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April 6, 2009

Archive: Jimi & Jez On MTV Two’s Gonzo

Jimi & Jez appeared last week on MTV Two’s U.K. Gonzo show. Their appearance was originally scheduled for the prior week, so apologies for the previous misinformation.

Click here to download a video of their appearance; chatting about their work-ethic and trying to decipher anagrams of their song titles. WARNING: Contains Zane Lowe.

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.

April 5, 2009

New Interview With Triple J Radio

Jimi recently spoke with Australia’s Triple J Radio, via a phone interview with DJ Zan Rowe.

Jimi from Doves tells you about their Kingdom of Rust…

Manchester band Doves are, this week, releasing their fourth album. The trio have long traded in epic, drama filled music. You hear Jimi Goodwin’s voice and you know you’re listening to a Doves album.

It took four years for Doves to give us a new record, and interestingly they’ve changed it up on their latest Kingdom of Rust. There’s krautrock, disco and electro elements this time around, but they’ve still kept their trademark sweeping guitar sound.

Last week I got onto the phone with lead singer Jimi from the band to talk about the new album, and asked him why they took so long to create Kingdom Of Rust.

To download an MP3 of the interview, right-click and save this link. To subscribe to Zan Rowe’s XML feed, click here.

April 4, 2009

New Interview From Irish Independent News

The Irish Independent News has posted a great article about the new album, which is half-interview and half a meditation on being aged thirty-something in the current musical climate.

“The younger generation, they’re not as equipped for hardship are they?” ruminates Jez Williams, Doves’ matey, crumpled frontman. “People who are in school now, teenagers and the like, they haven’t experienced real want.”

Read the full article, here.

April 2, 2009

Jimi & Andy In Conversation With The Quietus

Pop-culture website, The Quietus, has a great new interview with Jimi and Andy.

Andy: “‘Jetstream’ started life as a more rocky song and it was later on that we added those 16s on the hi-hats and it showed us a different pattern.”

Jimi: “Then we added a phase to it. Then we added the chugga chugga chugga bassline which was really staccato.”

Andy: “We’re massive fans of Kraftwerk but we’ve never really touched that sort of thing in Doves. We were like ‘Ah!’ because there were some really big possibilities to introduce a Kraftwerk vibe. A Teutonic vibe if you like. We’d never managed to do that before so we were pretty chuffed you know.”

To read the full interview, visit this link.

April 1, 2009

XFM Xposure

XFM London Radio’s Xposure show last night, featured an in-depth discussion of Doves’ Kingdom Of Rust album. The band gave an incisive commentary on each individual track, to DJ John Kennedy.

To listen to the show, click here and choose the option marked:
Last 7 Days – Xposure with John Kennedy

From the drop-down menu, choose the show marked:
Xposure with John Kennedy (01/04/2009)

The XFM Radio player isn’t the most user-friendly… Aside from the fact that you are prompted to register on their site to “listen again” (BugMeNot.com is your friend), there is no fast-forward option!!!

Incidentally, Jimi and Andy’s XFM Residency show starts this coming Sunday at 09:00pm. See the official Doves blog for further information.

March 31, 2009

New Interview With XFM London Radio

XFM London radio in the U.K. have today posted a new interview with Jimi and Andy, recorded yesterday.

Xfm London’s very own Dave Berry meets Manchester’s kings of towering indie, Doves. Want to know about the struggle behind new album ‘Kingdom Of Rust?’. It’s all here…

To listen to the interview, visit:
www.xfm.co.uk/news/2009/dave-berry-meets-doves

March 30, 2009