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May 19, 2009

Doves condemn modern music culture

Jimi talked to BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat about getting old, being beaten to number one by Lady Gaga and the industry’s ‘unreasonable expectations’ for new bands.

Doves’ Jimi Goodwin has condemned the speed at which the music industry promotes new music.

Speaking to Newsbeat he said: “The thirst for new music is overlooking a lot of things and there’s not a lot of time for bands to nurture and develop. We didn’t get good for years or reach a place where we wanted to be.”

He added: “We were very lucky that we were allowed to do that.”

To read the entire BBC article, click here.

May 18, 2009

L.A. Weekly Reviews Wiltern Show

LA Weekly.com has today posted a great review of Doves’ recent show at the city’s Wiltern Theatre.

Doves, on stage and record, are all about consistency: set (and career) standouts are subtle and troughs shallow. They marry baggy Madchester roots to U2’s sense of scale and cop strummy Brit-pop attitude while bristling with “Bristol sound” (Portishead/Tricky) electro/organic textures. Their all-eyes-off-us, bloke-down-the-pub lack of pretense last night only left their music more vivid. There was appreciative between-song bonhomie and de rigueur big screen projections, but essentially this was four musicians playing tunes.

To read the full review, click here. The site also features a slideshow of photos from the concert, here.

May 18, 2009

Doves To Play Bingley Music Live Festival

The official website for West Yorkshire’s Bingley Music Live festival has announced that Doves will perform at this year’s event.

No specific date has yet been given, but the festival runs from Friday September 4th to Sunday September 6th.

Doves’ official website haven’t confirmed the appearance at the time of writing, but for further information and ticket sales, click here.

May 18, 2009

The Time And Space Machine Remix ‘Jetstream’

Producer Richard Norris (a.k.a. The Time And Space Machine) has posted a clip from his remix of Doves’ ‘Jetstream’ on his MySpace page:
www.myspace.com/thetimeandspacemachine

His MySpace blog also claims that the song will be the third single released from the Kingdom Of Rust album.

The Time and Space Machine mix of Doves’ “Jetstream” is now up on the player. It is currently being promo’ed by Heavenly/Virgin.

“Jetstream” is set to become the third single from Doves album “Kingdom Of Rust”.

May 18, 2009

Glastonbury Festival Date Confirmed

Doves’ official site has today confirmed that the band will perform at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, on Friday June 26th…

Doves.net will be camped out at the Peel stage from Midday on the Friday to make sure we’re right at the front as the guys launch into ‘Jetstream’ as the sun sets on-site. Man, it’s going to be one helluva show!

To read the quote in it’s original context (and a short interview with Jez), click here.

May 17, 2009

Carson Daly show

Last night’s LA Wiltern show was taped for a future episode of the Carson Daly show. Both Doves & Wild Light (who apparently stole the show with an awesome pair of tight white jeans!) footage will appear on a future episode of the show. More info as we have it.

May 17, 2009

LA Wiltern Videos

Check out these awesome videos taken by okeastron, over at youtube. Thanks to Brandon for pointing them out to us.

Sounds like a fantastic show! Really, I haven’t seen the band just yet this year, a couple weeks for me. But they really do sound better than ever live, listening to these videos/bootlegs that have surfaced so far.

May 17, 2009

Archive: Doves Live At BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend – Audio

Click here for audio from the full set of Doves’ recent performance at Radio 1’s free Big Weekend festival. It’s been split into nine separate tracks, volume-tweaked a little, encoded to VBR-0 MP3, tagged and zipped.

Enjoy!

May 17, 2009

Pop Noir, Doves & Johnny Marr

How cool is this this picture. The guys from Pop Noir, Jimi & Johnny Marr backstage at the LA Wiltern. As posted on Pop Noir’s twitter. Great band, check them out here. Sad they are not doing the rest of the tour.

May 17, 2009

L.A. Wiltern Show; Setlist & Audience Reactions

Thanks again to REM_Monster at the official Doves messageboard, we can bring you the setlist for last night’s show at L.A.’s Wiltern:

The Wiltern gig was even better than Anaheim! The crowd was much better, and the band was even more amazing.

Jetstream
Snowden
Winter Hill
Rise
Pounding
Almost Forgot Myself
10:03
Words
The Greatest Denier
Kingdom Of Rust
Ambition
Black And White Town
The Outsiders
Caught By The River

Firesuite
Here It Comes
The Last Broadcast
There Goes The Fear

Here’s a selection of audience reactions via Twitter:

The Wiltern couldn’t contain Doves’ sound tonight. ‘Twas immense!

Doves was amazing tonight at the Wiltern:)

Omg! 2 DOVES shows in a row! Amazing experience!! Got to meet the band, and got to hang out with jimmy, andy, and jez!! Awesome weekend!!! I will never forget it!

The doves played an amazing set tonight at the Wiltern, I needed it…

DOVES WERE SO GOOD! Completely worth it. :)

Doves sounded unbef***inglievable tonight at the Wiltern!

Doves were awesome.

changed internally by doves. not emotionally; i’m talking physically. they were so loud live that i think some organs have switched places.

the atmospheric sounds of #doves even better live at Wiltern in LA tonight.

Glad I bought my Doves shirt at the Reading show. Much more limited selection on the US tour.