Today we be in Colchester for tonight’s show! It looks like it’s going to be a good one!!

We’ve got an epic stained glass window going on as a backdrop today, all very gothic and awesome!!

Anyhoo the album came out yesterday and it’s amazing to actually see it on shelves in shops and on itunes and everywhere you can buy music from generally. The fact that it’s on our own label makes it even sweeter, it’s proof that you don’t have to have a big major label behind you to make things happen.

Thanks to everyone who’s come out to the shows so far, it’s been well good!!

Pick up the album, have a listen, then come have a sing and a boogie with us!!

Love it!

• Arrived in Birkenhead after a good couple if days in the Isle of Man thanks to all the peeps who showed up last night #
• Photo: Just driving home from the Isle of Man. Here’s where I had lunch yesterday in The Glue Pot. The Isle… http://tumblr.com/xbz6wkifx #
• Thinking about it I didn't see a Manx cat I wanted to touch its stump. #
• My bed is a thing of beauty. So beautiful, there are just no words… #
• Best Gordon Brown video ever http://bit.ly/cTRR1w #
• Go here and you can pre-order our spanking new album without physically having to touch anything but your keyboard http://bit.ly/aYs45F #
• Pre-order 'Tear The Signs Down' http://bit.ly/c4sKK7 and buy our second album 'This Is a Fix' for a cool £20.64? http://bit.ly/bOsd0M #
• Happy St David's Day, I suggest you all do the same! http://yfrog.com/4acgxaj #
• HOLY FUCK STOP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING AND GO LOOK AT THE NEW @OKgo VIDEO. NOW!!! http://bit.ly/OMGokgo (via @amandapalmer) #
• Re BBC cuts. Aren't 6 Music and the Asian Network two examples of precisely what the commercial sector DOESN'T do? (via @AIannucci) #
• No more 6music I don't often listen to the radio but when I do it's 6. A proper shame, Radio 1 doesn't do Tunng sessions. #
• How about the BBC stop funding Clarkson firing cars into space to save some money? Put BBC 6music on FM and you'll see the true demand. #
• Helloo Swindon you're looking rather lovely today. Who's down for a shuffle today? Tour is go! #theautomatic #
• Just had a smoothy with kiwi in. Itchy throat times! #
• This stage smells of bum! Seriously no joke, and it ain't me it's far too unbearable for that! #
• It's official, if I could tour only one region it'd be Cornwall. It's always so damn awesome. #
• And here's why westcoast is the best http://yfrog.com/eotenj http://yfrog.com/0hkdrtj #
• Rocking Yeovil tonight, Falmouth was an awesome show in Falmouth last night. Blogging over at http://iwan.theautomatic.co.uk #

… we couldn’t bring you the sunshine but we’ve definitely brought a shitload of loudness!!

So far we’ve been on what seems like a fairly extensive tour of the West Country but fear not we’re playing the rest of the UK pretty damn thoroughly also, so have a look at the front of the site for tour dates and get some tickets!!

So just to get you all in that Yeovil mood here are some Stormtroopers walking around Yeovil

Here’s the fine flavorsome taste of me….

just click on the link

which is HERE

Woke up in Falmouth today to the Escher-esque nightmare that is a tour bus parked on a slope, blood flowing wholly and completely to the top of my head. It’s one of the many delights unique to living on a tour bus (unless you go caravanning a lot, you’d be silly to do it though.)

Anyway Falmouth is turning out to be a pretty darned awesome place if you like the seaside and nice little towns, which on a tour of lots of inner-city pre-fabricated venues makes an aweome change.

So, inspired by the fact that there are a lot of old gig posters stuck up all round the venue here are some of the bands that have played in falmouth’s Princess Pavillion.

Asia – Heat Of The Moment

Ben Taylor – Digest

Toots and The Maytals – Sweet & Dandy

Well it’s been absolutely ages since we’ve been on a good long proper tour. Now it’s only 10 minutes till we leave for the first gig in Swindon 12 Bar tonight. It’s all very very exciting!

Plus our new album ‘Tear The Signs Down” was delivered yesterday. It’s very shiny, new and thing of absolute beauty I can’t really comprehend why you won’t all be hammering the doors of your local record store to get your hands on your very own copy.

And there’s more!!! Run and Hide was released on Sunday on that old iTunes service and various other MP3 related download-type site things so you can grab a piece of the action a week ahead of the release so that’s spectacularly brilliant ain’t it!?!

So here are a bunch of links where you can buy Run and Hide or Pre-order Tear The Signs Down.

Clickity click click click!!!

Run And Hide

iTunes

Amazon

Tear The Signs Down (pre-order)

iTunes

Amazon

Play

Record Store (this one’s all signed and stuff too!)

Anyway got to scoot off to Swindon now hopefully see a bunch of y’all in the next few weeks!!

Lahverly!!

