The Scratch opened Versus Cancer '07 gig at Manchester’s MEN Arena

(Also on the bill were Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, The Charlatans, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ian Brown)

The album Night Bus or Milk Train was recorded on the 13th floor of a block of flats in Bethnal Green and a barn in Cornwall

The Scratch set up Ponyland Records to put out all their diverse projects

John and Andy have an electropop side project called The Means of Production

Their debut single, I relax to spiral Scratch was a nod to the Buzzcocks, and their debut release - The Spiral Scratch EP

Whitty owns an acre of the Moon!

Andy used to front the grunge rockers The Mamajama's and recorded their last album at Toe-Rag with Liam Watson at the controls

The Scratch won XFM Unsigned (Manchester branch, but they're not from Manchester)

Captain Sensible of the Damned once played lead guitar with Andy's band Mamajamas at a gig in a Bude surf club in Cornwall.

Grim and John are in the Guinness book of hit singles with their old band, Jump who hit the charts in the 90s with the track Funkatarium