The Brag

Gomez and Australia have a special thing going on. The English five-piece have been touring Down Under “for more years than I’ve got memories,” according to one of the band’s frontmen, LA-based Ian Ball, and they’re heading over once again for their Quinceanera Tour, celebrating their fifteenth year. “It’s always pretty full-on down there; lots of laughter and hopefully not too much madness! I can’t guarantee that it won’t get too wild, though, because it’s not always just up to me…”

Posted: October 2nd, 2012 under Brag 482, Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: Benjamin Cooper, Eagle & The Worm, Gomez, Ian Ball, The Hi-Fi

For a band trying to shake off comparisons to Neil Young’s early years, Adelaide’s Leader Cheetah sure do send out conflicting messages, taking to the stage tonight in all manner of flannel, tan leather and brown calfskin pants, a style straight out of the early-’70s West Coast Americana of The Eagles, Jackson Browne et al. [...]

Posted: August 15th, 2011 under Brag 424 (August 8), Live Reviews, Music, Splendour In The Grass 2011.
Tags: Gomez, Hugh Robertson, Leader Cheetah, The Brag, The Metro Theatre

Gomez Whatever’s On Your Mind Shock **1/2 Gomez’ three-vocalist arrangement could be considered analogous (if you’re into that sort of thing) to the varying character of their output. Ian Ball and Tom Gray’s clean, sweet, everyman pipes do great work on every album and on some of their best songs, but when Ben Ottewell’s distinctive [...]

Posted: July 18th, 2011 under Album Reviews, Brag 420 (July 11), Music.
Tags: Caitlin Welsh, Gomez, The Brag, Whatever's On Your Mind

Gomez Chasing Shapes And Shadows By Max Easton Picture this: you’re in your early twenties and you’ve just released your debut record. No big deal, right? A few months later, the legendary John Lee Hooker says this about it: “I done listen to the record over and over, and I could find no defect”, before [...]

Posted: June 20th, 2011 under Brag 416 (june 13), Music, Music - Interview.
Tags: Gomez, Max Easton, The Brag