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12/4/19 |
what du mean it’s april ? ok i haven’t updated the news page for over 2
months.. my bad. that’s the trouble with the internet.. there’s just too much
of it. too many different things to update, too many.. too many notes, as emperor
joseph II said to mozart. anyway it doesn’t make sense to write a letter to someone,
then before it gets there email them.. and then ring them checking they got
the email. so in the interests of sanity please see the scratchy twitter for news updates. thanks
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1/2/19 |
rafa russo’s new download single ‘you crossed my mind’ b/w
‘empty chair’ is out today in the digiverse on itunes and spotify. both tracks taken from songtastic
new album ‘this strange place’ out march 1st. album launch is SUN 24th FEB at oliver’s jazz club in greenwich. more
info on the fazbok > https://www.facebook.com/events/474301803100508/
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22/1/19 |
lots of stuff happening on scratchy this year..
the album launch gig is at oliver's jazz club in greenwich on SUN 24th
FEB. an afternoon gig 2 - 5:30pm in a jaaaazz club. mmmm. nice. more deets on
this and some other feb dates to follow new single from bromide will
be out april - this is drummer ed's favourite track from last year's album 'i
woke up'. it's called 'magic coins' > https://open.sptify.com/track/3BDLYwXG83uEb9wC3yXEXT
+ we're playing our local in SE18 this sat if any yuz passing..
plus there's the regular-ish scratchstock
nights at the birds nest in deptford. next one is SAT 23RD MARCH featuring
one of the great new bands coming out of southend, dark globes > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Bct6a0aQc
elsewhere deptford stars jemma
freeman & the cosmic something play DIY space SE15 1TF this friday -
check out my review of her shacklewell arms gig last nov.. overcoat
popsters desperate journalist
are on
tour.. and steve lamacq just can't stop playing DIRTY VIV. go edz ! what's that.. you've got some xmas £ to spend ? here's the scratchy
webshop > https://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/collections/scratchy-records lastly thanks to tom robinson at bbc6 for including coach hop in his xmas playlist
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30/11/18 |
several things coming up.. GIG TOMORROW SAT 1ST DEC bromide, dirty viv and gerry mitchell allstars in the back room at
sister midnight records in deptford. more info on the fazbok
10pm curfew, first band on 7:30pm and it's free
'by christmas' is coach hop's new single and the following up to his
taylor swift ode from back in rekkid store day april. it's out friday 14th
december on scratchy and i can't tell you how great this song is ur just
gonna have tae lizzen
tae it. + launch gig mon 17th dec at hope & anchor INDIE LABEL MARKET no spitalfields this year.. sob. instead i'll be manning the stall at the canopy market, kings cross on sun 16th december
RAFA RUSSO - NEW ALBUM MARCH 2019 really excited about this record.. 'this strange place' will be out 1st
march. in the meantime have a listen to the first single 'you
crossed my mind' due end of jan. gonna get rafa over from barcelona in
feb for some gigs - more deets soon PENNY BLACK MAG new issue up online now - including my review
of kristin hersh's spellbinding rough trade instore few weeks back
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3/10/18 |
thanks to evone who came down to see us at camden assembly supporting bivouac. great night ! next up is scratchstock #29 at the hope & anchor, islington FRI 19TH OCT. info on who’s playing here >> https://www.facebook.com/events/2398966483478039/
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13/9/18 |
exciting gnus ! bromide will be supporting 90s indie rock ledgs BIVOUAC at camden
assembly (barfly as was) on friday
28th sept. bivouac will be playing their 93 classic alb ‘tuber’ + we’ve
got a limited number of cheap tickets available here > https://www.alttickets.com/bivouac-camden-assembly-formerly-barfly-2018-09-28-19-00
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22/8/18 |
scratchstock returns friday 31st august at the beehive in bow E3 3LT this time due to a mix up at
the birds nest diary HQ.. on the bill are the comet line, andy
hankdog, spinmaster plantpot, bromide as uszj and the
fab dirty viv who featured on steve lamacq's bbc6 show
monday night.. rock on eddie ! all for £0 + more infotainment over on the
fazbok event page >> https://www.facebook.com/events/211816026067514/
lastly caught this interview with the macca by jarvis cocker today.. 1 hour
11 mins well spent i reckon but then again i've always been a total beatles
nut..
