Cherry Ghost support Doves at Thetford Forest next Saturday, June 12th.

Ben & Jerry’s Sundae On The Common

efestivals.co.uk reports that Doves are to headline Ben & Jerry’s Sundae On The Common taking place on London’s Clapham Common over the weekend of Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th July 2010.

Doves are reportedly headlining the Sunday night. They also report playing that day are Cherry Ghost, Exit Calm and the festival season staple Billy Bragg.

Tickets on sale Monday June 7th. For all the info go to efestivals.co.uk.

One thing is for sure, the concessions will be awesome. If they do it in the UK.. I would highly recommend Ben & Jerry’s Dublin mudslide!

Cardiff Tomorrow / Carson Daly Tonight

Doves are back on the road tomorrow. They provide the main support for Stereophonics massive homecoming show at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Doves are due on stage at 7:15pm and are due off at 8. The phonics on at 8:30pm all times approx and subject to change.

If you are going, as always do send in your pictures/review whatever you want to send in. Have a good night!

Next Tuesday see’s Doves make a return to Douglas on the Isle Of Man. Then its a busy weekend playing the Isle Of Wight Festival, Thetford Forest in Suffolk & Rockness in Scotland.

Finally, if you are in the US. Once again Doves are featured on Last Call With Carson Daly. They filmed the May 16th 2009 performance at the LA Wiltern Theater. Several cuts have already aired which you can read about here. The show airs 12:35am Chicago time.

Cover Album Project: Album Title

Thanks to you all who have shown an interest in the cover album project. What first started off as a drunken idea after a Doves show, is now going to happen! Deadlines have been set, the project is now well underway. Even if you are not recording music, you can still be of help. I have had a ton of suggestions for the album title. So I have put all the ideas to a poll, just pick your favourite.. Its not too late to make a suggestion for the title if you have a good one.. I will accept ideas until the weekend so that I can update the poll one last time.


Final Call

If you are interested in taking part in the cover album project, I will be accepting entries until late Monday night Chicago time at dovesmusicblog@gmail.com Then next Wednesday I will be in contact with you all who have registered interest, so that we can move forward with the project.

To answer a few questions I have recieved… Yes you can cover Sub Sub if you do so wish. Female vocals are fine, in fact this is encouraged! No CDs will be pressed/sold. This is purely a not for profit fan project. A free download will be available via a microsite with the option to make a donation direct to a Manchester based charity. At the moment, I’m looking at putting this out late September/October time.

Thanks to doves board, I have some fantastic album titles to choose from. I will put these to the vote next week. If you have any suggestions for the album title, please let me know. Otherwise cheers for the support on this, I didn’t expect it to take off like it has.