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Date Posted: 02:49:11 03/31/02 Sun In reply to: mushr 's message, "the raft site -gomez webchat" on 17:56:32 03/30/02 Sat Gomez webchat..... So this is your first album for two years...tell me everything that's going through your head right now. Tom: We're discussing how Marmite flavoured Walkers crisp's actually taste like beef. I didn't know there was such a thing. Ben: They've just bought them out, they're a new release from Walkers and they're crap. They've got Branston ones as well. I'm sure they're crap as too. I can totally see what your saying, but how do you think that ties in with the release of the album? Ben: In no way whatsoever, it was just what was going through my head. One of them's shit and the other ones good. I take it you're not talking about the album there? Tom: Like everything in life, it's the struggle between good and evil: Gomez versus Marmite flavoured Walkers crisps. Ben: It's such a descent from grace, because Smoky Bacon's a classic isn't it? How's the reception been? Ben: We got 'Single of the fortnight' in Smash Hits which is quite an achievement for us! Tom: Smash Hits think we're great, The Daily Mirror think we're great. Heat magazine think we're great as well, and Woman's Own think we're good too. Ben: So we are now the Style Magazine band. Iain: It turns out that we are the most image conscious band ever. Tom: We appeal to Lifestyle magazines. Ben: We sit well with the interior design features. Tom: Its been mostly really positive. The strange thing is that even when people are being positive, they're kind of still not sure, and sort of say even though we know this is a good record we don't know whether we should tell you to go and buy a Gomez record. Which is kind of strange but I think that's because we don't fit in with current climate...but then we've never fitted in with any climate. People's perceptions are kind of irrelevant. You have to sit with the album a few weeks though before making an opinion though? Tom: Oh absolutely, but that's the thing, we've always relied on people telling they're mates about us rather than the newspapers. Ollie: All the albums take a good few listens to get into. It's not a put it on and immediately wow, it takes a while to get into. Mippy asked Gomez: Is Dajon an official member of the band yet or are you going to string him along with promises of bandship and then leave him sobbing in a gutter somewhere? Iain: That's exactly what we're going to do. See Beast doesn't want to join the band full time because then he'd have to do interviews. Ben: Right now he's just sitting around on his ass somewhere scratching his nuts. Iain: He's in a band without actually being in a band, so it's great. Ben: He's quite happy, we throw him some pizza every so often Helen asked Gomez: People in Australia really love your shows and I wonder if you can feel their enthusiasm? Ben: Yes Iain: Even from here we can feel it. Ben: We can smell it as well. Tom: There's that particular Australian musk gland. Ben: It is great actually playing in Australia There's been a lot of emails come in about the Australia thing. Iain: The Australian's know how to have a good time, that's what's great about them. Ollie: I like the Irish as well, they're going to have a laugh and get drunk. Iain: They aim to not remember anything the next day. Ollie: Not like other people who just stand there with their arms folded. Tom: They're not tight arsed Protestant white English bastards. Iain: Yeah, like we are. Kirk asked gomez: After all you other material, where does the inspiration still come from? Any fears of running out one day? Ollie: Inspiration comes from buying some new machines really... here's another program sound. Iain: Salsa 5, that'll work, bosch. Speed it up lovely, take out the base line, no one will ever know! Any particular life experiences that you go through? Iain: I think it was effected by stopping being in a band anymore, that affected it mainly this time around, taking six month's of not actually writing was a very useful tool...it's not easy to write songs when you're on a tour bus all the time. Ollie: Just being on a break, having a bit of freedom and time to think. Iain: People forget you're on tour and you've also got seven or eight other people with you all the time, so there's usually fourteen people cramped on a tiny little bus. It's not exactly conducive to creativity. Kenneth asked gomez: I tend to classify your songs into two catagories; the first is songs that are heavily dependent on studio manipulation and the others ones that take a free form, improvisational jam band approach. My question is two fold: how technically comfortable do you guys feel in the studio comparative