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15/6/18 |
OUT TODAY ! new bromide album
'i woke up' on limited edition vinyl, cd and download. get yr copy direct
from the cargo shop here > https://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/collections/scratchy-records/products/bromide-i-woke-up or in the digiverse - itunes > https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/i-woke-up/1382577572?app=itunes spotify > https://open.spotify.com/album/4AhMxzLQbfUBeCaQ9JNOfc ‘Bromide
haven't just woken up, they're alert and more keenly ambitious than ever’
**** Record Collector ‘punching a rather large and splendid hole in the modern alt-rock
landscape’ 8/10 godisinthetv
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4/6/18 |
great day down at southend yesterday.. thanks to ghost music, the plan, mike
donovan, john hannon and everyone else who played. next bromide gig is easycome at skehans this weds 6th june
- more of a semi-electric set then the album launch at the birds nest sat 16th june. more infoid
over on fazbok > https://www.facebook.com/events/851174781731423/
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1/6/18 |
it’s summer ! well.. kind of. it’s definitely june anyway so time to
head to the seaside yeaaaahhh ! this sunday
3rd june bromide beam
down to southend for this..
kicks off 2:30pm - we’re on about 4pm. also playing the fab the plan
and equally fab ghost music
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26/5/18 |
'I like Taylor Swift too and I don't care what you think.. bit of an instant classic' John Kennedy, Radio X 'A chunk of pop-rock with a dash of humour.. Reminds me of Fountains of Wayne" Gary Crowley, BBC London charlie and the band did a great set at scratchstock / hope & anchor for the launch in april and will be back there again 28th september.
'a mighty fine tune from bromide' Gideon Coe BBC6 Music 'joyously scrappy punkgaze tune' the 405 'cramming in the guitars and attitude of Mudhoney and mixing it with the harmonies and melodies of Teenage Fanclub' backseat mafia ‘a melody that splices euphoria with regret, like all great pop records before it’ godisinthetv + indepth album review just out on godisinthetv 'ageing like fine malt whisky' 8/10 !! more bromide updates on the twitter couple of dates for the release coming up.. sunday 3rd june - twenty one, Unit 21, Pier Approach, Western Esplanade, SS1 2EH Southend-on Sea weds 6th june - easycome at skehans, 1 Kitto Rd, London SE14 5TW - this is andy hankdogs long running weekly shindig. more of a semi-acoustic set init sat 16th june - ALBUM LAUNCH - scratchstock #27 at the birds nest along with gerry mitchell, lofe, spinmaster plantpot, pickled onion and onehundredpercentboyband - see fazbok for more deets
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22/3/18 |
new COACH HOP single ‘I Like Taylor Swift’ is out now !! well digitally anyway.. you’ll have to wait till record store day saturday 21st april to get yr hands on the pink vinyl 7 inch. in the meantime have a listen here courtesy of consequence of sound > https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/03/coach-hop-shares-thunderous-power-pop-debut-single-i-like-taylor-swift-stream/
+ the day before vinyl release friday 20th april charlie and fellow coach hoppers will be playing their first ever gig at scratchstock #26 at the hope & anchor, islington. more deets soon.. in the meantime check out all things coach hop on instagram
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24/2/18 |
itchstock ahoy ! doing a joint promotion next week with george / cunning folk. this will be more of an acoustic vibe than the usual scratchstock band nights hence the itch rather than the full blown scratch. it's happening next friday 2nd march at the new shortwave cafe, 100 clements rd, bermondsey SE16 4DG - free admish, music from 6:30pm till 10pm and dj lord anthony filling the gaps in between an array of acoushtic talent... more deets on who's playing at fazbook event page
also some unfortunate news just in from the winter olympics / drummers snowboarding event.. it seems bromide's own inimitable stick sorcerer ed lush has broken his collar bone on the second of three jumps somewhere near a mountain. in france ? luckily the album's in the can already.. more of which to follow. get well soon ed !
