EXCLUSIVE PRE-SALE Sign-up to our exclusive pre-sale to receive first access to tickets > http://bit.ly/GomezEnmoreTheatrePreSale Bluesfest Touring is proud to welcome Gomez back to Australia for their first tour in 6 years and the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough album ‘Bring It On’. The five members of Gomez played their first shows together in Leeds in late 1996, and soon began recording songs in Olly’s dad’s garage in Southport. The demos aroused considerable interest, and the group signed to the Virgin subsidiary label Hut Records in 1997. These garage demos eventually became their debut, ‘Bring It On’, which was praised in the rock press on both sides of the Atlantic and featured the hit tracks ’78 Stone Wobble’ and ‘Get Myself Arrest’. Gomez won 1998’s Mercury Music Prize for Album of the Year, where they edged out such stiff competition as Massive Attack’s Mezzanine, the Verve’s ‘Urban Hymns’ and Pulp‘s ‘This Is Hardcore’.