How did you come up with your band name? Roses, ‘Pet Sounds’ by The Beach Boys and ‘Are You
“We were in the scouts together and everyone got a Experienced?’ by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.”
handbook that was ‘Scouting For Boys’ and so we just
changed that around really.” What about new music, any upcoming acts that
you rate?
Did you have any other names before you settled “Go:Audio, without a doubt. They toured with us and not
on that? only are they really good blokes but they rock too, go
“Well we’ve been playing since 1998 so in that time we’ve check ‘em out.”
had some strange names, in one we were called powercut
because we couldn’t afford any electric guitars so we just Your big fans of Michaela Strachan but who would
played acoustic.” you choose out of Cheryl Baker and Claire Grogan?
“Who’s Claire Grogan? Seriously? I’ve gotta go for Cheryl
You’ve been on a long tour, any plan’s of new Baker ‘coz I don’t know who Claire is!”
material?
“Well we have a tour coming up in November which is If you could be any fictional film character who
going to feature some new music but I’m not sure about a would it be?
full album.” “James Bond, easily!”

Any changes in style? Really, I would have chose Batman?
“I can’t really reveal that! We are keeping our cards close “Yeah but Bond gets more ladies, has cooler gadgets and
to our chest as it were.” doesn’t wear tights!”

What’s been the best gig for you? If you were in a tag team wrestling match, who
“I know it’s cheesy but every gig has a highlight that we’ll would you want to be your partner?
remember and it’s far too hard to pick just one.” “Pete from the band, he has some excellent moves and
he’s actually really strong.”
The best and worst thing about what you do?
“The worst is being away from family and friends for so What’s the biggest animal you could take on in
long, especially as they were the ones that supported us unarmed combat?
from the beginning and made us a success, but to be “A cat, I’m a big wuss!”
away from home brings the best part of the job which is
just playing live. It’s such a buzz to have thousands of What is your favourite crisp flavour?
people screaming and especially when we look out and we “I quite like Sweet Chilli Sensations at the moment.”
have teens, people in their twenties, thirties right up to 60
year olds singing along with our tracks.” Favourite bar snack?
“Scampi Fries, obviously, the best hangover cure in the
Why do you think you have been so successful and world too.”
appeal to such a range of listeners?
“It’s our record companies biggest headache, they don’t You’re a QPR fan, what’s your expectations for the
know where to market us, we get interview requests from season?
Mixmag, then the next minute we’re talking to someone “I’m not sure about next season but as we are now the
from the Guardian. I think it’s that we have such an richest club in the world I reckon by 2011 we’ll be in
accessible music, it’s very upbeat and very happy which I Europe and beating Chelsea week in week out.”
think all listeners enjoy.”
Do you have a message to the world?
When you say it’s happy music, there’s a lot of “Please buy our album!!!!”
humour involved, who’s the funniest in the band?
“Oh easily Pete, the drummer. We get the funny lyrics
and we understand that people laugh at our songs
sometimes but Pete is naturally funny. The humour in our
lyrics is just a coincidence.” So, we’ve learnt that eating Scampi Fries cures a
hangover (we’ll be sure to try this one out!) and
If you could have written any song in history what that the guys will be ok if they ever had to defend
would it have been? themselves from a cat attack!
“It’s tough but I reckon ‘I am the resurrection’ by The
Stone Roses.” The self titled album is available now in shops or
online from the bands website
Would they be on your top album list then? www.scoutingforgirls.co.uk
“Yeah, top 3 would be ‘The Stone Roses’ by The Stone
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