Not Accepted Anywhere album tour

Not Accepted Anywhere album tour
Tour by The Automatic
Associated album	Not Accepted Anywhere
Start date	October 14, 2005
End date	August 26, 2007
The Automatic tour chronology
Not Accepted Anywhere album tour (2005–2007) This Is A Fix album tour (2008–2009)

The Not Accepted Anywhere album tour was the touring period from 2005 through to 2007 when Welsh rock-band The Automatic promoted their debut album Not Accepted Anywhere. Over the three-year period, the band covered the United Kingdom several times, as well as touring in the United States, Japan, France and the Netherlands.^[1][2][3]

The band began touring as an opening act for bands such as Goldie Lookin Chain, Kaiser Chiefs, The Kooks, The Ordinary Boys and Hard Fi in 2005 and early 2006^[4] before appearing third on the bill for the NME 2006 New Music Tour^[5] and then going on to perform at festivals such as Reading and Leeds, Oxegen, Camden Crawl, Glastonbury, South by Southwest and Warped tour, amongst others.^[6]

On tour the band were supported most notably by friends Viva Machine on almost all UK tours, and by Frank Turner, who had just began as a solo artist - with The Automatic being fans of his former band Million Dead.

Background

Support shows

In October through to November 2005 the band supported Goldie Lookin Chain on their UK tour, this tour supported the bands release of debut single "Recover ".^[7] This tour was followed by an intense period in the studio recording their debut album, heading back out in January to support The Kooks on their Inside In/Inside Out tour.^[8]

Later in 2006 the band also supported Kaiser Chiefs at their performances at the Millennium Square in Leeds, and well as supporting The Ordinary Boys in March.^[9] Cancelled supporting appearances included Kaiser Chiefs European tour in November 2006, and My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade World Tour in 2007.^[10][11]

During the bands headline of the NME Indie Rock 2007 Tour The Automatic let The View take the headline position at Carling Academy in their native Glasgow.^[12]

Design and set-up

From 2006 onwards - when the band were headlining more and more performances, they began using various backdrops - ranging from simple sheet banners, to the more extravagant video screens. The artwork used was all based around designs made by Dean 'D*Face' Stockton for the album Not Accepted Anywhere, and the singles "Raoul", "Recover" and "Monster", many of these were then animated for performances - such as their 2006 London Forum performance where they used three giant screens, incorporating animations with a live feed of the band performing.^[13][14] In 2007 Rock Drops recreated D*Face's Raoul 'Globe' artwork from the re-release of the single - and used throughout tour and festival appearances by the band as a stage banner.^[15]

Alex Pennie was often noted by critics for being the bands energetic showman.^[16][17] On the NME 2007 tour Alex Pennie's stage antics lead to a fans classes getting broken, followed by wrestling a member of the audience who started smoking on stage on the Irish leg of the tour.^[18] Pennie whilst playing at New York's' Bowery Ballroom in July broke his ankle half way through the set, after one of his jumps went wrong - and sat out several songs until "Gold Digger" when he rejoined his band mates for the remainder of the set.^[19][20]

On several occasions the bands cover of Kanye West's "Gold Digger" would involve other musicians and guests, with primary vocalist and bassist Rob playing flute, Jamie Allen; one of the bands technicians would take over bass guitar, whilst Alex Pennie and James Frost split vocals. At Reading and Leeds festivals in 2006 Goldie Lookin Chain joined the band onstage for the track, whilst Viva Machine joined the band onstage wrapped in bandages in ULU, London in July 2006, and on Warped Tour 2007 Newton Faulkner sung and played guitar on the track.^[21] On the closing show of the 2007 NME Indie Rock Tour the bands tour manager Mike Doyle sung vocals on the bands cover of Talking Heads song "Life During Wartime".^[22]

Throughout the tour the band requested as part of their rider that venues put together a David Hasselhoff shrine, by October 2006 the band revealed this had been fulfilled by upwards of 20 venues.^[23][24]

Concert broadcasts and coverage

BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamacq covered the bands opening night too their October 2006 leg of the album tour - in Exeter's Lemon Grove. Originally the entire 14 song set was broadcast^[25] with 7 songs made available on BBC Online afterwards.^[26] The BBC also covered The Automatic at Reading and Leeds Festivals with broadcasts of "Monster" and "Gold Digger" with Goldie Lookin Chain from the Radio 1/NME Tent.^[27][28] A year later at Glastonbury Festival 2007 BBC Three and BBC Online screened much of the bands set.^[29][30]

MTV featured performances of the band at Oxegen 2006, including "Recover" and "Monster",^[31] whilst Channel 4 broadcast performances of "Raoul", "Recover" and "Monster" from T4 on the Beach 2006.^[32] At South by Southwest in Austin, Texas the bands entire set was filmed by Blaze TV,^[33] and later broadcast on Crackle, with "Monster" being made part of the 2007 SXSW DVD.^[34]

GMTV Incident and aftermath

We didn’t really wanna be there because we thought we had been tricked into it and it wasn’t really our thing."

