Gomez

[Professor Peedston]

gomez are one of the better live acts i've seen, and liquid skin is still one of my favorite albums. any other fans here?

[Sweet One]

never heard of them :shrug:

[::Hayley::]

i've been listening to liquid skin alot recently..it's an amazing, chilled out album that you can listen to for ages and ages and never get bored!

where have these guys disappeared to?

give the album a go - definitely one of my favourites :smug: :smug:

[fifi]

oh i used to love Gomez!!! :lol:
i have bring it on :) i still love whippin' picadilly :P

[Professor Peedston]

i saw them live about a year ago, and i guess they've kinda disappeared since that tour, save a few festival appearances. :huh:

[::Hayley::]

awwww were they good live?
my favourite song ever by gomez is
Rhythm & Blues Alibi
==============================

You can write your tunes with rhythm and blues as your alibi
You can sell your soul and lay the blame all on the passers-by
You shake your body on the TV screen
It seems to me, you'd try anything twice
And swing it out and use it as your aphrodisiac
You can give it to me, to me
Plain to see that I'll give it you back
You let it flow, let it go, there's nothing to it
Anyone can try anything twice, try anything twice

Chasing after stories that have already been told
Could not look old Son House in the eyes
I know where you carry such a fragile load
But I've got yours, and you've got mine
It's a rhythm and blues alibi

La la la la la la la la la la laaa..
You can take a trip through your juke joint smoke-filled paradise
You can give it your all, 'cause you are walking a fine, fine line, la
You shake your booty on the TV screen
Seems to me, you'd try anything twice
You'd try anything twice
Well let me hear you now..

Chasing after stories that have already been told
Could not look old Son House in the eyes
I know where you carry such a fragile load
And I've got yours, you've got mine
It's a rhythm and blues alibi
La la la la la (to end)

woohoo!!

[Professor Peedston]

yes, they were GREAT live.

[::Hayley::]

woooooooooooooooooooooohoo good to hear :D

[SuchARush]

I saw Gomez live too and there were ruddy good. :) Tjuana Lady is the best.

[Professor Peedston]

i don't remember many specifics from the show but i do remember after it was over and the lights came back up and all the house PA played what sounded like a version of "whippin' picadilly" sung by chipmunnks or something. it was hysterical.

[::Hayley::]

lmao...talk about spoiling the mood :lol: :o :D

[Professor Peedston]

a gomez show is pretty much a party anyway, so it didn't really spoil much. :P

[::Hayley::]

wooohoo
that's ok then :smug:

[Gitta Rensolo]

Don't know if this thread already exists...but does anybody listen to Gomez?
I once saw them on tv and they convinced me...I've got the albums "Split the difference" and "Bring em on"....I think they are talented musicians....

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

where are they from? :D

[Gitta Rensolo]

I think they are from the UK....

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

oh... here gomez is a surname.. :idea2:

[Gitta Rensolo]

:lol:
Cool......i searched for their website at google and their it is called Gomezza!I like this name...

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

i think i heard about another band called Ramirez.. that's also an spanish surname.. :idea2:

[Gitta Rensolo]

:D
never heard about them.....

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

oliver told me about them.. if i'm not wrong..

[Gitta Rensolo]

Who is Oliver?

[mossy]

Gomez are brill! They are from manchester, not sure what there doing now?

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

bijeli_mis....

[mossy]

yep???

[Gitta Rensolo]

:lol:

Ari explained to me who Oliver is.....

Don't know what they are doing....you can look at their website ;)

[Gas_Man]

Gomez ARE excellent musicians! i have 2 albums by them...Liquid Skin is superb.
I'm going to put them on Right now...i go through phases of listening to them for ages

[Gitta Rensolo]

:smug: My thread remembered you of them :smug:

I got aware of them because of "Whippin Picadilly"!

