Doves
Doves is an alternative rock band from Manchester, United Kingdom consistin… Read Full Bio ↴Doves is an alternative rock band from Manchester, United Kingdom consisting of Jimi Goodwin (vocals, bass) and twin brothers Jez Williams (guitar) and Andy Williams (drums). They are joined on stage by Martin Rebelski (keys). They are known for their large, epic sound, which combines dovetailing guitar lines with driving percussion and a penchant for atmospherics. Unusually, both Williams brothers have also contributed lead vocals.
Originally formed in 1988 as Sub Sub, a dance act who coincided with the rise of the Hacienda and the rave scene from Manchester expanding outwards, they enjoyed moderate success for seven years including the hit single "Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)" (#3 UK), before suffering the disaster of their studio burning down in 1996, taking all their current recordings with them. The experience, tragedy and pressure of that would inspire their name-change, in 1998, to Doves, and ultimately their first full-length album, Lost Souls released in April 2000. "Lost Souls" was a dark, atmospheric effort, full of brooding keyboards and claustrophobic light grooves, yet charted at number 13, mainly due to the top 40 singles, "The Cedar Room", "Catch The Sun" and "The Man Who Told Everything".
Two years later, Doves enjoyed their commercial and critical peak with their second album, The Last Broadcast, which charted at number 1 in the UK charts, spawning a hit single, "There Goes The Fear", which reached number 3 in the chart. "The Last Broadcast" was characterised by huge, spacious recordings, and an overall feeling of euphoria and relief. Two more singles, "Pounding" and "Caught By The River" both charted inside the top 40, and in the summer of 2003, Doves headlined the Other Stage on the last night of the Glastonbury Festival.
Recording problems and writers' block delayed the emergence of their third album, Some Cities, until Spring 2005. This was a return to the more claustrophobic sounds of their debut, though still featured the top 10 single "Black & White Town". "Some Cities" sold well, debuting at #1 on the UK chart, and received some of the band's strongest reviews to date.
Jimi Goodwin and Jez Williams both contributed to other bands in the late 90's, Goodwin played bass for Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr's band Electronic on their 1999 album Twisted Tenderness and Williams played guitar on Saint Etienne's albums, 1998's Good Humor, 2000's Sound of Water and finally 2002's Finisterre.
2009 saw the release of 'Kingdom of Rust' and a tour to support, soon followed by 'The Places Between', a greatest hits album - also released as a double album with DVD compilation of singles, non-single releases and remixes.
The band is on a break from recording, according to an interview with The Daily Record. Jimi Goodwin stated: "It's nice just to have a bit of breathing space... We just wanted to get off that whole album-tour-album-tour treadmill. None of us are ready to face going into the studio for another two years. This is wiping the slate clean, we have nothing else in the vaults now. That is it. Whatever we do from now on will be a new start."
On 2 October 2012, EMI International released a Doves anthology titled 5 Album Set featuring all four studio albums from Lost Souls to Kingdom of Rust and the 2003 re-issue of Lost Sides.
In March 2014, Jimi Goodwin released his first solo album, entitled Odludek. Jez and Andy Williams began working on music again in 2012, recording in Andy's home studio in Glasgow, Jez's home studio in Salford, and in an Anglesey cottage. In summer 2014, their project was announced under the name Black Rivers, who began playing live shows with new material, and in February 2015 released a self-titled album.
At the end of 2018 the band members announced a series of gigs for 2019 and a tentative plan to explore new music together. As the series neared conclusion, Doves posted on Facebook that the 31 August 2019 and 6 September 2019 shows would be the last two concerts until they completed their new album.
On 18 June 2020, the band released their first new music in ten years with a song entitled "Carousels". It and "Prisoners", released on 9 July, are from their new album, The Universal Want, which was released on 11 September 2020 and charted at number 1 in its first week. In October 2021, the band cancelled their upcoming tour due to Goodwin's mental health, making a statement that "performing live isn't possible for us at this time or in the immediate future".
Originally formed in 1988 as Sub Sub, a dance act who coincided with the rise of the Hacienda and the rave scene from Manchester expanding outwards, they enjoyed moderate success for seven years including the hit single "Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)" (#3 UK), before suffering the disaster of their studio burning down in 1996, taking all their current recordings with them. The experience, tragedy and pressure of that would inspire their name-change, in 1998, to Doves, and ultimately their first full-length album, Lost Souls released in April 2000. "Lost Souls" was a dark, atmospheric effort, full of brooding keyboards and claustrophobic light grooves, yet charted at number 13, mainly due to the top 40 singles, "The Cedar Room", "Catch The Sun" and "The Man Who Told Everything".
