Skull Smashing Fuzz
The living embodiment of down and dirty garage punk rock and roll, the DRY RETCH are a sonic, cyclotronic assault on the senses; a punk n roll machine ready to deliver and pulverise time after time. They have been the real deal since 1999, elbowing all pretenders into the dustbin of history, being the bastard Read More ...
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Straight Outta Cuba CD Released 2024. Operation Uranus CD. Released 2023. Cultural Backslidin’ CD. Released 2021. Don’t Touch Me, You’re Sick! online realease for Punk 4 The Homeless. Released 2020. Pyongsang Kaengsaeng EP CD. Released 2020. Pyongsang Kaengsaeng CD. Released 2020. A Kick In The Gulags. Released 2019. The Origin Of Faeces CD. Released 2009. Read More ...
Some tunes and vids…
”every song is a potent wall of fuzz and muscle memory. As ever, Merseyside’s hidden gem” – RPM ONLINE ”the Retch have cornered that musical world that’s right next to the gutter with the dirt but at the same time is flying up in the stars with some awesome music” – Last Stop Sounds ”deploying Read More ...
You can contact The Dry Retch for bookings, parties or general debauchery at: dryretch@hotmail.com Other places you can find The Dry Retch on the web are: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheDryRetch Bandcamp https://thedryretch.bandcamp.com Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/thedryretch EPK https://thedryretch.kit.com/1d5c501a2c
What has been described by one member of the Dry Retch as the greatest song of all time finally gets it’s cinematic release. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/1UKZzM5Fc44?si=19cI3r9Kh603Ozt-
There’s BIG NEWS coming VERY SOON. Watch this space!!
August 13, 2025, The DRY RETCH ORGANISATION were deeply honoured and awed to share a stage in Manchester with the incomparable The New Christs and our partners in fuzz Bones Shake. Without question, this was truly the greatest gig the post-covid world had seen in the north west of England. This is a videographical exposition Read More …
The original mongrel mix of 2019’s glorious A Kick In The Gulags finally gets to see the light of day. Only currently available as a download from Bandcamp here: https://thedryretch.bandcamp.com/album/a-kick-in-the-gulags-the-mongrel-mix
Young Dave studying the calendar to learn how long he needs to wait until this corker of a gig with The DRY RETCH, Fallen Band and Wild Affair on the 14th of June. He was heard to mutter ”by jingo this’ll be a bloody ripper!” He’s wiser than he looks…..
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The Swinging Arm in Birkenhead is braced for this night of nights! It’ll be unmissable!
With Decibel, Steve Seddon and The Birkenhead Poet.