[Gas_Man]

:D it did remind me yeah!..and now i'm happy :cool:
should i upload some songs?...i have "Liquid Skin" & "Split the Difference" if anyone has any requests, i'll gladly upload into this thread! i want more people to like Gomez :P

[Gitta Rensolo]

:D
Yeah please upload some stuff from liquid skin....I've got Split the difference,too.... :D

[Gas_Man]

here's the first track.
more to come :) = http://rapidshare.de/files/5323405/01_-_Gomez_-_Hangover.mp3.html

some songs take a while to get into...and some others don't. But qwith the one's that do!...really listen to them a few times..hopefully they'll grow on you's as much me :)

[Gitta Rensolo]

I'm downloading it right now.... :)

Thanks in advance :D

[Gas_Man]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5324205/02_-_Gomez_-_Revolutionary_Kind.mp3.html

[Gitta Rensolo]

Thanks so much I really liked the first one.... :D

[Gas_Man]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5324755/03_-_Gomez_-_Bring_It_On.mp3.html

[Gas_Man]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5325101/04_-_Gomez_-_Blue_Moon_Rising.mp3.html

[Gas_Man]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5325583/05_-_Gomez_-_Las_Vegas_Dealer.mp3.html

[Gitta Rensolo]

wow thanks Gas_Man I like all of them... :)

[Gas_Man]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5327065/06_-_Gomez_-_We_Haven_t_Turned_Around.mp3.html

[Gas_Man]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5327709/07_-_Gomez_-_Fill_My_Cup.mp3.html

[Gas_Man]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5328212/08_-_Gomez_-_Rhythm___Blues_Alibi.mp3.html

[Gitta Rensolo]

gas_Man you rock!!!

[Professor Peedston]

Gomez were pretty good. I really like Liquid Skin and Bring it On. But Split the Difference and In Our Gun were kinda... eh.

I had the good fortune of seeing them live about three years ago, and they were pretty good. In fact I think they're releasing a live album soon. Or it may already be out.

[Gas_Man]

i must get the Bring It On album.
I went out for a while, so i stopped uploading, but here's the next one :)
http://rapidshare.de/files/5328608/09_-_Gomez_-_Rosalita.mp3.html

[Gas_Man]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5338615/10_-_Gomez_-_California.mp3.html

[Gas_Man]

http://rapidshare.de/files/5338903/11_-_Gomez_-_Devil_Will_Ride.mp3.html
This is the last one. Also, here's a picture...of the album, if nyone wants it :)
http://rapidshare.de/files/5339176/LiquidSkin.jpg.html
just incase you want to look at the front cover

[busybeeburns]

http://media.apn.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/gomez.jpg

* Who: Gomez, British rock five-piece
* Albums: Bring It On (1998), Liquid Skin (1999), Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline (rarities and B-sides compilation 2001), In Our Gun (2002), Split the Difference (2004), Out West (2005), How We Operate (2006) and How We Operate the bonus tour edition (2007).
* When & where: April 14, Civic Christchurch; April 18, San Francisco Bathhouse, Wellington; April 20, Powerstation, Auckland

Tom Gray reckons his band is the hardest-working band in America. Only Gomez is British and about to play New Zealand.

"Oh Christ, we play America all the time," he says on the line from Perth. "It's ridiculous. We've been on tour since last March on this record and think we must have done six or seven American tours.

"But once you've had your five minutes in the sunshine in England you really don't get another chance, unless you're U2 or Coldplay. You're old news.

"The Americans are so focused on older, stagnant creative things. The British are so obsessed with brand new things, kind of striking a median line anywhere is kind of hard."

Still, you wouldn't exactly call Gomez' hybrid of rock, country, pop and blues stagnant, and with most of the band members still in their 20s, they're hardly old.

The band's momentum in the US has been a long time coming, and with their latest album, How We Operate, it's their primary focus.

Their first US tour came after their debut album Bring It On won the prestigious British Mercury Music Prize in 1998.

Shortly after their third album, In Our Gun, was released in 2002, vocalist Ian Ball moved to Los Angeles, while still working with the band at their studio in Portslade, England.

In 2004, after their label went under and they mutually ended a distribution deal with Virgin, Gomez signed to Dave Matthews' label ATO.

That might sound like a calculated decision, given Matthews' staggering popularity in America, but Gray says it was more to do with the label's "good people".

"I wish it was calculated. He does have a bit of bartering power at the table, but ATO is a very small, independent label. He's not Warner or Sony. He hasn't bought up the radio stations."

So far, the signing has paid off, and given How We Operate is their rootsiest, most accessible album yet, it's no wonder they're booked out across the US in "ridiculous" fashion.

But Gomez still command a decent audience in Britain, playing to crowds of 3000 in London.

You have to wonder if the British press simply gave up on them because they found them impossible to lump into one genre. "I'm sure that eventually, given enough time, they'll have to come full circle on us. But that is not our focus. We hope good will keeps us going over there.

"Now, our focus in terms of growing as a band is all about America. It's where the majority of our shows are, where our income comes from."

