Tickets for doves Australian tour are now on sale. Its expected these shows will sellout pretty quickly, so get your tickets now:
JULY
28th Billboards, Melbourne Get Tickets
30th The Metro, Sydney Get Tickets
AUGUST
As posted by Trickster_qc, at doves board:
Jetstream
Snowden
Winter hill
Rise
Pounding
Almost Forgot Myself
10:03
Words
Greatest Denier
Kingdom of Rust
Ambition
Black and White Town
Outsiders
Caught by the River
—
Firesuite
Here It Comes
The Last Broadcast
Doves drummer Andy Williams has given a short interview to Wendy Kale of The Colorado Daily
“We do have a theme to the record — it’s all about travel,” Williams said. “The songs could be about travel on the road or personal journeys.
“We just paint the picture with the lyrics. We want to give a mood, and then let people imagine their own story when they listen to this record. The imagination is a powerful thing.”
To read the full interview, click here.
OregonLive.com has published a great review of Doves’ show at Portland’s Wonder Ballroom venue.
The encore also included a subtle, understated performance of the beautifully melancholic “The Last Broadcast.” “It comes to a point when you feel nothing,” Goodwin sang. “This is the last time.”
Based on the strength of their performance, if the Doves are the last band to ever broadcast, I can’t say I would mind too much.
To read the full review, click here.
More straight talking from the Vancouver press. This time its a very positive review of the Commodore Ballroom show:
Since this was my first chance to experience the boys live, it was all new and shiny to me, so I can only assume they left “Catch the Sun” off the set list for a good reason—in fact, 2000’s Lost Souls was largely ignored—but among the new material was a reliable sprinkling of the old barnburners like “Black and White Town” and the most appropriately monikered “Pounding”. Doves’ signature sound has always had that unique ability to sound both melancholic and uplifting at the same time, and on this particular night the sound mix at the Commodore brought out the best of both—the soaring guitars on “Words” and new favourite “Kingdom of Rust” sounded good enough to lift me straight up to a heaven I don’t believe in.
Doves & Pop Noir in LA.
Thanks to whrrlmusic over at twitter for pointing out this collection of pictures taken by the Pop Noir guys, of their time back stage with doves at the LA Wiltern.
Check out the OC Weekly picture slideshow taken at the Anaheim show last Friday.
Doves play their final California show tonight in San Francisco. Then its on the Pacific Northwest. On Thursday the band hit Vancouver to play the awesome Commodore Ballroom. Here’s a wee snippet from the British Ccolumbia newspaper the Globe and Mail:
Doves’ latest album, Kingdom of Rust, has been called a Lancastrian Joshua Tree, so strong is the group’s connection to their northern British roots – they even recorded it on a farm near their home town. This is not a new fad: On 2002’s The Last Broadcast, they named a track after a motorway, the M62, recording the song under one of the road’s flyovers. This is their first tour since 2005 and early reports from U.K. gigs suggest this should be a stormer of a show. Thursday, Commodore Ballroom, doors at 8 p.m.
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
Pop Noir played Temptation in tribute to Rob Gretton. Thanks to badlydrawnwoman for providing the info.
Setlist as posted by REM_Monster at Doves’ official messageboard.
May 15th
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
—
Northenden
Here It Comes
The Last Broadcast
There Goes The Fear
The San Diego City beat have reviewed Kingdom Of Rust, they also give a mention to Thursday’s show at the House Of Blues, in their gigs section:
Kingdom of Rust
(Astralwerks)
8.0
Goes well with: rain, heartbreak, a good buzz
The Manchester Brit-pop trio returns after a four-year hiatus. And while Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Jez and Andy Williams didn’t spend the break dramatically changing their sound, the recently released Kingdom of Rust may be their best album yet.
Doves have always had a knack for churning out finely crafted, melancholy pop tunes alongside crowd-pleasing, anthemic sing-alongs. Their 2000 debut, Lost Souls, showcased the threesome’s seemingly effortless transition from house / dance producers Sub Sub to their current incarnation by implementing a perfect amount of electronic atmospherics into more organic rock tunes. Follow-ups The Last Broadcast and Some Cities cemented the band’s place in the upper echelon of pop pushers and never once dipped into the bowl of soft Coldplay cheese while doing so. Those two records were just less gloomy, which altered the formula slightly.
But Kingdom brings it back from partly cloudy to overcast, and it makes all the difference. From the meandering cool of “Compulsion” to the whip-cracking sharpness of “House of Mirrors,” there’s a nice variety to these storms. Even radio-ready nuggets “10:03″ and “The Outsiders” aren’t totally comfortable in their pop confines and fray at the edges
In The Clubs: Plan B
Doves @ House of Blues. Probably the best British band that you don’t listen to, Doves have released four excellent albums that approximate what Coldplay would sound like if they actually had balls. Plus, these guys have been around forever in one form or another, so they know their way around a melody.
Doves play this weekend’s Radio 1 Big Weekend in Swindon. After which, attention then turns to the North American tour, which kicks off in San Diego on Thursday.
Setlist as posted by Rosie & NLF at doves board.
Leeds Academy, May 8th
Jetstream
Snowden
Winter Hill
Rise
Pounding
Almost Forgot
10:03
Words
Denier
Kingdom of Rust
Ambition
Black & White
The Outsiders
Caught By
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Firesuite
Here it Comes
Last Broadcast
The Fear
Spaceface
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