The Doves aren't alone in the world of people in bands who like to play records (Jarvis Cocker's in there somewhere). And now the boys will get to flex at the decks, the ones and twos, the wheels of steel, at gigs in Dublin, Belfast and Leeds in between their live appearances at the Reading and Leeds festivals next month.
The Doves: "We played one new one the other day. We've got a new tune which is quite up, really, and we thought we'd play it and it went down alright didn't it? "We're just doing it for the money really. It's the only way you get paid. You can't get paid being in a band, so, we spent weeks and weeks in a grotty rehearsal room, sweating it out, doing a gig and not getting paid. The DJ walks in there with a box of records and gets paid silly money and it's like, Jesus!"