Gomez

Surge Tracks

• Sweet Virginia
• Silence
• Catch Me Up
• Ping One Down
• Shot Shot
• Bring It On
• Get Myself Arrested
• Bring Your Lovin' Back Here
• Machismo

Artist Biography

Gomez are an English indie rock band which fuses blues and rock, but in a vein closer to Beck than Jimmy Page. Their first album, Bring It On, won the Mercury Music Prize in 1998.

The genesis of Gomez was the meeting of four friends from Southport. Guitarist and vocalist Ian Ball and drummer Olly Peacock had previously played together in a local heavy metal band called Severed. They joined with guitarist / vocalist / keyboardist Tom Gray and bassist Paul Blackburn. Ian Ball met vocalist / guitarist Ben Ottewell from Matlock Bath in Derbyshire at Sheffield University, where they were both studying.

The band played their first gig together in late 1996 in Leeds without a formal name. The band left a sign out for a friend of theirs whose surname was Gomez to indicate that it was the site of their first gig. People saw the sign and assumed that the band's name was Gomez - the name stuck.

The band started recording four-track demos in a garage in Southport soon after. A bidding war erupted when they sent the demos to recording labels, with the band finally signing with Virgin Records' subsidiary, Hut, in 1997.

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Artist Discography

Albums

Bring It On (1998-05-04)
How We Operate (2006-05-29)
In Our Gun (2002-03-18)
Liquid Skin (1999-09-13)
Split the Difference (2004-05-18)

EPs

Detroit Swing 66 / Ping One Down EP
Machismo (2000-05-01)

Singles

78 Stone Wobble (1998)
Bring It On (1999-06-28)
Catch Me Up
Get Myself Arrested (1998-04-13)
Ping One Down / Sound of Sounds
Rhythm & Blues Alibi (1999-08-30)
Shot Shot (2002-03-14)
Silence
Sound of Sounds / Ping One Down
Sweet Virginia (2004-09-06)
We Haven't Turned Around (1999-11-15)
Whippin' Piccadilly (1998)

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