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21/1/18 |
first the good gnus.. scratchy 7 inch vinyl singles club kicks off on record store day - april 21st. first up is debut single by coach hop which is charlie, singer from hamptons new band. more info soon now the bad.. vinyl records in deptford is closing down early feb. bummerrrrrr. thanks to ronnie, bertie and the crew for giving deptford a great place to play or just drop in for a coffee. me, ed nd hugo bromide playing one last gig there weds 31st jan
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23/11/17 |
firstly, congratulaysheeuns to bromide bassman hugo and saij who got married last w/end !! woop woop.. and had the loudest / funkiest discoid afterwards. thanks to carnival of souls djman.. ears and feet still abuzzin + diary looking busy..
coming up this saturday 25th november
is the annual xmas indie label
market at spitalfields plus they’ve got swanky new stalls this time..
wooden / plywood or something it looked like from the pics. i’ll be sharing
with tiergarten recs right by the brewing section. nice ! joining us on the
stall for a quick live set will be jonny velon.
jonny is in town playing keyboards with the phenomenally funky talking heads
tribute act ‘speaking in tongues’ - they’re playing two nights at moth club,
hackney E9 6NU on friday 24th & sat 25th. deets here
then the week after, weds 29th november bromide return to the stage at the montague arms
in new cross. this is a night put together by top bassman els from lofe who
rocked scratchstock back in july.. this time he’s grown a couple of extra
strings for his other band nightmare on old
kent road who’ll be launching their album
talking of albums, new bromide one is pretty much done.. thanks to producer brian o’shaughnessy for getting his metal merlin hat on again and working his magic. will be out next year - in the meantime here’s a take on the australian national anthem.. RIP malcolm young cheers, simon bromide
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13/7/17 |
another fab indie label market last saturday, spitalfields. thanks to theo tongue master recs who shared the stall and everyone who stopped by for a quick listen on the lassoophones..
next up is scratchstock label night FRIDAY 21st JULY at The Birds Nest, 32 Deptford Church St. SE8 4RZ - 7:30pm FREE admish
featuring: julie anne mccambridge
- fiery scottish singer bit like pj harvey / kristen hersh. in a hurricane.
her song scared
from recent self-released album 'nature makes amazing shapes' made it onto
bbc6 gerry mitchell - glaswegian poet gerry summons the ghost of bukowski via new cross - this time with the help of his ‘allstars backing band’ featuring ace hello goodbye show dj dexter bentley. here’s a quietus feature on a previous fire records release. lofe - local deptford
band lofe's 90s electronic beats and spoken word vocals arrive at
scratchstock untested but highly recommended by local emporium vinyl records
! more info on their facebook (Time Travel ed: they were fab !!) bromide - it's our party so we're playing / crying as well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCPQj9QCz6U cheers, simon bromide
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23/6/17 |
what.. the middle of the year. already ?? ok. plenty of planning going on this end. got some 7 inch vinyl singles coming from dirty viv, charles honderick (he of lead singer in hamptons repute) and that will be lunch amongst possibly others. more news soon me, ed and hugo have been bromiding up at bark studios with brian ‘scissorhands’ o’shaughnessy. thank god for digital editing eh ? no idea when it will be finished / out but this year anyway + we’ve got a gig coming up next thurs 29th june at the ace park it in the market classic car fest at greenwich market. this is a monthly bonanza right in the heart of greenwich (matthew pennycook LABOUR maj. 20/- +) and is always a fun night complete with food stalls, beer stalls, car stalls, car starts again and his vinylness dj lord anthony. last couple of times he’s been djing out the back of the bromide capri but maybe not this time as we’ll need to get a PA there somehow !
also occuring.. tommy stinson ex-replacements / guns n’ roses has got a new bash and pop album ‘anything could happen’ out on fat possum + he’s playing in the UK this coming week including friday 30th june at the music hall in ramsgate - see you there. check out tracks from the album on this hilari-awesome KEXP session last month at scratchstock the lucky dandy did a fab set of 80s classics on his banjo. i have never sung along to ‘living on a prayer’ punching the air before but i, er, have ahem. now.. anyway this sunday 26th june he and mrs dandy aka ace storyteller vanessa wolf are organising a walking tour though the “amazing hidden corners and secret pathways of mortlake” and will be examining the legend of doctor john dee. more info here cheers, simon bromide
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13/5/17 |
next scratchstock next friday !
