San Diego radio station FM94/9 has uploaded Jimi’s interview with DJ Amanda at her blog.
Click here to visit Amanda’s blog and listen to the interview.
p.s. Amanda, if you’re reading this, it’s us whom you are following on Twitter, not the band!
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
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Northenden
Here It Comes
The Last Broadcast
There Goes The Fear
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Rob Gretton. Doves have contributed to a tribute to Rob at Caught By The River:
Thanks to our readers, Jason and José, we can confirm the setlist of last night’s show at the House of Blues, San Diego:
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
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Firesuite
Here It Comes
The Last Broadcast
There Goes The Fear Again
(Ninety minutes set).
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The organisers of Japan’s Fuji Rocks Festival, have today confirmed Doves will be performing at this year’s event.
Per-date lineup! 5th lineup announcement. BRAHMAN, DOVES and more!
Doves will perform at the festival on Friday, July 24th.
For further information and ticket sales, visit the official site, here.
Doves will be co-hosting FM94/9’s big sonic chill tonight straight after the show at the House Of Blues, which is presented by FM94/9. You can listen to doves doing a spot of overtime live. Just visit the FM94/9 website, then hit listen live. The show starts at 9m, doves will obviously be on stage at that time. So expect doves anytime after 11pm or so.
EDIT: Jimi popped into the FM94/9 studio’s this afternoon for a brief chat. doves will be on the big sonic chill at midnight tonight! Damn, I hope that overtime rate of pay is good. ;)
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!
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.
efestivals has today reported that Doves have been added to the lineup of this year’s Jersey Live festival. The festival will take place in Jersey, C.I., the weekend of September 5th and 6th 2009.
There’s currently no confirmation at the festival’s official website, JerseyLive.org.uk or indeed, at Doves’ official site – but expect more details soon.
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