The Automatic: first post-Pennie material due
The Automatic will release their first material since keyboard-banging yelp-child Alex Pennie departed the band on August 18»
The Automatic News
Vampire Weekend, Saul Williams added as Great Escape bill shapes up
The ill and ailing Vampire Weekend top a new raft of acts who’ll be around Brighton in May for this year’s Great Escape.»
Yourcodenameis: The Automatic, apparently
Paul Mullen, singer with yourcodenameis:milo, has joined Welsh pop-rockers The Automatic...»
Rock Ness: New Sightings Confirmed
Mark Ronson and Kelis have been confirmed as latest additions to the Rock Ness Festival line-up in June...»
Funny picture alert! Automatic fight fans
The Automatic were involved in an onstage altercation with a fan on Tuesday night... »
British indie stars in near-death plane drama
The Automatic's drummer Iwan Griffiths has revealed that the band were involved in a near-death experience on a flight to Paris recently...»
Call the RSPCA: The Horrors "Raping a dead pig" say The Automatic
In the wake of comments accusing the band of "flogging a dead horse", The Automatic's Rob said of The Horrors: “They’re raping a dead pig”...»
Xfm announces Winter Wonderland line-up
The Fratellis (pictured), Manic Street Preachers, Biffy Clyro, The View and Boy Kill Boy are among the acts confirmed for Xfm's three-date Winter Wonderland season this year...»
Yourcodenameis:milo make new friends, denounce print on the way...
The Newcastle quintet release collaborations album this November...»
Promiscuous girl, you've given me CRABS: DiS chart round-up
On the new entry front, Lil’ Chris makes nineteen with ‘Checkin’ It Out’. Clearly, despite all the time he spent outside of English class making not-so-sweet music with Gene Simmons, the cap-sporting whippersnapper knows his way around an apostrophe or two...»
WIN! Ibiza Rocks double-disc albums
See me, I wouldn't be caught dead in Ibiza. It's too sunny, its beaches are full of stinkin' Brits abroad, and its clubs play that thump-thump-thump shite that the Vauxhall Nova brigade used to pump out of their crappy cars when I was in sixth form...»
WIN! Electric Gardens VIP passes
By way of celebrating our new /Festivals mini-site, DiS has procured two VIP passes to the upcoming Electric Gardens festival to give away...»
The Automatic 'trash' GMTV: "we've never been good in the mornings..."
Welsh teeny-rockers The Automatic performed live on ITV's GMTV this morning; when we say 'performed', we mean they kicked over some furniture and stood around in their pants...»
DiS play pop: chart attack, new releases...
DiS does like to play pop, from time to time, but for every ‘Back In Black’ there’s a ‘SexyBack’ just around the bend to trip you over with its initially impressive skitter and slide. To ensure you don’t suffer likewise, we’ll do our very utmost to provide you with a weekly guide to what’s what, chart-wise. So, here’s the runners and riders – and fallers and non-starters – for the week beginning July 17. THAT’S TODAY. Wow, the Romans were great…»
Automatic for the People: Oi! Want to be in a video?
Annoying pop-chimps The Automatic want YOU to star in their new video.»
Like music? Like surfing? Read this.
The second annual Ripcurl Boardmasters Unleashed Music Festival is almost upon us. With music from Feeder, Starsailor and Graham Coxon, among others, on 4-5 August to a backdrop of bikini babes and 6ft swells in Watergate Bay in Newquay, it's gonna be totally surf-tastic... dude.»
Dot To Dot: Here's the schedule...
This Sunday (May 28th) sees Nottingham's second Dot To Dot Festival take place at venues across the city, and it's even bigger and better than last year. Over 60 bands and DJs will be spread across four venues - Rock City, Stealth, the Social and the Rescue Rooms...»
Another day, another festival: Electric Gardens news
So it seems that it's only DiS that isn't putting on a festival this summer. (Or are we? No, no, we're not.) Word around the yet-to-be-lit campfires is that Kent will play host to one of the summer's many new festivals, Electric Gardens...»
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