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Dermot O'Leary - 03/04/2010

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This week, Dermot's live session guests are Doves and Phoenix. Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Jez and Andy Williams have known each other since they were 15. They first recorded as Sub Sub, and as the newly named Doves, they released the Mercury-nominated Lost Souls in 2000. Following the release of a third album in 2005, Doves spent two years holed up in a makeshift studio on a Cheshire farm, working on new material. The end result, Kingdom Of Rust, was released last April and they headlined the BBC Electric Proms in October, performing with the London Bulgarian Choir. Doves release a best of collection next week and are marking the occasion with some live dates in April and May. Phoenix are a Parisian quartet, whose ten year, four-album career, received a boost when Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix won the Grammy for Best Alternative Album earlier this year. They have just finished recording the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's new film Somewhere.