Photos taken by Natalie Curtis of doves in the studio for the final week of recording Kingdom Of Rust, are now on public show at the London Social (5 Little Portland St, W1, nearest tube Oxford Circus). The exhibition which is free, is upstairs and will run through til November 14th.
The BBC officially announced today doves will be part of the Electric Proms line-up this year.
Doves will play the London Roundhouse October 22nd. Tickets on sale tomorrow. Press waffle:
Choral arranger Avshalom Caspi will re-work Doves music, altering the arrangements for the 40-strong London Bulgarian choir at London’s Roundhouse on 22 October.
The band will also be joined by North Indian classical musician Baluji Shrivastav, who played on the album track Birds Flew Backwards.
“It is going to be really special,” said frontman Jimi Goodwin, adding: “The voices of the London Bulgarian Choir are just unbelievable, and it is brilliant just to get the chance to play the songs differently for the Roundhouse audience.”
Picture taken at the Lovebox festival, where doves played their last UK festival date for a little while, before heading off to Japan & Australia later this week. Click image for larger view.
Reaction to doves set over at twitter:
@ZanderDuYoyo @wootboot last saw them Glastonbury 05 too ! Tonight they closed with Cedar Room. No space face though
@Runamokk Doves are just beautiful. Play black and White town!
@musicomh Manchester’s current Mercury hopes on main stage. Doves, that is. Jimmy dapper in jacket and shirt. Match Of The Day fans thrilled
@FENECHSOLER Doves sounding gooood…
@supercrass Been to the swine flu capital of London to see the mighty Doves – who were as great as ever
@RokpoolMusic Lovebox! During Doves set, everyone start chanting for “Ain’t No Love (Ain’t No Use)”
Thanks to friend of the blog Chov for bringing this one to our attention. Doves have been confirmed to play the thelondonpaper headliners festival. Its the first year for the festival, which takes place Wednesday 16 & Thursday 17th of September. Where ever doves play its probably going to be the smallest UK show they have done in years.
thelondonpaper’s first ever music festival has gone rock – with the addition of the brilliant Biffy Clyro and Doves.
Our very own thelondonpaper HEADLINERS extravaganza is bringing music back to Soho with more than 50 bands across up to 20 venues over two fun-packed nights in September.
Doves (bizarrely another trio with twin brothers), have been playing storming festival sets this summer but the Manchester group everyone’s tipping for a Mercury nod next Tuesday will close the season with a rare intimate showcase of their exhilarating album Kingdom of Rust at thelondonpaper HEADLINERS.
After support slots with U2 and Oasis, the increasingly epic three-piece are effortlessly forging their way to becoming stadium fillers in their own right, so this could be the last chance to see the sweeping rock giants at such close quarters.
Readers of thelondonpaper can buy tickets at a discounted price via thelondonpaper.com/headliners or taking their copy of thelondonpaper into HMV to buy tickets.
1 night ticket: £17.50
2 night ticket: £30.
Doves have posted a request for video extras, via their MySpace page:
EXTRAS NEEDED!
Are you between 18-25 and want to be in a Dove’s Music Video?
Pulse Films are shooting a Music video in Central London.
Potential hours of shooting will be between 5pm Thursday 7th May to 5am the following morning.The premise of the video involves a night time chase throughout the streets of London.
You need to be reasonably fit, as there will a fair bit of running around.
Please contact production by email on dove75@googlemail.com and please attach a recent photograph, we will contact you with the details for location and time to be there.There is no fee, but we will supply food and refreshments throughout the night.
Doves’ management have cryptically linked to this YouTube video, in relation to the request, via the band’s official message board.
One day tickets cost £42.50 or its £75.00 for a weekend ticket. For more information, visit the festival website.
Lucky ticket winners of the recent competition by Absolute Radio to see Doves play a live session, were yesterday treated to a blistering set.
Doves
Zoo Session and interview
Doves came in to chat to Geoff Lloyd and they played an incredible live session in the Absolute Radio Zoo.
Check out the session, it includes the tracks ‘Kingdom of Rust,’ ‘Winter Hill,’ ‘The Greatest Denier’ and ‘There Goes the Fear.’ We’ve also got the full interview for you to check out and some photos too!
The video of the session and an interview with the band are now available to view online at Absolute Radio’s site, here.
NME.com has reported that Doves (along with Hot Chip) have been instrumental in resurrecting the legendary Forever Heavenly club night in London.
Legendary London club night Forever Heavenly is set to relaunch next month to coincide with the second of Doves’ two London gigs.
The night, which will return on May 1, was acclaimed over ten years ago for a series of legendary nights at the Turnmills venue.
The night will now return –acting as the unofficial aftershow for Doves’ O2 Academy Brixton gig on the same night –with the likes of Hot Chip and Playgroup getting involved.
The all-nighter will take place at the Corsica Arts Studio in Elephant And Castle.
To read the full article, click here.
Tickets are available by visiting this link.
Absolute Radio are giving away tickets to see Doves live in session, at their London H.Q. on Monday April 6th.
Just answer one (very easy) question before April 2nd and a pair of tickets could be yours.
Click here to enter the competition.
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