Joe Gomez

[gkmacca]

Oh, you're just incredibly proud of it. Blimey.

 

[cloggypop]

Not really.

 

[Mystic]

Seems as we are now retiring GloJo, maybe we should introduce GoJo for this guy.

 

[gkmacca]

Or maybe just Gro-Up.

 

[cloggypop]

He's already big for his age. That's about all I know about him.

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

For the record I've never seen Gomez play (or even highlight clips of him) but as has been mentioned the Charlton fans seem convinced he's the real deal.

vs Fulham, as right back.

 

[Oncy]

Knew I could rely on you Oncedog.

Interesting story about the band and their debut album.
I was working for Sam Goody records in Hammersmith at the time the album was released. Each Friday all the new releases for Monday would come in and in my office I would play EVERY album to see A)If I liked it and B)If I could sell it. Moreoften than not the artists you had never heard of would be crap and have maybe one playable track on it but the first time I put this album on me and my Assistant manager were just blown away by it, how vivid and rich it sounded and how good the musicianship was. We recieved one copy on sale or return from (it was either BmG or Virgin I cant remember which) the vendor and I just instantly thought I can really sell this album.

So I spoke to our album buyer, woman called Andrea something or other and I asked if we could get more being it was sale or return. After toing and froing she agreed to let me get the stock from Great Yarmouth and Windsor as she didnt see them selling it and didnt want to order anymore.
So I got their stock and sold 3 copies on day of Launch.
In all our other stores the stock sat unsold as it did in every single record shop in England. Our 3 got replened and I pulled stock from Boston and Weston. By the end of launch week we had sold about 15 copies in my store and hardly anywhere else.
In the shop we had a recommends section that had The Verve Urban Hymns (i think) on it and I pulled that off and added Bring it on. We kept playing it and pushing it and selling it, so the MD a guy called Ken Onstad asked me what we were doing as we were the only shop selling it so I told him to put it on the recommends and make it instore play from 12 to 2. The next day all stores recieved stock from the vendor and some instore pos for it, it went on our recommends bay and all stores had to play it instore. We started to sell loads of it as a company and even though it only charted somewhere outside of the top 10 we became known as the company who were really shifting it. Eventually radio play picked up and it started shipping everywhere. That year they won the Mercury music prize and Ken was invited along as we had supported the band so much and done so much making people aware of it.
This had been a carbon copy of a break we had made in my shop for the Morcheeba debut album where we had championed it and pushed it so much that our entire estate took it on and ran with it.

Now im not at all saying that me and my guys made those bands succesful (although I know we did) but it was a time when people who loved music could make music accessible. People who genuinely wanted something out there for the right reasons could make it happen, when big record shops could make or break a band because the people in them LOVED music and wanted it to succeed for the right reasons. Whereas today it is more of a product, more marketed than adored (yes im aware that what I did was market those bands). Whilst I dont want to get into a whole 'When I were a lad' thing, I do think its a shame that what kids today will have access to is limited to what is pimped the most rather than what fans of music think they will like.

I miss record shops, miss that part of my life very much. Not so much passion in the world these days.

 

[gkmacca]

It's not decided yet about a loan. There's still a chance he'll impress enough on tour to start the season in the squad.

 

[ILD]

Love those kind of posts from Oncy.

 

[Athens]

Interesting story about the band and their debut album.
I was working for Sam Goody records in Hammersmith at the time the album was released. Each Friday all the new releases for Monday would come in and in my office I would play EVERY album to see A)If I liked it and B)If I could sell it. Moreoften than not the artists you had never heard of would be crap and have maybe one playable track on it but the first time I put this album on me and my Assistant manager were just blown away by it, how vivid and rich it sounded and how good the musicianship was. We recieved one copy on sale or return from (it was either BmG or Virgin I cant remember which) the vendor and I just instantly thought I can really sell this album.

