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
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
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
http://www.tourdates.co.uk/unsigned-chart
xx
Friday, June 19, 2009
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
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
Monday, June 15, 2009
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
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
Friday, June 12, 2009
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
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
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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
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
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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
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
Friday, June 5, 2009
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
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
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