This morning Soccer AM played a snippet of Andalucia over a VT of some Champions League goals. Soccer AM is streaming the 30 second snippet at their website. Cheers to Rob at doves board for the heads up. Should point out though, the chorus is not on there.
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.
Jimi and Andy of Doves recently hosted their own show for Xfm Radio in the U.K., playing an hour of their favourite music, every Sunday during the month of April.
Due to copyright restrictions, we were unable to record, upload and share these shows.
However, after a bit of investigation, it’s become apparent that the shows are available to download directly from Xfm’s third-party servers.
Windows users should right-click the links and choose ‘Save As’.
Note that they’re not playing their own records!
To reiterate, we have not copied or distributed these shows elsewhere. These links point directly towards files which are publically accessible via Xfm’s own archives.
We still have more live recordings from the past month to bring you, but as a change of pace, here’s Andy discussing the records which influenced him, with BBC Radio One’s Session Obsession. I’m unsure of the original broadcast date, but I’m guessing it was just after the release of The Last Broadcast.
Doves performed a semi-acoustic version of Kingdom Of Rust, on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends show, broadcast April 4th. The show will no longer be available to “listen again” via the BBC’s iPlayer, after today.
Click here to download a zip file containing an archived MP3.
Please note that the MP3 file is of low-quality, due to it being transcoded from its original lossy source.
Jimi and Andy recently gave a track by track commentary of each track from the Kingdom Of Rust album, to XFM DJ John Kennedy, on XFM Radio’s Xposure show, broadcast March 31st.
Click here to download a zip file containing archived MP3s.
Please note that the MP3 files are of low-quality due to their being transcoded from their original lossy source.
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.