• Choon-a-rama http://open.spotify.com/track/2OGO8bNQePgD7QqcA8DDz0 #
• Awesome Sunday stroll through bute park and pontcanna fields to @chaptertweets cannae wait for spring proper. #
• Seriously cannot wait for #kickass to come out it's gonna be schwing o clock!! #
• New album, "OMNI", out May 4 on Dangerbird Records /via @minusthebear Chamone!!! #
• Brian Moore has qualified as a referee?? Please say this isn't true!! #
• That's not just any snow that's a horrible pain in the arse. #
• Yawn!! Tie-uhrd! Because that's something everyone needs to know!! #
• Can't wait for the film, the Crazy Heart OST is massive. T Bone Burnett + Jeff Bridges = wik. Check 'Tooth Of The Crime' too 4 ***** Tbone #
• Damn you ancient civilisations inventing money and all that malarky. I reckon we get on the nomadic system and just rustle each others sheep #
• You know this day has taken a turn for the worse Rihanna has been stuck in my head for well over an hour now. #
• Video: It hasn’t been mentioned for a while, but our next single Run & Hide comes out on monday (St. David’s… http://tumblr.com/xbz6t4lk9 #
• Here is me http://flavors.me/iwangriffiths #
• If 6music goes how will I get my Craig Charles funk and soul fix? Dark times! Ah well a win agains France would defo fix it! #
• Sometimes shuffle on my iPod is scarily good at playing exactly what I want. I think of Tool it plays Tool. Think of Primus, Primus it is. #
• How come W and M count as one character? Not two Vs or Ns? #
• Anyone else on Twitter feel like a mad drunk tramp just shouting at people in the street? #
• Radio 1 stinks at the mo Radio 2 is too MOR in the main. 6 music is the only place where I genuinely hear good new music #save6music #
• Any good pubs to watch the rugby in the isle of man? #theautomatic #
• Doing a mini tour to watch the 6 nations this year Cowbridge, Bath, the Isle of Man. #

• Paul Simon boxset for Valentines day, Ponyo now!! Woop! #
• Still trying to work out Google Buzz, absolutely confuzzled by it so far. Downloading battlefield 2 demo too boomz galore. #google #buzz #
• When's the UK iPad price going to be announced? Does anyone know? #apple #ipad #
• Video: Sometimes things happen and this is all you want to do. Play LOUD! http://tumblr.com/xbz6gz2d5 #
• I did a blog about Douglas Adams a while ago and someone's just commented that he did a good recent interview about his next UFC fight??? #
• Good little film about Cocaine farming http://bit.ly/d63v6b #
• Listening to still crazy after all these years + playing modern warfare 2 = Bipolar #
• Chilly, damp, grey! Makes for lovely running wouldn't you say? #
• RT @denofgeek Music in the movies: spotlight on Nick Cave – Den of Geek http://tinyurl.com/ybcuvhv #
• Off to London today gonna play that place called The Barfly in that place called Camden. #theautomatic #
• In my mind there's a man at the end of the m4 rolling it out. It never ends! If you catch him he flashes and his crinkly phallus blinds you #
• Actually I'm fairly sure that's either in the illiad or the oddysey. #
• I totally meant oddysey not odyssey. It really is in the oddysey. The man's called Geoff. #
• Nandos chicken wraps can go on my "YOU RULE" list! Tip top! #
• Thanks to everyone who came to Barfly last night and made it an awesome gig!! Y'all are most marvellous! #theautomatic #
• Psyching myself up for a big run today, I mean biiig! I'm going all the way! #
• just ran 12.8 miles so officially FUBAR. have the new @howiescardigan catalogue to peruse in the bath as i soak mah bones so all's good! #
• Jay-Z sounds like Cleveland!?! #
• Awesome win for the blues tonight wish they'd showed that on BBC. #
• And off it goes, all my money to the tax man!! You bastard! #
• Got all me music on an external hard-drive thats and extra 40 gigs for my lucky mac! #
• Blues currently top of the 'specsavers fairplay league' for the least no: of 'cards' issued this season in the ML! (via @CardiffBluesSC) #

Aha!! Ahoy there peeps! it’s been a long long long time since I’ve written any kind of blog-type stuff on this website. So I thought, what with Tear The Signs Down and a big tour imminent, it was about time I use to my spare time to do something productive . Rather than spend my evening watch Batman cartoons and tirelessly clicking refresh on Twitter I thought I’d post up a few tunes I like.

Paul Simon – Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Country Girl

The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations (Live)

Not my favourite Beach Boys song. Well worth watching this video though for a be-mulleted Paul Mccartney, and to see Brian Wilson being basically the Marlon Brando of classic pop.

Anyway there’s some stuff what I’ve been listening to, there’ll be a lot more relevant blogging soon I promise!

See y’all soon!

• Aww! why Xavier… WHY? #
• Today I done runned, done shoppped now I done getting my haircut. Later I'll have done climbed. #
• The internet has constipation! It's doing the strain getting these videos to play! http://bit.ly/dAFdZM Barbwire-bum-baby be like me! #
• Can't believe Gatland has Cooper starting again. Was he watching a different game? #
• Run + Lost + Fallout 3 = 1 Healthy happy geek! #
• Yuck! Snow! #
• Anybody down with this Google Buzz malarky? #
• Off out for slap up times with @mandinibathory for her birthday! Scrumdiddlyumptious!! #
• Did my first ever restaurant walk out form la brasserie. Sorry but you're terribly shit. In jamie's italian now actually being served! #
• Thankyou Wales today. honestly. The only bigger penis in that room today was derek brockway. Though he is lovely isn't he. #
• Jamie's Italian 1- la brasserie 0. Shame really. #cardiffrestaurants #
•  feeling grizzly as! #
• In Bath for @mandinibathory's birthday. Found a pub with the rugby. The way Wales are playing I wish I hadn't so far. #
• Dear Mr Gatland, please stop using Cooper. He's too slow!! Yours sincerely Iwan Griffiths. #
• Plus backs why can't you wait before running on to the ball? you know it'll be in your hands then rather than behind you. #
• Richie's on! Woop! Don't let us down. #
• Had a lovely time in Bath. Especially the bit where I lost my shit in a pub watching the Wales game #