to when you first started recording and how important are your improvisational jams to the recording process? Plus, are you going on a US tour and are you coming to Phoenix? We would love to see you guys out here! Tom: I think you'll find that's a four fold question. Ollie: It's a very good question. Ben: we feel a lot more technically competent in the studio than we did, and what was the other bit...live jamming? Iain: There's hardly any live jamming. Ben: No, not really. Iain: The American tour is happening sometime later this year or next year, and Phoenix is highly likely to be on the list. Phil Roberts asked gomez: Has getting songs on blockbusters gone in 60 seconds and american beauty increased your profile in america, and did you like these films? Tom: Nobody liked 'Gone In Sixty Seconds' did they? I don't know a single human being who liked that film. Although I will say that it's follow up film 'The Fast and The Furious' was a cracker. Anyone who can remake 'Point Break' with less plot is a genius. Ben: It was all down to that Diesel bloke though really...Finn Diesel. Iain: Finn Diesel, the man with the lowest voice in film, he's great. The bald headed scary dude... I think he's a star. And American Beauty? All: That was a great film. Tom: The worst film we've ever been on was a Sandra Bullock film called 'Forces of Nature'... Ollie: that was Ben Affleck as well wasn't it... I remember seeing the soundtrack in Tower records in Los Angeles and I remember seeing our names on it and thinking I don't remember that... Ben: Why were you looking at the Soundtrack?...Sandra Bullock was it? Iain: Sandra Bullock turns on the radio and 'Piccadilly's' playing. Ben: That's a likely event in the states! Iain: that's a likely event in any country! Ben: You have to suspend your belief. It's even better that when you hear yourself in the background on EastEnders. Ben: Now, that's good. Blacky: Emmerdale one time, just recently. Somebody once told me that we had a track on the snooker coverage. Ollie: We had 'Bring your Loving Back' on it Ben: have we been on the darts yet? Iain: I don't know if we've ever been on the darts. Dart's isn't around for a while now, not till next year. Ben: We might get on it, Shot Shot would be perfect. Tom: All our fans should send a barrage of emails now to BBC Sport. Iain: This album's already got on to Formula One, and the footie, so we're alright. we should just go into singles and forget the albums. Do you get loads of money for that? Iain: No, our publishers do. Niall Jackson asked Gomez: Having been to your last two Olympia dates in Dublin my opinion of the gomez live experience is blown away.seeing that there is so many Irish dates on this tour you obviously like playing here a lot, any particular reason? Ollie: It's just great fun to play, good reception. Ben: Good beer as well. Are you Guinness fans presumably? Ben: And Murphy's. Patrick Manning asked Gomez: Hey there, I don't suppose you could give me a clue as to who will be supporting you at your gig in Liverpool Royal Court Theatre could you? Iain: Yes, I think it's Gelbison from Australia. They are some mates of ours who play very very very psychadelic music and they're just about to get a record deal in Australia and they're coming over here on tour with us. Ben: They're also food critics. They're going to be really pissed off with us...here's your cold meat from the deli tray. Ollie: On tour it's not great, it's like boiled ham and plates of cold cheese and meat which nobody touches. Tom: or they put a cigarette in the thin slices of Emmentel. John asked Gomez: To the man with the gravelly voice...do you think you sound like Louis Armstrong? If yes, have you ever considered covering one of his songs? You should cover "Azalea", that's a good one for you guys Ben: No, not at all. I don't know what that song is. No. Have you done any other covers? Iain: 'The Road to Nowhere', 'The Way you do the Things You do.', we've done a few. There's a couple I've seen out but only on Bootlegs. Neil Stone asked Gomez: Where can I get Opus 49? Iain: After Opus 48 I'd guess.The catalogue number of our first album was 49 Ben: It was our first chart position as well wasn't it. Iain: But yeah, you can get hold of it in all good record stores. Girl stranger asked Gomez: OK...despite my reluctance a few years ago to believe that the four random guys I met on a train from Liverpool to London, were going to...oh how did you put it...'make it big' I'm impressed! You did exactly what you said you were gonna do! & nows my chance to thank you for the use of your lighter! Ben: No worries. Tom: It was nice to meet you too Do you remember that particular encounter? Iain: Umm, I remember meeting strangers on trains. Tom: I do remember