People Open DS/UK/21758 Gomez (1997-) Gomez 1997- Southport, Merseyside, England (born)

Los Angeles, United States; Brooklyn, United States; Brighton, England (various residences)

20\362e7c-36ff-43aa-8f55-7e24772dd487.jpg Members: Ian Ball - vocals, guitar Ben Ottewell - vocals, guitar Tom Gray - vocals, guitar, keyboard Paul Blackburn - bass Olly Peacock - drums, synths, computers Gomez are an English indie rock band from Southport. The band has three singers and four songwriters, employing traditional and electronic instruments. Their music covers the genres blues, indie, alternative, rock, folk, psychedelic and experimental. Their first album, Bring It On, won the Mercury Music Prize in 1998. Later awards came from the NME and Q Magazine along with a Brit Awards nomination. Gomez began their career on Hut records (Virgin), signing in 1997. Just before their third album release In Our Gun Hut records was forced to downsize and on the following record, Split the Difference, Hut records was disbanded by Virgin/EMI Records. The band were so dismayed by the music industry that they decided to go on alone and asked Virgin Records to let them go in 2004. The following year American label ATO signed the group, releasing their first live album Out West and their most successful records stateside How We Operate and A New Tide. Ball has released two solo records entitled Who Goes There (2007) and Unfold Yourself (2013). Ball and Peacock worked on the side project Operation Aloha. The experimental project designed by photographer Christopher Wray-McCann brought together 14 of his friends, living in tree houses making songs with whatever they could bring to the island of Maui, Hawaii. Ball, Ottewell, Peacock and Pattison (engineer) created the Final Keep Me Up in 2009. They decided to record an album using only iPhones in the back lounge of the tour bus from Calais to Köln 2 May 2009. The album exists only in streaming form. Ben Ottewell has released two solo records entitled Shapes & Shadows (2011) and Rattlebag (2014). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomez_(band) (May 2018) Image from @gomeztheband twitter (4 May 2018) © James Hole 'What a thrill to celebrate 20 years at @RoyalAlbertHall. Thank you to everyone who was there and to those who couldn't be. Photos by James Hole' International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 RAHSKeyte 5/2/2018 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 ede36f8e-8b0d-4fb7-8f2d-dbaeb5811a8f