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Scouting for Girls (formed 2005) Scouting for Girls is an English pop band consisting of life-long friends Roy Stride (Piano & Vocals), Peter Ellard (Drums & Vocals) and Greg Churchouse (Bass & Vocals).

Formation & Rise to Fame: Roy, Greg and Peter were old friends from Ruislip. Aged 14, Greg bullied Roy into getting an acoustic guitar for Christmas, instead of a Sega Megadrive. Greg and Roy attended their first ever gig together, to see Suede In Watford in 1995. At university, Roy and Greg were briefly in a band named Cape.

With Roy swapping from guitar to piano, Scouting for Girls was born and the band started to put on gigs in a room above a pub in Harrow, London.

The band's name was chosen in reference to the Scouts handbook Scouting for Boys, first published in 1908.

The band has built up a fan base since their formation in 2005, via websites such as MySpace and Pulse Rated, for unsigned bands.

In February 2007, the band signed to Epic UK (part of Sony BMG), after the head of the label was invited to one of the band's rehearsals. Their debut EP, It's Not About You, became the highest charting limited edition EP in UK chart history.

Chart Success: Scouting for Girls' first major single release, 'She's So Lovely', stayed in the UK Top 10 singles chart for six weeks after its release in August 2007. The follow-up 'Elvis Ain't Dead' was released in December 2007. The song spent four weeks in the Top 10 and both songs have received extensive airplay on mainstream UK radio stations.

The band's eponymous debut album went to the top of the UK album charts and has been certified Platinum, having sold over 500,000 copies.

In April 2008, the band were forced to cancel a string of headline shows, due to Roy falling ill and being unable to sing.

TV Appearances: The band performed on Al Murray's Happy Hour, the ITV1 TV show, in January 2008.



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Emily Eavis: Glastonbury Acts Like Ed Sheeran Help Raise '£2million Every Year' For Charity


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Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis has praised Ed Sheeran, Foo Fighters and Radiohead for donating their feed to a £2million charity pot.

Headliners of the iconic music festival miss out on huge performance fees in favour of allowing Emily and her dad, Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis, to make a whopping donation to good causes every year and she says it is the ''absolute, most paramount'' aspect of the music extravaganza.

Speaking to BBC Radio 6 music, she said: ''The charity thing is the absolute, most paramount thing of the biggest importance, really. The most important part of the festival is the fact that we can give that money to charity. It makes it all totally worthwhile. We try to give £2million per year, and on a wet year it's harder because it costs more, but we give as close to £2million as we can.''

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Scouting For Girls attend the 2016 WellChild Awards held at The Dorchester in London - United Kingdom - Monday 3rd October 2016

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The 20th Anniversary Of V Festival Now Joined By Mark Ronson And Example


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More big names have been announced for the exciting 20th anniversary line-up of V Festival in Essex! Example, Maverick Sabre and former JLS band member Aston Merrygold join the already incredible bill alongside a host of others as the Summer weekend draws ever nearer.

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Among the other new acts announced for the Hylands Park extravaganza on August 22nd and 23rd are Mark Ronson with a DJ set, Londoners Scouting For Girls, Jack Antonoff's Bleachers and Sweden's Youtube Music Award winner Tove Lo. They'll be adding to a fantastic set which also includes previously announced Kasabian, Sam Smith, Olly Murs, Hozier, Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding, Paloma Faith and George Ezra.

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Scouting For Girls - The Light Between Us Album Review


Prejudice? In some quarters even mentioning the words 'Scouting' 'For' and 'Girls' in the same breath can result in an immediate and sustained campaign by total strangers to out you as a complete nobber. There are places where copies of the trio's eponymous debut album are regularly burned. It's also said that hipsters, mindful of the permanent damage endorsement by mere association could have on their reputation have been known to cross the street rather than face up to the North London trio in the flesh. Fact or fiction? You decide...

Scouting For Girls - The Light Between Us Album Review

All this misplaced critical scorn for Scouting For Girls' work is, of course, almost inversely proportionate to the amount of records they've sold, popular culture having no taste or conscience and all that. So when the band's third album arrived, as is customary we trotted out the earplugs and then drafted a piece which neatly linked Roy Stride, Roy Wood and Roy Castle together, before decrying their ridiculously named fan club, then deconstructed The Light Between Us as music without an audience. And then someone randomly passing by suggested that we actually played it.

Radical. Free thinking. Innovative. We decided we liked that. So here's the skinny having listened to it. More than once...

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Interview with Scouting For Girls

This week we spoke to British indie band Scouting for Girls. After their huge recent success, Roy Stride, the band's front man, reflects upon their recent charity work, their new single, and what we can expect from the guys in the new future. Don't want to Leave You, the third single off their album Everybody Wants To Be On TV, is out now.
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Scouting For Girls, Everybody Wants To Be On TV Album Review


It's been three years since the trio that make up Scouting For Girls released their self-titled debut album, which spawned five Top 40 singles and propelled them to nearly a million unit sales. This follow-up is currently being promoted by a huge UK tour, which includes a show at the Hammersmith Apollo.

Few bands of recent times divide opinion as much as SFG, to some they craft infectious chart-bothering ditties, whilst others bemoan the lack of variation in their output. Their commercial success speaks for itself though, so it is of little surprise that in the main the band stick to the same formula. 'Famous' would comfortably have fit on the previous album, whilst 'On The Radio' is a pop ditty not unlike The Buggles most famous song. A running time of 34 minutes is mercifully short, with the last three tracks dragging somewhat, but it should also be pointed that there are a couple of tracks that are a decent listen. 'This Ain't A Love Song' could be from Keane, while the dark lyrical content of 'Little Miss Naughty' and 'Goodtime Girl' are masked by electro effects and dance rhythms. Head and shoulders above the rest is 'Silly Song', a charming ballad on which Roy Stride delivers an endearing vocal performance, and it will thrill fans - as will much of the album. For detractors though, there is nothing here which will change opinion.

Alex Lai

3.5/5

Scouting For Girls Saturday 17th October 2009 The Annual Girl Guiding UK Big Gig at Wembley Arena - Arrivals London, England

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Scouting For Girls, It's Not About You, EP Review


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Scouting For Girls are: Roy, Greg & Pete, we caught up with the marvellous Scouting For Girls at a recent gig. Their new single It’s Not About You had recently been ‘Record Of The Week’ on Scott Mills Radio 1 show & is a perfect example of Scouting For Girls melody driven pop.

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