With the prolonged absence of the official Doves.net forum. I have set up a temporary forum that you are welcome to make use of, until the official forum is back up running again.
Edit: Forums are no longer locked, should be good to go now.
Doves are advertised to appear on a episode of Later…with Jools Holland this Friday morning on the Ovation channel here in the States. The episode is due to air at 4am EST.
For all the info, visit the show listing at the Ovation website.
Make the most of it! We get so little Doves on tv here. Many thanks to Christina for the heads up!
The album continues to take shape, right now we have 16 tracks for it. With the possibility of up to 8 more, depending however many drop out this final week.
The deadline for submitting music is still September 20th, this is final. Any music received after then will be offered as a bonus track on the website, but will not be on the album, as we have the running order & artwork to complete.
I have been in touch with all the artists yet to submit. If you still have music to submit and I have not been in touch this weekend, then please do email me using the address at the bottom of the site. Not ignoring you, just allot going on. :)
Echoes In The Alleyway will be released October 18th as a free digital download, available on 320 kbps mp3 & wav audio formats. Though we do ask that you please consider a donation to the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Cheers for the feedback regarding the new look site! Appreciate it. I have finished off the live section. If you want to submit info about any show, feel free to email me.
No word on Doves forum, hopefully its restored next week. If not I can set something up here. No word on if Number 1 was the culprit!
Must be a slow news week in the music press as those split-up stories are doing the rounds again. For those of you still wondering, read this interview.
Peter Hook brings his Unknown Pleasures show to these shores later this year. Not sure about this to be honest. For those of you who may have seen the show, is it worth seeing? I probably wouldn’t have considered it had I been living back home in the UK. Living over here you do become abit more nostalgic for all things British.
Freebass release their ‘long awaited’ lp in a few weeks. I’m sure the PR this week will do no harm. Though articles like this one seem wide of the mark, with statements like:
growing tensions within the Manchester music scene
Are you having a laugh?
Take a look at that! One of the gems posted of late on the Manchester District Music Archive website. The article highlights local upcoming band ‘Static Mist’ who of course featured the Williams brothers. Quite ambitious they were too.
To see more, including a picture from 86 visit the mdmarchive.
Its no secret the band are going to take a break for a wee while. As expected the Manchester Warehouse show will be the last gig for awhile, Jez is quoted as saying according to theplayground.co.uk
Speaking ahead of their appearance at the incendiary Warehouse Project in Manchester, Jez Williams hinted that Doves’s show on the 16th could be the band’s last, at least for a while.
“The Warehouse Project is our last gig for… I don’t know. It could be a long time. We’ve have no plans to do another album. All I know is this is our last gig…” he said.
So yeah, get your tix now here, if you want to see them one last time.
Miller Filtered Music have uploaded pictures of the recent Oran Mor show up on their facebook. Check it out, some familiar faces!
Finally, don’t know how I missed this one. But check out this James Lavelle remix of There Goes The Fear. Its pretty good.
The official Doves site encountered a few problems over the weekend. The forum right now still has malware code, so take the warning and leave be. The doves.net folks are aware of the issues, so with abit of luck the forum will be up and running again soon.
A review of Thursday’s Glasgow Oran mor acoustic show in todays Scotman newspaper.
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IF DOVES are known for anything, it is for their heart-tugging epic soundscapes, a trait they share with their fellow modest Mancunians Elbow.
So how would they fare in a stripped-back setting for the inaugural outing of the Miller Filtered Music mini-season of intimate gigs, which purport to “filter out the unnecessary” from live performance (the sponsor’s way of describing an acoustic show, one presumes)?
Doves are hardly the most dynamic performers anyway, so a sedentary unplugged gig did not prove too much of a handicap. If anything, the set-up threw their aching melodies into relief.
While they were in mellow mood, they wisped through a cover of Willow’s Song from the Wicker Man soundtrack, with Jimi Goodwin hoping nobody would notice that he was a middle-aged meat-and-potatoes indiebloke singing the part of a sylph-like soprano.
To read the full review, click here.
Not too much video around of the show at the moment. Though the promoter Filtered music are saying over at facebook, that official video will be posted soon! Here’s a good one of a slowed down version of Black And White Town..
If you have video to share, give me a shout using the email addy at the bottom of the site cheers!
Setlist from tonight’s acoustic set at Glasgow’s Oran Mor. Many thanks as always to NLF who also sent in a couple pics from the show..
The Scottish News Of The World caught up with the band in their barn. A really interesting interview it is too, cheers to Clarion for the heads up..
BAND ARE READY TO TRY NEW THINGS EVEN AFTER TEN YEARS AT THE TOP
IN a corner of Doves HQ lies a pile of abandoned boom boxes, reel-to- reel tape recorders and ancient cassette decks.
They’re the kind of relics you’d find, dusty and ignored, at the back of any junk shop.
But, along with drummer Andy Williams’ kit, which sits in its own spot over by the fireplace, and the rack of guitars belonging to his brother Jez, they’re key weapons in creating the band’s rich, inventive sound.
Everything else here, however, is the most up-to-the-minute music technology available, a legacy of their days making club tracks in a scene where producers routinely obsess over the latest gadgets.
“Our songs are really ongoing investigations,” confesses bassist/frontman Jimi Goodwin. “They start to reveal themselves as you’re working on them.”
And inside their HQ, a converted farm building midway between Manchester and Liverpool, it’s the combination of the outmoded and the state-of-the-art that helps shape multi-layered classics like last year’s world-beating fourth album Kingdom Of Rust.
To read the full article, click here.
Echoes In The Alleyway: A Tribute To Doves is now taking shape. I have got 12 tracks for it at the moment. Expecting to finish with around 18 tracks.
As expected a few artists dropped out. Though sadly the group who were going to do House Of Mirrors have split up! Considering the album title it would be cool to have that track on it. If there is anyone who wants to do this track and can do it by the end of the month then do get in touch. But no biggy otherwise.
Tomorrow sees Doves play an acoustic set in Glasgow at the beautiful Oran Mor. If you are going, have a great night! Let us know how it goes.
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