Doves: "The band are splitting up? Nobody told me!" | Interview

To celebrate their new best-of album, The Places Between, Doves play a special gig for the Observer at Jodrell Bank observatory, and tell Luke Bainbridge about bouncing guitar riffs off the moonEven given their habit of recording in strange locations – including under a flyover on the M62 and a deserted Benedictine monastery – Doves' wheeze last year was far-out stuff. Sitting in the shadow of the towering Lovell telescope in Cheshire, guitarist Jez Williams is telling the tale of ...

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