A Kirkcaldy singer-songwriter brings his Scottish tour to the Kings Theatre this week for a special homecoming gig.

Dovv is co-headlining with StagBoy from Glasgow in what he bills as an ‘east coast versus west coast’ series of gigs which saw them perform in Glasgow recently.

And if Friday’s show tops the gig at The Poetry Club in the second city, fans are in for a treat.

Dovv - a barber by trade who works at Dapper Barbershop on Birnam Road - said: “There was something magical going on in Glasgow! A whole bunch of people having a great time listening to live music.”

Dovv & The Lightning Hearts (Pic credits: Abbie Venters, Scott Swanson, Josue Young)

placeholder image — Dovv & The Lightning Hearts (Pic credits: Abbie Venters, Scott Swanson, Josue Young)

The Kings’ line-up also features Lewis Wilson from Winchburgh, and new Glenrothes band, Elgin Drive.

It forms part of a five-date tour which has taken Dovv to the Bruce Festival in Dunfermline, with further festival dates at Heartlands on June 28 and Back Doune The Rabbit Hole in July.

The gigs were planned to co-incide with the launch of his new single, ‘The Chase’ but that has been put back to next month.

While also performing solo, he is on stage with his band The Lightning Hearts - “the name is a nod to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds” he said - and is looking forward to a night of great live music.

“I’m looking forward to it, he said,. “Everything is coming together nicely and tickets are selling well - I think there are only a few left

“I played the Kings a long time ago. More recently we have been at the Windsor, so I was keen to come back to this venue -it’s a great place, and I wanted to do something different.

“There is also a lot of negative stuff going on just now so if I can do a gig filled with music that give people some positivity then that’s what I’m about; give something for people to look forward to.”

Dovv featured at Billy Reekie’s recent sold out gigs at the Adam Smith Theatre - his first time on that stage - and has been working on songs with names such as Kyle Falconer from The View.

“I grew up in a musical household listening to record by Roy Orbison, and then soul and Motown,” he said. “I went to the YMCA and that’s where I met Mark Burdette, learned to play guitar and joined my first band. It all fell into place - it was never really planned, it just happened!

“I started writing songs and playing with various bands and got to support some great folk like Big Country.”

Tickets for his Kings gig are available online via https://www.kingstheatrekirkcaldy.com/events