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Scouting for Girls
20.00 Friday 30th May
Perth Concert Hall
All tickets
£19.50
The British pop band, who 6 years ago took the country by storm with their witty lyrics and catchy pop songs, will play at Perth Festival on 30th May.
The concert comes following the release their
Greatest Hits
album on 29 July 2013, a compilation which includes two brand new songs, including new
single Millionaire, as well as favourites including She's So Lovely, Heartbeat, This Ain't A Love Song and Elvis Ain't Dead.
Over the course of three sparkling, life-affirming, Top 10 albums,
Scouting For Girls have made the journey from playing
pubs in Harrow and Ruislip to headlining Wembley
Arena and the Albert Hall. This, then, is the tale of
three friends who followed their dream, seduced a
nation and sold two million records along the way.
The band consists of childhood friends from London,
Roy Stride on piano and lead guitar/vocals, Greg
Churchouse on bass guitar and Peter Ellard on
percussion.
After two years of hard touring,
Everybody Wants To
Be On TV
soared into the British top two, ‘This Ain’t
A Love Song’ gave them their first Number 1 single
(“a real turning point; we knew then we weren’t
going to go away,” remembers Roy) and by 2011
they were headlining Wembley Arena a few miles
but several light years away, from their modest
beginnings. 2011’s
The Light Between Us
made it
three out of three Top 10 albums as Scouting For
Girls evolved into a national institution, the
under-rated band we love more than we think
we do.