The irreverent online sports fanzine, TalkSports Magazine, has a rather humourous video interview with Andy & Jimi; discussing their love of Manchester City football club, Rick Wakeman and escaping from rival teams’ supporters…
Jimi seems a tad “merry”…
Click here to view the video.
Manchester Confidential.com has a great new video interview with Jimi. He addresses just how authentically Mancunian the band are, and also notes how comparisons to Coldplay and Radiohead are “lazy”.
“When someone’s drained with a track, it’s hang about, I’ve got an idea. Jez is the dominant character in this, his gift for melody is incredible and his drive. But what takes the time is that we do honour and respect each other.”
To view the video, visit this link.
NME.com has today posted a new interview video with Jimi and Andy.
Doves have revealed that the making of their new album was almost like “therapy”.
The group, who release their fourth album ‘Kingdom Of Rust’ today (April 6), said it helped them get through some dark times.
Speaking exclusively to NME.COM lead singer Jimi Goodwin said: “Going to work was helpful and therapy sometimes to get through some not so good times in some of our lives.”
The band also admitted writing tracks for the record wasn’t always easy.
Goodwin admitted: “This one [album] just took a bit longer to understand what we were trying to achieve after being in a band together for 18, 19 years.”
He continued: “I mean none of us have fallen out, we still get on really well it’s just we just had to make sure the chemistry was still there between us, and it was, but it just took a bit of prising out and wrestling with a bit more this time.”
To view the interview, click here.
Incidentally, NME TV’s Weekly Agenda feature advises its viewers to purchase the album – and the hosts state that they will have live footage of Doves on NME.com soon. You can view the video by visiting this link.
Jimi recently spoke with Australia’s Triple J Radio, via a phone interview with DJ Zan Rowe.
Jimi from Doves tells you about their Kingdom of Rust…
Manchester band Doves are, this week, releasing their fourth album. The trio have long traded in epic, drama filled music. You hear Jimi Goodwin’s voice and you know you’re listening to a Doves album.
It took four years for Doves to give us a new record, and interestingly they’ve changed it up on their latest Kingdom of Rust. There’s krautrock, disco and electro elements this time around, but they’ve still kept their trademark sweeping guitar sound.
Last week I got onto the phone with lead singer Jimi from the band to talk about the new album, and asked him why they took so long to create Kingdom Of Rust.
To download an MP3 of the interview, right-click and save this link. To subscribe to Zan Rowe’s XML feed, click here.
Pop-culture website, The Quietus, has a great new interview with Jimi and Andy.
Andy: “‘Jetstream’ started life as a more rocky song and it was later on that we added those 16s on the hi-hats and it showed us a different pattern.”
Jimi: “Then we added a phase to it. Then we added the chugga chugga chugga bassline which was really staccato.”
Andy: “We’re massive fans of Kraftwerk but we’ve never really touched that sort of thing in Doves. We were like ‘Ah!’ because there were some really big possibilities to introduce a Kraftwerk vibe. A Teutonic vibe if you like. We’d never managed to do that before so we were pretty chuffed you know.”
To read the full interview, visit this link.
This week’s Music Weekly podcast at The Guardian, features a brief interview with Jimi…
Jimi Goodwin, the main man of Doves. Ahead of their fourth album, Kingdom of Rust, he talks about the trials of recording, the importance of place and their confluence of influences. Though he does it in far more pleasant language.
To download the podcast, right-click and save this link. To subscribe to future Guardian Music Weekly podcasts, the XML feed is here.
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