Scratchstock #24 at the Birds Nest, Deptford Friday 19th May performing live in orbit..
Emily C. Smith Gerry Mitchell Dirty Viv Bromide + one armed physics-defying
superstar DJ Lord Anthony this scratchstock is dedicated to the memory of my late uncle donald howle aka ‘the donataur’ who helped build space rockets, including apollo 11 and was crazy about dinosaurs.. and lots of other stuff. happy travelling out there in the cosmos. rrrrrrrrrrrrr ! simon bromide
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30/3/17 |
come smell the vinyl..
listen to the beer ! indie label
market back at spitalfields on sat. sharing stall with castles in space. c uz there !
x
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23/3/17 |
“At times reminiscent of Roxy Music, at others David Bowie and Steve
Winwood.. a varied, inventive album rammed with emotional triggers and a
genuine depth” Whisperin
& Hollerin someone gave me a copy of jonny velon's album at an indie label market
down in bristol. on first listen i wasn't sure if i'd like it.. a bit too close to ben
folds five for my taste. however, i persevered and over the next few weeks i
took the album out in the car to give it a proper listen and slowly the songs
started to reveal themselves. i’d be at work or doing something and fragments
started to appear in my head. what the f*ck is that ? oh yeah.. and then one
particularly memorable occasion when i got in the car maybe after a few days,
put on the stereo and music started playing. hmm, what is this strange,
beguiling sound coming out the speakers ? there was no singing so i thought
it must be an instrumental record.. i piled through possible names in my head
before jonny’s voice suddenly appeared on the track ‘travelling’ and
confirmed that i’d imagined this music could have come from any one of many
musical legends. talking of legends it was probably bristol-based jonny’s performance of
bowie’s ‘lazarus’ at a floor spot night up in central london that convinced
me that i had to put this album out. i sat there awestruck as he took over
the song and later that night wrote a song about the experience myself.
there’s a fuzzy youtube
clip of him playing that night if you want to see it.. my beer is the middle
one on the right. shortly after that a blistering scratchstock set at the birds nest with
jonny attacking the piano like a punk rock classical pianist raised on
rachmaninov and lou reed sealed the deal and so here we are.. you can buy the album direct from the scratchy
shop at cargo plus jonny and his band will be playing some dates around
the release:
Saturday 8th
April - One day tour of Bristol record shops: Idle Hands, Friendly Records
& The Centre For Better Grooves Thursday 13th
April - Album launch London: The Old Nun's Head, 15 Nunhead Green SE15 3QQ +
support from Matthew Neel, 8pm FREE Friday 14th April - The Albion,
Hastings, East Sussex Saturday
22nd April - RISE
Records, Bristol - special Record Store Day in-store show, daytime and here’s the video
for ‘the cambridge squeeze’ from
the album. thanks also to all the scratchstock
bands who played on anyway last friday despite me not being able to be
there.. cheers ! simon bromide
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20/3/17 |
check out ‘dastardly’s’ review
of mark eitzel’s rough trade
instore gig back in feb.. retweeted by the man himself no less ! eitzel’s new
album ‘hey
mr ferryman’ is out now on decor. a bacharachian treat..
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10/3/17 |
scratchstock #23 incoming !
Your Heterosexual Violence The Plan
Spinmaster Plantpot Bromide + one armed physics-defying DJ Lord Anthony also on the horizon is debut album on scratchy from bristolian JONNY VELON on vinyl, cd and download. more of which shortly.. in the meantime you can pre-order your vinyl copy of 'goodness flows’ at the scratchy shop. release date: friday 24th march cheers ! simon bromide
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7/2/17 |
been a busy couple of months since the last post.. since the ahem,
‘world changed’ !! is that how you say it ? i don't know i’ve never been to an
international values re-think before. anyway, moving on..
then at the end of the month we played for the first time at the montague arms in new cross, one of
south london’s long hidden treasures and still several million light years
away from a gastro lobotomy. fingers crossed that is.. best not to count on
too many things right now. thanks to dave skull for having us play at his mad pride holocaust memorial all-dayer coming up next week more bromide
action at the dublin castle on weds
15th feb. always been a treat to play here.. this time we’re supporting henry’s funeral shoe
and the night is brought to you courtesy of those lovely bugbear gig
warriors. on early - 8:30pm sharp !
