• Jimi Goodwin - vocals, bass, guitar
• Jez Williams - guitar, keyboards
• Andy Williams - drums

Andy and Jez Williams met Jimi Goodwin when they were 15. They started playing together 10 years ago but, as Jimi notes, "We were wagging school and jamming way before that". As Sub Sub (graduates of a Hacienda-inspired Manchester clubland explosion of the late eighties) the band scored some dance inflected hits which kind of painted them into a corner. The number three single 'Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)' was released on New Order manager Rob Gretton's label. "We kind of lost our way for a few years", admits Jez.

The last recordings as Sub Sub, featuring guest vocalists Bernard Sumner from New Order and Tricky, and tracks like the expansive and decidedly un-disco 'Firesuite' all but demanded a name change mindful of a rockier and more experimental direction. And if 'Ain't No Love' was a right turn for the hell of it, then 1998's 'Cedar EP' saw them back on course - displaying intentions and influences they had carried with them most of their lives. Three EPs lovingly packaged and released on their own Casino label ('Cedar EP' October '98, 'Sea Song' May '99 and 'Here It Comes' October '99) garnered a raft of glowing reviews. Doves signed to Heavenly Recordings and consolidated with the eerie 'The Cedar Room' in March 2000.

Lost Souls, a debut LP released at the same time, was a genuine thing of beauty, wrought from hard bitten experience. Nobody could have planned for the attention it brought them. "Do we plan things? No!!" says Jimi. Since then they have toured and talked and toured some more. Unafraid of hard graft, they made time to record wherever and whenever. The Last Broacast (2002), a record which realises all expectations, is the unbelievably assured result. These are early days but, save a new LP from a miraculously resurrected Jimi Hendrix, we are talking about a record that clearly deserves early reservation in those end of year lists. "We hope people will hear more optimism in there than last time. We can only write about what happens and what has happened has been good so some of that is starting to shine through in the writing," says Andy.

Biography from Heavenly100 Website

Releases

• Sky Starts Falling - single, out 12/09/2005 on Heavenly. (post review)
• Snowden - single, out 09/05/2005 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• Some Cities - album, out 21/02/2005 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• Black And White Town - single, out 07/02/2005 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• DVD Roundup: The Good, The Bad And The Downright Reef - dvd, out 10/11/2003. 1 review (read/post)
• Where We Are Calling From - dvd, out 29/09/2003 on Heavenly. (post review)
• Lost Sides - album, out 29/09/2003 on Heavenly. (post review)
• Caught By The River - single, out 14/10/2002 on Heavenly. (post review)
• Pounding - single, out 22/07/2002 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• The Last Broadcast - album, out 29/04/2002 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• Here Comes The Fear - single, out 15/04/2002 on Heavenly. (post review)
• There Goes The Fear - single, out 15/04/2002 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• The Man Who Told Everything - single, out 30/10/2000 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Sat 03 Dec at Reading Hexagon. (post review)
• Sat 12 Mar at Cambridge Corn Exchange. 1 review (read/post)
• Mon 02 Dec at London Brixton Academy. 1 review (read/post)
• Thu 18 Jul at Chelmsford V2002. 1 review (read/post)
• Thu 09 May at London Kentish Town Forum. (post review)
• Wed 13 Mar at London Wembley Arena. 1 review (read/post)
• Wed 08 Nov at Newcastle upon Tyne University. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 06/07/2007: Cohesion Live: Elbow, Badly Drawn Boy, Graham Coxon line up for one-day fest
• 18/08/2006: Gigs in a brewery? DiS's dreams come true...
• 02/06/2006: When Doves hide: no gigs for band as they work on new album
• 18/03/2005: Another day, another festival: Carling go 24-hour crazy
• 01/03/2005: The big stack: Chart round up...
• 23/02/2005: See HAL. See HAL run. See HAL go on tour forever....
• 16/12/2004: Doves sail out on spring jaunt
• 09/10/2002: Delgados to join Doves
• 16/08/2002: "Love Music, Hate Racism" - Anti Nazi League free carnival
• 26/02/2002: Doves' Last Broadcast

Features

• 06/07/2007: V2002: Preview

Links

• Doves - official merchandise from swagshop.com
• Doves - official site

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