Thanks to Recharged Radio

We just wanted to say a big thanks to Jordan and the guys 'n' gals of Recharged Radio for including 'Teen Idol' in their Christmas special show last Friday. Jordan has been a big supporter of us this year and we have appeared numerous times on his show. You can catch old shows and podcasts through itunes, there's a link on www.rechargedradio.com

If you get the chance definately try and listen to the Dec 18th edition, where main man and producer Jordan describes Teen Idol as one of the revelations of 09! "The track that probably sums us (them) up the best!"

Let's hope for more of the same in 2010!

Tune into CRMK.co.uk tonight and hear The Scratch feature in the end of year review!!!

Just to let you know, Superstar DJ 'Huge' Hugh Davenport is broadcasting his end of year show tonight on crmk.co.uk ... The 'Eclectic Plectrum Review of the Year', featuring - best albums and guests of 2009. We've had a hot tip that The Scratch will feature at some point!!!

Many thanks to Hugh for all his support this year and we look forward to putting the finishing touches to our combined radio special 'Sound of the suburbs' this Saturday (keep an eye/ear out for news in early January!)

Have a great show Mr D.

German Radio playlistings!!!

Dear Scratchers,

The word spreads... we've just had an email from DJ Ottic in Germany, who tells us, that no less than 2 tracks from 'Whatever Happened to Friday Night' are being playlisted on his radio show.

Independent Unrepentant and Girl´s World are the tracks, so, if you're speeding down the autobahn anytime soon, you can catch the Scratch at http://www.ottic-fm.de

Thanks DJ Ottic das ist sehr, sehr gut! Danke schoen!

x

TEEN IDOL - THE VIDEO - NOW ON YOU TUBE!!!!!!

Dear Scratchers,

What do you get if you add some super editing from our John Viney to 4 blokes and a massive stadium? Answer, the long awaited video for TEEN IDOL! Watch it and rate it here now!!!

http://www.youtube.com/ponylandrecords

Great work Mr V!

x

Atomic Duster review..."just what today's musical climate needs".

The Scratch - Whatever Happened To Friday Night? (Ponyland Records) 12/10/2009

T: This is a bit like the Arctic Monkeys doing punk.

N: The musical equivalent of a Brillo pad - punk in the 21st century.

T: Not that horrible genre that passes for punk these days though - it's more like old school, possibly Adam and the Ants before they went commercial, but as you say, given a modern bent. Indefinitely listenable anyway, and possibly just what today's musical climate needs.

Other places you can hear 'Teen Idol' this month!!!

From Teeside to Southampton, with heavy North western bias, here's a list of other places you may catch Teen Idol this month!

Pure Radio
Salford City Radio
103.6FM Tameside Radio
Wythenshawe FM
Radio Teesdale
Juice 107.6
Phonic FM
CSR
Surge
Radio Magnetic

Big Thanks to all the DJ's for having such great taste!!!!

Brilliant 209 radio podcast... Marco and Teen Idol

We've just come across a great podcast by 209 radio (Chris and Dan's show) who had previously played 'You want the World' early in November, but on this edition (from 2 weeks ago), they are talking 'glowinly' about Marco Pirroni's patronage and more importantly Teen Idol!!!

www.209radio.co.uk

Thanks guys!

More Teen Idol radio!

Big thanks to http://www.surgeradio.co.uk/ who have had Teen Idol playlisted for the last 4 weeks

also to www.radio2xs.com who have gone one better and had it on for 5 weeks!... keep it going guys...

4th Week

We are excited and delighted to still be holding onto the number 1 spot in the tourdates chart, massive thanks once more to you guys for keeping us there!!!

x

Teen Idol - 3rd week at number 1 on the tourdates chart!

Just a quickie to say a big thanks to all of you who have been downloading Teen Idol this week... keeping it at number 1 in the tourdates chart for the 3rd week in a row! As previously posted, the finishing touches are being made to the video this week, so keep your eyes out for it, coming VERY SOON!