cheers ! simon bromide
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7/12/16 |
thanks to everyone that came down to scratchstock #22 at water rats few weeks back. great sets from all
the bands.. hamptons delivering euphoric stage elevation as promised. watch
out for 7 inch from them on scratchy next year. pics courtesy of king water
rat, dj lord anthony..
also big thanks to independent label
market for another bustling beer infused session at spitalfields - and to
the punters who braved the scratchy headphone challenge! the 2008 spork debut album ‘many of them seriously’ seems
to appeal across the board. “this is just like some stuff sonic cathedral are
putting out now..” i was reliably informed. remember where you heard that seductive
mix of mogwai, krautrock and shoegaze first. good to meet fellow capri owner
and stall partner milo from power vacuum
also. next up is last bromide gig of
the year for me, ed and hugo - playing alongside former swell mapper jowe
head at stereo 92 in stoke newington this sat 10th dec. i’m presuming it is at no. 92.. we’ll
see. we’re on first 8:30 and it’s free admish! here’s the facebook event thing
plenty in store for 2017 including earworm infested debut album from
gifted bristolian singer-songer jonny velon merry chrisdeburgh ! simon bromide
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8/11/16 |
don’t panic ! whoever gets in there’s only so much they can do.. check
out rich hall’s prog on bbc4 yesterday http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0828lpl/rich-halls-presidential-grudge-match?suggid=b0828lpl
back in micro label indie world the next scratchstock is looming. norf
of ver river this time at the renovated water
rats in grays inn road on WEDNESDAY 23RD NOVEMBER where oasis
played to everyone in knebworth. who’d made it up to that gig. i think you’ll
find this is statistically correct. anyway on the bill iz.. HAMPTONS
first band 7:45pm. £5 with flyer defacebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/425485344242006/ + thanks kara at WFUV
fm in new york for spinning ciccone stateside ! cheers, simon bromide
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26/10/16 |
g’day ! more rad radio news.. bromide single ‘mr ciccone’s daughter’ will be on NYC station www.wfuv.org this sat 29th oct - show is called ‘UKNY’ goes out at 11pm + online. if you want to get your
hands on a limited edition (50) cassette copy then you can get them from
these ‘ere fine ROUGH TRADE EAST
Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Ln E1 6QL 0207392 7788 FLASHBACK 50
Essex Rd, Islington N1 8LR 020
7354 9356 / 144 Crouch Hill N8 9DX 020 8342 9633 / 131 Bethnal Green
Rd E2 7DG 020 3780 1900 RYE
WAX The CLF Art Cafe,
133 Rye Lane, Peckham SE15 4ST 020 7732 3176 VINYL DEPTFORD 4 Tanner's Hill SE8 4PJ 020 8469 1444 TOME
RECORDS 96-108 Ormside
Street, Bermondsey SE15 1TF 020 7732 0433 CASBAH
RECORDS 320-322 Creek
Rd, Greenwich SE10 9SW 020 8858 1964 launch gig last saturday at vinyl was rockin + good to meet greenwich post-punkers from back in the day ‘your heterosexual violence’. gonna get them on a scratchstock bill next year. like the fall and the doors.. nice ! talking of.. next scratchstock #22 is WEDS 23RD NOV at the newly done over water rats in grays inn road.. on the bill are hamptons, the miller test, the comet line and me ed nd hugo bromideing as uzsh cheers !
