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n August Don Broco released their second album, ‘Automatic’. It’s the follow-up to ‘Priori-
Ities’, which well and truly put Don Broco on the map. ‘Automatic’ is going to take them even
further. It blasted into the UK charts at number 6 and is an album full of hope, about living in the
moment and taking all the opportunities you can. We took the opportunity to chat to the guys
while they were on a little run of shows the week of the album release, where we chatted about
dating shows, skydives, cutting up backdrops and flying around in a blissful existence.
e love a band that oozes determina- Tom and Matt have learned not to let the little itive,” adds Tom. “It’s about living in the mo-
Wtion – and Don Broco are bursting things bother them as much and to look at the ment and taking all the opportunities you can,
with it. Tom Doyle, who joined the band in bigger picture. “Especially when it came to the forgetting about the things that don’t really mat-
2012, begins by telling Black Velvet that they’re songwriting,” says Simon. “We always used to ter and just enjoy your time on this earth.”
“probably more determined than ever at the get hung up on small details which didn’t con- The album opens with the track ‘Su-
moment. What with just releasing our album tribute to the actual feel of the song and the perlove’. The video shows a range of people
‘Automatic’, and trying to promote it to as many kind of emotional connection that that song doing crazy things and definitely forgetting the
people as possible.” makes to the listener. And with this album in little things that don’t really matter while sat
“We spent so long writing ‘Automatic’ and particular we started to realize that it’s that around a dinner table. Simon says, “As a video
making sure that we were completely happy emotional connection between the listener and it was probably the most viewed in a short
with it. We took every measure to make sure the songs that is the most important thing by a space of time – because I think there was an
the tracks were perfect because we’re so de- long way, so we started to really hone in on that awful amount of anticipation about us putting
termined that it’s a success - but it’s also an and forget about all the kind of intricacies, “Oh, out these first couple of songs from the record
honest representation of who we are,” adds this drum fill needs to be meticulously in time,” so there was a lot of buzz and hype around it.”
Simon Delaney. but “How does that make the listener feel?”” The band wrote ‘Superlove’ during a spon-
Over the last couple of years Rob, Simon, “I think the record as a whole is quite pos- taneous trip to Spain. Simon says, “We’d basi-
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