image courtesy of @KaraTM

What’s to do when you look out the window in the morning, only to see your town blanketed in blood red dust and the zombies have been let out to play? (maybe… we can’t see them, but that’s not saying much today)

Put your feet up, turn on our Dust Apocalypse playlist, and watch the storm roll in. It’s end of the world as we know it…

• REM – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (Karen, Bec, Lisa, Bryan M, Liesl, Pri)
• Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cities In Dust (Liz)
• Chemical Brothers – In Dust We Trust (Scotty)
• Muse – Apocalypse Please (Pri)
• Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere (Tara)
• Split Enz – I See Red (Nikki)
• Aphrodite’s Child – The Four Horsemen (Saunders)
• Rob Pattinson – Choking On The Dust (Asha)
• Gerling – Dust Me Selecta (Hawker, Mark H)
• Cloud Control – Death Cloud (Mark H)
• Alessi’s Ark – The Asteroids Collide (Liesl)
• Prince – 1999 (Poston)
• Craig Armstrong – Weather Storm (Mark F)
• Misfits – Dust To Dust (Emma)
• The Doors – The End (Dickie) / Riders On The Storm (Bryan M)
• Doves – Kingdom of Rust (Nikki)
• Slim Dusty – How Good It Is (Craig M)
• Dusty Springfield – I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself (Bryan M, Nikki)
• Peter Gabriel – Red Rain (Paul)
• Darude – Sandstorm (Mark H)
• Queen – Another One Bites The Dust (Barnesy, Bec, Pri)
• Mazzy Star – Into Dust (Liesl, Nikki)
• David Bowie – Life On Mars (Kristy)
• Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills (Bec)
• Queens Of The Stone Age – Go With The Flow (Kara)

What have really discovered today, is that Oz EMI staff can really step up to the plate when song puns are involved…

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Manchesterian indie rockers Doves came, saw, and conquered not only the Splendour crowd but those lucky enough to get a hand on one of the side show tickets. 4 years since their last shows here on Aussie turf, the live presence of Doves is well and truly warranted, and if you are like me want more I found that the Nokia Music Store has released the MTV live recording sessions from the UK.

The 5 track EP has a fantastic track listing and covers off a chunk of their set list from these past shows.

Head to the Nokia Music Store to check out the Doves MTV.CO.UK Sessions EP that includes;

• Winter Hill
• 10.03
• Last Broadcast
• The Greatest Denier
• There Goes The Fear

Winter’s premier festival Splendour In The Grass has come and gone for 2009. Weren’t there? Well you missed out didn’t you! So what were the highs? The surprises? The low lights? Just keep reading and I’ll give you my two cents.

Manchester Orchestra
Leader Cheetah
Yves Klein Blue
Miami Horror
You Am I
Paul Dempsey
Bob Evans
more more more…

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Have to admit… I don’t really associate Doves’ nourishing and heartwarming yet oft melancholy tunes with extreme cycling. But the band clearly does, and who are we to protest!?

The second single from Kingdom of Rust is Winter Hill, and the clip features a masked cyclist (You Tube video star Danny MacAskill) using the inner urbs of Britain as a pretty nifty trail park. Can’t help but draw the the obvious parallels with a certain recent JET video.

Get along to Doves’ Splendour sideshows around the country (& wish me a happy bday if you’re at the Sydney show)… they’re pretty special.

Photo by ldandersen

Tomorrow will greet us with a new Doves album, Kingdom of Rust. The band have generously offered up the long-player for the listening over on their MySpace. And thank goodness for that, because it has been four years since the last album and maybe you’re a bit worried that Kingdom of Rust could take decades to finish.

Fear not.

Doves, at long last, have returned with a new album, Kingdom of Rust (April 3). It was 2005 when Some Cities came out, back when W. commenced his second term and before Facebook was open to the general public. A long time ago. I like to think the band has been holed up somewhere fine-tuning their grand, cinematic and somewhat fornlorn sound…and I may be right judging from the first single and title track of the album, because it’s an exciting return to form.

It’s a galloping tune of Manchester meets the old west, and the clip visually captures the regret at the edges of the song with a loner in his pea coat driving across the dreary, dreamy English landscape. He’s following a roadmap and using a payphone to get to somewhere. Hmm… maybe it’s 1995 in the video. Take a watch to see where it’s all going.

Doves – official site
Doves – Wikipedia