Doves: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Sylvia Patterson, New Musical Express, 3 June 2000
THE MUSIC IS ace. It's all true. But it's easy, when you're desperate, to get carried away. So let's be gentle with the gentlemen of Doves, three mild-mannered geezers in terrifying receipt of the call-up papers to the treacherous plains of postOasis Saviourdom, when what we have here is this year's Shack, except younger, groovier, on 21st-century drugs.
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