Doves Twitter Twibe

Those of you with Twitter accounts, may wish to join our Doves Twitter Twibe.

A Twibe is a group of Twitter users interested in a common topic who would like to be able to communicate with each other. On each Twibe’s page, there is a list of Twibe members. There is also a tweet stream that lists tweets from Twibe members which contain key word tags (in this case “Doves”, “band” and “music”).

To join the twibe, visit http://twibes.com/Doves

Here It Comes Cover

Check out this interesting cover of Here It Comes. Not bad. I do like the “jimi” bit.

Jimi on BBC Radio Scotland’s Tom Morton Show

Jimi popped into BBC Radio Scotland studios this morning, to speak to Tom Morton. A cool interview. Jimi talk’s about last night’s show at the barras, Doves in Scotland & touring America, among other stuff.

Part One

Part Two

As posted on doves board. The setlist from last night’s show at the barras:

Jetstream
Snowden
Winter Hill
Rise
Pounding
Almost Forgot
10:03
Words
Denier
Kingdom of Rust
Ambition
Black & White
Compulsion
The Outsiders
Caught By
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Northenden
Here It Comes
Last Broadcast
The Fear

Check out these awesome pictures of the gig, taken by Alice. By all accounts the show was the best of the year so far. The Barras never disappoint.

Doves are in Edinburgh tonight to play the Picture House for the first time.

Seattle Crocodile show added

Not confirmed by doves yet. But it does appear doves are playing a club show in Seattle. Doves are listed to play the Crocodile club Sasquatch pre party-show on May 20th. Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster Friday 10am.

Seattle Crocodile event listing

If this is correct. Doves will be having a busy time of it. With six shows over six days.

Dublin Live Review

Irish music site State have put up a good review of the Dublin Olympia show. Check it out, for the awesome pictures alone.

State Dublin Review

The Kentucky Student Newspaper have got a very cool doves article. Comparing Jez, to none other than guitar god David Gilmour.

The overall sound is as epic and as large as previous Dove’s albums. The string slinging is on a level as classic as Carl Perkins and David Gilmore.

To read the full article, click here.

After a day off, Doves are playing the Glasgow Barrowland tonight. Always a wonderful venue to see doves live. I can’t think of many better cities to catch doves live.

Archive: 4music Favourites: Doves

Finally, here’s the long-awaited video of the show ‘4music Favourites: Doves’, which aired on Channel 4 in the U.K., nearly a week ago. The show contains brief interviews with the band and live performances of four songs.

4music Favourites

Click here to download the show.

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.

Birmingham Review & Popmatters Interview

Thanks to LDC at doves board for pointing out this Birmingham review.

Tracks from the new album also got a good reaction probably because songs like Winter Hill, The Outsider and title track Kingdon of Rust do sound unmistakably Doves. Which is no bad thing.

To read the full review, click here.

Popmatters spoke to Jimi. Interesting article, if at times inaccurate.

To read the article, click here.

Canada’s Exclaim have wrote a small piece on doves.

Live Session MP3s

With many thanks to Jimi’s Beard, here are 320 bitrate mp3s from the channel 4 “4music Favourites” show that aired last week. Featured are an acoustic performance of the Greatest Denier and electric performances of Jetstream & 10.03

Download

Also from Jimi’s beard, here are mp3s from the Jools holland performance. Included are Kingdom Of Rust, Winter Hill & 10.03. These are excellent quality mp3s from one of the best live sessions doves have ever performed.

Kingdom Of Rust/Winter Hill

10.03

Cheers Jimi’s Beard!

Much more to come over the coming days.

UK Chart News

Kingdom Of Rust dropped only one place on the UK album chart to number three. A very respectable position, considering Some Cities dropped out of the charts like a stone right after reaching number one.

Some goodies to come tomorrow, including mp3s of the Jools Holland performance. Until then..

UK TV & Radio Schedule Recap

Another brief recap of all Doves’ forthcoming scheduled appearances on UK TV and radio, courtesy of UK TV Guide.com. Please note that all scheduling and programme information is subject to change.

XFM Residency
XFM London / XFM Manchester Radio, April 19th (TONIGHT) at 09:00pm BST.

XFM

Join this week’s Xfm resident DJ who will be playing their favourite music. Go to Xfm.co.uk to find out more.

Colin Murray
BBC Radio One, April 27th at 10:00pm BST.

BBC Radio One

New music and alternative classics, plus Colin is ‘In the Company of’ Doves.

Non-U.K. listeners may be able to listen to XFM London, live, via the following 128kbs MP3 stream:
http://media-ice.musicradio.com/XFMMP3.m3u

You must have a media player installed which is able to handle streaming MP3, such as Winamp, iTunes, Foobar2000 or VLC Media player.

BBC Radio One should be available to non-U.K. listeners, via the following Real Media live stream:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram