Gomez will tour Australia and New Zealand later in the year and will perform both Bring It On and Liquid Skin in their entirety. Is there a particular album by a band that you would like to see performed in its entirety? a b c Millar, Mark (10 July 2019). "Interview: Gomez' Ben Ottewell Talks 20 years of 'Liquid Skin' ". Xs Noize. Archived from the original on 2 October 2022 . Retrieved 2 October 2022. Liquid Skin / Bring It On (sleeve). Gomez. Virgin/Hut Records. 2003. 8502122. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) We’re just getting the songs together first,” says Ottewell. “There are so many options that it is a bit bewildering to be honest. We’re just going to concentrate on the music and then see what happens, I guess

Gomez Bring It on Again!". NME. 19 April 1999. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021 . Retrieved 29 July 2021. Rhythm & Blues Alibi" (sleeve). Gomez. Hut/Virgin Records. 1999. HUTCD114/724389617726. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) How I wrote 'Rhythm & Blues Alibi' by Gomez's Ben Ottewell". Songwriting. 13 February 2020. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021 . Retrieved 30 July 2021.

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But I remember that it seemed like a record for people who were serious about music. I was becoming a person who wanted to be serious about music, so I wanted in. But it wasn't gonna be easy. BO: I would say that JJ Cale' Troubadour' is one that works anywhere for me. It's just a masterpiece in simplicity. I would love to be that simple and not be straightforward. It's so densely complicated but at the same time so mellow and straightforward. I always return to that. Gomez: Get in the Boat". NME. 17 November 1998. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021 . Retrieved 29 July 2021. Gomez - [Bring It On - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Disc 2) 2008] Whippin' Piccadilly (BBC Radio One Session) (3:15) Walshe, John (31 March 2001). "Liquid Skin". Hot Press. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021 . Retrieved 30 July 2021.

a b Zupko, Sarah. "Gomez: Liquid Skin". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 3 April 2003 . Retrieved 16 August 2021. Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline and Five Men in a Hut: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. Bring It On British sales certification". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 20 February 2008 . Retrieved 18 January 2009. BO: Yeah, I'm certainly proud of what we did together for sure. That was the whole idea to make something unique. It's not the easiest thing to do with music, because you have only got a specific palette you can draw from, so I'm proud of the way we did that and stayed true to that kind of ethos. It remains the best song on the album, and perhaps the best song Gomez ever recorded. And that moment, just a handful of seconds, provides such an immense peak that it gives me chills just thinking about it.With Bring It On it worked so well and people genuinely were overjoyed for us to be playing that record. I think it meant a hell of a lot to a lot of people. It was nice for use to revisit it. I think it’s rekindled something,” ponders Ottewell. “Just getting together over that music and remembering those times a bit, was an overwhelmingly positive thing. Those gigs were some of the best that we have ever done and we’ve done probably, upwards of a thousand now together. Gomez - [Bring It On - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Disc1) 2008] Whippin' Piccadilly (3:12) Bring It On" (sleeve). Gomez. Hut/ Virgin Records. 1999. HUTCD112/7243 8 95969 2 2. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) My favourite song on the album has always been 'We Haven't Turned Around.' What can you tell me about writing and recording that song? Vocalist/guitarist] Ian [Ball] is the archivist in a way, because he has all the tapes. His dad had them in a box, all the tapes with the old demos, even pre-studio. So, he has a whole wealth of stuff and he has just gone through it. To be honest, there’s a few things, like the song ‘Throwing Myself Away’ that I had just forgotten about. I listen and think, ‘That’s a good song,’ with no recollection of ever doing it, not even halfway through the song. We were just producing so much stuff,” Ottewell adds, speaking of the wealth of material they had.

I think more than that, we just missed each other, I think. A lot of the old issues just aren’t there anymore. We are all a bit older, got a load of experience behind us. You realize what a knobhead you were.” In the wake of the Mercury Music Prize winning debut Bring It On (1998), the five-piece were caught up in a wave of momentum and given the freedom and tools to build on their bedroom aesthetic. Although, many of the tunes came from the same process as the debut, Liquid Skin is a more ambitious, more eccentric, “less pop and less innocent” take on their blues-influenced sound. ARIA End of Year Albums Chart 2000". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021 . Retrieved 11 August 2020.Any British indie band with a remotely broad musical vision was expected to deliver the next classic to compete with Radiohead's beast, even though it should have been obvious that it wasn't going to happen. Gomez continue on from their reformation with the announcement of the release of an upgraded 20th anniversary version of their second album Liquid Skin. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 27 December 2021. Rhythm & Blues Alibi" (sleeve). Gomez. Hut/Virgin Records. 1999. HUTDX114/724389617825. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Gomez - [Bring It On - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Disc1) 2008] Get Myself Arrested (4:04)

While positive vibes may well have been felt across the pond, the album still achieved its highest chart placing in the UK at number 2, with it reached number 9 in Australia. In that end of the millennium moment Gomez were a big band.Adding a dose of rootsy American influences to memorable British pop melodies, the genre-blending Gomez seemed determined to provide the indie scene with something more wide-ranging and dynamic when they arrived in the late 90s. They surprised everyone when their 1998 debut LP 'Bring It On' won them the Mercury Music Prize, catapulting them into the spotlight and making them the subject of hype for the music press, keen to find a new potential phenomenon after the Britpop years had come to an end. So it's understandable that their second album, 1999's 'Liquid Skin' arrived to some high expectations.