Electro-punk quartet the Automatic formed in Cardiff, Wales, in the fall of 2003. Originally dubbed "White Rabbit," the founding lineup comprised singer/bassist Robin Hawkins, guitarist James Frost, keyboardist Alex Pennie, and drummer Iwan Griffiths.
Rechristened the Automatic in early 2005, the band cut a demo that earned the attention of Probation Management, a subsidiary of Cardiff label FF Vinyl. Probation in turn mailed the demo to the B-Unique imprint, which immediately signed the band to a reputed 500,000-quid publishing deal. By year's end the Automatic was a major favorite of the famously excitable British press, with the single "Raoul" penetrating the U.K. Top 40 in the spring of 2006. The follow-up,
"Monster," not only cracked the Top Five weeks later, but entered the chart solely on the strength of pre-retail downloads. The Automatic's debut LP, Not Accepted Anywhere, reached number three following its June 2006 release. The album was re-released the following year in the U.S., inexplixably under the name The Automatic Automatic. In 2007, Alex Pennie left the group and was replaced by Yourcodenameis:Milo's Paul Mullen. The band flew to Los Angeles to record their second album This Is A Fix with producer Butch Walker, it was released in 2008 but received poor distribution and promotion by the band's label B-Unique, resulting in poor sales. The band regrouped and released their third album Tear The Signs Down in 2010.
The first single to be released from it was "Interstate". The group decided to take a brief hiatus to concentrate on other projects. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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