Gomez To Go On Short Hiatus

British rock band Gomez have revealed that it is time to go on a short hiatus following the release and global tour of their seventh record, Whatever's On Your Mind.

Speaking to TheMusic in a recent interview, guitarist Tom Gray admits their future plans: “Firstly, we want to take a good ol' breather – I think Gomez has to go away for a minute."

“We've just finished a record contract and those last three albums kind of work as a piece together, and we can put that to one side now. And with a little bit of time and risk-bearing on our part, hopefully we can be a lot more weird and wonderful. It's a bit risky to think this way, but I think we have to afford ourselves that.”

This break will coincide with a new project that Gray will be embarking on – scoring a new television show based around the children's books of Polly Dunbar.

“Everything that I have done in my life has just been for a laugh really,” he says. “Polly's just a good mate of mine and we started around six years ago putting on children's shows in Brighton every Christmas with completely original scores, and we just tried to put together something really beautiful and great...If you know anything from Gomez, you probably have the realisation that I'm an obvious melody guy, that's what I do. And children's music is all about melody, which is incredibly freeing for me because I am just bursting at the sides with that shit.”