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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 one selling 'Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)' was released on New Order manger Rob Gretton's label. "We kind of lost our way for a few years", admits Jez.
As the band found their we back on track the rockier and more experimental direction all but demanded for a name change.
'Lost Souls' was the debut album for Doves, and 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 whenever and wherever. "The harder we work the better the ideas that come to us.
See http://www.doves.net/ for more details.
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