DOVES ON THE ROAD: MANCHESTER BAND SET FOR FIRST HOMETOWN SHOW IN 15 YEARS
15 LIVE DATES ANNOUNCED – ON SALE 21st NOVEMBER
DOVES will return to the road for a full UK Tour following the release of their upcoming, sixth studio album, Constellations For The Lonely in February next year.
The Manchester band will return to their home city to perform for the first time in 15 years, announcing a night at the modernist Aviva Studios in addition to their return to London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire.
As with three SOLD OUT intimate dates announced to take place at the end of this month, in Stoke, Birkenhead and Hebden Bridge, the band will be fronted by Andy and Jez Williams without Jimi Goodwin. The band cancelled their 2021 touring plans to protect Goodwin’s health and wellbeing and the singer remains committed to his recovery as a priority. Announcing their initial live dates last week, the band stated that “Jimi’s health came first”, while Goodwin added his current circumstances were “not compatible with a mad, city-to-city schedule.”
Constellations For The Lonely was announced last week with the Goodwin-fronted single, Renegade, after the three-piece reconvened for a patchwork of in-person and remote recording sessions in the four years since the release of their third UK Official Album Chart No.1 album, The Universal Want. With swapping roles a regular feature of all Doves shows and albums, including Andy and Jez Williams taking the lead on live favourites, Words and Jetstream, the confirmation of 2025 dates finally deliver on fans’ clamour for the band’s return to the stage.
Constellations For The Lonely has been confirmed for release on Fri 14 February 2025 with EMI North on multiple formats, including standard and special edition vinyl, CD, cassette and digital.
The album was written, recorded and produced by Doves between locations in Greater Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with additional production from long-term collaborator, Dan Austin. Constellations For The Lonely not only follows The Universal Want but, also, the Mercury-nominated albums, Lost Souls (2000) and The Last Broadcast (2002), their second, successive UK Number One album, Some Cities (2005) and Kingdom Of Rust (2009).
All of the confirmed Doves Constellations For The Lonely 2025 UK Tour dates are as follows:
- Tue 25 Feb – Glasgow, SWG3
- Wed 26 Feb – Edinburgh, La Belle Angele
- Thu 27 Feb – Newcastle, Boiler Shop
- Sat 1 Mar – Leeds, Beckett SU
- Sun 2 Mar – Sheffield, Leadmill
- Tue 4 Mar – Liverpool, O2 Academy
- Fri 7 Mar – Manchester, Aviva Studios, home of Factory International
- Sun 8 Mar – Birmingham, O2 Institute
- Mon 10 Mar – Nottingham, Rock City
- Tue 11 Mar – Norwich, Waterfront
- Thu 13 Mar – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
- Fri 14 Mar – Bristol, SWX
- Sat 15 Mar – Southampton, Engine Rooms
- Mon 17 Mar – Brighton, Chalk
- Tue 18 Mar – Oxford, O2 Academy
Tickets for all dates go on general sale on Thu 21 November at 9.30am via links on the band’s official website at www.dovesofficial.com
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