L.A.-based music blog, The Scene Star has posted a review of last week’s show at the city’s Wiltern Theater.
The band opened with Kingdom of Rust track “Jetstream,” which seemed to mirror the overall performance, as the night continued to build progressively, just like the song.
To read the full review, click here.
Live Daily.com have posted a great little slideshow of photos from Doves’ recent show at the Fillmore, San Francisco. Click here to view the pictures.
Thanks to Hali for the heads-up!
In a short review posted at their Doves mini-site today, NME.com has described Doves’ recent performance at L.A.’s Wiltern Theater as “a triumphant return”…
“Jesus, man, it’s been a long time since we’ve played here and it’s good that you’re with us,” frontman Jimi Goodwin told the huge crowd, who cheered back in response.
“It’s Saturday night and you’re dressed for a night on the town,” he added, surveying the audience. “There’s even a couple f***ing in the top row.”
To read the full review, click here.
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.
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.
Thanks to our readers, Jason and José, we can confirm the setlist of last night’s show at the House of Blues, San Diego:
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
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Firesuite
Here It Comes
The Last Broadcast
There Goes The Fear Again
(Ninety minutes set).
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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.
Doves have today been confirmed as playing at the Big Weekend’s ‘In New Music We Trust’ stage.
This report is from The Swindon Advertiser:
RADIO 1 DJ Zane Lowe joined Chris Moyles on his breakfast show this morning to announce the line-up for the Big Weekend music festival, which is taking place at Swindon’s Lydiard Park next month.
On the In New Music We Trust stage, a number of top bands will be performing, including Fightstar, The King Blues, Florence and the Machine, DeadMau5, Friendly Fires, Doves and Basement Jaxx.
More follows…
The annual event is the biggest ticketed free music festival in the U.K. and is this year being held at Swindon’s Lydiard Park on the weekend of May 9th – May 10th. For more information on obtaining tickets, visit the official website at bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/
Lucky ticket winners of the recent competition by Absolute Radio to see Doves play a live session, were yesterday treated to a blistering set.
Doves
Zoo Session and interview
Doves came in to chat to Geoff Lloyd and they played an incredible live session in the Absolute Radio Zoo.
Check out the session, it includes the tracks ‘Kingdom of Rust,’ ‘Winter Hill,’ ‘The Greatest Denier’ and ‘There Goes the Fear.’ We’ve also got the full interview for you to check out and some photos too!
The video of the session and an interview with the band are now available to view online at Absolute Radio’s site, here.
Absolute Radio are giving away tickets to see Doves live in session, at their London H.Q. on Monday April 6th.
Just answer one (very easy) question before April 2nd and a pair of tickets could be yours.
Click here to enter the competition.
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