having an argument with a girl on a train once. Who's the friendliest out of the band? Ben: Probably Tom. No Ollie, he's the nicest. Ollie: Only if I have to be nice. We're all quite pleasant I think. Ben Campbell asked Gomez: Ian, you've been living in Australia for some time, what do you think of Australian music and its current state? By music I mean stuff played on Triple J radio. Do you have any favourite acts who come from Oz? Iain: Radio stations only ever reflect what America's doing really, and so there's a lot of new metal and the usual type of punky stuff...but there are a lot of really good bands in Australia, the best one's are the really odd ones. And there's a lot of really good songwriter quiet type guys. SodaStream are really good and there's a good band called Orgimarch who do strange things, and there's a really good band called Downtown Brown who dress up in very weird clothing and do electro funk versions of AC DC songs. All the ladies absolutely love them. Ben: What about Jordan's band? Iain: Oh, Hush Honey, Hush honey and Diamond Skin are keeping the Sydney rock scene alive and well. Marr asked Gomez: With the new electronic elements in the new material, it seems you've all expanded your horizons musically. Does this branch from a newfound curiosity in using electronic elements in your music, or is this an example of something you've all wanted to do for a while? Keep up the fantastic music and please tour America soon. Tom: The latter really. Ollie: We've always done it, but just on a lesser capaity because we didn't know what we were doing. Ben: I think again it comes from having the time off to explore these things. Blacky: it can take a long time to get your head around some of the more technical computers and how you actually use them properly. Tom: but it's not to do with a sudden new curiosity in dance music or anything. Dave asked Gomez: What's your favourite line from any of your songs and why? Iain: what about the one about the tracksuit? That's a good line Ben: It's 'Gossamer see through zip up tracksuit, champagne bottle, ten o clock on thigh'. That's a pretty good line. Why is that's a good line? Tom: Because it's just incredible that you can fit those words into a song somehow. Ben: It was going to be 'Orange Gossamer see through tracksuit..' but we couldn't fit the Orange in. Tom: 'Gossamer see through zip up tracksuit..' you can see it can't you? are you there? James asked Gomez: 1- is there anywhere that we can find the meaning of your lyrics &/ inspirations for your songs? 2- are you ever coming to south africa? Ben: Buy a dictionary. Ollie: There's not much meaning. Tom: We have got an unerring quality of being cryptic with our lyrics which doesn't make it easy to understand what we're going on about. I think on this record the lyrics were a lot clearer though, a lot more direct... In the past we have had a habit of burying the meanings. Ollie: I guess they are a little easier to figure out this time. Was that the intention this time around? Tom: yeah, I mean we had time to spend on the lyrics, the time off gave us the chance to think about the words. There's noting worse than when the words are completely and utterly dump. Rory asked Gomez: I have too many questions to ask my favourite, most inspiring and most fantastic band around at the moment, but having been in this business for some time now, what is it that you guys listen to when you're chilling out? see you guys in London and in Bristol - Reading was great, and there's no way i could only see you once!! cheers. Rory, a true lover of everything you do. All: Aaah, thanks Rory. Iain: The new Fridge album is pretty good. It's good for chilling out to. Ben: I don't really listen to music, I will do now I've got a stereo. Tom: the new David Holmes album thats' coming out is quite good, and Nick Drake, and obviously ToTo. Ben: I'm going to be chilling out with UB4O, kicking back, smoking reefers with UB4O. Tom: Imagine how quickly you'd get paranoid Alex asked gomez: Do you rememer when you played a gig in Bristol and everyone held up their shoes? That was ace. aaah good times. Oh and Tom, your autograph, which you signed at the pilton party in about 1997, on a shopping list, is one of my most treasured posessions. Ben: Yes we do remember that, it was bizarre. Tom: The life of Brian was on TV the night before. Ben: Didn't someone lose a shoe? Tom: You lost your shoe. Ben: What happened to it? Tom: You were flailing like a turkey and somehow your shoe came off. I think a member of the audience grabbed it and when they gave it back you were like 'Yay, the shoe!' and then everyone else took off their shoes and said 'Yay the shoe'. I seem to remember it was something like that. Ben: I got my shoe back