Still Number 1

Just to say thanks for helping to keep us at number 1 in the tourdates chart... let’s see if we can hang on until Christmas eh!... see you all on Friday for the gig at Mother!
x

Teen Idol makes number 1 in the tourdates chart!

Dear Scratchers,

Many, many thanks to all of you for downloading us to our second number 1 of the year in the tourdates chart, we add Teen Idol to You want the world as tracks that have made the top slot, with Destroyed by the look of love gaining a top 2 spot for 5 weeks in May/June it makes a pretty exciting hat-trick of releases for us.

Once again big thanks to Recharged Radio, Hugh Davenport and Marco Pirroni for their support of the track and turning a b-side into a number 1!

As recently twittered watch out for the video, in production as we speak!

Lovely stuff!
x

Latest news round up...

Dear Scratchers,

Just a little round up of some of the latest news for your delectation ...

Radio 209 105 FM Cambridge have been playing You want the world (and commented that it sounded like the Buzzcocks) and playing Teen Idol from tonight (they really liked it!)

Tameside Radio are continuing daytime plays of The Scratch

Radio 2XS online - have playlisted Teen Idol

Motorcity Blog (USA) - like the music even though The Scratch aren't from Detroit so might want some autographed CDs, as giveaways to readers! (we maybe able to be persuaded!)

Subba Cultcha - Single review: http://www.subba-cultcha.com/singles.php?id=36"DIY-enthusiasts and keepers of the punk rock crown deliver another fine slice of punk rock…"

Thanks to all of the above for their comments and support, keep it up guys!!!

x

Teen Idol up to Number 2!!!

Teen Idol has risen to number 2 in the tourdates unsigned chart this week. Thanks to everyone who's downloaded it so far, let's try one last push for the number 1 next week!!!

www.tourdates.co.uk/the-scratch

Pure Radio interview for In the City this Sunday...

Dear Scratchers,

There's a chance for you to sample the excitement of our Sunday show, when John Curely of Pure FM Manchester interviews the band at their rehearsal prior to the Jabez Clegg gig.

http://www.pureradio.org.uk/about.html

x

Teen Idol makes number 5 in the tourdates chart!

Dear Scratchers, BIG BIG thanks for all your downloads, as we've made number 5 in the first week of our free download of Teen Idol (radio edit)... thats the 4th, top 10 chart placing in the tourdates unsigned chart this year!!!

Tell yer friends, as it'll be available for one more week for free, before it will be availabl through itunes with an official release on Mon 26th October!

x

Marco Pirroni - Album quote!!!!

Dear Scratchers,

On the back of the brilliant Clint quote, here's one from another of our big heroes!!!

"An amalgam of T.Rex, Velvet Underground and other good things including a big dollop of themselves, The Scratch do eccentric English rock ‘n’ roll with weird but catchy riffs over the top of it all. At times dark and other times funny, they don't do po-faced indie. Thank
God! Check them out guys!"

- Marco Pirroni (ex-Adam & the Ants/The Wolfmen & Howl Records)

Frickin 'ell!!!!!

God bless ya Mr.P!

xxx

ATG on the TSM radio podcast this month...

Dear Scratchers, just to let you know TSM Radio in Midlothian Scotland are playing Against the Grain on this month's D and M Show podcast. http://bit.ly/1cujpq

Thanks
Aynz

x

You want the world on BBC 3 Counites

Dear Scratchers,

Big Thanks to Kelly and Gareth at 3 Counties for having John and Andy on the show tonight. Cheers for the play of You want the world and the album plug, hope to catch you next week at the launch do.

x

BBC Introducing tonight!

Don't forget Scratch fans, John and Andy will be joining DJ Gareth Lloyd and Kelly Betts on BBC 3 Counties tonight, talking and playing tracks from the new album

http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/introducing/

x

Playlisting for You want the World

You Want the World was playlisted during the week of the 10th September on Phonic FM meaning it was played in heavy rotation alongside the other acts/tracks listed for that week.

Don't forget to listen out tonight for Hijack 3 at www.crmk.co.uk

Trains, pains and Teen Idols!

