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.
The quartet were running through recent hit single 'Monster', that song that DiS doesn't rate all that much (perhaps you read this?), when things started going wrong: according to NME.com, the band's concentration rather slipped from the art of performance to the wrecking of the show's garden, which is all a little bit like Nirvana on The Last Resort, isn't it?.
Keyboard player Alex Pennie spoke to NME.com shortly after the event:
"We decided to stay up all night after the gig in Bristol rather than get up early - we've never been good in the mornings.
"Frost (James, guitarist) was pretty drunk when we started 'Monster', and I'm easily led. Before we knew it I was standing in my boxer shorts in the GMTV garden and Frost had trashed all the equipment."
Footage of the silly boys being silly can be seen here.
I was at the Bristol gig
Oddly enough they sounded alright except for Monster which they completely ballsed up.
I bought the tickets a long while back on the strength of liking the two singles - before I realised that the shouty thing wasn't just a feature of those two tracks but all of them, and that the rest repeated their trick with diminishing returns. Innit.
Cheeky cunt on youtube...
...posted:-
"Big hello to the visitors from the Drowned in Sound indie ghetto - you should get out more often :P "
Hmmm..
i saw that
i LOLed a little bit.
David Frost..
...in his pants, in the garden. Back in the TV:am days. Maybe.
blatant
pr stunt innit.
tag this on
the twats.
This band
just get worse and worse.
No doubt all the cool 'indie' kids will be talking about how cool they were, TRASHING THE SET.
:@
Christ that's embarassing
what a load of tossers. 2 blue wkds and they're anyone's...
Did You actually watch it?
It was fucking hilarious, ain't nothing wrong with that!
When they played at the Concorde
Their manager told the House team 'Theyre going to smash up the equiptment at the end of the set, so dont worry and be prepared for that ok.
Rock and roll to order.
Hmm..Encor was 'goldigger' by kanye west with the whole band in boxershorts....
oh dear
That was the support band
Cat the Dog who are really talentless cunts signed to The Kooks label, look like the Kooks and can't even play their own songs - worse than Doherty on a crack binge but nowhere near as amusing. Saw them in Bristol show.
Switches however were cool and should have been main support
i like how "frost" gets mounted at the end.
i think it was about as 'hilarious'
as when 'monster' was being played so extensively on radio1 after the appointment of mr whiley to their management.
my poor ears.
I just watched the clip
They managed to keep playing the tune, note perfect, in the process.
Consummate professionals.
..
i've killed a man for a less idiotic attack on an orange amp. why they fuck do that toneless bunch of spackies need the best amps ever? beats me.
Its not a real amp
its not plugged in. its a hired dummy. no orange amps were killed in this debacle.
"we've never been good at music"
more like
HAHAHA
The NME article on this
even says that they were miming. Hardly a surprise having seen the performance, but I wonder whether they were made to, or if it was their choice.
Wow.
Pushing an amp over is the epitome of rock and roll. That's really 'trashed' the place, hasn't it.
if they'd really fucked the place up
- i mean, burn it to the ground and put Ben Shephard's head on a pole - than i'd have some respect for the little twunts.
appearing on gmtv...
rock and roll!
Who cares
they suck.
http://www.musictimes.com.au
stop with the constant jagging you tit...
http://www.shamelessselfpromotionsucks.com
I actually clicked on that last link
Because if it issn't a real website it should be.
Bright green boxers?
Now honestly...
Move over Cobain...
What, precisely, is the intended audience for GMTV? Very young children and women with very dull mornings?
...
This reminds me of when they were on Jools Holland and they tried to do the At The Drive In thing.
It didn't work then and I doubt it worked with Eamonn either.
That Pennie fella...
he's wacky....
Funnily enough
I doubt any of you would be giving this Frosty response if Morrissey had done it or one of those other wankers you all worship. I for one thought it was damn funny.
Morrissey and Johnny Marr do Kids TV
Check out:
http://jamiesrunoutgroove.blogspot.com/2006/07/greatest-youtubes-ever-smiths-are.html
I fucking love The Smiths and don't think any less for them for being part of such a cynical marketing ploy to convince small children to buy their records.
Although Morrissey looks like he's enjoying himself too much - hmmmm...
...
For the record, fuck Morrisey in his stupid face until death occurs. If there's one person who I'd less like to see on TV or hear on record it's him.
Twats
There's nothing more depressing than 'fake anachy'
Oh wait, yes there is, the prospect of another Automatic album
That little guy who screams
in EVERY SONG is like a chihuahua
lol
lol they trashed it didn't they! they really trashed it!! lol!! gosh. take that establishment
James13th
Hahah!
That comment made my day :)
Did you all see my horrific Automatic feature? http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=592&type=Features
I think Lenny said it best...
..when he sang "Rock and roll is dead"