1992
Beginning. Dover is formed. Madrid band that sings in English. The Llanos sisters, Amparo and Cristina are the band leaders. The name came from a clothes make for ladies from her parent's boutique in Majadahonda (Madrid); Amparo thought it sounded good and was easy to remember, so that is their name.
Influences. Amparo taught Cristina to play guitar and passed on her musical influences: Nirvana , R.E.M., Beatles... The close relationship between the two is confirmed with the title of their first LP "Sister".
1995
SISTER. After a failed attempt to release a record with the disappeared Madrid label Mojave, they signed up with Everlasting- Caroline España, and in 1995 they released their first album, 'Sister'. The sales results reflect the lack of promotion: only 700 copies. The band members where the same as those that recorded their second album "Devil came to me": Cristina Llanos: voice and guitar; Amparo Llanos: guitars; Jesús Antúnez: drums and Álvaro Gomez: bass. Produced by Amparo Llanos.
1996
New record label. When their contract with Everlasting expired so they signed up with Subterfuge Records, an independent label. They played in a few of the labels parties where they prove that playing live is their best feature. The first recording of this new stage is "Loly Jackson", a great song that opens the 'Stereoparty 2' compilation (the celebrated reference 100 of their new record label).
1997
DEVIL CAME TO ME the album is published the 21st of April. It was recorded and mixed in 20 days, in Madrid, during the beginning of 1997, in Infinty Studios with D. Alcover, and it cost around 800.000 ptas. The cover, a humanised devil goes well with the title and first track of the album "Devil came to me". The lyrics, that in "Sister" where more personal become more fantastic.
Advert. The song "Devil Came to Me" appears as the background music of a Radical Fruit Company advert (were Sir Lancelot murders an orange. While the princess-orange screams "Aaaggh...!", you hear the guitar and a female voice sings "-I lied for you!...I lied for you!..."
Serenade. The first single of the second album was "Serenade", a video clip was made, and this time the promotion was better.
Festivals. Dover are specialists in using the opportunity offered by big music festivals like Festimad and Dr. Music Festival to convince the big audiences.
Line up changes. A short time after they had begun their promotional tour of their second album, Álvaro Gómez (bass) abandoned the group after the Doctor Music Festival in 1997. Then they offered the vacancy to Alvaro Díez ("Dover's first Álvaro", in Amparo's own words), he had been in the band during the demo period.
The results didn't take long to show. For the critics, Dover is considered the best national group of the indie scene. The audiences response was also spectacular, in September 1997 they received their first golden record for the 50.000 copies sold of 'Devil Came to' and this increased to four platinum records; and meanwhile all their concerts were sold out.
Loli Jackson. After their major success in Spain they include a few tracks from "Devil came to me" in the sound track of "A Ciegas", a Daniel Calparsoro film. On the 4th of October they put out their second video clip from "Devil came to me", Loli Jackson, an incredible video directed by this same film director, who mixed in scenes from the film and of the band.
Ondas 97. Dover is prized with the Premio Ondas for the best Spanish breakthrough band. They gala was held on the 13th of November in Barcelona.
1998
Spring, the relationship between Dover and Subterfuge deteriorates.
Festimad 2nd of May they play the main gig at this important Festival.
June. They sell up to 400.000 copies of 'Devil Came to Me'.
Another record company change. At the end of the summer they come to an agreement with Chrysalis, that belongs to EMI group, an important multinational and they create their own record label to produce records for bands they like, 'Loli Jackson Records'.
1999
Two years later, 'Devil Came to Me' has sold nearly 500.000 copies and has made Dover become the first indie band to have a high selling record. It has been published in countries like Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Greece and Portugal.
'The power of Dolores', a compilation of 11 bands inaugurates their own record label, Loli Jackson. Dover appears with a cover song of R.E.M., 'The one I love'.
International tours. They begin their promotion in Europe and USA, with lots of miles on the road and finishing this stage in their career with the recording of their third record 'Late at Night' in Seattle.
D. J. For sale as from the 14th of June, the first single of their third album goes straight into number one of the sales charts in Spain. Something absolutely novel for Spain.
They continue their European Tour. They take part in a few European festivals.
LATE AT NIGHT. Out on the 28th of June by their label 'Loli Jackson Records'-'Chrysalis'. Most of the tracks were created between October 98 and February 99. It has more choruses and guitar solos, it is a record full of personal curiosities, about people that doesn't know how to be around other people, the songs hide feelings that are near the extremes, on the brink of madness. Recorded in Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, co-produced by Barrett Jones (producer of tracks for Nirvana, Foo Fighters and Presidents of the USA.) and Dover.
Summer. They continue their tour abroad, playing live at a few European Festivals and promotion in America. The highlight of this being when they played at the mythical Viper Room (Los Angeles, U.S.A.). Meanwhile the second single of 'Late at Night', is released: Cherry Lee, only a promotional one.
Ondas 99. In October Dover is given a Premios Ondas 1999 prize as Best Live Artist.They are also chosen as Best Spanish Artist 1999 by the readers of one of Spain's main newspapers El País de las Tentaciones, (they received 41% of the votes).
2000
They begin the year taking part in the Eurosonic Festival and finish January playing at the Mercury Lounge of New York. They continue with their international tour, that takes them around Germany, then to the SXSW Festival in Texas, then to México...
Triple platinum disc for Late at Night in February. They are nominates for the Premios de la música, in the categories of "Best Rock Artist" and "Best Rock Author". Their tour continues in México, where they play with Oasis at the capital, finishing up playing at the Acapulco Festival.
On the 11th of Juy, "Far" fith single of "Late at night" is released for sale in Spain. It includes two covers: "Baby Gotterdammerung" & "Territorial Pissings".
The year ends and Dover gets the MTVE BEST LOCAl AWARD
2001
Their "Late at Night" tour is over and they are already composing towards their next album..
A sound track of a Spanish film "No te fallare" of Manuel Rios Sanmartin, includes 4 songs chosen personaly by the director. They are "The Morning After" and "Angelus" from the album 'Sister' & "Devil came to me" and "Sick girl" from the album 'Devil came to me'. The main song of the film is "Angelus"..
Re-edition of SISTER. It is published again (26th of March in Spain) but with a bonus track, the previously unreleased song "Noche Tras Noche" sung in Spanish.
Fourth album. In May, Dover is in L.A. (CA) starting of the recording of their fourth album, at the Grandmaster Records Studio, with Barret Jones.
It is confirmed that they will play, in August, in the Warped Tour & Watcha Tour in North America.
"I Was Dead For Seven Weeks In The City Of Angels" is the title of the new album, and is for sale as from the 17th of September. Producided and recorded at the Grandmaster Recordings Studios (Los Angeles, CA) by Barret Jones and Dover and mixed by Rick Will (Incubus, Ben Harper, No Doubt, Elvis Costello, etc ...) at the Sound City studios (Los Angeles, CA).