Dear Scratchers,

Just a little catch up as to Andy's Friday night shenanigans at Recharged radio, where, he and new album cover star Sam Vince, joined Jordan, Justin, Samara and the little Philistines in the studio for the usual reparte, banter and tips for the top... Big thanks to Jord for more plugging and playing of Teen Idol, sounded great in the pub down the road too, so much so, the barmaid knicked the album! Great to meet all the other guys. (We may have found our fifth band for the Christmas Party! watch this space)

However, with anything good, there always seems to be the bad... it being on this occasion the 3 hours it took to get home, when all trains from St.Pancras were cancelled, but despite the replacement bus and the £25 cab from Mill Hill, at least we're safe in the knowledge that A) We weren't at Wembley for Coldplay and B) before long, The Scratch will at last be Teen Idols for 300 Million!

Next stop 2 hours of Hijacked on the Hugh Davenport show! One not to be missed!!!!
x

Tune into www.rechargedradio.com from 7 tonight!

Dear Scratchers,

Andy will be talking about and playing exclusive tracks from the new album tonight on Recharged radio with host Jordan and other special guests... tune in from 7
xx

Teen Idol opens this weeks Recharged Podcast

Great big thanks to Jord and the guys at Recharged radio for opening Friday's show with another play of Teen Idol. You can download the whole show free on itunes... visit www.myspace.com/rechargedradio and just click on the link.

Don't forget to listen to this Friday's show where Andy will be appearing and talking about the new album. Show starts at 7.

x

Jordan goes all the way with Teen Idol!

No, it's not some weird new PR stunt with Katie price!... it's our mate Jord at Recharged radio... delivering another great 'bigging up' sound bite in his weekly radio roundup email!...

"Finally - if you're following us on Twitter (I mean, really, who wouldn't...?) you might have noticed me banging on about a song by The Scratch called "Teen Idol". Not one to get overly excited about this sort of thing, it really is heffin' AMAZING and if you don't go get a copy of their album (when it's launched later this month) and skip through to track 10, you really will have a piece missing from your life. If, of course, you need this point proving (I mean, don't take my word for it) then just catch the show this Friday. It'll be played within the first half an hour. If you miss it, ask us nicely and we might stick it on again. We're good like that."

Thanks again Jord, keep up the good work!
x

Standon Calling Pics - By Sarah Vince!

Dear Scratchers,

Great big thanks to Sarah Vince for her great pics of Standon Calling...
who says The Scratch are caught in a time warp!!! Check our myspace now!
x

Standon Calling - Party time with The Scratch

Dear Scratchers,

It was great to be back in festival mode again... this time we swopped the mud of Dorset for the 'potential' mud of Hertfordshire! A local festival for a change, The coolest boutique festival around 'Standon Calling' ... and what a great one it looks to be, spaceships, the Tardis, a crashed Delorian car, 3 themed stages and loos made of wheelie bins!

Following literally months of emailing, as you know from previous blogs, despite the bill being finalised months before, Tina managed to get us invited to play the opening night party!... Thanks to everyone for their hospitality, especially Alex Trenchard, Emma, Francis and all the crew who 'buggied' our great back and forth from the artists car park to the stage!...

It was a memorable night for The Scratch that saw 9 songs, (topped off riotously by Dear Maniac) played to a hungry festival audience (thanks for the burgers by the way... am still burping now!)... with our chances of making the main stage next year enhanced greatly. Finally, biggest thanks to Tina (wrong way Rowen!) and Sarah Vince who took some great shots of the band prior to the performance...

what a great way to warm up for the horn tonight! See you all there
xx

Great new review of You want the world from tastyfanzine!

The Scratch – You Want the World (Ponyland)

There’s something refreshingly uninhibited about The Scratch. Their tracks are quite minimal but all in completely different ways. ‘You Want the World’ is old school and punky, a little like the Undertones (‘Teenage Kicks’ is even referenced in second track, ‘Independent Unrepentent’). Then they throw in a proggy track like ‘Teen Idol (for 300 million)’ – bafflingly obscure and brilliant leftfield.
www.thescratch.co.uk


http://www.tastyfanzine.org.uk/singles88jul09.htm

STANDON CALLING - Party on, tomorrow night!

