The band's name was chosen in reference to the Scouts handbook Scouting for Boys, first published in The band has built up a fan base since their formation in , via websites such as MySpace and Pulse Rated, for unsigned bands. The follow-up 'Elvis Ain't Dead' was released in December 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 , copies. In April , the band were forced to cancel a string of headline shows, due to Roy falling ill and being unable to sing.
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. 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.
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 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. Free thinking. We decided we liked that. So here's the skinny having listened to it. Previous Article Dear songwriter are you done waiting? Related Articles. There are no comments Add yours. Leave a comment Cancel reply. Email updates. You have successfully joined our email newsletter subscriber list.
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Both dad and lad are mad about cricket. Scouting never conquered the USA. A boon, he thinks. They recently released a covers album, easy Cover. Someone said, 'Wouldn't it be great to do a whole album of covers? We should have done an album of 90s Britpop hits, but we're always a little behind the times?
It wasn't the first. Blur and Oasis were the gateway to the Rolling Stones and the Beatles for me. Songs like Strawberry Fields blew my mind. Roy's side career, writing songs for others — including Olly Murs and Alexandra Burke — began when he was invited to the X Factor in He's currently working with Sweet Surrender who won tV talent show The Search — "I'm excited for them and super nervous" — and produced a young indie band last month.
Roy spent lockdown learning to fly a plane and says, "I have so many new songs written, it's ridiculous. Lockdown is winding me up, I just want to play gigs! For info on the band's Foodies Festival gigs see foodiesfestival. Love Glastonbury?
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