As usual the Irish shows were thoroughly messy. The Oslo Flow show was particularly disgusting every night. In fact it was all particularly disgusting every night. We can’t wait to do it all again. This time in we’re heading to Sweden – Gothenburg to be precise, and we are joined for this leg by Monster (sorry boys I don’t know where the Umlaut is on this keyboard..) ,Fidel Cutstro, and Blak Randy (who seems to be called Disscuss again).

But first to relax a little and get the Oslo Flow and G.O.D records ready for the BBQ….

Aw yeah, later than expected but sure you’ll have that when running an international skratch empire from a skip in deepest darkest Limerick.

Anyway….

Fidel Cutstro, resident Community Skratch boom bap technician, vomited out this collection of street slang, booming kicks, ugly cuts and long forgotten hood rap classics for your pleasure.

Right click and save as to download podcast.

Download Fidel Cutstro – Uncooked Raw Pt. II

or just listen with the player below.

5 years of Community Skratch, 21st – 24th of April, 2011, Galway.

Community Skratch Games 2011

Opening night, Thursday 21st April, 8.00pm, G126 gallery.

Send In The Hounds 12″ launch with

Deviant & Naive Ted (Send In The Hounds showcase)

Eoin Smith (turntable improvisations, Dublin)

Cut Man Doo and Damien Chmielix (tape and vinyl experiments, Poland)

Improvised performance from the Community Skratch Players.

Artwork, design and photography from Community Skratch affiliated artists Alis Klaar, Niall o Brien, JP Hartnett and Dan MacEoin.

Good Friday, 22nd April, 8.00pm, G126 gallery

Special screening of “Night At The Kintting Factory”, seminal performances from the D-Styles sextext and Ned Hoddings. Truly unmissable for those that haven’t seen this important moment in the evolution of skratch music,

Community Skratch Open Freestyle Battle Royale and DJ showcases, Saturday 23rd April, 3pm, Bierhaus.

Performances from….

DJ Blood1 (UK/Swe)

Deceptakut (UK)

Grandeurs Of Delusion (UK)

Fidel Cutstro (UK)

Jimmy Penguin

Mikey Fingers

Tweek

Gondek

Ozz G

Cut Man Doo (Pol)

Damien Chmielix (Pol)

Moschops

Djackulate

DJ & Producer showcases, Sunday 24th April, 3pm, Bierhaus.

Performances from

Melodica Deathship

T-Woc

MyNameIsJohn

Mustapha Monde

Rumbus Merrylegs

Rubble Digits

Dal Kas

Teknique

Deviant & Naive Ted

Chiwawa Studios

Noid The Droid

Laminator

facebook event page

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTC4_nHYfRw

During August we filmed a lot of scratching and drinking and messing around. Loads in fact. As this year’s video is taking a bit longer than previous installments, here’s a short trailer to wet your appetite a bit. By the way the music on this trailer is called “No shame” and is available on Jimmy Penguin’s excellent “Scrataar” EP which you can download for free here…   http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/62809

Well, thats it – its all over for another year. The community Skratch Tour 2010 ended in Brighton this saturday, at what was one of the best events we’ve ever been to – the Community Skratch BBQ. Yet again the Gladstone garden was at capacity as everyone climbed onto the tables to catch a glimpse of the action.

Every year the atmosphere is incredible at this event having seen brilliant shows from Clockwork, Foly, Blak Randy , Jimmy Penguin and Deviant, Unemployed Superheroes, Grandeurs Of Delusion’s sizzling new line-up and the amazing Oslo Flow alongside Keita.

Unfortunately after a heavy night in Bristol, we lost Mikey Fingers and Tweek along the way. Although we understand that they both enjoyed themselves.

This year’s BBQ was hosted by Enlish who was on fire all afternoon despite not having been to bed for 2 days. One of the great things about these events is that people come from all over to get involved. As well as performers from Ireland, Canada, Norway, UK and even Japan(!), people travelled for hours to be a part of the crowd.

We spoke to people from Ireland (Gem), Leeds (Mike-L), Guernsey, Norfolk, Germany, and London at the BBQ – and everyone left knowing the journey had been worth their while.

The highlight of the BBQ show for me was Blam and Plato. With a venue full of people sporting Oslo Flow shirts, their infectious natural funk was the perfect soundtrack as the sun went down. What they do is so unique and brilliant, everyone in the venue could feel they were witnessing something incredible.

The past month of shows has been amazing. We have all met some brilliant and achingly generous people from across the world. At times it was very hard work. A lot of travelling with very little sleep (to be fair that was our own fault) and a lot of intoxicants at times took its toll.

But the most incredible thing about these shows is that the standard of talent, musicianship and people make it all worth while. As Blam (@daggaless) said himself “There was some serious business going on in Brighton that day – something is changing” – and I can’t wait to be involved in whats coming next.

Keep checking the site for the forthcoming video..

We have just finished the first stage of compiling some of the many videos available online from the Community Skratch crew. Click the “Videos” link above to head to our brand new library and check out what you may have been missing.

Videos from nozlrecordingsuk, communityskratch, blam1982, jazzism and many more all together for the first time for your convenience!!

Very exciting news on the way about this years summer shows, but for now check out what we’ve done so for….

Head straight to the videos

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rwi56WB6fo

Back in August, 14 of the Community Skratch collective hit the roads of England over 6 days to perform at 5 venues across the length of the country.
As you can see from the video above the whole tour was an incredible success.

The Community Skratch Games Video is now available online in full thanks to the wonderful Skratchworx.