CHICAGO GAYFS
Come out and hang with fellow gomezbians and support your local Gomez Are Your Friends effort. xo
Calling All GAYFs!
We have some brand new posters and a ton of tour dates to support. If you can help spread the word, email me and I will get you set up.
thanks!
meghan
Confirmed Listening Parties
A New Tide Preview Listening Parties confirmed thus far…
Saturday, March 21st
7PM - 9PM
Tryst Lounge
Hosted by JenV
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Los Angeles
Thursday, March 26th
7 PM to 9 PM
Hotel Cafe (Back Bar Area)
Hosted By me
(any other hosts, pop your party info on a comment here and I will edit the post) xox
Time to Tart the Art.
I know you guys (I’m looking at you Ocean, Stina, etc) have hidden Mez-related art goodies to share here, but I’m getting the peer pressure to break the seal, so to speak. (Chris is a bit tipsy, thus over-enthused) So I’m going to “just post anything!” So I’m posting the shirt I made aaages ago that looks suspiciously like the one they did with the ‘10′ on the back quite recently… contraversial? 
Modelled on Tom's usual front-of-stage ruckus-inducing pose, "Come ON!"
LISTENING PARTIES - aka “by april, i meant MARCH”
Listening Parties Are Back!
Some things have changed, most importantly, you will get the record to play for people in ADVANCE of the release. This should prove to make for a better turn out with your gathering. Next, we are keeping it to only Key Markets. If you are in any of these towns, let me know if you are interested in hosting a party, what you would plan to do and what you would need. Some locations I can suggest off the top of my head are your local, record shop, bar, venue or coffee house.. hell you could even get a super groovy hair salon to host it and tie it in with awesome hair styles.. feel free to get creative on us!
CITIES
Austin
Atlanta
Baltimore
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Los Angeles
Madison
Minneapolis
New York
Portland
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
- We are looking at having the parties held the weekend of MARCH 20-22nd
- You will receive posters and an advance copy of the record to play at the party
- We will ask that you send photos back to us to share from the parties
(THANKS FOR THE CATCH STEFANIE)
Hello Fellow Friends of Gomez!
The release of “A New Tide” is upon us and we are reaching out to you as we need your amazing skills and ideas more than ever. I can’t believe it has been so long since our last record/tour promotions. I hope this message finds you all doing amazingly well and hopeful for a spectacular year.
You may have noticed that the Gomez Are Your Friends site (www.gomezareyourfriends.com) has been changed up considerably. Two amazing people Chris G. and Helen S. from the UK have put in considerable effort and have put out an amazing new site. This will prove to be far more interactive and simple to keep up to date (because we will all have access to contribute content!) I am going to make my own personal effort to capture as much info as possible from the band and keep you, our super important friends and fans, the first to hear anything new.
ATO Records and Gomez’s Management have been awesome and are working with us to keep us supplied with tools and are open to any and all ideas. Currently we are looking for support in a few areas for starters
Banners
We have web promo galore located here: atorecords.com/direct2fan/gomez/ Please use these to your heart’s content and spread the loving.
Postering in Austin, TX for SxSW
We need to make Gomez’s presence known in a major way in Austin and any and all postering you can do would be awesome. I will be down there too doing the same so if you can do it, send me an email and we can arrange to meet up.
Postering In Other Tour Markets
Same as above but in the tour markets announced thus far here in the United States. If you are interested in repping for one of the upcoming shows, email me.
Listening Parties Are Back!
Some things have changed, most importantly, you will get the record to play for people in ADVANCE of the release. This should prove to make for a better turn out with your gathering. Next, we are keeping it to only Key Markets. If you are in any of these towns, let me know if you are interested in hosting a party, what you would plan to do and what you would need. Some locations I can suggest off the top of my head are your local, record shop, bar, venue or coffee house.. hell you could even get a super groovy hair salon to host it and tie it in with awesome hair styles.. feel free to get creative on us!
CITIES
Austin
Atlanta
Baltimore
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Los Angeles
Madison
Minneapolis
New York
Portland
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
- We are looking at having the parties held the weekend of MARCH 20-22nd
- You will receive posters and an advance copy of the record to play at the party
- We will ask that you send photos back to us to share from the parties
Can’t wait to work with you guys on an amazing record. With this, I leave you with a special message from the greatest drummer in the lands (in my opinion) Olly Peacock.
xo
Meghan
email me here: gomezareyourfriends@gmail.com
Hey GAYF’s!
Hope you are splendiferous and feverish with the anticipation of the NEW and the best album to date! Yes I went there! Suffice to say this album is full of 11 great tracks that I’m sure you will love! The record is under 45minutes, something we’ve been trying to achieve for 10 years and covers considerable new ground as a band. This record feels very exciting for ourselves and hopefully you guys had no idea what kind of album to expect. We didn’t…well, we had an idea of course….but only at the end.
After long deliberation we asked Brian Deck to produce the album, we couldn’t have made a better choice. Brian’s talent was obvious on Iron and Wine’s great album The Shepard’s Dog, and we knew he would bring much to the Gomez table. We we’re privileged to have our friends Amy Milan from Stars and Broken Social Scene, Stuart Bogie from Anti-Balas and Cellist, Oliver Kraus to introduce instruments and styles we could not otherwise.
Myself and Ian have learnt many new tricks with our computers since How We Operate, even devoting a room of the studio to our electronic experimentations and calling it Kraftwerk World! Many Germans bands have subtly influenced our music for years, but on parts of the new record it’s become unmistakable for example, the end of Mix, which is very heavily influenced by one of out favourite bands the Notwist. Aside from this, I unconsciously seemed to be writing songs with a bluesy/indie theme, Airstream Driver, Win Park Slope, along with the more experimental obvious influences like Tomorrow Never Knows, heard on the closing track Sunset Gates. Ben’s guitar playing has become even more cooler and erratic, the likes of which can be especially heard in the middle soundscape of ‘Other Plans’. Ben has also been playing of late with Sam Genders from Tunng and The Accidental, which has led him to writing Lost Track, one of the folkier sounding songs, a major highlight of A New Tide. All five of us devoted our time passionately throughout this record whilst it took many diversions and drifted through various possible musical outcomes, we hope you listen carefully and love what we made.
So what’s on the cards? South by South West festival and US and UK tour are right around the corner, all the while we are beavering away behind the scenes to get everything into place. You can expect a new website, coming very soon, a very limited edition 7 inch Airstream Driver with previously unreleased track ‘Edit’ on April 18th, this is only available in Independent stores. We have a new Twitter page which has been left to grow naturally and will be full of updates more and more as we’re on the road, however I feel this might get out of hand, not mentioning any names…Blackie. New posters and merch are being designed as we speak and we are looking to film behind the scenes to put on to the new site. We will be focusing new attention to older material, relearning tunes and reworking songs along the way. Shit we might even play a cover version if I convince anyone!
On behalf of Ben, Tom, Ian and Blackie and myself, I’d like to say we are always massively grateful that you still show up, that you still care and that you still like us even when we’re shit! Or drunk, just kidding. It’s means a great deal to see familiar faces as we play across England, Europe, Australia and the States and hearing of how the good word of Gomez is being spread! Amen!
We don’t say it to you and the fans near enough, but thank you, thank you very much. One last thing, at the next gigs I want to see you all moshing, rioting, stage diving, throwing Ian into the crowd, let’s go crazy!
Thank you,
Olly Peacock
Trees, Leaves, Grass, Park
Liverpool, UK HMV instore
A few pictures from the Liverpool, UK, instore appearance in September 2008.
