MTV’s Subterranean reports that doves will be featured on this weekend’s episode. Here’s the blurb from the Subterranean blog:
Thats right, if you tried to watch the show last night and got confused because it wasn’t on, don’t fret, we’re still around! Same place, but a brand new time. You can now catch Subterranean on MTV2 every Sunday at 1AM EST. This week Doves are stopping to celebrate the new time slot and support their album Kingdom of Rust. Also we will be playing new music from Esser, Amazing Baby, Death Cab For Cutie, and P.O.S.
OK, if you still aren’t convinced, check out a sneak of this Sundays episode. We think they are talking about jet lag and…dildos?
Check out these fresh interview snippets from the show.
The California Chronicle takes a wild stab at predicting the Mercury Music prize winner:
Mercury Win Will Fuel ‘Kingdom’ Sales If and When Doves Fly
Goodness, the bookies are already offering odds on who will be on this year’s Mercury Music Prize shortlist for the best British and Irish albums of the last 12 months. The list of the 12 nominated acts isn’t released until next Tuesday, but it’s safe to assume that this will be the year of the solo female artist. Expect Little Boots, La Roux, Bat for Lashes, Florence and The Machine and even Lily Allen to be there or thereabouts next week.
It seems odd to be predicting a winner even before the nominations have been announced, but I’m going for Doves and their Kingdom of Rust album. The Manchester band began as a dance act (Sub Sub), but when their studio burnt down they mutated into indie-prog under their current name.
Like Elbow, Doves are an unremarkably blokeish-looking band who don’t really chase media exposure. Both acts have been allowed to develop over a series of albums unburdened by a huge “hit” or label expectations. And both have that sort of wind- and rain-swept melancholia at their musical core.
What perhaps has held Doves back is their guilt-by-association with prog rock. Expect all that to change come Tuesday, when the music media (always easily led) will begin a sudden love affair with indie prog.
In Doves’ favour, Kingdom of Rustis, despite being a quality work from the first note to last, largely unheralded. It is still there to be “discovered” by music buyers, just like The Seldom Seen Kidlast year.
Like almost everything in the music industry, it’s all about perception. And the perception of Doves at the moment is of a band on the sidelines waiting for their “come on down” call into the spotlight.
Doves will begin their slow march next week. And if you haven’t already got Kingdom of Rust, best go out and get it this weekend before the bandwagon takes off at speed.
Only time will tell. I seem to remember doves all but had the award in the bag back in 2002 for the Last Broadcast. Of course it never quite turned out that way, with Miss Dynamite taking the award. We shall see, The prize this year is awarded September 8th.
The single will be available digitally in the UK on Monday. You can pre-order the 7″ single here, which features the exclusive track Brazil. The single will also be available digitally in North America on Tuesday.
You can pre-order the special remix 12″ releases at Piccadilly Records. These special 12″ vinyls should cost you around £5.49 each. Only 500 copies of these are being pressed, so get them before they go.
Just a reminder if you did not catch doves MTV live session yesterday. You can watch the full session online right now here at mtv.co.uk. Its a fantastic session. Having followed doves live since 2000, they really have never sounded better live. If you are due to see them live any time soon, you are in for a real treat!
Thanks to friend of the blog Chov for bringing this one to our attention. Doves have been confirmed to play the thelondonpaper headliners festival. Its the first year for the festival, which takes place Wednesday 16 & Thursday 17th of September. Where ever doves play its probably going to be the smallest UK show they have done in years.
thelondonpaper’s first ever music festival has gone rock – with the addition of the brilliant Biffy Clyro and Doves.
Our very own thelondonpaper HEADLINERS extravaganza is bringing music back to Soho with more than 50 bands across up to 20 venues over two fun-packed nights in September.
Doves (bizarrely another trio with twin brothers), have been playing storming festival sets this summer but the Manchester group everyone’s tipping for a Mercury nod next Tuesday will close the season with a rare intimate showcase of their exhilarating album Kingdom of Rust at thelondonpaper HEADLINERS.
After support slots with U2 and Oasis, the increasingly epic three-piece are effortlessly forging their way to becoming stadium fillers in their own right, so this could be the last chance to see the sweeping rock giants at such close quarters.
Readers of thelondonpaper can buy tickets at a discounted price via thelondonpaper.com/headliners or taking their copy of thelondonpaper into HMV to buy tickets.
1 night ticket: £17.50
2 night ticket: £30.
To get all the venue/ticket details visit the thelondonpaper headliners website here.
Some of you have been asking why we haven’t covered Oxegen, as we did T in the Park. Quite simply there has been very little media coverage of doves set. I did manage to catch some of doves set on RTE’s 2FM internet stream. Jimi had the crowd shout out to the dance tent to shut up, before 10.03. Also heard on the stream was Greatest Denier, Kingdom Of Rust & Black And White Town before the the radio DJ told doves to shut up!
Setlist from RTE:
Pounding
10:03
The Greatest Denier
Kingdom Of Rust
Black + White
The Outsiders
The Cedar Room
The Fear
Here’s what I have been able to find:
It proved to be a very mellow affair on the whole, played to an enthusiastic crowd of sing-along out-of-tuners (there are no prizes for guessing that the bars shut promptly at 10pm)! Most of the set came from this year’s Kingdom of Rust album, including set opener Jetstream, 10:03, and the album’s titular track. Unsurprisingly, they also found time for a few old reliables such as Pounding, Black and White Town, and the inevitable show closer in the superlative There Goes the Fear.
Almost predictably, UK band Doves played one of the best sets of the weekend, the edgier material from recent album Kingdom of Rust sitting happily alongside their older material, with finale There Goes The Fear one of the highlights of the weekend.
The O2 stage is rescued by a reliably brilliant show from Doves, drawing an impressive number in spite of being up against Bloc Party on the main stage.
NME are quick off the mark with a report from doves T in the Park set:
Doves play sun-drenched T In The Park show
Big crowd turn out for Manchester indie veterans
Doves played a set of epic pounding indie-rock in the Scottish sunshine at T In The Park this afternoon (July 12), playing on the NME / Radio One stage.
Performing in front of a huge sign with their band name written in orange letters on it, the four-some were delighted with the sunny conditions, repeatedly referencing the glorious weather which followed showers earlier in the day.
“The sun’s come out, are you up for it?” bassist/singer Jimi Goodwin asked the large crowd as opener ‘Jetstream’ kicked in, prompting huge cheers.
The Manchester band went on to play cuts from their recent album ‘Kingdom Of Rust’ plus older fan favourites including ‘Pounding’ and set-closer ‘There Goes The Fear’.
“That crazy old sun, eh?” Goodwin laughed before playing ‘Pounding’. “Are you having a good time, T?”
Later in the set he made a slight set-list mistake. “This one’s called ‘Kingdom Of Fife’, he said, having changed the name of their song ‘Kingdom Of Rust’ to reference the local area. “Er, no it’s not actually, it’s ‘10.03’,” he added, checking the set running order. “That one was up next”.
Doves ended their show with a rapturously-received rendition of ‘There Goes The Fear’ before heading off to make way for the next NME / Radio One stage act, Lily Allen.
Setlist:
Jetstream Snowden Winter Hill Pounding Words 10.03 Kingdom Of Rust Black And White Town Outsiders
If you are looking for some TV coverage of Doves set at today’s T In The Park. BBC Three are due to be showing highlights of the set at 9pm. Failing that, the BBC will be streaming video of the performance at their T in the Park homepage later on. Will post a link when we have it.
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