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May 14, 2009

Glastonbury News

As previously reported, doves will play the John Peel Tent at this year’s Glastonbury festival. Doves will headline on the Friday night (June 26th). There was talk of doves performing more than once at the festival. Will post if we hear any more on that.

Newcastle based isolationist.co.uk caught up with Jimi, at the recent Newcastle show. Interesting, if a rather short interview. Once again, the talk is of a quicker follow up to Kingdom Of Rust:

Are you planning on returning to the barn after the tour?
Yeah, we want to make sure the next record’s out much faster because this one took over four fucking years. At the moment our mate Cherry Ghost is using it, if he hadn’t kicked us out we’d probably still be in there now. Ha ha. But yeah, his stuff’s sounding good. How he won a f****ing Ivor Novello and then got dropped is anyone’s guess.

To read the full interview, click here.

As well as providing support tonight in San Diego, Pop Noir will also be supporting tomorrow at the Anaheim show. doves management, have said that they were offered the support slot because of the link to Steve McGarry (The Pop Noir twins are Steve McGarry’s sons) and Rob Gretton. Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of Rob’s passing. RIP!

May 4, 2009

Review Of Newcastle O2 Academy Show

Newcastle’s Sunday Sun newspaper, yesterday published a short review of Doves’ recent show at the city’s O2 Academy.

IT was a shaky start for Doves at Newcastle’s O2 Academy, but the Manchester indie band certainly didn’t fail to impress.

Launching into their opening song Jetstream, technical problems forced them to stop, dash off stage and start the whole thing again.

But no one cared and the band careered through their finest past hits, as well as plenty from their new album, Kingdom of Rust.

To read the full review, click here.

April 4, 2005

Northumbria Uni, Newcastle

April 3rd 2005

Bootleg: Yes, Audience Recording.

Setlist

Pounding
Words
Black And White Town
Almost Forgot Myself
Where We’re Calling From
NY
Sea Song
Sky Starts Falling
Caught By The River
Ambition
The Last Broadcast
Snowden
One Of These Days
The Cedar Room
Here It Comes
Satellites
There Goes The Fear

November 18, 2002

Northumbria Uni, Newcastle

Northumbria Uni, Newcastle, November 18th 2002

Notes: Taken from my old gig book. I wrote at the time: Great first show of the UK winter tour. Was late getting started as the doors were not open til just before 8pm. Still remember how cold it was lining up!! Disaster almost occurred at the end when Jimi seemed to gester to somebody in the audience if they wanted his bass guitar, he about gave it away til some rodie stopped him! Pretty funny. Great show.

Support: The Delgados

Intro
Pounding
There Goes The Fear
Sea Song
Rise
Catch The Sun
Satellites
Words
The Man Who Told Everything
The Last Broadcast
Where We’re Calling From
NY
A House
Caught By The River
The Cedar Room
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Firesuite
Here It Comes