Jesus christ, this band remains criminally criminally underrated! This song hits you like a tidal wave. they tower over their peers (oasis, coldplay, et al.)
Cheers from the U.S. so glad to hear Doves about to release a new album! I friggin' LOVE their music, since I heard "Catch the Sun" on a CMJ compilation.
This was the year of the rain - of biblical proportions. It started raining at 4am on Friday morning and didn't stop until midday. During that time it was constant thunder and lightning. I think they said it was 2 weeks worth of rain in 8 hours. This set is late Friday afternoon and it was gloomy and very very muddy. Sun came out on Sunday though.
Doves were my personal highlight of Glastonbury this year - amongst plenty! A top band playing proper music. John Peel stage was perfect setting and size for the most underated band around.
they look like they were having a few technical difficulties in the first couple of minutes, Jimmy's sat at the drum kit and the drummer is having to use the front mic to get the harmonica across?
Great tune - must be played here at double the album tempo but suits it. Then slows down in the chorus weirdly.... drummer never was like a click track though!!
It's strange, because they use a lot of samples in their live sound, so I always assumed they used a click track for that. Certainly in more recent shows you can sometimes get a glimpse of a laptop to Andy's side. Maybe in 2005 they didn't. Must say, apart from this recording, never noticed any glaring timing issues before from these.