Dear Scratchers,

After no little effort campaigning by our friends... we've finally managed to land a slot at this year Standon Calling opening party... details are a bit sketchy at the moment, but basically tomorrow night we are due on stage as one of 6 bands who are opening the festival with a 35 minute set. Approx stage time is 8.00pm, so if you're going we'll see you there!!! Big thanks to Steve Teague for his persitence, Alex for finally taking the call, Chris and Joe for pointing us in the right direction! and of course Tina who finally clinched the deal! It's gonna be the perfect warm up for Friday's 3rd night at the Horn!

See you all there!
x

June 5th brought back to life in glorious technicolour!!!

Dear Scratchers,

Massive thanks to Duncan Birnie and Matt Hains, whose high expertise on the video camera/sound and graphical technologies, have managed to capture a 30 minute 'fly on the wall' documentary of our momentous Clint Boon night...

The Clint Boon intro is worth the entrance fee alone!

http://www.vimeo.com/groups/tapeheadfilms/videos/5760524

The DVD features, soundcheck, 5 songs (Numbers, Whatever happened to Friday Night, Girls' World, Dear Maniac and Gas Taps), Clint Boon djing and 7 'F' words from Andy during his excited intro's to Numbers, Dear Maniac and Gas Taps... so if you're watching with yer gran, make sure you take her for a wee, so as to avoid any uneasiness or dilution of your viewing pleasure during these parts of the film!

See you Friday for some more of the same!
x

Exclusive 'unplugged' track at www.myspace.com/rechargedradio

Dear Scratchers,

Jordan has just uploaded our 'unplugged' version of 'Whatever Happened to Friday Night? 'that we recorded for his Recharged radio show on Friday 17th July ... www.myspace.com/rechargedradio so get yourselves over there for a listen!... plus you'll get a sneaky peak of the cover artwork for the new album, coming their soon!

Thanks Jord
www.rechargedradio.com

x

30 seconds of grainy Samba extasy!!!

Dear Scratchers,

Big thanks to 'Minki' of Recharged radio and 50ft woman fame... for sending us her 'happy slap' style video expose of our gorgeous Brazilian mascot from the Cobden Club last friday!

It's short and grainy, but as they say size isn't everything!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTC9llwGIQ

x

still number 2...

Dear Scratchers,

Yes, you guessed it number 2 again!... that's 3/1/2/2/2/2 for 'You want the world'... great stuff, thanks again for all your downloads guys!
x

Hear us and see us seperately tonight!!!!

Dear Scratchers,

Tonight's going to be one of the busiest of the year for us so far! Don't forget to tune in from 7pm to our 'unplugged' session at Recharged Radio, where you'll hear a couple of exclusive acoustic versions of two tracks from our forthcoming album! http://www.myspace.com/rechargedradio

...but that is not all... for from 10.30, we'll be appearing live at The Cobden Club in West London for a full on headline rock out!!!... The address is on our flyer pic!

Hope to see you there... after whetting your appetite with the radio show!

xxxx

Busy, Busy, Busy week!!! and still number 2 in the charts!

Dear Scratchers,

An exciting week stretches before us!... hopefully all those of you on the mailing list (if you aren't why not!) will be receiving our July fanzine today, which details all the stuff coming up this month, including in a very busy week, our radio session on Friday at recharged radio in London, which we are very much looking forward too, (always a good laugh with Jordan and the boys)... then later that night there's a chance to actually catch a full set live! we're appearing at the Cobden Club in Westbourne Park as part of a 'Smoky Carrot' showcase... www.cobdenclub.com we're stage at 10pm approximately, would be great to see you there! But that's not all, for on Saturday we're headlining a party in Rableigh Heath, Herts... all that and the fact we're still number 2 in the tourdates.co.uk chart after 5 weeks (3/1/2/2/2) ... so as you can see things are on the up!

Thanks in advance for your much appreciated support
The Scratch
x

Cobden Club Showcase 17th July!!!