And whether it's the country-tinged Don't Make Me Laugh (sung by Gray), the John Mayer-ish All Too Much (sung by the raspy Ben Ottewell), or the Americana feel of Hamoa Beach, (sung by Ian Ball), it's no wonder.

It can't help that the band have three singers and all five - including drummer Olly Peacock and bass player Paul Blackburn - write the songs. Sometimes they swap them too.

"It's just the way it's always been," says Gray. "We just try to not be too precious about who wrote it if we can, although you do have to be a little bit because you have to try and get across what you're trying to do or say.

"But if you go too far in the opposite direction it becomes a bit murky, really. We just try and be as open to change as we can be."

Although that laissez-faire approach has kept them together for a decade, it means that one band member's most personal lyrics are adopted by everyone else.

Gray's contributions to How We Operate include See the World, sung by Ottewell.

Otherwise his lyrics tend towards the lovelorn on songs like Woman! Man! and Don't Make Me Laugh, and the simply melodic Girl Shaped Love Drug, in which he sings, "She spends her days in a violent rage, try as I might, I love her".

"I tend to like lovelorn songs as a rule," he says. "I'm quite the pathetic romantic in a way. I'm quite the fantasist so I just kind of imagine myself into situations which I'm not really part of.

"Songs are exaggerations of things. A song like Girl Shaped Love Drug is an exaggeration of my wife."

And no, it seems that Peacock and Blackburn don't feel left out, despite not being singers.

"It's just one of those things. I suppose most other bands where there's just one singer, it's more divisive than our band. Hopefully it keeps all of us in check. Hopefully the rampant narcissism is somewhat thwarted by other people taking the limelight."

[Black Rose]

Their best of is good.

[Dejan]

Operation Aloha release debut album in May

Members of Gomez, Phantom Planet and Maroon 5 have teamed up to form a group entitled Operation Aloha, with plans to release their debut album on May 12.

Dajon Everett, Ian Ball and Olly Peacock of Gomez, James Valentine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5, and Sam Farrar of Phantom Planet joined forces with eight other musicians and decamped to the Hawaiian island of Maui to record their self-titled debut which was inspired by the “tranquility, freedom and spirit of Hawaii”.

The 14 musicians lived in tree houses during their stay on the island, which lasted 30 days.

The full list of musicians is:

Dajon Everett (Gomez)
Ian Ball (Gomez)
James Valentine (Maroon 5)
Jesse Carmichael (Maroon 5)
Olly Peacock (Gomez)
Sam Farrar (Phantom Planet)
Christopher Wray-McCann (Photographer)
Charles Danek
Fil Krohnengold (All Spots To Black)
Mathew Chaney
Maureen Wray-McCann
Nadav Kahn (Kahn Brothers)
Saam Gabbay
Will Nash

[Famous Old Painter]

Gomez! How could you? :cry:

[Dejan]

listen to the first song here
http://spin.com/articles/first-listen-maroon-5-phantom-planet-gomez-members-form-band

[Famous Old Painter]

Hmmm... that's just a track from Ian's solo project re-recorded.

[Dejan]

and now is a new track

[a-chan]

You can listen to all the tracks on the link below, it's the website of the operation ^_-

http://www.luckiepierre.com/aloha.html

Those songs are really good!! It makes me wanna go on holiday TOT (and I love Jesse+James from M5...Glad Adam is not here, he would have ruined it XD!)
I really love 'disapointed type' and "...." soooo soothing...just the sea...*bliss*

[Kackie]

WOW! That sounds really interesting... and some of the boys from Maroon 5! awesome. I can't wait to see how this all works out...

[a-chan]

On the website, it's says that the album will be released in February and not may like in the first post...Oo
Anyway, you can listen to all the songs on the link I post just above ^^

[Dejan]

You can listen to all the tracks on the link below, it's the website of the operation ^_-

http://www.luckiepierre.com/aloha.html

Those songs are really good!! It makes me wanna go on holiday TOT (and I love Jesse+James from M5...Glad Adam is not here, he would have ruined it XD!)
I really love 'disapointed type' and "...." soooo soothing...just the sea...*bliss*

thanks for the link mate

[Dejan]

this album is PRETTY GOOD....

[Famous Old Painter]

Can't believe there's no Gomez thread. If there is, I haven't found it anywhere.

Anyways they've got a new record coming out pretty soon, called A New Tide.

