14 April 2011
We recently got a nice review from our album “Killing Time” from Waldo. He got this blog about celtic folk punk and more, check out the original version at http://celticfolkpunk.blogspot.com
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I recently got an e-mail from a fan: “Hi Man, I’ve just come across this Dutch band. You should check them. They are better than Mr. Irish Bastard andCircle J, deffo!” Better than Mr. Irish Bastard and Circle J? I had to check them, of course.
Scrum is a six piece band that has released a couple of studio albums and an acoustic live mini-album. “Killing Time”, their second studio album, was released at the end of 2010 and features guitar banjo, mandolin, bagpipes, tin whistle, fiddle, bass and drums.
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5 April 2011
Guest musician Gerben Kruisselbrink during A Night at the Pub Haaksbergen (NL)
Foto: grietjebouwman.nl
Coming Saturday, 9 April, Gerben Kruisselbrink will make his appearance as a guest musician during our Night at the Pub theatre show.
Gerben, 34 years old, is a conductor, musician, coach, teacher and organisor. Working as a musical leader for 2 music theatre clubs, a choral director, music teacher and author of the Dutch “Muziek Maak Je Zelf”-method, Gerben is a very busy man.
Fortunately Gerben has found some spare time to join us during this Saturday’s show!
It’s going to be yet another awesome night, we’re sure about that. Haaksbergen, get ready, because here we come!!
Slainte
15 March 2011
Dear friends,
About a year ago Skottie decided it would be fun to write a script for a video-clip for what would eventually turn out to be our current single ”Killing Time”. After having been laying around for a while it has been dusted off. We came in contact with director/cameraman Site Steendam and asked him to take a good look at the script and consider taking part in this project. After having read the script Site agreed to take on the challenge of shooting a videoclip with the Scrum gang. From that moment on things went rapidly and after a short period of gathering props, looking for decent shooting sites and fine tuning of the script D-Day had arrived.
Because all the preliminary work had been done properly we have been able to shoot the entire clip in one day. Everything went very smootly and during the pub scenes which were shot in the evening we have had a lot of help from friends from all over the country who were so kind to come over to do their part as “pub crowlers”.
Then of course the editing part had to be done and after making some calls and sending some e-mails back and forth the final result is here to be revealed today! And we’re very proud of yet another chapter in the always exciting Scrum story!! As always we’re very curious about what you think of it and we’re looking forward to your responses!!
Scrum once again is going to try and get some attention from the Dutch “national radio police” which hasn’t been a simple task so far, unfortunately. But as you may know from Scrum: We’ll never give up! We’ll keep on going, head first, like we do on stage!!
But we’re calling for your assistance…
Our single “Killing Time” is available for downloading at the 
-store as well as on Legal Download. If we join forces by downloading the single in a great number the ladies and gentlemen of Dutch radio can no longer deny Holland’s number one Powerfolk band and their huge fan base!! Don’t you agree it’s about time new bands get their fair share of airplay on the radio?
To go short: Order yourself one beer less on St. Patrick’s Day next Thursday and buy that single!
We really hope you’ll enjoy watching our videoclip and hopefully we’ll get to meet again soon, somewhere out there on the road, in The Netherlands or abroad!
**KILLING TIME MUSIC VIDEO**
Pro Libertate (and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!!),
SCRUM
15 October 2010
Hello and welcome to the OFFICIAL SCRUM WEBSITE!
Scrum: The #1 powerfolk band from The Netherlands, combining the love for rock, folk and whisky in a mixture of honest, raw (punk)rock songs, ballads and traditionals and drinking tunes!
Early 2004 a couple of friends decided to start a band which would be based on their mutual interests in Irish and Scottish music and culture. Only a couple of weeks after their first rehearsel they were invited to come and perform at the Veenhoop Festival. From that moment on things began to speed up and a year later Scrum returned to that same festival, being welcomed by the audience as if they had been around for ages. Soon after that Scrum recorded a 5 track live demo, purely for promotional purposes. But the people who had been following Scrum so far found out about the album and “demanded” a copy for themselves as well.
This and the fact that the number of fans was steadily growing made Scrum decide to write new material and in December 2006 their first studio album “Pro Libertate” saw the light of day. Continue reading →