Dear Scratchers,

Just to let you know, Smoky Carrot promotions are putting on a showcase gig on Friday 17th July at a venue near Westbourne Park tube in West London - The Cobden club is by all accounts a great venue...

http://www.cobdenclub.co.uk/index.html

I know it's going to be a busy few weeks, but if you're about it'd be great to see you for a rare London show (this year!)

... Of course if you can't make it, your disappointment will be abated by the fact that our 3rd Horn residency takes place on Friday 31st July...

Gawd Bless ya
x

Clinterview on our myspace player... www.myspace.com/thescratch

Dear Scratchers,

We've just loaded an exciting clip of Clint Boon talking to Hugh Davenport for CRMK radio about us onto our myspace player! It was recorded just before we took to the stage on 5th June. Many thanks to Clint and Hugh for their time. We think you'll agree, that despite it being 2 years since we first met at the M.E.N. Mr.Boon is still a big fan of the band!

You can catch Hugh's Electic Plectrum show every Thursday at www.crmk.co.uk it's well worth a listen!

x

Hey, Hey we're TunAtheDay today!

Dear Scratchers,

we are officially Tuna the day today! check us out at http://www.tunatheday.com/go/registration/login

"When we featured The Scratch back in Sept 2008 they went down a storm with you lot. Let's hope this slice of new wave pop is as well received.

Their new EP You Want The World is out NOW and you can download it FREE by clicking here"

xx

You want the world makes tourdates number 1 spot!

Dear Scratchers, we're very excited to have our first tourdates number 1 under our belts, thanks to everyone for voting, if you don't have your free download yet... you have one more chance this week!

http://www.tourdates.co.uk/unsigned-chart

xx

You want the world on Recharged Friday Forum show!

Dear Scratchers,

Just to say thanks to recharged radio who are playing our track "You want the world" on Friday's Edition of their Friday Forum show. Just go over to tourdates.co.uk at 7pm to listen. Hope you can tune in! We will also be included in their sunday podcast.

Thanks a lot to Jord and the team!

x

Straight in at Number 3!

Dear Scratchers,

Just a quckie to say massive thanks for all your votes on tourdates this week. 'You want the World' has gone straight in at number 3 with this week!!! Tell yer friends cos we wanna make number 1! Our third top 10 single this year.
x

Losing today - You want the world - review

Dear Scratchers,

Super Mark from losing today, does it again!

The Scratch ‘you want the world’ (pony land). More blitzkrieg bubblegum pop hurtling at velocity from those St Albans types the Scratch. ‘you want the world‘ is the bands final three track salvo before the weighing in of their forthcoming ‘whatever happened to Friday night?’ full length due to hit the shelves of all taste making record stores in October. No need to bore you about how much we here are smitten by these spike topped sounding flashbacks this one track advance promo (the releases twin flip cuts will feature here the minute we nail a finished copy - marketing strategies eh?) has had us bouncing off the walls like bad ‘uns and sporting the kind of contortionist foot shimmies that frankly may well be deemed illegal in certain parts of society and dare we say life threatening to elders of a certain age of which we are though that’ll be old enough to be your dad though not so old as to be found in the local Darby and Joan club playing dominoes and swigging brown mix. Anyhow enough of that - ’you want the world’ is a superb narcissistic cutie, an anthem for egotists or so it seems drilled with a seizure stricken ear candy day-glo effervescence that’s rapt in hooks and duelling harmonies aplenty which unless we are sorely mistaken sounds not unlike an acutely audacious prime time ‘love bites’ era Buzzcocks in the studio wrapping up another chart bound punk pop pretty only for the impish Mr Devoto and his Magazine sorts to sneak in through the back door and tinker with the tapes adding some of their trademark muscularly wiring psychosis ravaged riffage to the proceedings. A class apart in our book. www.thescratch.co.uk

Thanks mate.
CU at the launch do!
x

Herts ad review of 5th June Horn gig - by Charlotte Morgan

Dear Scratchers,

Thanks to Charlotte for the review... a few (tiny) inaccuracies... but noneless a nice little write up!

