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  • Archive: Doves at Glastonbury 2009 (Edited Highlights)

    The BBC have yet to broadcast Doves’ full set from this year’s Glastonbury festival, and it’s entirely possible that it may never be broadcast in full.

    A programme of edited highlights (which has also been made available to UK viewers via the BBC’s website) was screened via interactive digital TV, early Saturday morning. It excludes a number of performances; some of which we will be able to upload over the next few days (namely ’10:03′, ‘The Outsiders’ and ‘Here It Comes’).

    Doves at Glastonbury 2009

    Click here to download the programme of edited highlights.

    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.

  • Glastonbury Interview & Audio

    To see this picture in much better quality and others like it, visit the BBC’s Glastonbury website here.

    doves spoke to the Guardian’s Alex Needham yesterday, before taking the stage. You can listen to the rather hilarious interview here.

    To settle the argument. We have it that doves have played Glastonbury seven times, including last night. Here’s what we have:

    1998: New Bands Tent
    1999: The Other Stage Opened
    2000: New Bands Tent Headline
    2002: Pryamid Stage late Friday afternoon
    2003: The Other Stage Headline Sunday Night
    2005: Pryamid Stage Friday Night
    2009: John Peel Stage Headline Friday Night

    All of doves performances except 1998, were broadcast by the BBC. Including last night’s performance:

    Thanks to gibbo1968, here are ten tracks as aired live on BBC Radio. Video will follow over the coming days.

  • Glastonbury Report

    Here is the NME report of doves triumphant performance on Glastonbury’s John Peel Stage.

    Performing in front of a loud, enthuastic crowd, the trio immediately had the audience bouncing along with an uptempo intro including the likes of ‘Pounding’ and 10.03′, earning them a loud ovation after each song.

    “Listen, no Manchester,” joked Jimi Goodwin with the crowd midway through the set after there were chants for the band’s home city. Instead the singer/bassist was intent on praising the festival: “Glastonbury! You’ve got to broaden your horizons lads.”

    Later Goodwin toasted the crowd, declaring them “magic people!” before raising a drink to the other bands headlining the festival tonight. He then introduced ‘The Cedar Room’, declaring it got its “first play this stage [the then new band’s stage] in 1998!”

    The band briefly left the stage afterwards, but returned for an encore featuring ‘Here It Comes’, ‘There Goes The Fear’ and – by their original incarnation Sub Sub – closer ‘Spaceface’.

    The band then left the stage with giant images of John Peel projected onto their backdrop.

    The Setlist:

    Jetstream
    Snowden
    Winter Hill
    Pounding
    10.03
    Words
    The Greatest Denier
    Kingdom Of Rust
    Black And White Town
    The Outsiders
    The Cedar Room
    Here It Comes
    There Goes The Fear

    Spaceface

    Part of the set is already archived on the 6music website. Listen again to Lamacq’s Headline Set. Doves start 11 minutes in with Snowden just finishing. Winter Hill, Pounding & 10.03 can be heard in full.

    Lots more to come over the weekend.