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n. (context slang English) An unpleasant or disgusting (scuzzy) person
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Scuzz is a British music television channel owned and operated by Sony Pictures Television. It launched on 17 April 2003 and has gone on to be the highest-rated rock TV station on satellite platform Sky TV which is available in over 12 million homes in the UK and Ireland.
The channel broadcasts mainstream rock, pop-punk, and metal, with unsigned and lesser known bands featuring in on evening show 'Scuzz Underground'. Scuzz tends to play a broader selection of music videos compared with the other British rock channels MTV Rocks and Kerrang!TV although K! and Scuzz do share quite a few songs. The channel has been known to break many UK artists including Enter Shikari, Young Guns, You Me At Six, Bullet For My Valentine, Lower Than Atlantis and more recently Mallory Knox. International bands are often first broadcast on Scuzz TV, the likes of Avenged Sevenfold, Sleeping With Sirens, Pierce The Veil, Letlive, All Time Low and Paramore all first appeared on Scuzz.
The channel shows many exclusive music videos for their first time. Scuzz often plays live concerts including Slipknot, Korn, Devildriver and 36 Crazyfists. Scuzz has band 'Take-Overs' where artists present music video shows, as well as interviews with artists such as Ozzy Osbourne, Deftones, Machine Head, Kiss to smaller bands that are deemed up and coming.
They show various interview shows including 'On Record', 'Scuzz Meets', 'The Lowdown' which centers around British rock festival ' Download Festival', and more recently a series called Access All Areas. Scuzz TV presenters include Sophie K, Daniel P Carter, Jon Mahon, and Matt Stocks.
The channel appears to have a strong lean towards UK rock music compared to their main two competitor channels, K! and MTV Rocks who tend to play the same few bands over and over.
Scuzz has a presence at the majority of the UK and some international rock festivals. Scuzz's current festival partnerships include:
- Download Festival
- Sonisphere
- Bloodstock Festival
- Hevy Festival
- Slam Dunk Festival
- Vans Warped Tour USA
- Vans Warped Tour UK
- Mayhem Festival USA
- Hellfest France
- 2000 Trees Festival
Scuzz is available 24 hours a day on Sky channel 367. It is owned by Sony Pictures Television.
On Monday 17 November 2008, CSC Media Group launched a +1 timeshift of Scuzz, Scuzz +1. It was available 24 hours a day on Sky channel 375. This was CSC Media Group's third music timeshift, after launching Flaunt +1 and Bliss +1 earlier in the year, although both have since been closed down and replaced, with PopGirl +1 and allowing AnimeCentral to go 24 hours respectively.
On Friday 21 November 2008, just four days after Scuzz +1 officially launched, it was closed down as the EPG slot had been bought by news channel NHK World TV.
On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Scuzz was removed from Freesat channel 502 and replaced with sister channel Flava. On 3 November 2010, NME TV was replaced with Scuzz on Freesat channel 503. On 15 July 2013, Scuzz was replaced by Chart Show Dance on Freesat channel 503.
On 5 June 2013, Scuzz swapped positions with Flava on Sky. The channel moved from 374 to 367, while Flava moved from 367 to 374.
Usage examples of "scuzz".
Believe me, if a girl is told year after year that all men are scuzz, that men only want one thing from a woman and the only way to keep them in line is to make them into slaves, then the girl starts to accept all of this as true.
Frieda was the lead singer, and looked about as much like a Frieda as Scuzz looked like a club.
With Neb on drums, Ig on bass, and Johnny Zull on lead guitar, Outer Nimrod was a group formidable enough to face the Friday night crowd at Scuzz, a collection of fans who looked and smelled like cave people.
But the club filled up quickly, as Scuzz was famous for standing-room-only Friday nights, and he was joined by two Neanderthal identical twins with arms like tree trunks, each of whom drank eight beers before even sitting down.
The Scuzz crowd, obviously a discriminating group of individuals, savored the opening number like wine-tasters, reserving judgment until the full bouquet could be experienced.
To a Scuzz crowd, looking at the world through a haze of too many octos, the first person to rise was the traditional starter of the fight.
I knew Scuzz would be a real treat for you, but I never dreamed it would turn out so great.