In the first part of this huge interview with Gomez, Toazted reminisced with them about their quick start in the music industry, why they went to the States and how they quit smoking. "When you've smoked one cigarette, you've smoked them all."

In the second part of this interview Gomez talks about the career they've build in the States, how they saw the record industry collapse and how good promotion is everything. "You don't have to be on MTV to sell records."

In this third part the British music press gets slammed! They also talk about why the United States are so great. "The women, the music, but most of all they pay us!"

How to conquer the United States? Gomez tells you how in this fourth part of the interview. The band also speaks about touring and why this takes a toll on you. "You have to be a bit of a sociopath otherwise you won't make it."

In this fifth and last part of the interview, Gomez talks about CD's and why they are sick of them.

Tom and Ian gave us a great interview as they told us the story behind their album 'In Our Gun' and they shared some of the secrets behind the album's special sounds.

"We know how to use microphones now and for a long time that wasn't so clear."

Check out this great Gomez interview from 1998! Gomez is one of the freshest sounding bands to come out of the nineties. Their 1998 album "Bring It On" won the Mercury Prize for album of the year but they didn't jump to mainstream success like everyone would've thought. We spoke to Tom Gray and Ian Ball about their unique sound and why they're not an easy band to market.

"Everyone gets confused no one knows how to categorize us. People don't know what to write about us, radio doesn't know how to play us because they got all these Brintey Spears records to deal with and we kinda get lost in the den."