Fresh from the success of their rescheduled UK/Irish tour which saw them sell out venues such as Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre, The Scratch have announced a 7-date Winter Tour of Ireland. The group have recently released their first original material since their debut album ‘Couldn’t Give A Rats’ in the form of thunderous single Another Round.

“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 cosy 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.” explains guitarist Jordan O’Leary.

“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 song’s 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.”

The Scratch Tour

Tickets for the tour go on sale at 10am this Friday, April 8^th