— The Automatic on GMTV^[35]

On July 21, 2006 the band made an appearance on GMTV - ITV's breakfast program. The band had been told that they would be playing a track on a morning show "not GMTV, it’s something on just after it".^[36] With a performance the night before at Bristol's Carling Academy, members of the band decided to stay up all night drinking, until the 6.00am start at GMTV. The band went on live at around 9.00am, miming their single "Monster" as GMTV were unwilling for the band to perform live.^[37] The performance went on to involve guitarist Frost smashing his rented guitar repeatedly onto the floor, before jumping into the drum kit, whilst Pennie walked around with his Alesis Micron keyboard, taking off his trousers and eventually ending up on the floor with Frost, whilst Rob and Iwan continued to mime along to the backing track. During the performance a ITV cameraman received an injury when Frost was destroying his equipment, the cameraman reportedly threatened to sue the band, but later decided not to - saying he was simply pissed off at the time.^[38]

A month before the GMTV incident the band also were forced to mime on Channel 4's T4 on the Beach 2006, which they were unhappy about doing - stating prior to playing "Will we go on drunk? Let's just say there will be some interesting dancing going on as we aren't allowed to plug in our instruments."^[39][40]

Personal

Musicians Robin Hawkins - bass guitar, flute, vocals Alex Pennie - synthesizer, percussion, vocals James Frost - guitar, vocals Iwan Griffiths - drums Additional musicians Jamie Allen - bass guitar during "Gold Digger"

Guest musicians Goldie Lookin Chain - guest vocals on "Gold Digger" at Reading and Leeds festivals 2006 Newton Faulkner - guest vocals and guitar on "Gold Digger" on Vans warped tour 2007 Mike Doyle - guest vocals on "Life During Wartime", NME Indie Rock Tour 2007 Adequate Seven - guest vocals on "Gold Digger" at the Newquay Boardmasters Festival in 2006 Capdown - guest vocals on "Gold Digger" at the Newquay Boardmasters Festival in 2006 Mystery Jets - guest vocals on "Gold Digger" at the Newquay Boardmasters Festival in 2006 Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - guest vocals and guitar on "Gold Digger" at the Newquay Boardmasters Festival in 2006 Crew Stan Saunders - sound Jamie Allen - engineer Mike Doyle - tour manager Darren Lovell - lighting Peter Hill - engineer/photography James "Jizz" Lawrenson - sound mixer

Reception

During their Not Accepted Anywhere tour the band were noted for their energetic live performances, particularly the antics of keyboardist Alex Pennie, whose performances would involve running around the stage with a Cow bell, strangling himself with a microphone, climbing on-top of amps and speakers^[41][42]

there’s no shortage of energy expended onstage in an attempt to jump-start the party. White-drainpiped Pennie is the star, jabbing at his keyboard, pummelling a cowbell or strangling himself with a mic lead, eyes rolled back in his head and tongue lolling like a madman. His partner in crime is guitarist Frost, who jerks violently on the spot like his foot’s caught in a high-voltage electric fence. - Sam Richards, NME^[43]

Similarly Robin Monheit of Spin Magazine reviewing the bands New York show in July 2007 wrote "the Bowery Ballroom might not have been packed for last night's Automatic Automatic show, but synth-player/vocalist Alex Pennie performed as if it most definitely was" praising the bands energy.^[44] "...Pennie, is a sort of wee-sized caged animal, combining his fidgety keyboard fiddling with the most intense punk roars I've heard since At The Drive-In. Throughout the gig, he will run directly into the crowd, shove any and all fans in his way..." wrote themusicslut.com of the bands performance in New York in March 2007^[45]

Critics of the bands live sets were often quick to point out that single "Monster" was best received by audiences at live shows^[46]

Set list

With only one album out, the set lists were composed almost entirely of the album's 12 tracks, although on occasion some of the albums b-sides were performed, including "Time = Money" on the October leg of the 2006 tour^[47] whilst in mid-2006 the band began covering Kanye West's track "Gold Digger"^[48][49] this was eventually accompanied with a cover of Talking Heads track "Life During Wartime".^[50] It wasn't until 2007 that the band began including new songs in their set list, "Steve McQueen" and "Revolution" (later retitled "Secret Police") were first performed on the "ShockWaves NME Indie Rock Tour", originally intended for a new single soon after the tour, but ultimately released on This Is A Fix over a year later.^[51][52]