Two years later, Doves enjoyed their commercial and critical peak with their second album, The Last Broadcast, which charted at number 1 in the UK charts, spawning a hit single, "There Goes The Fear", which reached number 3 in the chart. "The Last Broadcast" was characterised by huge, spacious recordings, and an overall feeling of euphoria and relief. Two more singles, "Pounding" and "Caught By The River" both charted inside the top 40, and in the summer of 2003, Doves headlined the Other Stage on the last night of the Glastonbury Festival.
Recording problems and writers' block delayed the emergence of their third album, Some Cities, until Spring 2005. This was a return to the more claustrophobic sounds of their debut, though still featured the top 10 single "Black & White Town". "Some Cities" sold well, debuting at #1 on the UK chart, and received some of the band's strongest reviews to date.
Jimi Goodwin and Jez Williams both contributed to other bands in the late 90's, Goodwin played bass for Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr's band Electronic on their 1999 album Twisted Tenderness and Williams played guitar on Saint Etienne's albums, 1998's Good Humor, 2000's Sound of Water and finally 2002's Finisterre.
2009 saw the release of 'Kingdom of Rust' and a tour to support, soon followed by 'The Places Between', a greatest hits album - also released as a double album with DVD compilation of singles, non-single releases and remixes.
The band is on a break from recording, according to an interview with The Daily Record. Jimi Goodwin stated: "It's nice just to have a bit of breathing space... We just wanted to get off that whole album-tour-album-tour treadmill. None of us are ready to face going into the studio for another two years. This is wiping the slate clean, we have nothing else in the vaults now. That is it. Whatever we do from now on will be a new start."
On 2 October 2012, EMI International released a Doves anthology titled 5 Album Set featuring all four studio albums from Lost Souls to Kingdom of Rust and the 2003 re-issue of Lost Sides.
In March 2014, Jimi Goodwin released his first solo album, entitled Odludek. Jez and Andy Williams began working on music again in 2012, recording in Andy's home studio in Glasgow, Jez's home studio in Salford, and in an Anglesey cottage. In summer 2014, their project was announced under the name Black Rivers, who began playing live shows with new material, and in February 2015 released a self-titled album.
At the end of 2018 the band members announced a series of gigs for 2019 and a tentative plan to explore new music together. As the series neared conclusion, Doves posted on Facebook that the 31 August 2019 and 6 September 2019 shows would be the last two concerts until they completed their new album.
On 18 June 2020, the band released their first new music in ten years with a song entitled "Carousels". It and "Prisoners", released on 9 July, are from their new album, The Universal Want, which was released on 11 September 2020 and charted at number 1 in its first week. In October 2021, the band cancelled their upcoming tour due to Goodwin's mental health, making a statement that "performing live isn't possible for us at this time or in the immediate future".
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Doves Lyrics
-Break Me Gently Walk inside, gets noticed Fears conspire, they won't go aw…
-Here It Comes This is a call A call to all It goes…
01. Some cities I think I might have met you before, I think its…
02 Black And White Town Here comes the action Here it comes at last Lord give me…
02. Black and White town Here comes the action Here it comes at last Lord give me…
02.Here It Comes This is a call A call to all It goes…
03. Almost forgot myself So close, you waste it again, I know, some how, I lost…
04. Sea Song Drown in me Do the things you won't believe Drown…
10 10:03 on a fast train A trick of light Crossing my eye A…
7. One of These Days Is there something, Oh anything will do my love Asked the…
A House Walk past pines To the forest house Through the forest gates…
Acoustic No. 1 There's no one for you here There's no one for you…
Almost Forgot Myself So close, you waste it again, I know, some how, I lost…
Ambition So ambition cut you down Ain't a love as perfect…
Andalucia I've seen the place The place of falling rivers Where we can…
At The Tower You′ve done it all, You said enough, You made a mistake back…
Birds Flew Backwards The car zoomed past, I watched the passersby Birds flew bac…
Black & White Town Here comes the action Here comes at last Lord give me reac…
Black and White Town Here comes the action Here it comes at last Lord give me…
Black and White Town (Radio Ed Here comes the action Here comes at last Lord give me a…
Blackbird Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken win…
Blue Water From the streets of San Jose There coming back again From th…
Break Me Gently Walk inside, gets noticed Fears conspire, they won't go awa…
Broken Eyes There's a light but no one's home You can hear the…
