Gomez unbeatable at Paradise

The past two years have been a whirlwind ride on the train of success for Gomez. The English band came out of nowhere with a much-acclaimed and award winning debut album, and ended up playing huge festivals in Europe followed by a very popular club tour of the States. Certainly, Ian Ball, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell, Olly Peacock, and Paul Blackburn did not expect this outcome when they recorded Bring it On in their freezing garage in the winter of 1998. After its release, there was no stopping them: they won the Q Magazine award for best newcomers and the Mercury Music Prize for the album of the year, England's equivalent of the Grammy - it couldn't get much better than that!