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17/10/16 |
big thanks to gideon coe on bbc6 music for giving it a few spins
recently, likewise resonance fm’s hello
goodbye show where we’ll be doing a live session early in the new year
and thanks also to shaun w keaveny for the RT.. launch gig is saturday 22nd
october at deptford’s fab vinyl
records along with YOUR HETEROSEXUAL VIOLENCE. free entry, music from
7:30
..and here’s the vid shot by artists in cahoots nick js thompson
and benjamin murphy. click on
the pic to play
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24/9/16 |
next up is scratchstock #21 tonight, sat 24th sept at the birds nest, deptford (see flyer below) kicking off 7:30pm sharp with the one man phenomenon that is lewis floyd henry. i first encountered lewis busking by a gate in between two fields up at the big chill a few years ago and showing the big stages on either side how it’s done.. plus if you’ve ever wondered what it might‘ve been like to see jimi hendrix in action then this is probably as close as ur gonna get ! also from buskingworld are the amazing tommyandmary. i was walking home down charing cross road a few months back when the sound of faraway drums started to tickle my ears.. rounded the corner by oscar wilde and there perched perfectly on the triangular wedge of pavement outside charing cross station like it had been designed specially for them was guitarist tommy and drummer mary punkrocking the homebound ‘muters with classics like ‘my manager’s a prick’ and ‘smoke break’. nice work ! and great to see some interactive social media in actual. real. time. spinmaster plantpot returns to the spoken word slot.. i’d love to see spinmaster busking, specially his legendary re-working of ‘uptown girl’..charming south londoner e.p. garside brings some acoustrickery to proceedings (like propah buskers init) with songs about night bus bust ups, brenda vaccaro, sad gods, and psychedelic policemen - think hank williams does syd barrett plus me, ed nd hugo aka bromide will be rummaging in the noise-pop cellar using bob mould’s keys. all this and london’s most stylish dj lord anthony for free ! see ya there simon bromide x
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14/9/16 |
it’s scratchstock time again.. what’s this ? consecutive months !! #21
will be on sat 24th sept
back at the birds nest in deptford and featuring not one but two busking
legends tommyandmary and lewis floyd henry
as well as sarf london singer-songwriter e.p. garside, semi-resident
punk poet spinmaster plantpot
and your hosts les bromides i.e. me ed nd
hugo. free admish and make sure ur there early as music starts 7:30 sharp.
here’s a link to the facebook event page
(thanks to tommy and mary for this..)
elsewhere in radioworld new bromide
single ‘mr. ciccone’s daughter’ has been picking up some play from 6music
evening uberlord gideon coe so big thanks to him / them - here’s a link to listen again..
starts 36.57. single’s out oct 7th on download and cassette - more
info soon. also in the big thanks queue is scratchy records intern soham who’s
helping out with some stuff this month. reports that there might even be a
scratchy facebook page soon are unconfirmed. and irrational. finally, i’ll be setting up the scratchy stall at independent
label market in bristol this sunday
18th sept. last year there was great + came back to london
with copy of cd by local songmeister jonny velon - more of whom soon as his
album will be out on scratchy 2017. c u there if yr passing..
cheers !
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19/8/16 |
top night birds nest last week ! thanks to evone who played, performance
poeted, djed..
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9/8/16 |
scratchstock is back at the birds
nest, deptford this thursday 11th
august, numero 20/20. i can see clearly now.. ahoy there.. etc.. action
packed bill with blang records courtney love / kim deal tinged lucy’s
diary, deptford trash art purveyors dirty
viv, a big welcome back to scratchstock for folkronica dreamer apple rabbits and some
agit punk poetry from the inimtable spinmaster plantpot. plus
me, ed and hugo will be bromide-ing as usual and paying our dus to the gods of noise
pop. dj this time is the cheftastic celine
dijon cooking up the beats.. music starts 7:30 and it’s free and it’s a rocking pub and it’s
you know, thursday !
oh yeah, one more thing. we’re on twitter.. so maybe that’s the end of
the scratchy gnus page. hmm. dunno.. maybe. come and follow us anyway.
actually fuck that. come and ride along side x
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20/7/16 |
fffffff... baking. not complaining.. coupla things visible thru the heathaze - scratchy will be back at
spitalfields for independent
label market this saturday 23rd july. stall no 35 - sharing with castles
in space this time - see map below. will have the new THAT WILL BE LUNCH album on deeply unfashionable cd.
don't shoot ! + the usual haggletastic deal on the scratchy back cat - 3 cds
for a tenner + if i get a couple of minutes before then i'll try and burn a
few copies of an early compilation of scratchy heroes 'the rocks'. still
sounding great 10 years on..
then next week top trainer mike boysterous is fielding bromide again at his horse night, westminster
bridge rd on tuesday 26th july. we're on about 10ish. £5 to get on.
this is a seated event with tables and everything so we'll be doing some of
the more y'know semi-acoustic numbers..