From Not Accepted Anywhere "That's What She Said" "Raoul" "You Shout" "Recover" "Monster" "Lost at Home" "Keep Your Eyes Peeled" "Seriously... I Hate You Guys" "On The Campaign Trail" "Team Drama" "By My Side" "Rats"

From This Is A Fix "Steve McQueen" "Revolution" B-sides "Time = Money" "Jack Daniels" Covers "Gold Digger" originally by Kanye West "Life During Wartime" originally by Talking Heads

Northampton, Soundhaus, January 23, 2006   "Keep Your Eyes Peeled" "Raoul" "Rats" "On The Campaign Trail" "Team Drama" "Lost at Home" "That's What She Said" "Recover" "Monster" London, 100 Club, August 9, 2006   "Keep Your Eyes Peeled" "On the Campaign Trail" "Seriously I Hate You Guys" "Raoul" "Team Drama" "Jack Daniels" "Lost At Home" " You Shout You Shout You Shout" "That's What She Said" "By My Side" "Monster" "Gold Digger" (Kanye West cover) "Recover" London, Astoria, October 19, 2006   "Easy Target" "Keep Your Eyes Peeled" "Raoul" "Time = Money" "Team Drama" "On The Campaign Trail" "Rats" "Seriously I Hate You Guys" "Monster" "By My Side" "Gold Digger" "You Shout You Shout You Shout" "That's What She Said" "Lost At Home" "Recover" Cologne, January 23, 2007   "Keep Your Eyes Peeled" "Raoul" "On The Campaign Trail" "Life During Wartime" "Team Drama" "Revolution" "Monster" "By My Side" "Steve McQueen" "Seriously... I Hate You Guys" "You Shout" "That's What She Said" "Gold Digger" (Kanye West cover) "Recover" Nottingham, Rock City, February 14, 2007   "By My Side" "Raoul" "On The Campaign Trail" "Seriously...I Hate You Guys" "Steve McQueen" "Keep Your Eyes Peeled" "Lost at Home" "Monster" "Life During Wartime" "You Shout" "That's What She Said" "Recover" SXSW, Emo's, March 15, 2007   "By My Side" "Raoul" "On The Campaign Trail" "Seriously... I Hate You Guys" "Monster" "You Shout" "That's What She Said" "Recover" New York, Pianos, March 19, 2007   "By My Side" "Raoul" "On the Campaign Trail" "Seriously... I Hate You Guys" "Monster" "Gold Digger" (Kanye West cover) "You Shout You Shout You Shout" "That's What She Said" "Recover" Balélec-Festival, May 25, 2007   "By My Side" "Raoul" "On The Campaign Trail" "Seriously... I Hate You Guys" "Life During Wartime" "Lost at Home" "Monster" "Keep Your Eyes Peeled" "Team Drama" "You Shout" "That's What She Said" "Gold Digger" (Kanye West cover) "Recover" Boston, Great Scotts, July 30, 2007   "Keep Your Eyes Peeled" "On The Campaign Trail" "Raoul" "Seriously... I Hate You Guys" "By My Side" "Lost at Home" "Monster" "Gold Digger" (Kanye West cover) "You Shout" "That's What She Said" "Recover" Tour dates Date City Country Venue Support act(s) Goldie Lookin Chain Tour (Oct-Nov 2005) October 14 2005 Manchester England Manchester Academy Goldie Lookin Chain (headline)[53] October 15 Liverpool Carling Academy October 16 Bristol Carling Academy October 17 Cardiff Wales Cardiff University October 19 Southampton England Southampton University October 20 Norwich UEA October 21 Hull Hull University October 23 Aberdeen Scotland Moshulu October 24 Glasgow The Garage October 25 Edinburgh The Liquid Rooms October 26 Newcastle England Newcastle University Union October 28 Leeds Irish Centre October 29 Liverpool Carling Academy October 30 Manchester Manchester University October 29 Wolverhampton Little Civic November 1 Norwich UEA Hard Fi November 2 Cambridge The Junction November 3 Brighton Concorde 2 November 4 Chester Telford's Warehouse November 9 London Barfly November 21 Blackwood, Caerphilly Wales Miners Institute November 22 Swansea Patti Pavilion November 23 Bangor, Gwynedd Bangor University November 24 Aberystwyth Aberystwyth University November 25 Bridgend Recreation Centre November 26 Wrexham Central Station November 27 Brecon Market Hall The Kooks Tour (Jan-Feb 2006) January 24 2006 Southampton England Joiners Arms The Kooks (headline)[54][55] January 25 Birmingham Bar Academy January 26 Cambridge APU January 27 Bristol Louisiana January 28 Tunbridge Wells The Forum January 30 Leeds Cockpit January 