So I spoke to our album buyer, woman called Andrea something or other and I asked if we could get more being it was sale or return. After toing and froing she agreed to let me get the stock from Great Yarmouth and Windsor as she didnt see them selling it and didnt want to order anymore.
So I got their stock and sold 3 copies on day of Launch.
In all our other stores the stock sat unsold as it did in every single record shop in England. Our 3 got replened and I pulled stock from Boston and Weston. By the end of launch week we had sold about 15 copies in my store and hardly anywhere else.
In the shop we had a recommends section that had The Verve Urban Hymns (i think) on it and I pulled that off and added Bring it on. We kept playing it and pushing it and selling it, so the MD a guy called Ken Onstad asked me what we were doing as we were the only shop selling it so I told him to put it on the recommends and make it instore play from 12 to 2. The next day all stores recieved stock from the vendor and some instore pos for it, it went on our recommends bay and all stores had to play it instore. We started to sell loads of it as a company and even though it only charted somewhere outside of the top 10 we became known as the company who were really shifting it. Eventually radio play picked up and it started shipping everywhere. That year they won the Mercury music prize and Ken was invited along as we had supported the band so much and done so much making people aware of it.
This had been a carbon copy of a break we had made in my shop for the Morcheeba debut album where we had championed it and pushed it so much that our entire estate took it on and ran with it.

Now im not at all saying that me and my guys made those bands succesful (although I know we did) but it was a time when people who loved music could make music accessible. People who genuinely wanted something out there for the right reasons could make it happen, when big record shops could make or break a band because the people in them LOVED music and wanted it to succeed for the right reasons. Whereas today it is more of a product, more marketed than adored (yes im aware that what I did was market those bands). Whilst I dont want to get into a whole 'When I were a lad' thing, I do think its a shame that what kids today will have access to is limited to what is pimped the most rather than what fans of music think they will like.

I miss record shops, miss that part of my life very much. Not so much passion in the world these days.

Terry Hooley is closing his good vibrations shop for good.

Thought you might want to know.

 

[Oncy]

Terry Hooley is closing his good vibrations shop for good.

Thought you might want to know.

I know mate. Very sad. I worked there a little bit when I was a kid helping out.
My ma is good friends of his and when she ran Street Level in Queens he sorted her out the ticket contract with Aitken.
Thanks to Terry Hooley I saw almost every band worth seeing in the 80's
A great man.

 

[Woland]

Interesting story about the band and their debut album.
I was working for Sam Goody records in Hammersmith at the time the album was released. Each Friday all the new releases for Monday would come in and in my office I would play EVERY album to see A)If I liked it and B)If I could sell it. Moreoften than not the artists you had never heard of would be crap and have maybe one playable track on it but the first time I put this album on me and my Assistant manager were just blown away by it, how vivid and rich it sounded and how good the musicianship was. We recieved one copy on sale or return from (it was either BmG or Virgin I cant remember which) the vendor and I just instantly thought I can really sell this album.

So I spoke to our album buyer, woman called Andrea something or other and I asked if we could get more being it was sale or return. After toing and froing she agreed to let me get the stock from Great Yarmouth and Windsor as she didnt see them selling it and didnt want to order anymore.
So I got their stock and sold 3 copies on day of Launch.
In all our other stores the stock sat unsold as it did in every single record shop in England. Our 3 got replened and I pulled stock from Boston and Weston. By the end of launch week we had sold about 15 copies in my store and hardly anywhere else.
In the shop we had a recommends section that had The Verve Urban Hymns (i think) on it and I pulled that off and added Bring it on. We kept playing it and pushing it and selling it, so the MD a guy called Ken Onstad asked me what we were doing as we were the only shop selling it so I told him to put it on the recommends and make it instore play from 12 to 2. The next day all stores recieved stock from the vendor and some instore pos for it, it went on our recommends bay and all stores had to play it instore. We started to sell loads of it as a company and even though it only charted somewhere outside of the top 10 we became known as the company who were really shifting it. Eventually radio play picked up and it started shipping everywhere. That year they won the Mercury music prize and Ken was invited along as we had supported the band so much and done so much making people aware of it.
This had been a carbon copy of a break we had made in my shop for the Morcheeba debut album where we had championed it and pushed it so much that our entire estate took it on and ran with it.

