DOVES have revealed the name of the unreleased track set to appear on their upcoming collection of three decade-spanning career highs, ‘So, Here We Are: Best Of Doves’ alongside the 18 other hit singles, album highlights and B-sides PLUS two additional live dates for their December 2025 UK Tour. For the first time since 2007 they return to Manchester’s O2 Apollo, heading home for Christmas two nights after performing at Sheffield’s Octagon.
Announced for release earlier this month on multiple formats, becoming the first Doves compilation available on vinyl, ‘So, Here We Are…’ will not only feature the band’s era-defining, radio and dancefloor-friendly classics such as Black And White Town, Pounding and There Goes The Fear, but also the previously unheard Spirit Of Your Friend. It arrives as an unearthed gem, recorded in 2006 as part of the Kingdom Of Rust sessions.
Encapsulating every stage of the band’s storied presence as adored creators of expansive, euphoric melancholia, the running order includes their earliest singles, lifted from their first Mercury Award-nominated album, 2000’s Lost Souls, Cedar Room and Caught By The River. Spooling patiently forward through 25 years of music, more recent highs are drawn from 2020’s No.1 album, The Universal Want, such as radio favourite, Prisoners, alongside Carousels, and Broken Eyes.
Renegade and Cold Dreaming, taken from this February’s sixth studio album, Constellations For The Lonely, and 2025’s Record Store Day special, Lean Into The Wind, all shine further light on Doves inspired resurgence following their 2018 return from an almost decade long hiatus.
At the same time as announcing the release of the new compilation, Doves confirmed that the band, led by Andy and Jez Williams in Goodwin’s continued absence from touring, would play a run of new UK dates this winter. Having announced a return to London, Bournemouth and Cambridge in December, they now add a night in Sheffield to follow and an unmissable Christmas return to Manchester.
Inclusive of imminent, remaining summer festival appearances, all previous and newly announced Doves tour dates are confirmed as follows:
Fri 29 Aug – Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne Festival
Sun 31 Aug – Birmingham, Moseley Folk & Arts Festival
Fri 12 Dec – Dundee, LIVEHOUSE
Sun 14 Dec – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town
Mon 15 Dec – Bournemouth, O2 Academy
Tue 16 Dec – Cambridge, Junction
Thu 18 Dec – Sheffield, Octagon – NEW
Sat 20 Dec – Manchester, O2 Apollo – NEW
Tickets for Sheffield and Manchester dates go on general sale on Wed 3 September at 10am BST, with booking links and the opportunity to sign up for advance access with album pre-orders available at www.dovesofficial.com
‘So, Here We Are: Best Of Doves’ has been confirmed as follows:
Black And White Town
Pounding
Snowden
Cold Dreaming
Catch The Sun
Broken Eyes
Kingdom Of Rust
Darker
There Goes The Fear
Renegade
Prisoners
Here It Comes
Carousels
Caught By The River
Walk In Fire
Lean Into The Wind
Spirit Of Your Friend
The Man Who Told Everything
The Cedar Room
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