31 Nottingham Social February 1 Manchester Academy February 2 Sheffield Fuzz Club February 3 Newcastle Academy February 5 Edinburgh Scotland Venue February 6 Glasgow King Tuts February 7 Hull England Adelphi February 8 Liverpool Korova February 10 Oxford Zodiac February 11 Norwich Arts Centre February 13 Brighton Concorde 2 February 14 London ULU February 15 100 Club Raoul tour (Feb-Mar 2006) February 21 Peterborough England Met Lounge The Marshals February 22 Wrexham Wales Central Station February 23 Sunderland England Pure February 25 Aberdeen Scotland The Tunnels February 26 Dundee Reading Rooms February 27 York England Fibres February 28 Stoke Sugarmill March 2 Swansea Wales Divas March 3 Northampton England Soundhaus March 4 Bedford Esquires March 5 Exeter Cavern March 7 Southend Chinnerys March 8 London Barfly March 9 Cardiff Wales Clwb Ifor Bach Kaiser Chiefs headline (Apr 2006) April 29 Leeds England Millennium Square Kaiser Chiefs (headline) April 30 NME New Music Tour (May 2006) May 6 Bristol England Bristol University Boy Kill Boy ¡Forward, Russia! Howling Bells The Long Blondes[56] May 7 Cardiff Wales Cardiff University May 8 Wolverhampton England Wulfrun May 10 Glasgow Scotland QMU May 11 Middlesbrough England Empire May 12 Manchester Manchester University May 14 Portsmouth Pyramids Centre May 15 Leicester Leicester University May 16 Cambridge Wales Junction May 18 Norwich England UEA May 19 Sheffield Leadmill May 20 Liverpool Carling Academy May 23 Oxford Brookes University May 24 London Electric Ballroom Summer tour (June–August 2006) May 31 Merthyr Tydfil Wales Studio Bar Viva Machine June 1 Cowbridge Sports Centre June 2 Neath Windsor Club June 3 Narberth, Pembrokeshire Queens Hall June 5 Brecon Brycheiniog Theatre June 18 Weston-super-Mare England T4 on the Beach, Main Stage Festival July 8 County Kildare Ireland Oxegen Festival, Punchestown Racecourse, Main Stage Festival July 9 Balado Scotland T in the Park, Futures Stage Festival[57] July 11 Liverpool England Barfly Cat the Dog Viva Machine July 12 Norwich Waterfront July 13 London ULU July 15 Abersoch Wales Wakestock Festival July 16 Oxford England Zodiac Cat the Dog Viva Machine July 17 Birmingham Carling Academy July 19 Brighton Concorde 2 July 20 Bristol Carling Academy July 23 Cardiff Wales The Point July 28 Niigata Prefecture Japan Naeba Ski Resort, Fuji Rock Festival Festival August 4 Newquay, Cornwall England Rip Curl Boardmasters Unleashed '06 Festival August 5 Cardiff Wales Cardiff Big Weekend Festival August 5 Canterbury England Electric Garden Festival Festival August 20 Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire Secret Garden Party Festival[58] August 26 Reading Festival, Reading, Berkshire Radio 1 Stage Festival August 27 Leeds Festival, Leeds Album release tour (Oct-Nov 2006) October 3 Exeter England Lemon Grove Frank Turner Mumm-Ra Alterkicks Viva Machine[59] October 4 Southampton Southampton University October 5 Loughborough Loughborough University October 7 Belfast Northern Ireland Mandela Hall October 8 Dublin Ireland Temple Bar Music Centre October 9 Glasgow Scotland ABC October 10 Aberdeen Lemon Tree October 12 Newcastle England Newcastle University October 13 Hull Hull University October 14 Manchester Manchester Academy 1 October 15 Leeds Leeds University October 17 Cambridge Corn Exchange October 18 Nottingham Trent University October 19 London London Astoria October 20 Sheffield Sheffield Leadmill October 22 Bristol Carling Academy October 23 Cardiff Wales Cardiff University October 24 Brighton England Corn Exchange October 26 Oxford Brookes University October 27 Bournemouth Old Fire Station October 28 Saint Helier Jersey Jersey Gloucester Hall October 30 Brecon Wales Brecon Market Hall October 31 Warwick England University of Warwick November 1 Aberystwyth Wales Aberystwyth University November 3 London England London Forum European Dates (Nov 2006) November 10 Paris France La Boule Noire The Blood Arm November 25 Amsterdam