BORN and bred St Albans rockers The Scratch shook The Horn pub stage at their homecoming gig last week.

Punchy pop band The Scratch, who have two albums under their belt, are determined to conquer their hometown of St Albans and kicked off their mission with an electrifying performance on Friday night.

The smartly presented foursome - lead singer Andy Thompson, bassist John Viney, guitarist Andy Grimwood and drummer Barry Jobbling (aka The Baron) - leapt up on stage and launched into Numbers, an upbeat number which quickly got the jam-packed venue going.

The band's boundless energy was infectious and by the end of their second song the crowd had formed their own dance floor, the head bangers amongst them taking centre stage and thoroughly enjoying fast-paced tracks such as Freak Show and Critical Mass.

A cravat-clad Andy remained wonderfully animated throughout the whole hour-long performance and guitarist Andy's fast-fingered strumming seemed to get better and better as the night went on. By the closing song, it was clear that The Scratch enjoyed the gig just as much as the screaming fans up front did.

The Scratch's ultra-confident performance was rewarded with an encore and XFM's DJ Clint Boon, who was there to support his favourite St Albans band, promised the crowd that The Scratch were going to go "all the way to stardom".

CHARLOTTE MORGAN

Excellent shots of our Clint Boon experience on myspace!

Dear Scratchers,

feast your eyes on some excellent shots of our excellent night, big thanks to Mark Looby
www.markloobyphotography.com for the ace camera work!

www.myspace.com/thescratch
xx

Clinterview at Herts Ad online now

Dear Scratchers,

Here's what the great man said about tonight in a 'Clint'erview with the Herts Ad online this week!

A VETERAN of the Madchester scene is heading to St Albans today (Friday) to DJ for one of the city's most successful pop bands.

Clint Boon, who rose to fame with the 1980s band Inspiral Carpets and now DJs for XFM Manchester, will be bringing his deck skills to The Horn pub tomorrow to support his favourite St Albans band, The Scratch.

Clint, who described The Scratch as a "good old-fashioned punk-rock band", will be on from 10pm onwards and said that he was looking forward to warming up the crowd for The Scratch, a four-piece band who met in St Albans.

Clint, aged 49, said that The Scratch is the hardest working band he's ever met: "Those lads are addicted to their music and it's great to spend time with such funny and appreciative people. They love getting up on the stage and having fun - it's so refreshing to see such an uninhibited band."

"I used to play music from their two albums on my evening shows. They've got this Green Day twang to them and I think they'll go all the way. St Albans seems to be a real hot spot for great new bands and places like The Horn are a great platform for them."

Clint, who has promised to play everything from Motown to hip hop music tomorrow night, will be at The Horn until the end of The Scratch gig. Tickets cost £7 on the door and three other local acts, The Harringtons, Cobra Kai and Toxins, will also be performing on the night.

For more information or to buy a ticket in advance for £6, visit www.horn.spodnet.net

See you all tonight!!!
xx

Andy goes solo...

... at the BBC 3 Counties offices, to promote the gig and play 'You want the World' for the first time...

Dear Scratchers,

BIG thanks to Kelly and Gareth for having Andy and Tina (the gaffer) over to the station to promote next weeks BIGGY! Gareth commented that he'd seen posters everywhere for the night, so big ups go out to the street team for their efforts... excitement is building!!!

Hope to catch you both at the Horn.

x

Clinterview in next weeks Herts Ad

Dear Scratchers,

After much tooing and froing...we now have a confirmed an interview with Clint and the Hertfordshire Advertiser!

They are printing the interview as a feature and will also publicise the gig, this is then going to be followed up with a review of the gig as the journalist will be coming to interview the band on the night.

Great work from our Tina to swing this baby!

x

Andy at the Beeb tonight - World exclusive play of new single!!!

