LA Weekly.com has today posted a great review of Doves’ recent show at the city’s Wiltern Theatre.
Doves, on stage and record, are all about consistency: set (and career) standouts are subtle and troughs shallow. They marry baggy Madchester roots to U2’s sense of scale and cop strummy Brit-pop attitude while bristling with “Bristol sound” (Portishead/Tricky) electro/organic textures. Their all-eyes-off-us, bloke-down-the-pub lack of pretense last night only left their music more vivid. There was appreciative between-song bonhomie and de rigueur big screen projections, but essentially this was four musicians playing tunes.
To read the full review, click here. The site also features a slideshow of photos from the concert, here.
Producer Richard Norris (a.k.a. The Time And Space Machine) has posted a clip from his remix of Doves’ ‘Jetstream’ on his MySpace page: www.myspace.com/thetimeandspacemachine
His MySpace blog also claims that the song will be the third single released from the Kingdom Of Rust album.
The Time and Space Machine mix of Doves’ “Jetstream” is now up on the player. It is currently being promo’ed by Heavenly/Virgin.
“Jetstream” is set to become the third single from Doves album “Kingdom Of Rust”.
Doves’ official site has today confirmed that the band will perform at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, on Friday June 26th…
Doves.net will be camped out at the Peel stage from Midday on the Friday to make sure we’re right at the front as the guys launch into ‘Jetstream’ as the sun sets on-site. Man, it’s going to be one helluva show!
To read the quote in it’s original context (and a short interview with Jez), click here.
Last night’s LA Wiltern show was taped for a future episode of the Carson Daly show. Both Doves & Wild Light (who apparently stole the show with an awesome pair of tight white jeans!) footage will appear on a future episode of the show. More info as we have it.
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.
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.
How cool is this this picture. The guys from Pop Noir, Jimi & Johnny Marr backstage at the LA Wiltern. As posted on Pop Noir’s twitter. Great band, check them out here. Sad they are not doing the rest of the tour.
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:
Having just listened to FM94/9 sonic big chill show. I just feel the need to set the record straight. The host Amanda hinted that our twitter page, could be one of those twitter’s, that pretends to be official, but is not. We have never claimed to be official, had Amanda read our bio, and followed the link, she would have seen it is run by us, a fan site. Anyhow, I just wanted to get that off my chest, the last thing I myself, or Justin wants is to mislead people into thinking we are trying to represent the band. We just post news/reviews and whatever we find online about the band and hope people find it helpful to have all that, in one place. Which we know you do. :)
So that’s that. Otherwise, great interview Amanda. Your show has some great music on it. Thanks to everybody who has been twittering setlists, pictures and what not, of the shows on the US tour so far. I was a bit worried we wouldn’t hear much. So its been great so far. Thank you! Keep it coming.
Danny MacAskill is the star of the next doves video, for which we believe will be Winter Hill. He has become a youtube sensation in recent times. Click here to read his story.
The Malaysia Star have given Kingdom Of Rust a rather lukewarm review:
However, Some Cities (2005) didn’t have quite the same impact on me, despite emulating its predecessor as a chart-topper. Even though the odd quality tune like Almost Forgot Myself, Someday Soon or Ambition was present, far too much of it felt like filler material. What was worse was that Doves seemed to be slowly losing their personality.
As for this latest in their oeuvre, I have to say that Kingdom of Rust leaves me lukewarm. In fact, the opening cut Jetstream creates the impression that this album will see Doves rediscover their dance roots especially as there are guest turns by Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers and Massive Attack knob-twiddler Dan Austin. Even though that turns out to be misleading, the problem is that there is too much pedestrian upbeat rock and not enough of the trippy melancholy stuff they first came up with.
If that isn’t enough for you, click here to read the rest.
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