Seeing the potential for an elfin keyboard player with onstage Tourettes in the modern punk-pop troop, they ditched the other hopeful guitarists and recruited Pennie, whose limited ability at the time was aided by his KORG-EA1 being "basically a My First Keyboard." And anyway, when he tried vocals on an At The Drive-In cover they saw they had performance gold. Now he's graduated to the far more advanced Alhesis Micron and the "old skool" Roland Juno and The Automatic have patented their own sound.
The boys had bonded over shared loves of Blur, Ash and Radiohead, but cutting their live teeth on the screamo-heavy Cardiff scene saw them grow close to the experimental hardcore bands like Jarcrew, which put them in a unique position.
"It affected us in a good way though," says Frost, "we didn't feel pressure to play the same music as all the other bands. We didn't look at a band and say 'cos they're doing that we're gonna do something totally different. We could absorb the best bits."
And in turn, The Automatic were able to mine a virgin sound, as Rob's pummeling bass wraps itself round Iwan's nuclear, physical drums, Frost and Pennie skate over at speed, creating an urgent, glam hardcore fantasy island of sounds as ambitious, deranged, angry and fun as the sound of the future should be…
Having signed to B-Unique, a stint of intensive recording in Liverpool, Cardiff and Lincoln produced 'Not Accepted Anywhere', the band's Steve Harris and Richard Jackson-produced debut album. It's the most restless, energetic, urgent album you'll hear all year.
First, the burnt-on-your earlobes blast of debut single 'Recover' announced The Automatic's arrival before next single 'Raoul' crashed into the Top 40. Then, in summer 2005, 'Monster' planted its mammoth footprint into the top 10 and things went crazy in Automatic World.
'Monster' became the soundtrack to 2006, being sung from the terraces to the playground, soundtracking Panorama (!) and making The Automatic one of the must see acts over the summer. Each festival appearance was a show stealer – T In The Park, Reading and the Leeds festivals saw thousands of frenzied fans inside The Automatic's tent, with just as many outside trying to get in to catch a glimpse of their new heroes.
The boys had bonded over shared loves of Blur, Ash and Radiohead, but cutting their live teeth on the screamo-heavy Cardiff scene saw them grow close to the experimental hardcore bands like Jarcrew, which put them in a unique position.
"It affected us in a good way though," says Frost, "we didn't feel pressure to play the same music as all the other bands. We didn't look at a band and say 'cos they're doing that we're gonna do something totally different. We could absorb the best bits."
And in turn, The Automatic were able to mine a virgin sound, as Rob's pummeling bass wraps itself round Iwan's nuclear, physical drums, Frost and Pennie skate over at speed, creating an urgent, glam hardcore fantasy island of sounds as ambitious, deranged, angry and fun as the sound of the future should be…
Having signed to B-Unique, a stint of intensive recording in Liverpool, Cardiff and Lincoln produced 'Not Accepted Anywhere', the band's Steve Harris and Richard Jackson-produced debut album. It's the most restless, energetic, urgent album you'll hear all year.
First, the burnt-on-your earlobes blast of debut single 'Recover' announced The Automatic's arrival before next single 'Raoul' crashed into the Top 40. Then, in summer 2005, 'Monster' planted its mammoth footprint into the top 10 and things went crazy in Automatic World.
'Monster' became the soundtrack to 2006, being sung from the terraces to the playground, soundtracking Panorama (!) and making The Automatic one of the must see acts over the summer. Each festival appearance was a show stealer – T In The Park, Reading and the Leeds festivals saw thousands of frenzied fans inside The Automatic's tent, with just as many outside trying to get in to catch a glimpse of their new heroes.
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