Doves on stage at T in the Park
Festival goers having a pissing great time at T.
For more pictures of doves set, as taken by friend of the blog NLF. View the photos at our picasa album here.
Check out the NME video of doves walking onto the stage at T:
Caught By The River Live From Toronto Kool Haus, June 1st 2009.
The BBC have yet to broadcast Doves’ full set from this year’s Glastonbury festival, and it’s entirely possible that it may never be broadcast in full.
A programme of edited highlights (which has also been made available to UK viewers via the BBC’s website) was screened via interactive digital TV, early Saturday morning. It excludes a number of performances; some of which we will be able to upload over the next few days (namely ’10:03′, ‘The Outsiders’ and ‘Here It Comes’).
Click here to download the programme of edited highlights.
The video is an Xvid-encoded MPEG4 AVI file which should be standalone-compatible with most new DVD or AV players which are equipped to play DivX files.
Doves spoke to the Sun about the upcoming headline set at Glastonbury. Its an interesting watch, with Jimi admitting the band almost called it a day after their debut performance at Glastonbury back in 1998.
After a shambolic appearance at Glastonbury in 1998, the boys nearly split up following their first festival.
Frontman JIMI GOODWIN said: “We came home with the worst hangover and we just got the horrors.
“We had a meeting in the pub… It was ridiculous.
“We’d not even put out our first single and after all the hardship of SUB SUB (their former band) and all of the ups and downs, we come home from Glastonbury with a bit of a hangover and decide before we’ve even put anything out to split up!”
Photo by gibbo1968
Here we have another review of the Delamere Forest show. This time from gibbo1968 , who previously submitted his photos & videos of the show to the blog, which you can view here. Gibbo wrote this review originally for u2.com.
Me,mrs gibbo and mulls ventured into the forest at the weekend to see Doves again(this was my 3rd Doves gig of the year).
I know I keep bangin on about them but they are just a great band that are so underrated it’s scandalous.I have Kingdom of rust on constant play,it’s my album of the year and yes I am starting to lean towards Doves more than U2,which although alarming is justified,anyway about the gig.
We ambled down to the arena set in a clearing in the forest with a banked hillside full of picnickers,deckchairs and kids.Jimi quoted during the gig it was like a creche,certainly the widest ranging audience of any gig i’ve been to.
We positioned ourselves on the rail andy’s side and watched support band Delphic,never heard of them but they were actually quite good,on first glance they were like A.N.other skinny indie kid band but sounded like New order/Kraftwerk with an indie edge.Check out their myspace page http://www.myspace.com/delphic
On to the main event and tour opener Jetstream kicks off as usual with(corny I know) a jet coming in to land on the video screen in the background.It’s a kraftwerk tinged belter that opened the album and sets the mood for the rest of the gig.There’s so many layers and styles to Doves songs from country rock Kingdom of rust to melancholy of The last broadcast,chilled out vibe of Almost forgot myself and Cedar room,motown/soul influenced Here it comes,all out dance rock of Black and white town and Pounding to the set closer and rave blast from the past pre Doves incarnation sub sub choon Space face.
So they cover all bases really so go and check ’em out PLEASE! if only for Cedar room alone which was my highlight of the evening.
If you are planning on seeing doves at Glastonbury this Friday and you fancy writing a review, we would love to hear from you. Just email us your review here. We will post all reviews submitted to us. More on doves at Glastonbury coming later this week. Including some live footage from previous Glastonbury sets.
Photo by gibbo1968
doves board regular and friend of the blog, gibbo1968 took some great pictures from his front row position at the Delamere show. You can see the album set at flickr here. You can also check out the full videos gibbo took of Jetstream & Here lt Comes here.
Fan favourite The Cedar Room found its way back into the set towards the end of the North American tour. The performance at Delamere was the first performance in the UK since the Royal Festival Hall show Sept 08. Watch the stunning Delamere rendition below, thanks to moorlander55
Doves official site doves.net have confirmed that the release date for Winter Hill is to be July 6th. No more details have been released as yet. They also state Kingdom Of Rust has gone platinum. The album currently sits at number 99 on the album chart.
Edit: doves.net has since changed the date, to July 20th.
Watch doves perform Winter Hill, for the fly tv:
It looks like the crowd were really into last night’s show:
More videos at radiosjohn youtube channel, which includes full videos of The Greatest Denier, Words, Spaceface and more. Go here.
Pulse Films have just uploaded the new Doves video for ‘Winter Hill’ at their site.
The video features stunt cyclist, Danny MacAskill.
Click here to view the promo!
Here’s an AVI file of Doves’ performance of ‘The Outsiders’ on last night’s Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show, as promised earlier.
Click here to download the performance.
The video is an Xvid-encoded MPEG4 AVI file which should be standalone-compatible with most new DVD or AV players which are equipped to play DivX files.
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