efestivals has today reported that Doves have been added to the lineup of this year’s Jersey Live festival. The festival will take place in Jersey, C.I., the weekend of September 5th and 6th 2009.
There’s currently no confirmation at the festival’s official website, JerseyLive.org.uk or indeed, at Doves’ official site – but expect more details soon.
Doves first North American tour since the fall of 2005, kicks off on Thursday at the downtown San Diego House of Blues. Tickets are still available for this show and for all other US & Canadian dates. So if you have not got your tickets yet, then all the links you need are listed below.
Pop Noir will provide the support for the San Diego & Anaheim shows. Then Wild Light will be supporting for the rest of the dates.
Doves will be appearing at the following cities:
5/14, San Diego, CA (House of Blues) Get Tickets
5/15, Anaheim, CA (House of Blues) Get Tickets
5/16, Los Angeles, CA (The Wiltern) Get Tickets
5/18, San Francisco, CA (The Fillmore) Get Tickets
5/19, Eugene, OR, (McDonald Theatre) Get Tickets CANCELED
5/20, Seattle, WA (The Crocodile) Get Tickets
5/21, Vancouver, BC, (Commodore Ballroom) Get Tickets
5/22, Portland, OR, (Wonder Ballroom) Get Tickets
5/23, George, WA, (Sasquatch! Festival) Get Tickets
5/26, Denver, CO, (Gothic Theatre) Get Tickets
5/28, Minneapolis, MN, (Varsity Theatre) Get Tickets
5/29, Chicago, IL, (Vic Theatre) Get Tickets
5/30, Detroit, MI, (Majestic Theatre) Get Tickets
6/1, Toronto, ON (Kool Haus) Get Tickets
6/2, Montreal, QC (Le National) Get Tickets
6/4, New York, NY (Terminal 5) Get Tickets
6/5, Philadelphia, PA (The Trocadero) Get Tickets
6/6, Washington, DC (9.30 Club) Get Tickets
6/7, Boston, MA (House of Blues) Get Tickets
We will be reporting from Minneapolis, Chicago & Detroit. Look out for live updates from the shows at our twitter account. Full reports & pictures (hopefully) will follow shortly after.
Most important thing.. for those of you who are attending shows, have the most amazing time! Really, who knows when they will be back. If you want to submit a review/photos from your show, drop us a line. We will gladly post it all. Here’s to a great tour!
Drowned In Sound, have today posted a review of Doves recent show at Nottingham’s Rock City venue.
What is apparent with Doves current live show is the way the new songs glide almost effortlessly into the set with the minimum of fuss, as if they had always been there. ‘Jetstream’ could be their epitaph if they ever were to call it a day, its five minutes of sonic escapism flitting from atmospheric Eno trajectories into anthemic krautrock at the switch of a lyric, while ‘Winter Hill’ and ‘The Outsiders’ fuse acid house reared grooves and laid back reverb drenched rhythms with a sense of muted ambivalence that becomes even more apparent during the latter’s us-against-the-world battle cry. Add to that ‘Compulsion’, which transforms the Spencer Davis Group’s ‘I’m A Man’ into a 21st Century liturgy and you can see why many of these more recent compositions are undeniable highlights of the evening.
To read the full review, click here.
U.K. web-users can now watch Doves’ full set from BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend festival, at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2009/artists/doves/
We hope to have video of the full set uploaded soon, for non-UK fans to view.
The full setlist:
Pounding
Snowden
Winter Hill
Jetstream
Black And White Town
Kingdom Of Rust
10:03
Caught By The River
There Goes The Fear
I was going to link this Scotsman article at the the bottom of the Swindon review, but I think it deserves its own post. Its written by a fan of doves, talking about what doves have meant in him the past nine years. He saw them for the first time last weekend in Brixton. Enough of my rambling, go give it read. I’m sure many of you can relate.
Doves were one of those bands that kept me company through it all, constants in a world of change. Their music seemed somehow to chime exactly with every pattern of my life. I discovered them back in 2000 with the release of their astonishing debut album Lost Souls. (The joke was that Doves used to be called Sub Sub who were an unspectacular disco outfit who released a catchy pop song or two: worlds away from the anthemic, epic sound of Doves). Three albums later and their alchemy still works its magic. I had always wanted to see them perform live but was worried that the reality would ruin everything, that they would let me down. Because the one thing Doves have never done is let me down.
The Swindon Advertiser has reviewed doves performance at today’s Radio One’s Big Weekend:
THE Doves were given the bird after being introduced on stage by of all things, a chicken – or maybe it was dove!
For fans of Doves, this was a wonderful showcase where they played many of their favourite songs, however the audience at the In New Music We Trust stage filtered away at the end, as news reached that Kasabian were playing on the main stage.
Doves ended their set with a percussion performance which provided a lively finish.
Doves were formed after brothers Jez and Andy Williams met their long lost schoolmate Jimi Goodwin on a lost weekend in the Hacienda, and did the decent thing… they formed a band! Their brand of music was very much like Coldplay and Travis.
James Williams, 18, from Lancaster, said: “The Doves are bloomin’ awesome. I have seen them three times before and whenever I hear them live they always steal the show.”
His girlfriend, Chloe Ronson, 17, from Pinehurst, was celebrating her birthday. “This was the best birthday present I could have received.
Doves performed at BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend earlier today. The full set hasn’t yet been televised on any BBC TV channel, but it’s possible that this may occur over the next seven days.
Their performance of ‘Black And White Town’ has been broadcast by BBC3, earlier this evening. Check the schedule in our sidebar for further planned television broadcasts.
Click here to download a video of the performance.
The video is an Xvid-encoded MPEG4 AVI file which should be standalone-compatible with most new DVD or AV players which are equipped to play DivX files.
Jimi and Andy of Doves recently hosted their own show for Xfm Radio in the U.K., playing an hour of their favourite music, every Sunday during the month of April.
Due to copyright restrictions, we were unable to record, upload and share these shows.
However, after a bit of investigation, it’s become apparent that the shows are available to download directly from Xfm’s third-party servers.
Here are the direct links to Xfm’s archives:
Doves Xfm Residency, Week One
Doves Xfm Residency, Week Two
Doves Xfm Residency, Week Three
Doves Xfm Residency, Week Four
Windows users should right-click the links and choose ‘Save As’.
Note that they’re not playing their own records!
To reiterate, we have not copied or distributed these shows elsewhere. These links point directly towards files which are publically accessible via Xfm’s own archives.
Doves play this weekend’s Radio 1 Big Weekend in Swindon. After which, attention then turns to the North American tour, which kicks off in San Diego on Thursday.
Setlist as posted by Rosie & NLF at doves board.
Leeds Academy, May 8th
Jetstream
Snowden
Winter Hill
Rise
Pounding
Almost Forgot
10:03
Words
Denier
Kingdom of Rust
Ambition
Black & White
The Outsiders
Caught By
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Firesuite
Here it Comes
Last Broadcast
The Fear
Spaceface
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