Anyone walking down Grafton Street in Dublin eight or nine years ago might have been stopped in their tracks by the sight of four long-haired buskers playing traditional-sounding Irish music on acoustic instruments with the energy of a metal band.
“We busked pretty much solely for the first two or three years this band existed,” says Conor ‘Dock’ Dockery, guitarist with The Scratch, the former buskers in question. “We realised we were making more money than we’d ever made in our old band.”