Carousels Just the wrong side of town You just don't let go Keep…
Catch the Sun Every day it comes to this Catch the things you…
Catch the Sun (edit) Every day it comes to this Catch the things you might…
Cathedrals Of The Mind In the bar room In the back room I hear you calling…
Caught By The River Son What have you done? You're caught by the river You're…
Caught By The River Son What have you done? You're caught by the river…
Cedar Room I've seen the place The place of falling rivers Where we c…
Compulsion All the love you stole All the love you saw Exposing you…
Compulsión All the love you stole All the love you sought Exposing you …
Cycle Of Hurt You crashed into my universe I don't know if that's a…
Darker Bad snow freeze my throat And numbs my soul Eats me whole…
Doves Now I know, not alone in this world I am Everything,…
Down to Sea Drive with me, Do the things you won't believe Drive with me…
Eleven Miles Out Miles out to sea Swimming back to shore just you…
Far From Grace If you should fall If you should fall Far from grace If…
For Tomorrow Orphan to morphine Swine to get the pearl Go around my day…
Forest House Walk past pines To the forest house Through the forest gates…
Friday's Dust Friday's dust Turned into a Saturday's It wasn't meant to…
Greatest Denier The English skyline falls down to the future. But no one…
Here It Comes This is a call A call to all It goes…
Here%20It%20Comes This is a call a call to all it goes out to…
Hit the Ground Running I hit the ground with the running at last I didn't…
House of Mirrors Faces in the hallway Cracks up in the ceiling Shadows coming…
I Will Not Hide You know I cannot lie, I've never been before But the…
Jetstream Tall machines wait in line So still lost in time Jets turn…
Karen I see you found your soulmate Well what did he do…
Kingdom of Rust I hear a sound, a sound above my head Distant sound…
Last Broadcast I was thinking about what you said I was thinking…
Lifelines Well, I, feels like a place I've never been And, I,…
Lost Souls You try and make some sense of good days Now…
M62 Song Moonshine I'm waiting for a love that never comes Moonshin…
Meet Me at the Pier INSTRUMENTAL…
Melody Calls She stops out till morning She hangs out at fairgrounds…
Mother Silverlake I am a summer on an English lake Full of sorrow,…
N.Y They're throwing rocks and paving stones So let's go while…
Northenden Fuck longsight And Levenshulme Same goes for Stockport and H…
One Of These Days Is there something Oh, anything will do my love Asked the gi…
Pounding I can't stand by And see you destroyed I can't…
Prisoners When the day is done It's just you and I This is…
Push Me On I feel the push of the good I feel the pull…
Reprise [Instrumental]…
Rise Belly up in a sea of love Drowning's good in…
Satellite I want you to know this My anger's all but…
Sea Song Drown in me Do the things you won't believe Drown…
Shadows Of Salford In shadows of Salford You will walk again The shadows…
Ship Of Fools To the north my medicine To my east the burning sun I…
Sky Stars Falling Who am I supposed to be? I can't be sure…
Snowden I say man, can you help me out, Bring back to…
Some Cities I think I might have met you before, I think its…
Some Day Soon Some day soon, You'll know how its feels to, Love someone…
Someday Soon Some day soon, You'll know how its feels to, Love someone. …
Son of a Builder Far from feeling safer I awake at noon Read the local paper …
Spellbound Those eyes they transmit All your loving Echos light into da…
The Cedar Room Stars leave the morning Sleep clouds my view Don't let…
The Fear Out of here We're out of here Out of heartache Along with fe…
The Greatest Denier The English skyline falls down to the future. But no one…
The House Walk past pines To the forest house Through the forest gates…
The Last Broadcast Was thinking about what you said Was thinking about shame …
The Last Son Born on a train nowhere I was born in a car…
The Man Who Told Everything Get out of bed, pick up the phone Time to tell…
The Outsiders Can he be lost Can he become Walk away Don't jump a gun Can…
The River Son What have you done? You're caught by the river…
The Storm Weather the storm, Came out the outher side, The place your …
The Sulphur Man Fate Brought you Brought you next to ghosts They Talk…
Ther Goes the Fear Out of here We're out of here Out of heartache Along with fe…
There Gose The Fear Out of here We're out of here Out of heartache Along w…
Universal Want The universal want is everywhere The universal want is every…
Valley On the day the bailiffs came Took the keys away Took their…
Walk In Fire Seems,seems there's nothing, That you couldnt do, With the d…
Willow Song Hey, ooh, who is there? [Incomprehensible] Please come, sa…
Willow's Song Hey, ooh, who is there? [Incomprehensible] Please come, say …
Winter Hill Where ever you go You will be with me And when you…
Words Inside's a heart of summer soul Don't let them throw it…
Your Shadow Lay Across My Life Back, I'm back in town In which we're stuck, I couldn't…