Dubai Sound City
Virtual Festivals are reporting doves are part of the line up for Dubai Sound City! Festival will run November 5-7. More as I have it.
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Archive: Nottingham Rock City 2002
If there’s a better band than Doves in Nottingham all this week I’ll abseil naked down Nottingham Castle
I’ve had tons of requests for live doves from 2002. So here is a gig from Nottingham’s Rock City, the band did for Radio One’s “One Live In Nottingham”. The band had just returned from Paris playing in front of 170 odd people, so they seemed quite chuffed to be playing a packed out Rock City. I was at this gig myself, it was a brilliant night.
Earlier in the day, I was lucky enough to attend a open session interview the band did live on Radio One with Jo Whiley. The interview is still archived on the BBC site he
re. Some interesting questions about Sub Sub, chosing doves as the band name, the videos and more. Check out the awesome quality, so 2002!
Here’s a BBC One review of the show:
Matt Bingham: “Doves took the roof off with what can only be described as a blinding set. By the encore I was ready to kneel down and pay homage at the feet of one of the best live bands around. If there’s a better band live in Nottingham all this week I’ll abseil naked down Nottingham Castle.”
BBC Nottingham Review of the show:
After an introduction from a scrawny Steve ‘Lurpack‘, The Doves (with Jimi pulling funny faces and looking suave in blazer and jeans) strolled onto a glowing red and purple stage, and after a small technical hiccup, began with ‘Pounding’.
The four of them looked quite at home up there, in front of their backdrop of a huge video screen, which, during the course of the night, probably played every video they’ve ever done.
Candy cane coloured lights (very white stripes!) shone into the crowd during ‘There goes the fear’, which got almost half the crowd jumping away madly.
Halfway through the track, Jimi suddenly swapped his microphone for a small drum kit and together with the drummer, they belted out a stomping rhythm.
Bright green neon lights lead into ‘Sea song’, which comprised the mesmerising backdrop of a surf video, and Jez’s wailing vocals.
Jimi tells us they’ve just played to a minuscule 174 people in France, and that ‘this place is ****** jammed – it’s quite refreshing‘!’.
‘Rise‘, ‘Words’ and ‘NY’ followed, and then, to a clapping crowd, a rendition of ‘Satellites‘.
To read the full review click here.
The BBC did not air the full show. Notablely they cut out the Cedar Room & Spaceface among others. To download to the show, click here.
Back On The Road
The band returns to the live stage this weekend after taking a wee deserved break. On Saturday, its the short trip over to Bingley for a headline slot at the Myrtle Park music festival. The music will finish up 9:30pm sharp.
Currently there are no tickets left for Saturday. Tickets will not be on sale at the festival site.
On Sunday the band head over to the Channel Islands to play the Jersey Live festival. Tickets are still available to buy for Sunday, at the usual outlets.
If you are attending either of these shows, then as per usual we would love to hear from you. Email in your pictures/reviews etc to this address.
Øyafestivalen Review
Jez on stage at Øya
Came across a review of doves Øyafest set, in Norwegian. So if you can read Norwegian then head over to read the review here.
For those of us who need google translate, the jist of it seems to be that the band had troubles early in the set, due to the loudness of a act on another stage? But they still managed to please the crowd with the likes of Jetstream, Kingdom Of Rust, 10.03 and The Outsiders from the new album, as well as classics like Pounding & The Fear. Apologies if it was me who got the jist of it wrong! Google translate wasn’t so clear.
If any of you great folks from Norway attended the show and would like to submit a review (in Norwegian is fine) please email us. Would be happy to put it up for our Norwegian readers.
Current Happenings
As you have probably have guessed, news is a bit thin on the ground this last week. You all probably saw the articles that appeared in rags such as the Sun, with Jez’s quit talk, as we previously reported from his adelaidenow interview. I was even contacted by a couple rags, to give my views on Jez’s comments! Though I didn’t feel it was necessary to give my views on the subject. I’m sure it will continue to create much debate over the coming months.
The band are playing Norway this weekend. They are not playing the V festival later this month, despite what some sites are saying, the band already have a prior engagement booked, so no definitely no V appearance this year. Are you seeing the band in Norway this weekend? Let us know if you are! Would love to hear all about it.
To keep things ticking over, here is a sample of an audience recording taken at the recent New York City show. Six tracks included, this was taped by a good friend of the blog. Will post some more of doves recent US tour in the near future, probably when news is hard to come by!
The One About Tights
Here’s a wee treat from T In The Park a few weeks back. The band (minus Andy) performing an acoustic version of The Greatest Denier for the BBC. More from T later in the week.
Great stuff!
Doves Live On Stage In Perth
Doves are currently on stage at the Capitol in Perth Australia. Here are a couple pictures from twitter.
From twitter user @stephenwalker78
From twitter user @mikeycunningham
Sydney Metro First Night Pictures
Some pretty cool pictures of doves on stage at the Sydney Metro as found twitter. Click on the images for full size view.
By twitter user @SarahlClark
Doves performing Here It Comes. Picture by twitter user @johnmdoyle
By twitter user @melvynknipe who also had this to say “Amazing. No more words to express it. The Doves are the greatest”.
Latitude Festival Fan Review #1
Here is a review of doves Latituide Festival set, as sent to us by Si.
For those that don’t know it, Latitude has a very different feel to the other UK festivals. Nothing is ever too crowded, but everything draws a great crowd, no-one is ever that wasted, but plenty of ale is sunk, and everyone is polite and happy, even when it rained. It brings to mind an extremely well organised village fete, and I loved it.It is hard to imagine a more perfect place and time to watch Doves than a summer’s evening in 2009 at the friendly and chilled Latitude festival.Cheated out of a headline space by Grace Jones, Doves set out to show this welcoming Suffolk crowd how it’s done. As expected, Jetstream is the opener, and with the limited 40 minutes or so for the set, it is based primarily around the newer material from ‘Kingdom of Rust’, with the classics ‘Pounding’ and a predictable, but great closeout from ‘There Goes the Fear’.Throughout, Jimi seemed charmed by one of the biggest crowds of the weekend, acknowledging with some pride the number of kids in attendance, and gently joking about the proliferation of wigs and the petite wasps flitting around the arena.This was very much a ‘best of’ set for Doves, which meets the first rule for a festival crowd (remember you have come to their festival, they are rarely there just to see you). Fortunately for Doves, ‘best of’ brings such a quality and range of songs that any absence of hidden gems to satisfy the more informed Doves fans does not weaken the performance.Doves finish as the sun goes down and leave the stage politely for Grace Jones. She was late, and was eventually cut short by the curphew. Somehow, you know that Doves wouldn’t disrespect the audience like that.At a festival you always have a choice, and at Latitude the wise chose Doves (oh, and Spiritualized instead of Gracie).Simon Lay July 2009.
Thanks Si!
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