though that says a lot for the people of Bristol, an honest bunch Tom: Mind you, who need's a warm, size 13 leather upper Ben: it was a nice shoe. Rob Telford asked Gomez: Why doesn't Tom sing more? Waster is one of my faves and I think Tom's voice is underutilised... Tom: I do sing! Its not under-utilised, I sang a bit last night, I'm still singing the same amount I ever was. Two is like my Ringo Starr quota. It's just whatever's going. Ben: I can't wait for 'the old song' though, when Ollie's voice finally unleashes itself upon the world. T: God help us. Josh asked Gomez: Listening to the new album, it is definitely an evolved style from bring it on. Is one of the reasons for this that you recorded Bring it on with a limited amount of equipment, so could not experiment fully with such things as sampling. Or was it a natural progression of the music ? Ollie: I think he's quite correct with that assumption. Very astute. Tom: it's a bit of both of what he's saying. Because we were so poor and had so little at the time we developed a philosophy, a little bit ludite, that was if we can't have it we'll hate it. We'll hate the things we can't have. Ollie: We were quite anti computers for a while. Iain: Steve McCroskey was sampled by the fact that the record jumped while we played it. Ollie: that was how we sampled in the old days, that's how poor we were. Ral asked Gomez: You have such a unique sound yet I can detect so many influences in so many of your songs.What would you say are the main influences in your song writing and your music. Is it as I suspect that you all have divergent influences and you are able to meld them altogether.Keep up the excellent work you have rekindled a passion for music in me which I was fast losing because of the blandness which seemed to be infecting the recent music scene.Thankyou. Tom: Influences? Saxon. er.. Maiden, Venom, Priest...white wine, tiger tales, la guns, Poison, Motley Crue, Jovi, Anthrax, death, morpheus, cruncher. Ollie: that kind of stuff. Tom: Metal up to but not beyond 1985 Ben: and then pop after, electro pop, pet shop boys, erasure.. umm, Saxon Sprout asked Gomez: Did you enjoy life at Sheffield Uni? Iain: yes and no...skint, freezing, drunk Ben: the bar was really good actually, you could just go in and spend all day there Tom: where there was warmth Iain: it was freezing, fucking freezing. Ben: What I enjoyed most about it was watching Graham continually break his jaw. Tom: It's very easy to break bones in Sheffield because of all the inclines Ben: well he would just stand on tables...he broke his jaw and then after six weeks he recovered and then he fell off a table and broke it again... Infact each time he went out to celebrate recovering he broke it again Tom: I seem to remember him rolling down a hill and it looking quite painful Iain: he was on soup for eighteen month's, soup and beer. Ben: he became something of a connoisseur though. Tom: Is he still in Bristol? Ben: Yeah, we'll have to look him up when we go up there. Tom: Just look for the house with 'nil by mouth' written on it Nic asked Gomez: A cute guy called Matt who works in a music shop in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia claimed that he had been talking to Ian at a Gelbison gig and Ian said that there will be 2 Gomez albums released this year. Is this true???? Tom: Were you drunk that evening Ian? Ian: I don't remember saying there would be two Ollie: maybe you were just being ambitious at the time. Sarah Goodhart asked Gomez: Firstly i would like to thank you for your incredible music. I was at one of your Australian concerts (adelaide) in 2000 and it has been my most favoured experience. Will you be touring Australia again, if so have you started planning dates yet? All: Yes Chris Turner asked Gomez: I'm in a 'alternative' band and wondered what's the best way about getting ourselves noticed and signed ? Ollie: buy yourself some equipment instead of going to studios. Tom: use all your cash to make a demo Ben: Make sure its really good Iain: make sure your singers not crap Ben: Buy some good costumes Tom: and sleep with as many people in a position of power as possible. That's not what you did though is it? Tom: yeah. Andy Twiss asked Gomez: Christ I'm fucked - How're you doing??? Tom: Andy Twiss?? God Bless you Ben: Is that all he says? Were fine, we're good. Adam asked Gomez: This is to blacky: have you written any gomez song and did u want to pursue a career in pharmacy? Blacky: No and No Bonho asked gomez: I recently discovered your fabulous selves on one of the Napster-esque music places, and even though I have now bought all your CDs, I'd like to send you some money for all the nasty downloading I did; have a few drinks on me (and I'm SO not kidding!)