Mar 4, 2010
The Scratch have been nominated for 'Best Single - Teen Idol', Best Album 'Whatever Happened to Friday night', Best gig 'Our launch party at the Horn' and Best Shoes... by Recharged Radio for their first ever awards ceremony. The event takes place on April 15th at 93 Feet East, Brick Lane in London. It's going to be a special night and you could make it even better by voting for us!! Click on the following link it will take you 30 seconds.

Feb 26, 2010
http://shindig-magazine.com/thesoundsofnow-14.html (came out in issue 14 which is the Jan-Feb issue)


THE SCRATCH
Whatever Happened To Friday Night?
Ponyland CD
www.ponylandrecords.co.uk
Based in the pleasant town of St. Albans , their influences are classic English po-rock from the 70s to the 90s.The spirit of The Buzzcocks looms large. It is no surprise that one of the songs is called 'Independent and Unrepentant', as The Scratch strongly embrace the punk DIY ethic, producing and releasing their own music. 'Against The Grain' has a great chorus and is the most memorable song here. This album will appeal to fans of the punky pop bands that the Damaged Goods label specialises in.
Phil Suggitt

Feb 22, 2010
Pls forward this link to all yer mates for the Camden Crawl Best new band website! Many thanks in advance!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=312268663876

Feb 17, 2010
It appears to insiders that we're doing it somewhat in slow motion!... but we've been nominated as 'Best New Band' and 'Best Live Act' for the Camden Crawl Emerging Talent Awards, which is, as it says for emerging bands and would be rather a good thing to win... being that you've helped us to many glorious victories in the past (who could forget the M.E.N.!!!!) please spend just a minute of your time to click the button on the link

http://www.emergingtalentawards.com/vote/band/the-scratch

Feb 9, 2010
Excitingly Jordan (main man at Recharged Radio) has invited us to be one of the bands to perfom live at this years radio awards at 93 Feet East (150 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL). The date is Thursday April 15th, but as yet we have no more details... watch this space for updates!

Feb 8, 2010
Big thanks to everyone who voted us number 7 in the Justin Wayne 2nd Birthday awards on recharged radio last week. And thanks to Justin for the invite!

Feb 7, 2010
Don't forget to tune in tomorrow night to www.rechargedradio.com where you can hear the long awaited 'Sound of the Suburbs' radio special put together by Andy, John and Hugh Davenport. An hour special that details the Scratch, St.Albans and the scene, also including a special guest interview with XFM DJ and inspiral Carpet Clint Boon and featurng music and interviews from The Scratch, We are White Worm and Ponyland Records artists Mamajamas, The DIY or DIE organisation and Means of Production and Khalasars.

Show starts at 7pm.
www.rechargedradio.com

(ps. If you do happen to be unavoidably detained you can download the podcast from itunes too!)

Feb 7, 2010
Just to let you know that the Teen idol band waggon rolls on... Mike Lidskin, who is a DJ for the Tuesday Night Diner radio show at Recharged and a U.S. Show in Sacramento, California. Twirl www.twirlradio.com has nominated Teen Idol for the annual 'Twirlie Awards show' Song of the Year for last year.

Mike dropped us a mail with the news. "I probably received around 1,000 tracks last year, and your song made it into the top 11, of what I'm calling the Electrifying Eleven, I'm not ranking them, just picking a winner from among them. I heard the Scratch in session on a Friday Forum show a while back, and you guys sounded awesome!"

Thanks a lot Mike you're a star!

Feb 4, 2010
EXCITING (SSHH... it's still a secret and we have no more news yet!) but we've just had a mail from Lamma, Organiser of Endorse IT in Dorset and it looks like we've secured a place on this years festival. So keep your diaries free between 6-8 August and we'll hopefully fill in the blanks soon!... This years headliners are The Damned, giving Andy a chance to re-aquaint himself with the Captain, 10 years on from his Mamajamas heyday!

Jan 10, 2010
We are hugely delighted to announce that our wait to replace the Baron at the drum stool, actually only took 8 days from the last gig to audition! Terry joins with a wealth of experience from the local scene and will begin regular rehearsals with the band, when he returns from holidaying in Australia in 2 weeks.

Jan 8, 2010
Due the bloomin weather and Thameslink!!!! Andy will still be featuring on tonights Recharged Radio show, but via the miracle of the telephone... tune in from 8 and you will hear all the latest from Scratch control!!!!

Jan 4, 2010
Dear Scratchers,

Just to let you know that Andy will be appearing on Recharged radio this Friday, talking about plans for 2010.

Hope you can tune in!

www.rechargedradio.com

Dec 23, 2009
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!

Dec 17, 2009
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.

Dec 4, 2009
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

Dec 1, 2009
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

Nov 19, 2009
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.

Nov 19, 2009
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!!!!

Nov 19, 2009
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!

Nov 17, 2009
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...

Nov 16, 2009
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

Nov 8, 2009
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!

Nov 2, 2009
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

Oct 25, 2009
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

Oct 22, 2009
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