IT'S BEEN ten years since Gomez emerged with their Mercury Music award debut, Bring It On.
Now, as part of a re-issue of the album, the band is playing Bring It On in its entirety.
Live, Gomez are as strong as on record, the band's trademark sound of raspy, bluesy vocals, keys and guitar still intact. "Don't they look older," says one g
irl, whose comment sums up society's expectation of stasis for anybody in a rock and roll band.
The set list includes Blue Moon Rising, We Haven't Turned Around and Rhythm and Blues Alibi, from Liquid Skin.
Get Myself Arrested is one of tonight's major hits, its witty lyrics 'Got some friends in my BMW, gonna get myself arrested,' chanted by the crowd. Perhaps drug dealers driving tinted-windowed BMWs is more of a universal truth than one might expect.
Heavy blues slide guitar in Rie's Wagon marks the band's rockier, more indulgent sound and live it works well – it's much heavier and sexier.
Gomez remind us that Bring It On's compact song structures with bluesy guitar, raspy vocals and ever-changing rhythms make for a fail-safe formula. No wonder it won the Mercury Music prize.
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