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1998 saw the release of Gomez's debut album Bring It On.
A great album during a period that wasn't really an awesome time for music - but this album by a hitherto unknown Southport five piece came out the blue - sounding utterly unlike anything else that was in the charts.

It won the 1998 Mercury Music Prize beating the favourites Massive Attack's Mezzanine and The Verve's Urban Hymns and went on to sell shed loads.

Now next year the band are marking what will be the album's 20 birthday with a reissue of the album - as a gorgeous vinyl version and a collection of the original cassette demos of the songs that made the final tracklisting and the group are reuniting for a special show at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 3rd May where they'll play the whole album in its entirety for the first time ever...

Matt Everitt spoke to Tom Gray from the band to find out more about the unlikely creation of this amazing album and getting together to play it live...