CHART topping band Scouting for Girls will be playing a special headline show at this year’s Warrington Music Festival on Sunday July 20 at Golden Square’s Old Market Place, in Warrington town centre.
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. Their tale is of three friends who followed their dream, seduced a nation and sold two million records along the way.
Scouting For Girls were born on a cold February evening in 1995, when Suede came to the Watford Coliseum. Roy Stride and his school friend Greg Churchouse went together. For both it was their first gig. That night they knew they’d form a band but what they didn’t know is that it would take over ten years of trying.
In that period, the dream remained. Shared rehearsals in bedrooms and then shared bands came and went but Roy and Greg’s friendship remained steadfast.
Along the way, Roy worked for Iceland and Carphone Warehouse. And when the pair worked at the Thresher’s on Ruislip High Street, they were joined by another friend, Pete Ellard, who is now band member number three and plays 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 and by 2011 they were headlining Wembley Arena a few miles but several light years away, from their modest beginnings.
The Light Between Us in 2011 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.
Roy Stride, lead guitar/vocals says: “We’re an old school band. We do everything ourselves. These songs on the Greatest Hits have really connected with people’s lives. People like them because
they’re catchy, uplifting and somehow very very British. Me, Pete and Greg aren’t just friends any more: we’re family. That’s why our music sounds so natural.”
Greg Churchouse, bass guitar says: “It’s still about the songs and only about the songs. We play music for the sake of music, not celebrity. If we hadn’t been successful, we’d still be rehearsing every Friday night at wherever would have us.”
Tickets are priced at £20 and are on sale from 9am, Friday 2 May at Pyramid & Parr Hall Box Office – 01925 442345 / www.pyramidparrhall.com
Scouting for Girls to headline Warrington Music Festival
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Experienced journalist for more than 40 years. Managing Director of magazine publishing group with three in-house titles and on-line daily newspaper for Warrington. Experienced writer, photographer, PR consultant and media expert having written for local, regional and national newspapers. Specialties: PR, media, social networking, photographer, networking, advertising, sales, media crisis management. Chair of Warrington Healthwatch Director Warrington Chamber of Commerce Patron Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace. Trustee Warrington Disability Partnership. Former Chairman of Warrington Town FC.
