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“Close your eyes and pull like a dog,” was the reply as soon as given by Irish Olympic rowers Gary and Paul O’Donovan in a 2016 interview, when requested to explain their recreation plan for an upcoming race. The phrase – beforehand non-existent – caught on and has since turn into cultural shorthand for the simple tenacity required to do just about something.
For Dublin-based four-piece The Scratch, the phrase got here to symbolize a collective headspace going into their forthcoming album – titled Pull Like A Dog, scheduled for launch on sixth March 2026 through Sony Music Ireland. “It’s just another way of saying ‘send it’ and see what happens,” Daniel “Lango” Lang (cajón, percussion, lead vocals) explains. “It’s a motivating phrase we needed, at the time, to inspire a bit of gusto.”
When a video of the band enjoying on the Rory Gallagher International Festival in Ballyshannon went viral in 2017, it introduced alternatives for The Scratch to turn into a a lot greater undertaking than they initially envisaged. Signed to Sony Music Ireland, The Scratch’s second album Mind Yourself (2023) debuted at #1 on the Irish Vinyl Charts, #3 on the IRMA Weekly Album Chart, was nominated for Irish Album of the Year at The Choice Music Prize, plus an look on Ireland’s #1 TV present The Late Late Show. Additionally, the band has garnered assist from the likes of BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 6, plus most lately, their music featured in Netflix’s brand-new drama sequence House of Guinness, from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.
In a league of their very own with regards to reside performances, the high-voltage folk-metal band have been busy touring the previous few months. From hitting the street with the Dropkick Murphys throughout the US, packing-out competition units throughout Europe, supporting Dermot Kennedy in Australia and performing on the UK’s Download Festival, the band are exhibiting no indicators of slowing down.
The band’s third album Pull Like A Dog is a refinement of the acoustic/electrical, people/metallic fusion they laid out on Mind Yourself, ensuing within the band’s most polished, high-octane album up to now. “As a band, this feels like a new beginning,” says Conor (guitar, backing vocals). “I think the changes we’ve faced have given us a lot of room to grow, maybe into roles we felt were off limits before. Openness, perseverance, and positivity – this album embodies all of that.”
The Scratch is Conor Dockery, Cathal McKenna, Daniel Lang, and Gary Regan.
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