Spinner has uploaded a video about the making of Lost Souls. Some good footage, including some rare shots of the HMV rooftop gig. The title mentions its part 1 of 4 which spans doves career, will let you know when more vids are up.
A glowing review of The Best of album at BBC Music:
It speaks volumes about Doves’ far-reaching ambitions –or perhaps their lack of provincial attitude –that they’ve made such a mighty noise for over a decade without ever being tagged a ‘Manchester band’.
When they shed their rave pop guise of Sub Sub and emerged in 1998 with glacial ghost story The Cedar Room –an amorphous spectre of a tune as haunting as the ghouls that inhabited its lyrics –their atmospheric bass throbs and sunbeam-surfing guitars spoke more of Viennese spires shrouded in gothic mist than cocaine benders down The City. Instead of being tethered to geographical roots, Doves took wing, inspiring hordes of potato-faced blokes, from I Am Kloot to Elbow, to make music as beautiful as they weren’t. In their time, Jimi Goodwin and Andy and Jez Williams have come to epitomise what can only be described as Mercury Prize rock.
As expansive and ambitious as their sound, this best-of set draws together their most memorable hits, stand-out album tracks, B-sides and alternative versions across a standard and deluxe, expanded edition. That it still doesn’t find space for Satellites is testament to the quality of the monumental music on display.
To read the full review, click here
Andy Spoke to XFM Manchester’s Pete Mitchell on Sunday there. I managed to grab a wee minute of the interview (cheers to Slow Hands at Doves board for the heads up) which you can listen to here. The bit missing is basically just Andy talking about how somebody suggested they should revisit Blue Water for the Best Of. What you will hear is Andy talk about the origins of Andalucia and the band’s plans for the rest of the year.
To those who have asked about status of doves.net.. Not sure to be honest though I do know the site will have a fresh new look which should be going live any day now, so that may be why the site is down.
Doves are featuring in the 29 March to 4 April of the Big Issue in the North Magazine. Feature on the front cover (could not find a picture so far) and a 2 side article about “Doves. At peace with temselves, in our music special”
For more Doves photos by Wendy Lynch Redfern Click On image above
Doves PR doing the rounds in North America to reflect the new album release date/single details at this side of the pond with a word on the digital release.
Single Release Date: April 6, 2010
The Places Between: The Best of Doves
NEW Release Date: April 20, 2010
To celebrate twelve years since Doves formed and to chronicle a career to inspire envy- with two Mercury nominated albums and worldwide sales of over 2 million- the band will release their definitive collection, The Places Between: The Best of Doves on April 20, 2010. To coincide with this release a new single, “AndalucÃa” will be released on April 6, 2010.
“AndalucÃa” was recorded in the barn in Cheshire, England where last year’s critically heralded Kingdom of Rust was recorded. Much of Doves body of work is an ode to the north of England but this song appears to tell of warmer pastures. The song surges towards its rousing final chorus with orchestration colliding with a tender vocal from Jimi Goodwin. “AndalucÃa” stands alongside Doves finest work and will no doubt seamlessly sit amongst classics such as “Black And White Town”, “Kingdom Of Rust” and “There Goes The Fear”.
The Places Between: The Best of Doves
will be released on April 20 as a deluxe 3 disc package comprising 2 CDs featuring 34 tracks plus a DVD with all of the Doves’ videos. There will be 3 digital versions available: a single component 15-track version, a 2-component 34 track version (there will be an iTunes deluxe version featuring 35 tracks), and a digital video album.
On April 6 the Doves’ new track, “AndalucÃa” will be available as a digital download single which includes an unavailable elsewhere acoustic version of “Jetstream”.
Andalucia will be released April 5th in the UK, same day as the release of The Places Between. The single will be released by Heavenly with the catalogue number HVN201. Check out the Lovely artwork, shame it’s not seeing a physical release but that’s how music is these days.
Alright, I asked you all to pick your five favourite doves songs from the entire back catalogue and you have spoken! Some interesting results.. Tracks from Kingdom Of Rust already already proving to be instant favourites.
Here is the top 20 with the number of times each track was voted for. I will be posting a full list of results next week.
Pounding 396
There Goes The Fear 393
The Cedar Room 391
Caught By The River 362
Kingdom Of Rust 356
Black And White Town 355
Snowden 352
Sea Song 349
Rise 346
Here It Comes 343
Catch The Sun 341
Words 337
The Man Who Told Everything 333
Jetstream 290
10.03 278
Winter Hill 258
Firesuite 257
Last Broadcast 250
Satellites 231
Almost Forgot Myself 227
As you can see the results were all fairly close, as was the case for the top 50 in truth. Darker was only three votes from getting into the top 20.
To make it a bit more interesting, here is a new poll to determine your ultimate favourite doves song. You only get one vote instead of five like before…
As the promo for the best of starts to crank up, Jimi has given Metro an insight into what’s playing on his ipod at the moment.
History Of Man by Amanaz
I heard this on Steve ‘Sex Pistol’ Jones’s short-lived but ace BBC 6Music show late last year. It’s Zambian psych rock from Amanaz’s 1975 Africa album. It sounds like a black Black Sabbath.
Irene by Caetano Veloso
I love songs that break down and sort of start again. And what a riff. It sounds like they had a ball recording this. You can actually hear the joy.
Ancestors by Gonjasufi
This is super-weird hip hop from Warp Records. I love the blasted vocal on it and the ridiculous beat. Check out the album, A Sufi And A Killer.
If you have nowt going on next Thursday and you are in/or can be in London then this may just be for you…
Doves will be on Evo Music Rooms being recorded in London next Thursday the 1st of April in the evening. Tickets are free, but they’ll go fast head to sroaudiences.com click on “current shows” and scroll down to “Evo Music Rooms.”
Good luck! If you do attend, do let us know how it went!
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