Doves - Firesuite and 10:03 Electric Proms Pt2

Doves perform at the Camden Roundhouse London for the Electric Proms 2009 accompanied by the London Bulgarian Choir

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• Doves
• Firesuite
• 10:03
• London
• Bulgarian
• Choir
• Electric
• Proms

[4opProductions]

Doves just dont know how to use that choir

[EquinoxstudiosUK]

The body of the arrangement is down to Avshalom Caspi and there was precious little time to rehearse with the band themselves (only a few days before the concert). Add to that the incompetence of the BBC sound engineering on the night and you have a less than perfect combination. Taking all that into account, I reckon it's still a pretty wonderful thing they came up with :-)

[4opProductions]

@EquinoxstudiosUK Well I did not know those facts, I kinda understand now :)

[EquinoxstudiosUK]

Hi 4op! If you want to know what this choir can really do they are going to Bulgaria to tour in August this year (I'm going with them). We'll be at Koprivshtitsa for the festival. If you're at any of the concerts be sure to come up and introduce yourself! Dovizdane! Ivor

[elchafa]

I'm not entirely pleased by either the choir nor the band's version of the song. Its tempo is sped up too much for my taste... I like to think of this song as a slow piece, rather than a fast one.

Thanks for uploading anyways.

[elchafa]

@foofighterdaz Listening to it again, I kinda like it a bit more than the first time I commented. But I do find the choir to be kind of interrupting, perhaps it being at a lower volume would have done the trick.

[foofighterdaz]

@elchafa It's the same for Snowden when it's played live: always too fast and therefore looses some of the brooding intensity of the song. Still, I suppose it's a fairly cool one-off take on the song, but not a patch on the recorded version (or the Noise Version, for that matter).

[crowjr2]

Why is that choir ejaculating all over some of my favorite music?

[paulknoxville]

Truly amazing music. Makes you happy to be alive.

[popster02]

@lalo6437 Check out Doves back catalouge, it's superb. This was and still is truly wonderfull. Sad to see Radio 2 have had to cut the Electric Proms due to funding. It was one one the musical highlights of the year.

Still, we have got Elbow's new album to chew over!

[lalo6437]

It's weird but still wonderful! Nver heard something like it

[richtdev]

they did albeit briefly in Manchester 2 months later

[fraserduffin]

You should have heard this night live, the sound was like a cathedral - huge. I go to the Roundhouse loads but this night was just magical. Youll never get the reall effect on here.Worked perfectly and i only wish they would play together again like they hinted

[laurieh]

The only good bit of the choir was the last 20 seconds odd.