Now im not at all saying that me and my guys made those bands succesful (although I know we did) but it was a time when people who loved music could make music accessible. People who genuinely wanted something out there for the right reasons could make it happen, when big record shops could make or break a band because the people in them LOVED music and wanted it to succeed for the right reasons. Whereas today it is more of a product, more marketed than adored (yes im aware that what I did was market those bands). Whilst I dont want to get into a whole 'When I were a lad' thing, I do think its a shame that what kids today will have access to is limited to what is pimped the most rather than what fans of music think they will like.

I miss record shops, miss that part of my life very much. Not so much passion in the world these days.

Great story... but on the final point of music being accessible, don't you think that it's easier to get distributed now than then if you're good? I mean it seems their success was dependent on you individually not being on your holidays or in a bad mood on one random Friday.

 

[Oncy]

Great story... but on the final point of music being accessible, don't you think that it's easier to get distributed now than then if you're good? I mean it seems their success was dependent on you individually not being on your holidays or in a bad mood on one random Friday.

HAHAHAHAHA.
I was thinking about it the other day mate, you remember when you were a kid going into our price or virgin or wherever and asking to listen to all the albums you hadnt heard?

 

[Woland]

I used to spend whole days in record shops... thinking about it, at least 10 hours a week... And then when I started getting decent DJ gigs I'd get sent tons of music, every day parcels would arrive and I'd listen to everything and have to send feedback forms by return, even for the shit stuff, because if I didn't they stopped sending it out... But now I spend whole days listening to stuff on my computer, and I'm guessing the curation element that existed then had its uses, but would also potentially stop as much good stuff getting through as it did promote stuff that might not have been noticed.

 

[Ryan]

Interesting story about the band and their debut album.
I was working for Sam Goody records in Hammersmith at the time the album was released. Each Friday all the new releases for Monday would come in and in my office I would play EVERY album to see A)If I liked it and B)If I could sell it. Moreoften than not the artists you had never heard of would be crap and have maybe one playable track on it but the first time I put this album on me and my Assistant manager were just blown away by it, how vivid and rich it sounded and how good the musicianship was. We recieved one copy on sale or return from (it was either BmG or Virgin I cant remember which) the vendor and I just instantly thought I can really sell this album.

So I spoke to our album buyer, woman called Andrea something or other and I asked if we could get more being it was sale or return. After toing and froing she agreed to let me get the stock from Great Yarmouth and Windsor as she didnt see them selling it and didnt want to order anymore.
So I got their stock and sold 3 copies on day of Launch.
In all our other stores the stock sat unsold as it did in every single record shop in England. Our 3 got replened and I pulled stock from Boston and Weston. By the end of launch week we had sold about 15 copies in my store and hardly anywhere else.
In the shop we had a recommends section that had The Verve Urban Hymns (i think) on it and I pulled that off and added Bring it on. We kept playing it and pushing it and selling it, so the MD a guy called Ken Onstad asked me what we were doing as we were the only shop selling it so I told him to put it on the recommends and make it instore play from 12 to 2. The next day all stores recieved stock from the vendor and some instore pos for it, it went on our recommends bay and all stores had to play it instore. We started to sell loads of it as a company and even though it only charted somewhere outside of the top 10 we became known as the company who were really shifting it. Eventually radio play picked up and it started shipping everywhere. That year they won the Mercury music prize and Ken was invited along as we had supported the band so much and done so much making people aware of it.
This had been a carbon copy of a break we had made in my shop for the Morcheeba debut album where we had championed it and pushed it so much that our entire estate took it on and ran with it.

Now im not at all saying that me and my guys made those bands succesful (although I know we did) but it was a time when people who loved music could make music accessible. People who genuinely wanted something out there for the right reasons could make it happen, when big record shops could make or break a band because the people in them LOVED music and wanted it to succeed for the right reasons. Whereas today it is more of a product, more marketed than adored (yes im aware that what I did was market those bands). Whilst I dont want to get into a whole 'When I were a lad' thing, I do think its a shame that what kids today will have access to is limited to what is pimped the most rather than what fans of music think they will like.

I miss record shops, miss that part of my life very much. Not so much passion in the world these days.

What a good story.

I like that you're my friend oncy.

