While acting as a guest host on a BBC Radio One show in 2005, Goodwin featured his friend and up-and-coming musician Simon Aldred (Cherry Ghost), who performed a live acoustic set. Then, in 2007, Goodwin played bass and drums on Cherry Ghost's debut single "Mathematics" and their song "People Help the People". Goodwin contributed vocals to the song "Kingdoms of Rain" on the Soulsavers and Mark Lanegan album "It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land" in 2007. Doves and Soulsavers have worked together previously in various forms, as Soulsavers remixed the Doves' song "Satellites", which appeared on the "Pounding" single in 2002.