[Black Rose]

You need to search harder ;)

Jolly good with news on the new album

[Famous Old Painter]

Hmm, when I used the search option it came up with nothing and it wasn't in the band index. Strange.

Anyway, I think Split The Difference is pretty damn close to being the best album ever recorded IMO.

[Black Rose]

search is dodgy at times, so it's no biggie.

[Famous Old Painter]

Hope you are splendiferous and feverish with the anticipation of the NEW and the best album to date! Yes I went there! Suffice to say this album is full of 11 great tracks that I'm sure you will love! The record is under 45minutes, something we've been trying to achieve for 10 years and covers considerable new ground as a band. This record feels very exciting for ourselves and hopefully you guys had no idea what kind of album to expect. We didn't...well, we had an idea of course....but only at the end.

After long deliberation we asked Brian Deck to produce the album, we couldn't have made a better choice. Brian's talent was obvious on Iron and Wine's great album The Shepard's Dog, and we knew he would bring much to the Gomez table. We we're privileged to have our friends Amy Milan from Stars and Broken Social Scene, Stuart Bogie from Anti-Balas and Cellist, Oliver Kraus to introduce instruments and styles we could not otherwise.

Myself and Ian have learnt many new tricks with our computers since How We Operate, even devoting a room of the studio to our electronic experimentations and calling it Kraftwerk World! Many Germans bands have subtly influenced our music for years, but on parts of the new record it's become unmistakable for example, the end of Mix, which is very heavily influenced by one of out favourite bands the Notwist. Aside from this, I unconsciously seemed to be writing songs with a bluesy/indie theme, Airstream Driver, Win Park Slope, along with the more experimental obvious influences like Tomorrow Never Knows, heard on the closing track Sunset Gates. Ben's guitar playing has become even more cooler and erratic, the likes of which can be especially heard in the middle soundscape of 'Other Plans'. Ben has also been playing of late with Sam Genders from Tunng and The Accidental, which has led him to writing Lost Track, one of the folkier sounding songs, a major highlight of A New Tide. All five of us devoted our time passionately throughout this record whilst it took many diversions and drifted through various possible musical outcomes, we hope you listen carefully and love what we made.

So what's on the cards? South by South West festival and US and UK tour are right around the corner, all the while we are beavering away behind the scenes to get everything into place. You can expect a new website, coming very soon, a very limited edition 7 inch Airstream Driver with previously unreleased track 'Edit' on April 18th, this is only available in Independent stores. We have a new Twitter page which has been left to grow naturally and will be full of updates more and more as we're on the road, however I feel this might get out of hand, not mentioning any names...Blackie. New posters and merch are being designed as we speak and we are looking to film behind the scenes to put on to the new site. We will be focusing new attention to older material, relearning tunes and reworking songs along the way. Shit we might even play a cover version if I convince anyone!

On behalf of Ben, Tom, Ian and Blackie and myself, I'd like to say we are always massively grateful that you still show up, that you still care and that you still like us even when we're shit! Or drunk, just kidding. It's means a great deal to see familiar faces as we play across England, Europe, Australia and the States and hearing of how the good word of Gomez is being spread! Amen!

We don't say it to you and the fans near enough, but thank you, thank you very much. One last thing, at the next gigs I want to see you all moshing, rioting, stage diving, throwing Ian into the crowd, let's go crazy!

Thank you,

Olly Peacock

[Famous Old Painter]

After what I've heard so far, me no likes. Too mellow. Where's the rock and the energy Gomez?

[Dejan]

new single
YouTube - Gomez - Airstream Driver

Download for free at http://www.gomeztheband.com.

Album available: March 31 (North America) • March 30 (United Kingdom) • March 28 (Australia)

And, no, I've not been paid to promote this. I just love the 'Mez.

[MrMagpie]

Ever hear of the band index?


http://coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1768

[Dejan]

Ever hear of the band index?


http://coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1768

ever heard the term "get a life" ?

[MrMagpie]

You're just making the work of the mods harder.
And for the record there is no need to be rude. I'm just pointing out something that makes the lounge less cluttered.

I don't have a problem with the stuff you post, in fact most of the bands you post I like there music or end up liking it. Its just nice to keep everything together rather than have multiple threads about teh same thing.

[Black Rose]

Also in a few months time when someone searches for the band they get one thread instead of 15 because they have announced a one-off show or they have confirmed details already known etc

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

just listened Machismo EP and i liked it, so which other album do other Gomez fans will recommend me to check next? :)