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17/6/16 |
out today on scratchy is the new album ‘the mixtape of things’ by alvin
spetz aka that
will be lunch and known previously as 'full english breakfast'. i first heard alvin’s music in 1988 and it then took another 20 odd
years to convince him to release something. it’s still evolving today, still
fascinating and unpredictable..
“He may seem as daft as a brush but
like Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren and Ariel Pink he is
clearly someone who knows the value of a popular melody and how to best evoke
memories of a lost era” God
is in the TV alvin doesn't play live so last weekend a few of us including film maker
phil hayes who made the excellent vid for single 'once
in lifetime' went down to kent to interview him and find out a bit more
about the man and his music. click on the pic below to watch the film we made
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the album 'the mixtape of things' is available at the scratchy online shop and itunes
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7/6/16 |
THAT WILL BE LUNCH album ‘the mixtape of things’ will be out friday 17th june and you
can pre-order now via the scratchy
shop. in the meantime vidmeister phil hayes has done a new edit of the video here
..and not to be outdone on the tinkering stakes herr spetz has done an alt.
mix of the track which you can hear er, here
- along with the new edit of the vid natch.. confused ?? maybe this
will help in gig gnus, there’s a solo electric bromide show tonight, tuesday 7th
june at the windmill
in brixton.. on about 9pm
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8/4/16 |
scratchstock nnnnnnnnnnn.. nn..nnnnnn..nnnnnnn... nineteen incoming !
next thurs 14th april
at the fab birds nest pub in deptford this time - cool rocking pub. having driven
past it on the mini roundabout for aeons wondering it’s great to be actually
playing there. line up is jonny velon (all the way from
bristol), matthew neel airing some
new toons from forthcoming lp no. 2, the inimitable tv starlet kourtney
kardashian aka spinmaster plantpot,
3-piece rockers the comet line and er,
3-piece rockers bromide. all
this seamlessly intertwined with musical two-part filler by superstar dj lord
anthony. will be an early start 7:30pm
+ it’s free ! more info on the pub website
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30/3/16 |
independent
label market returns to spitalfields this saturday 2nd april. i’ll be manning the scratchy stall
and accosting innocent bystanders armed with my sennheiser headphones and
scratchy mix cd. + date for diary, scratchstock #19 is thurs 14th april at the birds nest, deptford. more
info here
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7/3/16 |
woah.. chilly.. need to move around. do a gig maybe. talking of - next bromide gig is weekend after next, sat 19th march back at the fab vinyl
records in deptford..
here’s the fazzbook event thingy - https://www.facebook.com/events/749055161892276/ what else.. got a release date for the new full
english breakfast album. except it’s not ‘full english breakfast’ anymore.
nope the culinary day is progressing and the mysterious alvin spetz will be
releasing his third album as ‘THAT WILL BE LUNCH’. title is ‘the mixtape of
things’ and it will be available in a sandwich shop near you from friday 10th june. james from the rocks charges desperate journalist
have got a great new vid out for the track ‘leave home’ – watch here mike boysterous’sssss mainly acoustic club night ‘top of the horse’ returns to the horse & stables on
westminster bridge road on weds 16th
march – more info here
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18/1/16 |
my favourite tribute has been the one that goes “If you're ever sad, just remember the world is 4.543 billion years old and you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie” - credited to actor simon pegg but a quick google reveals that there was a bit of tweet mix up or a twix up perhaps.. which is kind of fitting given the whole thing about bowie’s shapeshifting persona and things often not being quite what they seem. anyway it seemed only fitting that the scratchstock next week (tues 26th jan) at rye wax records in peckham should be a tribute to this great musician, songwriter, performer, actor.. (space)man me and the bromides are playing plus two local bards – in the new cross corner and coming on like sleaford mods in a jazzfusion metal meltdown is poet gerry mitchell and the groovemungous debbie leggo then before them is peckham’s own psychogeographic songster george hoyle (formerly ‘nigel of bermondsey’) and his charming rustic folk quartet gentlefolk – expect songs not just about trees but whole forests and ‘let’s dance’ on a banjo. plus london’s most stylish tunelord dj lord anthony on the decks and no doubt in appropriate attire..
see you there x
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