DJ Set In Greenock

A DJ set has been announced for Greenock Scotland, all the info in the blurb below.

Word UP will be playing host to Manchester music men DOVES in an exclusive night next month.
The Brit award nominees are all set to launch the venue’s new look Friday night on Friday 19th March.
Fans will hear the a two-hour DJ set filled with classics, ‘old skool’ tunes and Manchester dance anthems.

Guitarist an vocalist Jez Williams said “We are looking forward to getting up to Greenock and giving you guys some classic rock n’ roll, some dance floor soul and everything in between.”
The band, who are currently working in the studio on some new material, are looking forward to their Word UP appearance and will get a warm up for some summer concerts.
They have also agreed to sign some memorabilia that will be raffled off on the night, with all proceeds going to Sport Relief 2010.

A Word UP spokesperson added: “This is a great coup for Inverclyde. It will be a special one off night, We’ve gone to great lengths to secure this event and we’re putting ot on to make Fridays a little bit different from the norm.
It will give the people of Inverclyde a great reason to come out and enjoy themselves. It promises to be a sensational night in Inverclyde’s 2010 calendar”.

Advance discounted tickets for Inverclyde regulars are �6 and now available by calling 01475 806038.
Tickets will also be available from the Word UP Backroom DJ’s From Thursday throught to Sunday and at a special pre-sale event on Wednesday 24th February in Text from 7pm until 10pm.

For more information email admin@wordup.uk.com

New Birds Flew Backwards Remix

A good way to start the week.. The good folks at Caught By The River in association with Heavenly Recordings are streaming a new remix of Birds Flew Backwards. The remix was done by Chris Watson, one of the founder members of Cabaret Voltaire, now famed wildlife sound recordist. Do check out his website, he’s done some pretty amazing stuff.

Also announced today at Caught By The River, is the second Birdsongs compilation. This time the compilation has been put together by Jimi Goodwin! To get the download, you must sign up with your email address at the site. The download will be sent out to members on Wednesday. So if you are not signed up, do so now! Artwork for the compilation has been done by Matt Sewell, which features a Robin as requested by Jimi.

Also whilst your at Caught By The River, check out the Happy Mondays post featuring some good Factory Records video footage. Great stuff!

The Doves Mobile!

Well not quite, but you may recall last year doves teamed up with the Creation le mans racing team. Cheers to doves #1 fan for the heads up regarding the picture above. If you are lost, the doves logo is by the near front wheel! Click on image to view full size for a better look. Picture is by Dave Hamster

Check back on Monday for news of a new doves remix and a Compilation put together by Jimi.

Until then, why not check out the new song from Broken Social Scene! Just released at their website as a free download, World Sick is a pretty special tune. They are big fans of doves too, really nice guys. Great to have them back.

One Year

Blog Birthday cake with thanks to MS Painter!

The blog is celebrating one year online! Actually it was a year to the day yesterday I made the first post, but I forgot about it!!

In other news, Keep your eye for a ad featuring House Of Mirrors on Sky One in the UK. No more best of news as yet, shouldn’t be too long now. A new single is on the way apparently. Pre-orders for the album has appeared on several more music stores outside the UK. Edit: It seems as if Astralwerks will be releasing the album in North America. More as I have it!

No Brit Award for Doves

Predictably doves did not pick up a Brit award tonight. The award for best British group went to Kasabian. Well done to them.

Winter Olympics Ad Featuring Doves

Vancouver Winter Olympic games ad

As we reported early last year, Pounding is being used in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic games With Glowing Hearts advertisement campaign.

Pretty cool I reckon! Enjoy the games if your watching.

Buzz

Was only a matter of time.. If you use gmail you can now follow the blog using Google buzz. You will get the regular feed from the blog as well as other bits & pieces not featured on the blog as with twitter. Our Twitter has almost 4000 followers, so we’ll see if google buzz works just as well.

I haven’t really plugged it much, but the blog does have a facebook page, which I have linked below. Look forward to hearing from you!

Follow On Google buzz

Best Of Pre-Order

Amazon.com among others are taking pre-orders for the best of stating an April 6th release in the USA. Assuming this is correct, that should mean an April 5th release in the UK.

View Amazon Listing / CDUniverse Listing

Nothing’s official though, so I would hold back until more info is made available. Wouldn’t be the first the dates have been changed.

Heavenly Records News

Some good news regarding Heavenly from Billboard business:

U.K. indie Heavenly Recordings has signed a long-term licensing agreement with Cooperative Music, the international independent label group that operates under Universal Music Group ownership.

Heavenly’s previous deal with EMI expired in 2008, although Doves’ U.K. No. 2 album “Kingdom of Rust” was released by Heavenly via EMI in 2009. Cooperative began working with Heavenly last year and helped the London-based indie sign the Soft Pack and Fionn Regan.

“Recently, with Fleet Foxes and Phoenix they [Cooperative] have proved their ability in getting really impressive sales from supposedly underground acts and in doing so gave me the confidence to turn our relationship in to something more long term,” said Heavenly Recordings founder and owner Jeff Barrett in a statement.

To read full article, click here.

What this means for doves exactly I’m not sure. Regardless though, nice to see a good label sticking around.

RockNess

doves have been confirmed to perform at this year’s RockNess.

RockNess director Jim King said: “We’re delighted with the RockNess line-up this year, the best we’ve had to date, and we’re particularly looking forward to having BBC Radio 1 on board as our official radio partner.

“We have some really great indie bands lined up with The Strokes, Doves and Ian Brown and there’s still more bands to add.

The festival takes place weekend of June 11-13th. Doves will perform on the Sunday night, as they are elsewhere on Friday/Saturday. Tickets are on sale now.