Netherlands Paradiso London Calling Festival[60] January 23, 2007 Cologne Germany Prime Club NME Rock Tour (Jan-Feb 2007) January 29, 2007 Belfast Northern Ireland Ulster Hall Mumm-Ra The Horrors The View January 30 Dublin Ireland Ambassador Theatre February 1 Glasgow Scotland Carling Academy February 3 Manchester England Academy February 6 Newcastle Carling Academy February 7 Birmingham Carling Academy February 8 Norwich East Anglia Uni February 10 Cardiff Wales University Mumm-Ra The View February 11 Sheffield England Octagon February 12 Reading Hexagon Mumm-Ra The Horrors The View February 14 Nottingham Rock City February 15 Liverpool University February 16 Southampton Guildhall February 18 Cambridge Corn Exchange February 19 Exeter University February 20 Bristol Carling Academy February 23 London Brixton Academy Summer festival circuit (Mar-Jun 2007) March 17 Austin, Texas United States of America South by Southwest, SXSW Emo's Festival March 18 Austin, Texas South by Southwest, SXSW Bat Bar Festival[61] March 19 New York City Pianos April 30 London England Give It A Name, Earls Court, Main Stage Festival[62] May 25 Lausanne Switzerland Balélec Festival, Grande Scène Festival May 26 Pontypridd Wales The Full Ponty, Ynysangharad Park, Main Stage Festival[63] June 10 Dores Scotland RockNess, Main Stage Festival June 22 Glastonbury England Glastonbury Festival, The Other Stage Festival Warped tour (Jun-Jul 2007) June 29 Pomona, California USA Pomona Fairgrounds Warped Tour June 30 Ventura, California Seaside Park July 1 San Francisco, California Shoreline Amphitheatre July 3 Vancouver Canada Thunderbird Stadium July 5 Calgary, Alberta Race City Speedway July 7 Salt Lake City, Utah USA Utah State Fairgrounds July 8 Denver, Colorado Invesco Field Mile High July 11 Phoenix, Arizona Cricket Pavilion July 12 Las Cruces, New Mexico NMSU Practise Field July 18 San Antonio, Texas Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Selma Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre] July 19 Jacksonville, Florida Reynolds Park Yacht Club July 15 Tampa, Florida Vinoy Park July 21 Miami, Florida Bicentennial Park July 22 Orlando, Florida Tinker Field July 23 Charlotte, North Carolina Verizon Amphitheatre July 24 Verizon Amphitheatre Charlotte, North Carolina USA/Canada headline tour (Jul-Aug 2007) July 26 New York USA Bowery Ballroom Liam and Me Mile High School What A Great Audience The Sterns Various July 27 Hartford, Connecticut Sweet Janes July 28 Washington, D.C. Rock N Roll Hotel 30 July Boston MA Great Scotts July 31 Philadelphia PA Northstar August 1 Toronto Canada Mod Club August 3 Detroit USA MI Shelter August 4 Chicago Subterranean August 6 Charlotte, North Carolina Tremont Music Hall August 7 Atlanta GA Vinyl Get Loaded In The Park (Aug 2007) August 26 London England Clapham Common, Main Stage References ^ Interview: The Automatic musictowers.com,web.archive.org, August 3, 2006 ^ Latest News theautomatic.co.uk, web.archive.org, December 29, 2005 ^ The Automatic tour dates theautomatic.co.uk, web.archive.org, December 30, 2005 ^ The Automatic @ Bar Pure BBC, February 24, 2006 ^ NME New Music Tour: Line-up revealed NME, March 14, 2006 ^ Camden Crawl 2006 Line-up thecamdencrawl.com, December 15, 2010 ^ Exclusive: The Automatic Plan Easter Release For Debut Album gigwise.com, November 22, 2005 ^ The Automatic Support The Kooks On UK Tour gigwise.com, November 25, 2005 ^ The Ordinary Boys Tour March peterhill.net, March 2006 ^ The Automatic Interview designermagazine.tripod.com, December 2006 ^ Kaiser Chiefs announce European club tour NME, September 12, 2006 ^ The View headline Shockwaves NME Awards Indie Tour NME, February 3, 2007 ^ Darren Lovvel - Clients darrenlovell.co.uk, July 30, 2010 ^ The Automatic on Facebook, January 6, 2010 The Automatic Photo album London Forum October 2006 ^ Rockdrops rockdrops.com, June 17, 2010 ^ The Automatic @ Pianos: Go Ahead, Girl. 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