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Scratchy Sounds, Tour DJ with the Clash, The Mescaleros, The Pogues and Gogol Bordello, resident of London's Gypsy Hotel and Selectah at clubs and festivals across the globe from New York to Paris to Tokyo, spins sets of The Rock and The Roll of The World & Roots Rockin' Rhythms & Blues.
LATEST NEWS
ROAD-EYES: 20-20 DOUBLE VISION
'Road-Eyes: 20-20 Double Vision'
40 photo tales with over 70, mostly previously unseen, photos of The Clash and Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros.
Some copies are available of this limited Japanese edition photo book that was produced for the 'Scratchy Sounds: The Return of The Dragon Japan Tour'.
NOW SOLD OUT
RETURN OF THE DRAGON TOUR MAY 2024
After a four-year absence, Scratchy was back in Japan in May 2024 for the Return Of The Dragon Tour. It was a delight to have been back.
May 10: Marz, Shinjuku
May 11: Crates, Morioka
May 12: Snokeys, Utsonomiya
May 13: Bar Pinhead, Sendai
May 15: Cross, Chofu
May 16: Stay Punk, Mishima
May 17: Kalakuta, Nagoya
May 18: Bar Caezar, Matsuyama
May 19: Ondo, Hiroshima
May 21: Club Cactus, Nogizaka
May 24: Club Open, Shinjuku
May 25: Foggys, Kumegawa
SCRATCHY ON TOTALLY WIRED RADIO
2022
and that's just the tip!
Catch the playback of Scratchy's live show with Guest Selector Jim Jones
4
OCT
Caia Restaurant, W10
28
SEPT
Classic Car Boot Sale, N1
26
SEPT
White Bear, EC1
25
SEPT
Slackers, Underworld, NW1
24
SEPT
Slackers, The Arch, Brighton
LISTEN TO SCRATCHY SOUNDS ON MIXCLOUD
'Scratchy Sounds: The Rock and The Roll of The World' can heard monthly on Totally Wired Radio on the First Friday of every month at 2pm UK time, for two pulsating hours.
Scratchy presented his debut solo radio show for Totally Wired Radio, on Wed Mar 30th 2022, between 4 & 6pm London time making Breakfast in LA, Coffee in New York, Lunch in Buenos Aires, Cocktails in Cairo, Supper in Mumbai and Party Time in Tokyo. Scratchy graduated to a regular monthly slot. All episodes of The Rock and The Roll of The World for TWR, Scratchy's previous guest appearance on Rupert Orton's Pink Lemonade also on TWR, his live set at Red Rooster and much more, are all available on Scratchy's Mixcloud Page, including the two-part tribute to Joe Strummer, 'Strummer's Music'.
SEPTEMBER 2022 - SWINGIN' SEVENTY BEGINS
Scratchy reached the milestone of 70 years of age on September 8th 2022 and the following day celebrated the launch of 'Swingin' Seventy' along with the amazing King Salami & The Cumberland 3 and fellow DJs Eric Baconstrip and Evil Elvis at the Mascara Bar in North London
APRIL 2020
LIVING IN LOCKDOWN Chapter One
Keeping the Scratchy Sounds spinning from a safe social distance. The first in the Lockdown series. Find them all and more on Scratchy's mixcloud page.
MUSEUM OF LONDON CALLING
Take a listen to the radio show produced by Scratchy to coincide with the 2019/2020 Museum Of London exhibition, which honoured The Clash and their album 'London Calling’, that was released 40 years earlier.
ROCKIN' THE FRONTLINE SINCE 1976
Scratchy’s illustrious career on the decks has taken him from Budapest’s Sziget Island Festival to L’Olympia in the heart of cosmopolitan Paris, from the lush valley of Fuji Rock to the cobbled square of carnival time Recife and from his beginnings in London’s rock’n’roll heartland at Dingwalls Dancehall to the beat of 14th Street at NYC’s famed Palladium alongside The Clash.
Resident DJ of Dingwalls Dancehall during 1976 & 1977, he first stamped his mark on the emerging punk scene, the night of July 5th 1976, spinning alongside The Ramones and The Flamin' Groovies, before moving on to play concerts at all the major venues in London: the Roundhouse, Lyceum, Electric Ballroom, Rainbow and Hammersmith’s Odeon & Palais. As a tour DJ, he was on the road with The Clash from 1978-80 and has been similarly associated with the Mescaleros, Dr. Feelgood, The Pogues, Gogol Bordello, Groundation, The Dead Brothers and The Urban Voodoo Machine.
Since the start of the new millenium, this incomparable selectah has been turning on the globalista magic for audiences in clubs, bars and festivals across the planet. From October 2006 onwards he has been the resident disc spinner at top London night, The Gypsy Hotel.
In December 2015, starting with a two-week return to Japan, he launched into the ’40 Years of Scratchy Sounds’ Jubilee, which continued throughout 2016, celebrating four decades since his first professional engagements at London’s Speakeasy in late 1975 and his subsequent first full-year on the decks, the momentous 1976. It was in those first months of his two-year Dingwalls residency, most notably at his first ever punk show with The Ramones, that Scratchy laid the foundations to his unique DJ style, that bears the same spirit to this very day, now at the milestone of '45 Years of Scratchy Sounds'.
Scratchy has been hailed as a Music Shaman. Whether on radio or in the flesh, Scratchy’s legendary and vibrant selections will delight, make you want to dance to some of the greatest music on the planet and take you places where others fear to tread.
SCRATCHY SOUNDS
Musical Shamanism:
The Rock and The Roll of The World,
Globalista Rhythms and The Universal Blues.
Scratchy is renown for his constantly shifting and never predictable, Rockin', Roma, Dubbed-Up, Mestizo mixes which take a voyage through the soundscapes of London to Louisiana, Kingston to Colombia, Bucharest to Bollywood.
Whilst he packs a broad and deep travelling collection of CDs for sets that cover all aspects of The Rock and The Roll of The World, whether in its entirety, or homing in on the different specialist areas contained within, Scratchy also spins off vinyl for nights of Roots Rockin’ Rhythms & Blues, the music that lies at the very heart of all those Scratchy Sounds.
JANUARY 2022 - SMOKEY JOE'S CAFÉ
Scratchy Sounds gets in the 2002 groove for a Camden Saturday night, when Scratchy returns to Joe's for Smokey Joe's Café Saturday Jan 15th from 10pm.