Dear Scratchers,

Just to remind you that Andy and Tina will a be visiting Kelly and Gareth at BBC 3 Counties tonight (listen here from 7.30 pm http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/introducing/ ) to promote our next single 'You want the World', the guys will be playing the lead track of the new ep as a WORLD EXCLUSIVE!!! (More details of which will follow in our new look newsletter next week, so look out, sign up at www.thescratch.co.uk, so you don't miss out!) In addition Andy will be heavily plugging next Friday's megagig with Clint, tickets for which are almost sold out, so if you haven't got one, you'd best get down the Horn sharpish!!!

xx

BBC 3 Counties appearance this Friday!

Dear Scratchers,

Andy will be appearing on kelly Betts and Gareth Lloyd's excellent BBC 3 Counites Friday show this week (29th May), where he will be offering an exclusive play of You Want the World and talking about next Fridays big gig!

So tune in at http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/introducing/ between 7 and 8 this Friday.

The Scratch
x

Eclectic Plectrum Hijack tonight!!!

Dear Scratchers,

Tonight's the night that John and Andy return to CRMK radio Milton Keynes to hijack Hugh Davenport's Ecelctic Plectrum show... and true to the name it sure will be eclectic!!! listen out at http://www.crmk.co.uk/schedule.shtml

... tonights show will also feature the debut of Steve Filth on the selection panel, as his mum says he can stay up late just this once, but don't tell the teachers! the fun starts at 9!

x

Still number 2 in the tourdates chart!

Amazingly it's now our 3rd week in a row at number 2!... massive thanks for all your downloads guys!

2nd week at number 2 for Destroyed by the look of love!

Dear Scratchers,


We've managed to retain our slot in the tourdates chart for a 2nd week at number 2... bit like when Jeepster was number 2 for T.Tex and Clive Dunn's Grandad kept them off number 1!

Thanks for the votes everyone!

x

Destroyed by the look of love - up 24 places to number 2!

Great news Dear Scratchers,

Many thanks for all your downloads, we've broken the top 10 of the tourdates chart, this week and are now sitting at number 2 Hoorah!!!

xxx

Destroyed by the look of love - up 10 places to 25!

Dear Scratchers,

Thanks to everyone who's been downloading the new single it's now risen 10 places to number 25 in the tourdates chart... let's see if we can beat ATG to number 9!

Don't forget the full ep, will be available from itunes from Monday 27th April!

And don't forget to spread the word that MR.BOON... is coming soon!!!!!

xx

Destroyed by the look of love - FREE Download!

Destroyed by the look of love - Ponyland Records
Released 30th March 2009.

Just to let you know that our new download single ‘Destroyed by the look of love’, is released on Monday 30th March 2009 (next Monday). Available as a FREE download for two weeks only through the http://www.tourdates.co.uk/the-scratch, then as a full 3 track ep release (Destroyed by the look of love/Flicker/Not your friend) from here at the end of April, available on itunes, Sony connect, Music Now, MP3 tunes, Greatindiemusic, Flip, Rhapsody, Nifty, LoudEye-OD2 and CDBaby.

Thanks in advance for your support and don’t forget your download is FREE for just two weeks! Just register or login at http://www.tourdates.co.uk/the-scratch and away you go!

Delta Radio playlist for ATG

Dear Scratchers,

Just to let you know we've been playlisted for Against the Grain on Delta radio.

Thanks guys
x

Tune to our debut at the BEEB this Friday!

Listen to us at the BEEB this Friday!!!
Dear Scratchers,

Here's how you can tune in on Friday!!!

fans, friends, family and groupies can all listen to you on bbc.co.uk/threecounties - click listen live Friday night between 7-8pm
Or if you miss it you can click listen again!
Listen locally on...
98 FM (High Wycombe)
104.5FM (Bucks)
103.8FM (Herts)
95.5FM (Beds)
94.7FM (Aylesbury Vale)
92.1FM (South Herts)
90.4FM (East Herts)
or around the world via bbc.co.uk/threecounties
The hour-long show is available on demand on our iPlayer for seven days after radio broadcast.

xxx

XFM's CLINT BOON TO DJ our 5th June Horn Residency!!!!

Dear Scratchers,

We are HUGELY excited to announce that we have managed to get our mate Clint Boon superstar XFM DJ to headline our night at the Horn on Friday 5th June.

