The Automatic Biography

So far their live signature tune, 'Monsters' boasts a chorus destined to be chanted from playgrounds to football terraces to alien planets. The monsters in question are the beered up Sherman-clad townies who roam Cardiff of a Saturday night, with added Autoimagination. If Rob was a real monster he would look "like Gary Glitter, only Green," while Iwan's special power would be "a magnetic face."

And for now, there's the big-hitting second single to get out of the way, a gorgeous slab of youthful punk urgency and minor-key sadness that pays tribute to the mystic sandwich-maker outside their rehearsal room, 'Raoul'.

"We rehearse in Cardiff and he owns a café across the road and he makes sandwiches," says Rob. "The song's about how you end up pandering to expectations of those around you and doing what you think you should do to succeed in life, and ending up in a job you hate. And whenever we're sick and tired of what we're doing we go and see Raoul. It's like the little things that we use to escape.

"The thing about going to see Raoul was we couldn't get the lyrics to the song that we were working on, so we went and had a break, we went to see Raoul."

And, as if by magic, everything was fine. Let's just hope the same can be said for those harassed admissions tutors. Because The Automatic aint going back to school.


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