Doves play probably their last gig of the year at the Manchester Warehouse Project this coming Saturday. Tickets still available at ticketline. If you are going, as always do send in photos etc! Doves are due on at midnight, so pace yerself! :)

Then next Monday see’s the release of the cover album project ‘Echoes In The Alleyway: A Tribute to Doves”. Check the album website on Wednesday to download a track from the album.

The track listing for the Doves covers project Echoes In The Alleyway: A Tribute to Doves was announced last night:

Disc One

Firesuite –Dementio13
M62 Song –The Honored Guests
House Of Mirrors –Tom Hummer
Snowden –A Clearing
Sea Song   (Substance Sonar Remix) –Substance
Rise   (Live From Abandoned Seaside) –springtide
Compulsion –Thoughts Of Crossing
The Last Son –Loren Carpenter –Red Guts
Caught By The River –prAnkster
Friday’s Dust –Ella Constantinides
Words (Reprise) –Clarion
The Cedar Room –Bradley Rains

Disc Two

Eleven Miles Out –Supercade
Black And White Town –Town Criers
Here It Comes –Fourteenhours
Dub’s House Of Mirrors –Dr.Keys
The Outsiders –Silentjets
Spellbound (Substance Quartet Mix) –Substance
Brazil –The Jetsprays
Melody Calls –Alambradas
Some Cities –Loren Carpenter –Red Guts
Andalucia –Richard Stephens and John Howe
Caught By The River –John Rockliffe
The Cedar Room –The Nurse Who Loved Me
Ambition –Modeon

To reach about each artist, visit the album microsite.

Doves are featured on Dermot O’Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions, released next Monday October 4th. Kingdom Of Rust recorded live in session,   April 2009 is Doves contribution. Good choice I reckon!

Get the album here.

Badly Drawn Boy returns with a new album next Monday. Titled It’s What I’m Thinking Pt.1 –Photographing Snowflakes. You can get a free EP at the Badly Drawn Boy website. The EP features the rather excellent Tim and Sam’s Tim and the Sam Band, check them out. I believe they are out on tour with Cherry Ghost right now, tunes up at MySpace sound great.

The cover album project Echoes In The Alleyway: A Tribute To Doves is done. The album will feature 25 tracks over two discs. Expect an announcement this weekend regarding the running order.

The Official Doves forum is now up and running again. The interim forum has now closed, see you back at the usual place.

We are no longer accepting tracks for the Echoes In The Alleyway cover project. The album will feature 25 tracks spread across two discs. There will also be a few bonus tracks available to download, not part of the album.

Three tracks have been covered twice. But each version is very different, so there will be no note for note repeats!

I have already started work on the running order, not easy! Hope to have this completed next week, plan on making the album cohesive sounding as possible. Expect an announcement late next week!

For more, visit the album microsite echoesinthealleyway.com

No Doves news here sorry, nothing to report just yet!

Good things comes to those who wait! …The first music group I fell in love with return with their first album in 14 years! OMD release History Of Modern in Europe today, with a US release due next week. Admittedly their output after 1983’s Dazzle Ships was patchy at best!They lost the plot as they admit themselves, though I must admit I loved their late 80s hits! Though you can’t beat 1981’s Architecture and Morality my all-time favourite album.

The comeback single isn’t the best in truth. But do check out the album for new OMD classics such as New Holy Ground, Bondage of Fate, History Of Modern (both parts!), RFWK (letter to Kraftwerk) and this one… The Right Side – Kraftwerk’s Europe Endless meets Neon Lights, OMD are not supposed to sound this good after so many years.

Echoes in the Alleyway is almost complete! We are now looking towards the release date which is October 18th. A press release will be issued early October. If you want a copy for your website, blog etc then please get in touch.   Just looking to spread the word, so we can raise as much money as possible for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Press tools will be available at echoesinthealleyway.com before the end of the month.

Some interesting comments from Jez over at NME.com confirming what we already know. The Manchester Warehouse will be the last show for quite some time. Jez also hints at what to expect from his own record..

Doves have admitted they may never play another gig again after their forthcoming homecoming show at Manchester’s Warehouse Project next month.

Guitarist Jez Williams said the gig on October 16 could be their last, after a heavy touring schedule which has seen the band tour two albums –2009’s ‘Kingdom Of Rust’ and recent hits compilation ‘The Places Between: The Best Of Doves’.

“It’s a bit of a strange one but there are no plans for an album or a tour after this gig,” he told NME. “It’ll be our last gig for a long, long, long time, if not indefinitely.

“We’ve been together a long time and we’re just thinking we want to do individual things and musical ventures,” he continued. “We’re going to go down that road.”

Williams said he has already started working on his own solo project, which will feature a number of guest artists. Lead singer Jimi Goodwin and Williams’ brother and drummer Andy Williams are also planning to work on their own records.

“I’ve got a few people in the pipeline for guest artists, which I want to keep under wraps at the moment, but I’m still looking for people to front my project,” Williams said. “It’ll be nice to delve into different territory and it will definitely be more dance orientated than Doves.”

To read the full article, click here.