February 2012
1 post
New Sound of the Surburbs - featuring The Scratch...
This Tuesday saw part 3 of the epic journey of Andy Scratch and John ‘Vintage’ Viney as they delved once more into the dim distant past of suburbia to uncover more lost and hidden vinyl gems and old cassette demo’s, whilst sprinkling their eclectic playlist with all kinds of new ideas, side projects and songs about trousers! The Podcast will be available from iTunes on Friday or...
January 2012
4 posts
Thanks to everyone who messaged us re-Sound of the...
In case you missed it, it will be repeated next Tuesday at 10pm, or you can download it for FREE from itunes at the end of the week!
Here’s what we played, thanks to all the bands we featured for existing, you made a great show! :-)
One Eyed - intro theme by The Reverse Family:
1) The Silent Scream - The Bleeed
2) Strictly only swinging - 50ft Woman
3) Ghostified - Persian Claws
4)...
Sound of the Suburbs on Recharged Radio tonight...
Dear Scratchers,
Don’t bother with the telly tonight! Why not go to bed early? Grab a bottle of wine and a family bag of twiglets and tune into ‘Sound Of The Suburbs!’ The show kicks off at 10pm and is presented by our very own Andy and John. Tonight the chaps delve once more into the dim distant past and unearth vinyl gems from long forgotten local(ish) bands! Plus...
The Sounds of the Suburbs
Dear Scratchers, Happy New Year!
To all intents and purposes, we’ve been a little quiet of late? - externally at least… however behind the scenes we’ve resembled something akin to a Victorian work house fused with some kind of highly illegal far Eastern sweatshop… There’s been all sorts of planning and plotting towards the main focus of Spring 2012, namely the...
December 2011
5 posts
Eclectic Plectrum Christmas Hijack on crmk.co.uk
Dear Scratchers,
We just wanted to say a Hug(h)e thanks to the mighty Hugh Davenport for having us back on his Eclectic Plectrum show at crmk.co.uk on Thursday December 15th. For those who missed it (shame on you, asleep on the sofa!)… Andy and Super visited Hugh’s new studio in uptown Milton Keynes to reprise the now ‘legendary’ Scratch show hijack!… we spoke of much, not least...
Sound of the suburbs - The Andy Scratch show on...
Dear Scratchers, there had been much rumour, but now, here’s the confirmation of Andy’s new monthly show for Recharged Radio, in which he aim’s to feature Predominantly but not exclusively music from the suburbs and will more than likely have some kind of Hertfordshire connection, where there isn’t one a conjuring of a dubious link will occur, like ‘We once did a gig...
Spurs simon (as he shall always be to us)... and...
Turbulent times have left ones brain off kilter in recent weeks… So much so we missed this! Huge apologies to Simon for not thanking him.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011 AT 2:57PM
We’ve all got potential,
Some of us as WAGS or so The Scratch would have us believe.
Last weekend was the launch of their new single WAG Potential at the Pioneer Club in St Albans, and as it was the...
Girl's World - on BBC 6 Music
Thanks to Tom Robinson for playing our track Girl’s World on his: BBC Introducing ‘Fresh On the Net’ show on Sunday morning 11th December 2011… it’s 22 minutes 29 seconds in you fancy hearing what it sounds like on the Beeb! (you’ve got 5 days left on the iplayer :-) x
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0184r0y
oh and here’s the vid in case you forgot...
Thursday's gig is off :-(
Dear Scratchers,
We write with heavy hearts to inform you all that our proposed Christmas knees up has been cancelled, well to be more accurate we have decided not to go ahead with Thursdays gig at Nambucca due to the fact that the price of the tickets has risen from a £6 advance guestlist to £10 and although some maybe could stretch to this we all felt at such short notice this was too much to...
November 2011
7 posts
Watch… and here’s ‘Dear Maniac’ in action at the ‘WAG Potential’ Launch do at The Pioneer, last Friday! … Big thanks to Matt for the vid and Dave for the loan of the guitar :-/ … their conversation at the end is priceless! Sorry Dave :-)
The Scratch's smashing ‘WAG Potential’ single...
So who has got WAG Potential? - You lot that’s who!
The Scratch ‘WAG Potential’ single launch party Friday November 18th 2011 at the Pioneer, St.Albans.
With multi generational support from ‘14+’ers’- As Daylight Dies’, ‘Uni darling Indie’ from The Vertigos and the new heavy rock incarnation of Dark Stares, The WAG Potential launch party/70th anniversary of St.Albans legendary Pioneer...
WAG Potential - released tomorrow!!!
Hi all, just wanted to remind you (as if you needed it!) that tomorrow we release our new single WAG Potential!!! for those of you who can’t make the launch party at the Pioneer in St.Albans and thus purchase one of our limited edition CD’s, here’s a link to our shop for the exclusive download
http://shop.thescratch.co.uk/album/wag-potential
It’s been a great build up to...
A 'Hug(h)e' new review :-)
”WAG Potential is an awesome slice of social commentary wrapped up in a great driving rhythmn and tongue-in-cheek lyrics - in less than three minutes The Scratch summarise what is sometimes “irksome” about the “I’m a Celebrity…..” culture. I’m off now to find me a footballer……” Eclectic Plectrum, CRMK Online.
Perfect…...
The Scratch are Tunatheday today - with WAG...
http://www.tunatheday.com/go/catchoftheday
Thanks to Ade at Tunatheday for making WAG Potential his Tunatheday… and to all of those who contributed with their comments!… I’m guessing Mr C hasn’t seen the video?
http://vimeo.com/27593102
And yes Ade… ‘Great Adventure’ is going to be our 4th album… (release date unconfirmed, but if you think Spring,...
