THE SCRATCH FROM DUBLIN. NEW SINGLE ‘Another Round’ OUT NOW!’

The Scratch come from Dublin and have become the latest sensation on the Irish music scene with their loud and catchy as hell acoustic owing much to alternative forms of music as the auld Irish Folk legends.

The Scratch just played in London on St. Patrick’s Day and even though a couple of us noticed the advertisements for it we dismissed the gig and The Scratch as heavy metal. One reason was the name and the other was because the gig was at London’s premier metal venue the Underworld in Camden. It’s no surprise anymore to see shamrocks plastered over everything during St. Patrick’s even when the event has no Irish connection. It wasn’t until a few days later and one of the readers over on the London Celtic Punks FB page left a comment recommending them so I checked them out and bloody hell was I impressed. The band consider ‘Another Round’ as their best work to date so it’s just the perfect way to come in!. ‘Another Round’ is an energetic (soooo energetic) five minute track that builds and builds and builds in what has become their signature and unique way blurring the line between their metal roots and love of old Irish storytelling. The story tells realistically the perils and joys of a night out on the piss.

(Recorded and Engineered by Ben Wanders at Wanderland Studios, Limerick, Ireland.

Starring: The Scratch * Rob Earley * Emma Walsh * Bonnie Dean *)

I was down the back of another aul snug just taking the time to watch the wall paint dry

The sound of a bauld aul crowds dull chattering filling the air within an inch of its life

A man on either side of me, the bar to the right

I’d be lucky to make it outta here with me life

And isn’t that your man that barred us last time for singing ‘Ra tunes on a Tuesday night?

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Crawling up the walls lookin’ like a rabid hound

Get up outta that, get up off the ground

I’ll tie ya to that chair if ya don’t simmer down

You’re the worlds worst patron saint of stout

Actually didn’t I barr yous last week and what are ya doin’ with a spliff in your mouth?

Alright then never mind what’ll it be lads? Another Round (x12)

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Take the edge off the knife

Catch the rain before it all runs dry

Cure the dog of all that ails it

You’ll still be that bitter man inside

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They are changing all the taps

Switching off the lights in every room

If the last call has an ending

I swear to god there’s nothing left for you

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I was down the back of another aul snug just taking the time to watch the wall paint dry

The sound of a bauld aul crowds dull chattering filling the air within an inch of its life

A man on either side of me, the bar to the right

I’d be lucky to make it outta here with me life

And isn’t that your man that barred us last time for singing ‘Ra tunes on a tuesday night

For singing IRA tunes on a Tuesday night

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Guitarist Jordan O’Leary writes

“The song is at its core a drinking song. I don’t think it’s necessarily for or against excessive alcohol consumption, and all that comes with it, but more of an honest portrayal of my own experience with that way of life. It was written back during the first lockdown in 2020. I was craving the warm cozy embrace of my favourite Dublin snug, Bowes bar on Fleet Street. I wrote the song while stuck sitting in a gaff in Palmerstown, Dublin dreaming of the countless nights of craic we used to have in that pub. Most of the references heard in the song are directly related to those nights. The chatter and manic atmosphere of a busy pub, the ever growing rowdiness as the night progresses and the rounds keep coming, the couple of lads in the group that are thrown out for reaching a belligerent state of patriotic pride and singing unsolicited rebel songs at the top of their lungs, and the perpetual and dizzying nature of all of these things combined. The songs structure is essentially a three and a half minute build up that grows more and more tense as it progresses, until eventually it reaches the release and payoff that repeats until its end.”