Last week Scratch were the featured student radio station on the Steve Lamacq Show on BBC 6Music. You can listen again to Dan’s interview with Steve on here, or listen again on the BBC iPlayer until Friday.

The audio is all rights to the Steve Lamacq Show on BBC 6Music.

(Source: BBC)

Shaggy and Ben were backstage at the SwedeIt! After Party last week and managed to catch up with the top 5 entries, the winning producer and Alex from Kerrang! Watch the videos and find out more on the SwedeIt! website…

The after-party was held at the AMC cinema and Broadway Casino at Broadway Plaza and the Scratch guys DJ’d for the winners. Make sure you’re following us on Twitter and you’ve liked the Scratch Radio Facebook page to find out where we’re going to be soon.

Last week Conor Fitzhenry and Wil Vincent went down to the O2 Academy to chat to amazing new band The Naked and Famous, to see how their finding the UK and chat about their tour and debut album!

Coming from New Zealand, the band is breaking the UK with hits such as Young Blood and Punching In a Dream. Their success has been helped along by being ranked on the BBC’s ‘Sound of 2011’ list, alongside the likes of Jessie J.

Find out more about the band online at www.thenakedandfamous.com or by following them on Twitter @tnafofficial…

This week Scratch’s We Love Brum team got to chat to up and coming band, the Stanley Blacks, ahead of their gig at Birmingham’s Glee Club on Tuesday 22nd Feb.

Find out more about the band on their MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/thestanleyblacks

Adrian Percival and Conor Fitzhenry went down to the O2 Academy Birmingham on the last date of the Charlatans tour to catch up with Tim Burgess and Mark Collins to see how the tour went and what is next for the band.

Are you a massive Charlatans fan? Were you there? Get in touch and let us know!

Scratch Radio’s Wil Vincent has made his way to this year’s Sonisphere Festival where he’s caught up with legendary Swedish heavy-metal band Europe…

Q: You played Bloodstock Festival last year, and you said people were surprised to see that you’re a lot heavier than they thought, does this happen often?
A: Yeah, everyone seems to attach us to “The Final Countdown”, and we went on the Bloodstock site and everyone was like “Europe are shit”, but when they actually saw us, they realised that we are heavier, and we can kick ass.

Q: Have you got a producer for you new album? Where you going to record it?
A: Yeah we have, we’re gonna record it back home. We don’t see any point in me flying all the way over to America to record an album, when I can do my bit in two days, and beside, I get to go home to a wife and a hot dinner, rather than some s***ty hotel food.

Q: Whats the worst bit about touring?
A: What really winds me up are all these refurbished venues. They all scream about how wonderful they are, yet nothing ever seems to work. On the last tour, I slept in the bus, thinking I could go into the venue and have a shower, and none of them ever worked! And everything either seemed to be dirty, or not working etc.

Q: Do your kids get any stick for being the son of the “Final Countdown bloke”?
A: Not as much as you’d think. My eldest son, who is almost 18, is with me at the moment, and came to the Peace and Love festival a few days back, and just camped by himself with his mates. He does get a bit proud though when he sees his dad rocking out with Europe.

Q: Do you think there is a difference between festivals now, and back in the day?
A: Yeah, cause there were hardly any festivals back then! In Sweeden there are so many now, and half of them are going bust as they cant get the line ups. Our tour manager says however that we always seem to play the good Festivals. I dunno if thats a compliment to them or us…

Tom Williams - Scratch Blog Interview by Scratch Radio

Our very own Dan Richards has caught up with new Scratch presenter, Tom Williams, to find out how he’s getting on!

Hear what Tom’s got to say for himself above; Dan finds out all about Tom’s show, what you can expect to hear and how you can get in touch!

You can also download the interview so you can listen on the go, all you need to do is click the down-arrow on the right-hand side of the player and then drop it into your chosen media player.

You can catch both Tom and Dan on Wednesday’s from 10am right through until 2pm - find out more online at www.scratchradio.co.uk

Brian Travers Interview by brummydan

Whilst this year’s Birmingham Music Month may be coming to an end, the music scene in and around the city doesn’t. At the beginning of the month, Scratch’s very own Dan Richards managed to grab Birmingham-based Brian Travers - from UB40 - for a chat about the month, the Birmingham music scene and what Brum music means to the band.

You can find out more about Birmingham Music Month online at www.brummusicmonth.co.uk

Stu Robinson - Scratch Blog Interview by BennSt

I caught up with Stu after his very first show on Scratch Radio, The Electronic Afternoon, to find out how it went and what we can expect to hear from the coming weeks.

You can hear Stu every Friday 4-6pm or join him on Facebook by searching for ‘The Electronic Afternoon with Stu Robinson’.