Fan Photos Of Recent Shows
Doves Music Blog reader, Dalal, has posted two galleries of fantastic photos from the band’s recent shows in Anaheim and San Diego.
You can view her galleries by visiting this link:
http://picasaweb.google.com/dallool/
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L.A. Weekly Reviews Wiltern Show
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.
Doves To Play Bingley Music Live Festival
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.
Glastonbury Festival Date Confirmed
Doves’ official site has today confirmed that the band will perform at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, on Friday June 26th…
Doves.net will be camped out at the Peel stage from Midday on the Friday to make sure we’re right at the front as the guys launch into ‘Jetstream’ as the sun sets on-site. Man, it’s going to be one helluva show!
To read the quote in it’s original context (and a short interview with Jez), click here.
LA Wiltern Videos
Check out these awesome videos taken by okeastron, over at youtube. Thanks to Brandon for pointing them out to us.
Sounds like a fantastic show! Really, I haven’t seen the band just yet this year, a couple weeks for me. But they really do sound better than ever live, listening to these videos/bootlegs that have surfaced so far.
Archive: Doves Live At BBC Radio One’s Big Weekend – Audio
Click here for audio from the full set of Doves’ recent performance at Radio 1’s free Big Weekend festival. It’s been split into nine separate tracks, volume-tweaked a little, encoded to VBR-0 MP3, tagged and zipped.
Enjoy!
L.A. Wiltern Show; Setlist & Audience Reactions
Thanks again to REM_Monster at the official Doves messageboard, we can bring you the setlist for last night’s show at L.A.’s Wiltern:
The Wiltern gig was even better than Anaheim! The crowd was much better, and the band was even more amazing.
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
Firesuite
Here It Comes
The Last Broadcast
There Goes The Fear
Here’s a selection of audience reactions via Twitter:
The Wiltern couldn’t contain Doves’ sound tonight. ‘Twas immense!
Doves was amazing tonight at the Wiltern:)
The doves played an amazing set tonight at the Wiltern, I needed it…
DOVES WERE SO GOOD! Completely worth it. :)
Doves sounded unbef***inglievable tonight at the Wiltern!
the atmospheric sounds of #doves even better live at Wiltern in LA tonight.
Glad I bought my Doves shirt at the Reading show. Much more limited selection on the US tour.
just saw the doves at the wiltern and am changed for the better
Doves just rocked my socks off. I am also now deaf.
Doves was amazing! They seriously played all their best stuff!!
totally in love w the Doves!! Best live band I’ve seen in a long time!
So odd that the loudest concert I’ve been to might very well be the Doves
Doves Added To Fuji Rocks Festival
The organisers of Japan’s Fuji Rocks Festival, have today confirmed Doves will be performing at this year’s event.
Per-date lineup! 5th lineup announcement. BRAHMAN, DOVES and more!
Doves will perform at the festival on Friday, July 24th.
For further information and ticket sales, visit the official site, here.
Review Of Rock City, Nottingham Show
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.
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