The band will warm up for the homecoming at Manchester Central, with an intimate gig organised by NME Radio. The band will play the NME Radio presents adidas House Party gig at the city’s Cockpit venue and tickets can be claimed for free in the run up to the show.To get in, you have to head to the new JD sports shop at Leeds Core Shopping Centre on December 12 or 13 where members of the NME Radio team will be giving away 100 free tickets.

Tickets will be handed out on a first come, first served basis. Head to NME.COM/adidas for more details.

Witch In A Bottle – The new album from Rebelski is now available to download from the iTunes store worldwide. To hear tracks from the album, visit Rebelski’s MySpace.

As we’ve not written anything on here for a while,thought i’d post something new to let you know what we’re up to Firstly wanted to say thanks a lot to everyone involved in the collaboration with the London Bulgarian Choir in October (for the BBC Electric Proms gig) It was a project we all really enjoyed doing & was a great experience for us.  We’re back in the studio now with the aim of writing a few new songs for release sometime next year.Also thanks a lot to those of you for sending you’re photos of various gigs of ours this year,some great pictures in there,sorry about the delay,we’ve only just received the pictures yesterday,something outside our control I’m afraid. We’re looking through the photos now & picking our favouritesLooking forward to the gigs we’ve got planned for next month,especially the Manchester Central one as we’re planning a couple of specials things on the night! see you for now Andy & dovesband x

Doves will be playing shows in Lincoln & Leamington Spa in December. Tickets for the shows at Lincoln’s Engine Shed (Dec 15th) &  Leamington Spa’s Assembly (Dec 16th) are on sale now at gigsandtours.com priced £20.

December Shows

Tue 15th    Lincoln Engine Shed    0844 888 8766

Wed 16th  Leamington Spa Assembly    01926 523 001

Fri 18th    Manchester Central    0161 832 1111

Andy & Jez will be DJing at a special Dyslexia Awareness benefit gig at the Manchester Ritz November 27th. The gig presented by The Resolution Daes Project also features a live set by Badly Drawn Boy & The Hayley Faye Band among others. Tickets priced £5 are now available at ticketline. Get along if you can to support this great cause.

For more info visit the The Resolution Daes Project myspace.

Absolute Radio are currently holding a poll to find the Song Of The Decade and DOVES have ten songs in the running.
As each of the following Doves singles achieved a top 75 chart position since 2000, you can vote for one, or all, at http://songofthedecade.com/ (search ‘Doves’ to select the song/s you’d like to vote for.)
Black and White Town Catch The Sun   Caught By The River Kingdom of Rust Pounding Sky Starts Falling Snowden The Cedar Room The Man Who Told Everything There Goes The Fear

The top 100 will be played on the Christian O’Connell breakfast show on 11th December and voting closes on 30th November. All other info can be found here: http://songofthedecade.com/about.html.