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
5 posts
Endorse IT 2011 - Bournemouth Echo review mention
pic courtesy of pbase website.
Thumbing (or should that be scrolling?) through the internet as we do from time to time looking for soundbites and news, we came across this little snippet, that we’d missed from the highlight of our summer…
Endorse It In Dorset, Sixpenny Handley
11:45am Monday 15th August 2011
By Gavin Haines »
WITH its ragtag line up, kooky clientele and...
Camden calling - 3rd Birthday party - on the edge...
The M25 on a Friday weren’t gonna rock…. And it didn’t, but at least we weren’t driving up from Bath like the 4th Suit!…
Friday night saw us play our second (and certainly not last) gig for Alexis Brookes and her amazing homeless charity musical collective Camden calling… The venue was the famous but threatened with extinction George Tavern on Commercial Road… Sitting...
The Scratch back at the BBC tomorrow night!
Dear All, as promised, here’s details of tomorrow’s BBC session: The Show starts at 7pm At 7:20: We perform our first live track on air….. you’ll have to wait and see what it is! ;-) Then at 7:30: We have a live interview with Gareth Lloyd At 7:40: It’s BAND ON A BIKE! - featuring Steve Filth as he tries to beat his previous best time around the BBC offices on trike! And at 7:50: We play our...
August 2011
6 posts
The Scratch - Endorse IT in Dorset 2011 ... Our...
For those who don’t know it, Endorse IT in Dorset, is a GREAT, chilled, family friendly, alternative style festival, in it’s 11th year. Featuring a vast and interesting mix of old, new, famous and infamous, Punk, Ska, Alternative, Crazy and Folk music. At a time when a lots of smaller fests are loosing money and even getting cancelled, it was great to hear as we left, this year, Endorse IT had...
Verulam Radio - Endorse IT - Wag vid
Dear all, thanks to Chris Saunders of Verulam radio for the intreview with Andy last night and for playing three tracks by The Scratch (I Relax to Spiral Scratch) to publicise the freebie giveaway ep that we are offering to celebrate our forthcoming performance at the fantastic Endorse IT in Dorset fest tomorrow. (Go to our shop at www.thescratch and grab yourself a legal freebie!)…he also...
Endorse it freebie!!! - Not much these days is...
Following the incredible success of our Leopallooza free 3 track download, we’ve decided to reprise the idea for our final fest of the summer at endorse it in Dorset this weekend fri 12th to Sun 14th. We’ll Be giving the downloads info away in ltd edition free Scratch branded goodie bags… So your best chance of getting one is near our stage time of 5pm, as we have the honour...
The Scratch - Leopallooza 6 - July 30th 2011...
Before we begin, we must rewind 6 and half years to late November 2005 and the first time we met Lee (opallooza). Same location, but things were a lot different, we had been introduced to Lee by Andy’s mate Sam, as a suggested recording studio where we could record live tracks for our forthcoming Night Bus or Milk Train album. Following said session in Lee’s barn studio, the evening became a...
July 2011
7 posts
anticipation grows...
Leopallooza Saturday 30th July
Festival Gates Open 9am Arena Opens 11am 12:30 - The Sum Of 13:15 - The Scratch 13:50 - Crowns 14:25 - John J Presley 15:00 - Kyla La Grange 15:35 – Gentleman Starkey 16:10 – Backbeat Soundsystem 16:45 – Stagecoach 17:20 – La Shark 17:55 – Little Fish 18:30 - The Skints 19:05 – Kill It Kid 19:40 – Yaaks 20:15 – Fiction 20:50 – Man Like Me 21:30 – Exit_International...
Sunday night - The Enterprise - Camden calling*
Sunday’s gig was as hot and sticky as the previous evenings entertainment at the White Hart Tap, but a marked contrast in shows… For a start The Scratch were back to basics and doing what they do best… An in your face 30 minutes, in a small venue with a expectant atmosphere and people their to listen… it was also, it has to be said, great to be back playing in London again… Yeah the money’s the...
White Hart Tap at the double!
Big love to all who made it down to the hot and sticky White Hart Tap St.Albans last night to witness the last double setter for a while, as our festival preparations reach the penultimate phase…with Money raised for The Alzheimers society a pub of happy punters and outdoor summer boozery, you can’t ask for much more can you?! Extra thanks to the legend Gary M Hawkins for taking time...
2 gigs this weekend!
Thanks to rechargedradio.com for plugging this weekends musical fun… first up ‘Tap Fest’ Saturday 2nd July - Beer fest at The White Hart Tap, St.Albans… two full sets for the price of none!… FREE entry! We’re on 8-10pm and then… for Camden Calling on Sunday 3rd at The Enterprise, Camden, London, NW1 (opposite the Roundhouse)… on stage at 10pm. £3 with a flyer, show starts at 7.30
June 2011
12 posts
Robs Fest, great cause, great line up, great fun
Robs fest, in it’s second year was set up as a brilliant and a highly worthy cause for a fellow associate tragically killed in a skiing accident, but it was so much more than merely a charity fund raiser for a good cause. On the face of it a festival on a school playing field organised by a sixth former really shouldn’t work!…but in an increasingly lase fair ‘bung any old bill together as...
Friday night in the land of the Goldblade giants....
… Make the line up exciting, desirable, watchable and original and you’ll get crowds as big as we do on a regular basis… Do that and you also earn the kind of plaudits we got on Friday night in St.Albans, from fans of other bands, people who have never seen you before and the loyal hardcore who pay good money in hard times for top quality entertainment time and time again in the...
May 2011
15 posts
