The Automatic biography
The band have long had a studio relationship with producer Richard Jackson, who is responsible for working with the band on albums; Not Accepted Anywhere, This Is A Fix & Tear the Signs Down and subsequent b-sides and demos as well as this the band have been managed by Martin Bowen with Probation Management since 2005. As well as working in studio with Richard, the sophomore release was worked on initially with Don Gilmore, followed by Butch Walker & Richard Jackson and on one track Stephen Harris, who also worked with the band on their debut, along with Ian Broudie. To date, musically the only other musicians to be featured besides the band themselves were Chris T-T and Frank Turner, the two musicians along with producer Butch Walker were featured providing gang vocals and extra percussion on This Is A Fix track "Steve McQueen".
The September 2008 issue of Rock Sound magazine reported that the band was unpopular with other musicians, which the band blamed on the success of their hit single "Monster".
I think that most bands don't like us, I think bands look at us and go 'Nah'.
- James Frost
At the time of their debut release, Not Accepted Anywhere, the band were rated #10 in the BBC's sound of 2006 British band Kasabian called The Automatic "horrible" in an NME interview in 2007.
All the singles released by The Automatic, from "Recover" in November 2005, to "Steve McQueen" in August 2008 charted in the UK Singles Top 40, including both original releases and re-releases of "Raoul" and "Recover". The bands highest charting single to-date is "Monster" which charted at #4, this is followed by "Steve McQueen" which charted at #16. Since 2008 they have failed to chart.
Albums
- Not Accepted Anywhere (2006)
- This Is a Fix (2008)
- Tear the Signs Down (2010)
References
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