Many of the songs played on the first album were chosen by the band's fans who set up a poll on their forum.
[3] By the time the band began touring "By My Side", "Recover" and "That's What She Said" were all favoured by fans, many of the b-sides were also requested.
[5][6] On 17 April 2008, NME announced the band would be playing "One of their first shows without keyboardist Alex Pennie".
Having a strong love for Irish trio Ash, one of the Automatic's main influences have also, and during earlier days of the band's career they would cover Ash single "Kung Fu" from the album 1977, in June 2007 the Automatic were invited for drinks after their show together at Hull University Summer Ball,[10] later in 2008 at Cardiff Big Weekend Ash dedicated the track "Oh Yeah" to the band, who had played earlier that day.
[12] For the club tour the band asked fans to vote for tracks that they wanted to hear from previous album Not Accepted Anywhere, ultimately "That's What She Said", "By My Side", "Lost at Home", "Recover", "Raoul", "On the Campaign Trail" and "Monster" made the setlist for various legs of the tour.