doves music blog

Category: London Bulgarian Choir

  • The Choir’s View From The Stage

    Pictured tweeted by @LondonBulgChoir

  • Manchester Central

    Pictured tweeted by @tsimmonds

    Doves finished off the year in style with a massive hometown show at Manchester Central (though will always be the gmex!) The band reunited with the London Bulgarian choir for some of the set (Firesuite, The Cedar Room among others). They finished the set with Spaceface. More as I have it.

  • Electric Proms Independent Review

    Better late than never eh? The Independent posted up thier review of the Elecetric Proms show late last week:

    Doves released their fourth album, Kingdom of Rust, earlier this year, and it has been widely hailed their best yet. Its bittersweet lyrics and sweeping melodies, delivered in epic rock songs, are not far from their first album, Lost Souls, that won them a loyal fan base in 2000. That’s not to say their music hasn’t developed –it just hasn’t flirted with fads.

    Until now it seems. For this performance, Doves were joined by the London Bulgarian Choir, whose eerily beautiful harmonies lifted Doves’ soaring music
    to new heights, right into the Roundhouse’s exposed rafters.

    Doves opened with two serviceable tracks, but things took off when the LBC joined them on “Firesuite”, creating a dense, dissonant soundscape that added cinematic heft. When Doves frontman Jimi Goodwin announced “they’re giving me tingles”, he spoke for us all.

    To read the full review, click here.