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Live Session MP3s

With many thanks to Jimi’s Beard, here are 320 bitrate mp3s from the channel 4 “4music Favourites” show that aired last week. Featured are an acoustic performance of the Greatest Denier and electric performances of Jetstream & 10.03

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Also from Jimi’s beard, here are mp3s from the Jools holland performance. Included are Kingdom Of Rust, Winter Hill & 10.03. These are excellent quality mp3s from one of the best live sessions doves have ever performed.

Kingdom Of Rust/Winter Hill

10.03

Cheers Jimi’s Beard!

Much more to come over the coming days.

UK Chart News

Kingdom Of Rust dropped only one place on the UK album chart to number three. A very respectable position, considering Some Cities dropped out of the charts like a stone right after reaching number one.

Some goodies to come tomorrow, including mp3s of the Jools Holland performance. Until then..

Andy Promises Exciting Tour Visuals

In an interview with The Birmingham Mail, Andy has briefly discussed the staging of Doves’ forthcoming tour.

Birmingham Mail.net

“Because the venues on this tour are a bit bigger we are working out another couple of songs and features.

“We are doing this new intro film which sounds very exciting but I can’t really tell you any more than that.

“I hope it’s good now I’ve built it up.”

To read the full article, visit this link.

Archive: Doves On Later With Jools Holland

A third song, ’10:03′, was broadcast on last night’s extended version of the BBC’s ‘Later With Jools Holland’ show.

Doves on 'Later With Jools Holland'

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.

Birmingham Setlist

Once again, As posted by Rosie/NLF at doves board

Birmingham, 17th April

Jetstream
Snowden
Winter Hill
Rise
Pounding
Almost Forgot
10:03
Words
Denier
Kingdom of Rust
Ambition
Black & White
Compulsion
The Outsiders
Caught By
—-
Northenden
Here It Comes
Last Broadcast
The Fear

I think its safe to presume the Brighton setlist was the same as this & Cambridge.

Kingdom Of Rust Artwork

If you were wondering about the Kingdom Of Rust artwork. Then this may be of interest to you. The images featured were taken by long time doves photographer Rick Myers at Northlandz in Flemington, New Jersey USA, the home of the Great American Railway, Doll Museum and Art Gallery. The rustic like imagines fit rather well with the travel theme that runs throughout the album.

Northlandz houses the largest indoor model railway in the world today. The track totals 1 mile in length, with upto 100 trains that run around on it every day. Quite impressive.

Its open to the public and by all accounts is well worth a visit. Visit the official Northlandz website.

NME & C4 Video

(creepy screen cap from House Of Mirrors Video)

On the NME doves microsite, you can now view a documentary about the recording process of Kingdom Of Rust. Some interesting shots, including what could be a sneak preview of the House Of Mirrors video. It would appear this would have been on the special edition DVD that was advertised early on, but was eventually withdrawn.

Watch the documentary

Channel 4 aired a 30 minute doves music special Thursday morning, Which included some live cuts. If you are in the UK you can watch the show via this link. I hope to be able to upload the video & audio clips from this at some point very soon.

More Chart News

Kingdom of Rust placed 11th in the European Top 100 Albums chart. The album sold 44,978 units in the UK alone.

More chart placings:

Canada: #79
Ireland: #8

If you know of the album’s chart placing in your country let us know, so we can archive this info.

Lovebox Festival

Doves have been confirmed to play the Lovebox Weekender festival, which takes place over the weekend of July 18-19th. Doves will play on the 19th.

One day tickets cost £42.50 or its £75.00 for a weekend ticket. For more information, visit the festival website.

Cambridge Setlist

As posted by Rosie/NLF at doves board.

Jetstream
Snowden
Winter Hill
Rise
Pounding
Almost Forgot
10:03
Words
Denier
Kingdom of Rust
Ambition
Black & White
Compulsion
The Outsiders
Caught By
——
Northenden
Here It Comes
Last Broadcast
The Fear

Similar set to the warm-up tour. With the inclusion of Compulsion. Great news for all you Jez fans out there! :)