 

[Red Mullet]

Interesting story about the band and their debut album.
I was working for Sam Goody records in Hammersmith at the time the album was released. Each Friday all the new releases for Monday would come in and in my office I would play EVERY album to see A)If I liked it and B)If I could sell it. Moreoften than not the artists you had never heard of would be crap and have maybe one playable track on it but the first time I put this album on me and my Assistant manager were just blown away by it, how vivid and rich it sounded and how good the musicianship was. We recieved one copy on sale or return from (it was either BmG or Virgin I cant remember which) the vendor and I just instantly thought I can really sell this album.

So I spoke to our album buyer, woman called Andrea something or other and I asked if we could get more being it was sale or return. After toing and froing she agreed to let me get the stock from Great Yarmouth and Windsor as she didnt see them selling it and didnt want to order anymore.
So I got their stock and sold 3 copies on day of Launch.
In all our other stores the stock sat unsold as it did in every single record shop in England. Our 3 got replened and I pulled stock from Boston and Weston. By the end of launch week we had sold about 15 copies in my store and hardly anywhere else.
In the shop we had a recommends section that had The Verve Urban Hymns (i think) on it and I pulled that off and added Bring it on. We kept playing it and pushing it and selling it, so the MD a guy called Ken Onstad asked me what we were doing as we were the only shop selling it so I told him to put it on the recommends and make it instore play from 12 to 2. The next day all stores recieved stock from the vendor and some instore pos for it, it went on our recommends bay and all stores had to play it instore. We started to sell loads of it as a company and even though it only charted somewhere outside of the top 10 we became known as the company who were really shifting it. Eventually radio play picked up and it started shipping everywhere. That year they won the Mercury music prize and Ken was invited along as we had supported the band so much and done so much making people aware of it.
This had been a carbon copy of a break we had made in my shop for the Morcheeba debut album where we had championed it and pushed it so much that our entire estate took it on and ran with it.

Now im not at all saying that me and my guys made those bands succesful (although I know we did) but it was a time when people who loved music could make music accessible. People who genuinely wanted something out there for the right reasons could make it happen, when big record shops could make or break a band because the people in them LOVED music and wanted it to succeed for the right reasons. Whereas today it is more of a product, more marketed than adored (yes im aware that what I did was market those bands). Whilst I dont want to get into a whole 'When I were a lad' thing, I do think its a shame that what kids today will have access to is limited to what is pimped the most rather than what fans of music think they will like.

I miss record shops, miss that part of my life very much. Not so much passion in the world these days.

It's stuff like this that I signed up for SCM. Everything this man posts should be liked.

 

[Oncy]

Lol.

 

[StevieM]

It's a great story, but I've always thought Gomez were shit.

That probably shouldn't surprise anyone.

 

[mom]

Interesting story about the band and their debut album.
I was working for Sam Goody records in Hammersmith at the time the album was released. Each Friday all the new releases for Monday would come in and in my office I would play EVERY album to see A)If I liked it and B)If I could sell it. Moreoften than not the artists you had never heard of would be crap and have maybe one playable track on it but the first time I put this album on me and my Assistant manager were just blown away by it, how vivid and rich it sounded and how good the musicianship was. We recieved one copy on sale or return from (it was either BmG or Virgin I cant remember which) the vendor and I just instantly thought I can really sell this album.

So I spoke to our album buyer, woman called Andrea something or other and I asked if we could get more being it was sale or return. After toing and froing she agreed to let me get the stock from Great Yarmouth and Windsor as she didnt see them selling it and didnt want to order anymore.
So I got their stock and sold 3 copies on day of Launch.
In all our other stores the stock sat unsold as it did in every single record shop in England. Our 3 got replened and I pulled stock from Boston and Weston. By the end of launch week we had sold about 15 copies in my store and hardly anywhere else.
In the shop we had a recommends section that had The Verve Urban Hymns (i think) on it and I pulled that off and added Bring it on. We kept playing it and pushing it and selling it, so the MD a guy called Ken Onstad asked me what we were doing as we were the only shop selling it so I told him to put it on the recommends and make it instore play from 12 to 2. The next day all stores recieved stock from the vendor and some instore pos for it, it went on our recommends bay and all stores had to play it instore. We started to sell loads of it as a company and even though it only charted somewhere outside of the top 10 we became known as the company who were really shifting it. Eventually radio play picked up and it started shipping everywhere. That year they won the Mercury music prize and Ken was invited along as we had supported the band so much and done so much making people aware of it.
This had been a carbon copy of a break we had made in my shop for the Morcheeba debut album where we had championed it and pushed it so much that our entire estate took it on and ran with it.