More details to follow!!!!!!

HOORAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

x

up 4 to number 10!!!!

Dear Scratchers,

Just to let you know, we've moved up four more places this week in the unsigned Tour dates chart to number 10!!

Come on!!!

xx

Goldblade tickets on sale NOW!!!!

Dear Scratchers,

You can now buy tickets for the big gig direct from the venue.

The Horn, Victoria Street, St Albans, AL1 3TE

or from http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user?region=gb_south&query=schedule&venue=hornstalbans

Tickets £6 ADV

£7 on the door, selling fast, so get them early!
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Listen to the VS Recharged Podcast now...

Dear Scratchers,

Feb 6th Podcast now on itunes With guests The Scratch

Download and enjoy!

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=303016296

If your already subscribed hit the refresh button to download

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Against the Grain up 5 to 14

Dear Scratchers,

Many thanks to all who have downloaded ATG, we're now up to 14 in the Tour dates unsigned charts, our highest place to date, beating our previous best with Critical Mass that reached number 17 last year.
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More ATG on VSRecharged today!

Thanks again to Jordan and gang for another play of ATG today!

ATG on VS Recharged

Thanks to Jordan and the guys at VS Recharged for the second play in two days this time of Against the Grain...

Very decent of you chaps

VS Recharged play Sweet Surprise!

Dear Scratchers,

Thanks to Jordan and the guys... for a Tuesday afternoon play'n'plug!
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New entry at number 19 in the Tour dates chart

Thanks to everyone who downloaded Against the Grain... we've made a new entry at number 19 in the chart, but with your help can go higher!... please forward this link to all your friends and enemies! Remember it's FREE! for one more week only!

http://www.tourdates.co.uk/unsigned-chart

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Help us Chart with Against the Grain!!!

Our new single Against the Grain is available this week only for FREE ... Just cut and paste

www.tourdates.co.uk/The-Scratch

into your browser, register and download...

Big thanks... we're trying to chart and need all downloads in the same week... tell yer friends and enemies!

BBC 6 Podcast

More goodies from BBC 6, thanks to Adam (The Producer) and Tom Robinson, we've made the Podcast too, here is the full Podcast tracklisting…

J'UNIQUE - Turn Me
LITTLE FIELDS Costa Nova Loves You
Mr.B THE GENTLEMAN RHYMER - Timothy
THE TREEHORNS - Ride On Through The Canyon
LONG BONE TRIO - Fat Head
LITTLE GLITCHES - Sudden Moment of Clarity
SKYLARK - Cattle Market Whores
LION O'BRIEN - This Life
MILK PLUS - Fear Of Numbers
TENAKA - Alaskan
THE SCRATCH - Numbers
CYRUS GABRYSCH - River of Fire
OBITUARY MAMBO - I Pleaded To The Rat

'Lucky' Numbers get first BBC 6 Play on the Tom Robinson show

Who says January's depressing?! Just to let you know, as seems to be a January tradition with The Scratch, having made our XFM debut in '07, we made our first breakthrough onto BBC 6 music last night with the first play of our talismanic track 'NUMBERS'...

Big Thanks to Tom and Adam for picking us out. You can listen for the next 7 days here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6musicintroducing

Goldblade tickets on sale NOW!

Just to let you know we are now in possession of advance tickets (this is not a flyer night, but ticket only) for our first Horn gig of '09 as part of our mini residency, first one on Friday March 27th is set to be very exciting as we have managed to lure Goldblade to open their UK Tour with us in support. Tickets are £6 in advance, £7 on the door.

our support comes from the excellent Sunflies... if we don't see you in person, you can get tickets from:

The Horn,

Victoria Street, St Albans, AL1 3TE

Tickets £6 ADV from www.ticketweb.co.uk

It's gonna be great so don't miss out!
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CRMK DJ Hijack tonight!

You can hear John and Andy on CRMK Milton Keynes online radio tonight where they are 'hijacking' Hugh Davenport's evening show to play 2 hours of our fave tracks and influences. Show starts at 9.

http://www.crmk.co.uk/listen/