GOMEZ

chuck nevitt

How are they doing?

Pauk

They were quite good. I thought it was a pretty bad choice of songs for an unitiated audience though. Good that they played different songs at each show though. I didn't like the new version of Ping On Down though, much prefered all the previous versions to that.

dave grolsch

The lead/main singer was brilliant,best voice i,ve heard for ages

Pauk

dave grolsch wrote:

The lead/main singer was brilliant,best voice i,ve heard for ages

Olly's got a good voice, but Ian's my favourite when he bops with his tele covered in stickers

Dr Ollie

Pauk wrote:

dave grolsch wrote:

The lead/main singer was brilliant,best voice i,ve heard for ages

Olly's got a good voice, but Ian's my favourite when he bops with his tele covered in stickers

Olly's the drummer and don't think he sings hardly at all, if ever. Great drummer though. Maybe you mean Ben who is the guy with the gruff Tom Waitsy voice (although it's also been compared to Mr E Vedder which I can't quite see - I love both bands though) and he does most lead vocals. Top band either way.

Brisk.

Overall could have been worse like the Fleet Foxes.

The drummer seemed okay, i still can't work out what the drummer and the other guitarist did with those little things with the mics, dont even know what they are.

The vocalist just annoyed me tonnes and he reminded me so much of Warren Haynes.

Pauk

Dr Ollie wrote:

Pauk wrote:

dave grolsch wrote:

The lead/main singer was brilliant,best voice i,ve heard for ages

Olly's got a good voice, but Ian's my favourite when he bops with his tele covered in stickers

Olly's the drummer and don't think he sings hardly at all, if ever. Great drummer though. Maybe you mean Ben who is the guy with the gruff Tom Waitsy voice (although it's also been compared to Mr E Vedder which I can't quite see - I love both bands though) and he does most lead vocals. Top band either way.

Oh, I always mess them up :(

Brisk. wrote:

The drummer seemed okay, i still can't work out what the drummer and the other guitarist did with those little things with the mics, dont even know what they are.

They were iPhones. My respect for Gomez plummeted...

icemanap

They were alright. Three lead singers in one song seemed a bit weird. They were good for a support band but I am not going to run to the record shop to buy their album. I told my workmate Gomez supported and he said they were one of his favourites!
Oh well there's something for everyone.

chuck nevitt

thanks for the updates...if anyone does feel like buying their music, buy Liquid Skin...amazing.

Ricsard

Well, personally I had expected more because I had liked 6-7 songs of theirs. They were not bad live at all but not that good, either...I thought they would have liked to impress the crowds with e.g. some hits instead of a plenty of introverted and mostly forgettable new tunes :(

Brisk.

Pauk wrote:

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They were iPhones. My respect for Gomez plummeted...

That is what i thought but then i thought surely not!!

YieldToNothing

not a fan at all. i thought they were quite boring and generic.

.....just sign mudhoney to be the official opening act from here on out

Degi

not enjoyed them that much in Berlin,
LOVED them in Manchester,
fell asleep in London (honestly!!)

locked

discovered them watching the rothbury concert broadcast last year..

Now I have almost every CD including rare ones..
frankly, its a shame they do not stick with Ben as the single lead singer..
His voice is what keeps me listening to the band..
Three singers worked for "the band" and that's about it..

If Ben ever goes solo, I will follow him...
See the World
Here Comes the Breeze
Brother
How we operate
all the best tunes come from his leads.. IMO..


BTW.. anyone have some good audience boots of the the Gomez sets?

I would love to get a copy and have lots of non-gomez to trade..

Rossum20

Degi wrote:

not enjoyed them that much in Berlin,
LOVED them in Manchester,
fell asleep in London (honestly!!)

seriously...I was pumped to see them...what TERRIBLE song choices in London...I thought their performance was extremely weak.

CratePilot

Degi wrote:

not enjoyed them that much in Berlin,
LOVED them in Manchester,
fell asleep in London (honestly!!)

Same here ..... thought they were great in Manchester .... but the O2 performance was really disappointing in comparison

Degi

yeah people, i'm not kidding, i had a seat in london, and i DID sleep!!

i still can't believe it was the same band on those 3 shows, maybe berlin and london the same, but manchester was SO different!!

eMMI

Degi wrote:

not enjoyed them that much in Berlin,
LOVED them in Manchester,
fell asleep in London (honestly!!)

I didn't go to Berlin but I agree with you.. Manchester show was grand (I'd never heard Gomez before) but London didn't seem very good at all. though, fair enough, I wasn't paying that much attention in London and during their set we were a bit further back. they didn't seem to be as into it as they were in Manchester.

and I must ad, I listened to Gomez a bit from Spotify after I got home and I think they were much better live than on record.

Degi

eMMI wrote:

(I'd never heard Gomez before)

me neither, and i am still not sure if i should buy a record or not....

eMMI wrote:

and I must ad, I listened to Gomez a bit from Spotify after I got home and I think they were much better live than on record.

...

anybody who was @ rotterdam, what do you think??

btw, i feel kinda sorry for them, i mean opening for PJ is surely not the easiest thing to do... (are they famous outside the uk??)

Pauk

Degi wrote:

btw, i feel kinda sorry for them, i mean opening for PJ is surely not the easiest thing to do... (are they famous outside the uk??)

Think they're only really known in the US and the UK. A few of the band moved to the US, so they tour both fairly frequently. In the UK they're only really known for their first 2 albums, a lot of people thought they died away long ago (I guess it's kinda similar to how a lot of people in the UK see Pearl Jam...).

To be honest, I think supporting an arena tour is a pretty much impossible task. I love Gomez and Idlewild, but seeing them support Pearl Jam was pretty cringe worthy. Playing to a crowd that is unresponsive and anxious for the main band to come on is worlds away from playing their own gig where everyone knows the words. I don't think Gomez or Idlewild would win any fans from their support slot performances, which is a shame, at their own shows they're great live.

MR61934

Having seen Gomez play more than i should ever admit (100+ :oops: ) i must say they were quite tentative with their opening slot shows for pearl jam but still managed to pull off some great music. of the 4, rotterdam and manchester were my very favorites. the berlin gig was tons of fun but too slow for a wild crowd like that. all the same, they are my very favorite band next to pearl jam and ed liked them enough to extend their set time after the first night (he said they played too short a set) woot.

i would be happy to send out some gomez live cds if anyone is interested i have tons!

someone posted the set lists on the gomez forum, so here you go!


AHOY ROTTERDAM
13-8-09

SHOT
REX
SILENCE
BYLBH
PIECES
AIRSTREAM
OPERATE


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Berlinski - 15/8/09
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Revolution
Nothing
Nicely
Mix
Pieces
Slope/bone
Airstream
Operate


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Manchester | 17/8/09
MEN (it’s raining)
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Rex
Trombone
Airstream
Ping
Slope/bone
Pieces
Piccadilly
Operate

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London | 18/08/09
Oh! 2
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Miles
Airstream
BYLBH
Slope
Pieces
Silence
Detroit
Operate

argh, i used to have a user name 'stepinside' here..what happened to that??

simonorton

Interesting to see other such varied responses to Gomez too. I have to be honest and say I enjoyed them more than PJ at Manchester, they were a real treat. At the 02 that reverse couldn't have been more marked.