!! Any address will do, management, or whoever you think is most honest. Ben: How much money is he prepared to give? Iain: Don't worry about it, it's free, that's what it's there for, he should keep his cash and drink it. Ben: He bought the records anyway, it's fair enough, he's made his penance hasn't he Is that how you think it works with Napster...if you like the record you'll buy it? All: Yeah Iain: that's how I think about it. Basically what Napster is,is a big massive advertisement, and if people don't buy it then fuck it, it's not like you're going to die from it. Tom: If you think about it, it's just the same as taping it off the radio, but better quality What about all the MP3 players getting more popular? Ian: Well, I think it's going to be when the quality gets really good, then all the record companies will be completely fucked. At the moment it's not that good, it's on your computer and not as widely useable as a CD. Presumably when the technical gear is there for all that stuff, everything will change, I imagine. America's already there though, in five years there will be no need for record company's in America. Tom: When that happens I think the worst thing is going to be for new bands who are trying to break in because how are you going to be able to hear one thing or another. That's not what you did though is it? Tom: yeah. Andy Twiss asked Gomez: Christ I'm fucked - How're you doing??? Tom: Andy Twiss?? God Bless you Ben: Is that all he says? Were fine, we're good. Adam asked Gomez: This is to blacky: have you written any gomez song and did u want to pursue a career in pharmacy? Blacky: No and No Bonho asked gomez: I recently discovered your fabulous selves on one of the Napster-esque music places, and even though I have now bought all your CDs, I'd like to send you some money for all the nasty downloading I did; have a few drinks on me (and I'm SO not kidding!)!! Any address will do, management, or whoever you think is most honest. Ben: How much money is he prepared to give? Iain: Don't worry about it, it's free, that's what it's there for, he should keep his cash and drink it. Ben: He bought the records anyway, it's fair enough, he's made his penance hasn't he Is that how you think it works with Napster...if you like the record you'll buy it? All: Yeah Iain: that's how I think about it. Basically what Napster is,is a big massive advertisement, and if people don't buy it then fuck it, it's not like you're going to die from it. Tom: If you think about it, it's just the same as taping it off the radio, but better quality What about all the MP3 players getting more popular? Ian: Well, I think it's going to be when the quality gets really good, then all the record companies will be completely fucked. At the moment it's not that good, it's on your computer and not as widely useable as a CD. Presumably when the technical gear is there for all that stuff, everything will change, I imagine. America's already there though, in five years there will be no need for record company's in America. Tom: When that happens I think the worst thing is going to be for new bands who are trying to break in because how are you going to be able to hear one thing or another. Ben: I think most people who use Napster are aware of that anyway, they're not stupid. Tom: Everyone who's got a name will be able to carry on touring and make their money, if you want to be a musician that's how you make your money, through gigs. But unless you've already got a name how are you going to get one, it's going to be impossible... It's going to become the classic thing, the same that's happening with the film websites already. People tune in to read the reviews and there's already clues that the websites have given in to the corporate company's and are being paid to promote certain things. I don't think anyone's going to trust an internet site like that, unless it's run by some nuns or something. Libby asked Gomez: Who is the most likely to fall asleep at any particular moment? Silence. Ben: I think that's all of us, I reckon Blacky because you can find comfort in skirting boards and there's always a skirting board around somewhere Any tips for falling asleep? Ben: Valium. Booze. Booze and valium Iain: Brian Eno Ollie: they are all options. I'll ask you one more, what's your favourite Gomez website? Tom: The all new gomez website. It's great. It is a great site Tom: And it's getting better as well, it's growing More things are being added Tom: Mmm, more places to explore...people who've been on it have said 'have you done this yet?' which is really great. Thanks ever so much for taking the time to talk to us. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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