The Sound on Sound give the low down on last night’s intmate show at the newly refurbished crocodile cafe (excellent venue btw!) and look forward to doves Sasquatch festival appearance:
A large part of the Doves dynamic relies the interplay of harmonies and backup singing, looped and heavily reverbed vocals bouncing off of each other and the walls in ways few bands even attempt. Last night the full package was notably missing as guitarist Jez Williams had lost his voice in the previous few days during the start of an American tour. Bassist and lead voice Jimi Goodwin soldiered on unphased for the most part though, getting the necessary backups from a positively excited crowd when needed.
To read the full review and view the awesome pictures, click here.
At last, we have a San Francisco review, an awesome one at that. With some of the best pictures I have seen on this tour. Thanks to Chov for bringing this one to our attention.
From Hippies Are Dead:
Obviously, however, enthusiasm can only take you so far, and at some point you need to match it with technical skill. Lucky for them, Doves has it in spades. It’s enough of a miracle that the band can reproduce their sound live, but that they can do it so dynamically and accurately, and then add a layer newness on top is simply stunning.
To read the full review and see the awesome pictures, click here.
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.
Sounds like a fantastic show! Really, I haven’t seen the band just yet this year, a couple weeks for me. But they really do sound better than ever live, listening to these videos/bootlegs that have surfaced so far.
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 first North American tour since the fall of 2005, kicks off on Thursday at the downtown San Diego House of Blues. Tickets are still available for this show and for all other US & Canadian dates. So if you have not got your tickets yet, then all the links you need are listed below.
Pop Noir will provide the support for the San Diego & Anaheim shows. Then Wild Light will be supporting for the rest of the dates.
Doves will be appearing at the following cities:
5/14, San Diego, CA (House of Blues) Get Tickets 5/15, Anaheim, CA (House of Blues) Get Tickets 5/16, Los Angeles, CA (The Wiltern) Get Tickets 5/18, San Francisco, CA (The Fillmore) Get Tickets 5/19, Eugene, OR, (McDonald Theatre) Get Tickets CANCELED 5/20, Seattle, WA (The Crocodile) Get Tickets 5/21, Vancouver, BC, (Commodore Ballroom) Get Tickets 5/22, Portland, OR, (Wonder Ballroom) Get Tickets 5/23, George, WA, (Sasquatch! Festival) Get Tickets 5/26, Denver, CO, (Gothic Theatre) Get Tickets 5/28, Minneapolis, MN, (Varsity Theatre) Get Tickets 5/29, Chicago, IL, (Vic Theatre) Get Tickets 5/30, Detroit, MI, (Majestic Theatre) Get Tickets 6/1, Toronto, ON (Kool Haus) Get Tickets 6/2, Montreal, QC (Le National) Get Tickets 6/4, New York, NY (Terminal 5) Get Tickets 6/5, Philadelphia, PA (The Trocadero) Get Tickets 6/6, Washington, DC (9.30 Club) Get Tickets 6/7, Boston, MA (House of Blues) Get Tickets
We will be reporting from Minneapolis, Chicago & Detroit. Look out for live updates from the shows at our twitter account. Full reports & pictures (hopefully) will follow shortly after.
Most important thing.. for those of you who are attending shows, have the most amazing time! Really, who knows when they will be back. If you want to submit a review/photos from your show, drop us a line. We will gladly post it all. Here’s to a great tour!
Electro indie trio Pop Noir will be supporting doves at the San Diego House Of Blues show on Thursday night. Wild Light will be supporting, for the rest of the US & Canada dates, as previously reported.
April was quite the month for doves and the blog. It probably wont get any busier than that. But plenty still to come in doves world. The UK tour finishes up next week. The band then perform at Radio One’s Big weekend a week on Saturday. After that its the small matter of the US tour, starting in San Diego on the 14th. The tour takes us into June, when the festival season starts up and then there is a new single in Winter Hill to look forward to. I shall be at the shows in Minneapolis, Chicago & Detroit. To say I’m excited for the shows is an understatement!!
A pre-sale for the US tour will take place next Wednesday, March 11. Its my understanding that Ticketmaster will be handling the pre-sale for certain venues (Chicago, Minneapolis & Detroit) This has not been confirmed, so as ever do check with doves board for the very latest ticket news.
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