Now im not at all saying that me and my guys made those bands succesful (although I know we did) but it was a time when people who loved music could make music accessible. People who genuinely wanted something out there for the right reasons could make it happen, when big record shops could make or break a band because the people in them LOVED music and wanted it to succeed for the right reasons. Whereas today it is more of a product, more marketed than adored (yes im aware that what I did was market those bands). Whilst I dont want to get into a whole 'When I were a lad' thing, I do think its a shame that what kids today will have access to is limited to what is pimped the most rather than what fans of music think they will like.

I miss record shops, miss that part of my life very much. Not so much passion in the world these days.

Wreck a stow.

 

[Oncy]

Wreck a stow.

Vanity rock.....you just cant stop

 

[Red Astaire]

Interesting story about the band and their debut album.
I was working for Sam Goody records in Hammersmith at the time the album was released. Each Friday all the new releases for Monday would come in and in my office I would play EVERY album to see A)If I liked it and B)If I could sell it. Moreoften than not the artists you had never heard of would be crap and have maybe one playable track on it but the first time I put this album on me and my Assistant manager were just blown away by it, how vivid and rich it sounded and how good the musicianship was. We recieved one copy on sale or return from (it was either BmG or Virgin I cant remember which) the vendor and I just instantly thought I can really sell this album.

So I spoke to our album buyer, woman called Andrea something or other and I asked if we could get more being it was sale or return. After toing and froing she agreed to let me get the stock from Great Yarmouth and Windsor as she didnt see them selling it and didnt want to order anymore.
So I got their stock and sold 3 copies on day of Launch.
In all our other stores the stock sat unsold as it did in every single record shop in England. Our 3 got replened and I pulled stock from Boston and Weston. By the end of launch week we had sold about 15 copies in my store and hardly anywhere else.
In the shop we had a recommends section that had The Verve Urban Hymns (i think) on it and I pulled that off and added Bring it on. We kept playing it and pushing it and selling it, so the MD a guy called Ken Onstad asked me what we were doing as we were the only shop selling it so I told him to put it on the recommends and make it instore play from 12 to 2. The next day all stores recieved stock from the vendor and some instore pos for it, it went on our recommends bay and all stores had to play it instore. We started to sell loads of it as a company and even though it only charted somewhere outside of the top 10 we became known as the company who were really shifting it. Eventually radio play picked up and it started shipping everywhere. That year they won the Mercury music prize and Ken was invited along as we had supported the band so much and done so much making people aware of it.
This had been a carbon copy of a break we had made in my shop for the Morcheeba debut album where we had championed it and pushed it so much that our entire estate took it on and ran with it.

Now im not at all saying that me and my guys made those bands succesful (although I know we did) but it was a time when people who loved music could make music accessible. People who genuinely wanted something out there for the right reasons could make it happen, when big record shops could make or break a band because the people in them LOVED music and wanted it to succeed for the right reasons. Whereas today it is more of a product, more marketed than adored (yes im aware that what I did was market those bands). Whilst I dont want to get into a whole 'When I were a lad' thing, I do think its a shame that what kids today will have access to is limited to what is pimped the most rather than what fans of music think they will like.

I miss record shops, miss that part of my life very much. Not so much passion in the world these days.

Great story. I once DJ'd a funk set before they came on at Keele Uni many moons ago. Come to think of it I did the same for The Propellerheads and Snow Patrol. It won't surprise many that Snow Patrol were dicks - Although that was maybe because we scoffed all of their food before they were due to start....

Anyway that Gomez guy got some good write ups playing Brisbane. Good luck to the guy.