Scouting For Girls

Childhood friends Roy, Peter and Greg are, collectively, Scouting For Girls, the indie pop sensations who stormed the charts last year with huge catchy hits such as She's So Lovely and Elvis Ain't Dead. Living... For the City Greg: I live in the same place I've always lived. Roy: I live in South Harrow. The thing is, we probably spend three quarters of our time on tour so most of it is in hotels or a tour bus. We've just done loads of festivals and now we've actually got a couple of days off so it's nice to go home. Peter: If I wanted to live anywhere else it would probably be Cambridge or Oxford. Roy: He only likes Cambridge 'cos we played a gig there recently and we got unlimited free champagne! I like Lincoln... and Newquay because it's really chilled. We played this gig there and they also threw a two-hour surf lesson for us. Peter: It seemed to go on for hours... You were knackered! (to Roy). You nearly couldn't do the gig! Living... On A Prayer Greg: I've got a Catholic mother and a Protestant father so they decided to let me do my own thing. I'm not really religious now... Roy: I went to church when I was younger. I have my own idea about it I suppose - I'm a bit more spiritual. Living... for the Weekend Roy: My perfect weekend is doing what we do now. You play in front of 50,000 people with your best friends doing what you love and then you get free beer and party! Peter: My perfect weekend would be all that but without the people. I'd have the whole of Glastonbury to myself. And the beer! Roy: It's very special to be doing what we're doing, and we've grown up together so we know each other so well. I honestly don't know how other bands who are manufactured manage to get on cos you're together all the time. Peter: We hate each other. Roy: We know each other's irritating habits (Peter sticks his finger in Roy's ear) Urgh! Wet willy! The Living... Years Peter: Is that Mike and the Mechanics? (band discuss amongst themselves). Roy: We've been doing this for ten years now and seeing the progression has been brilliant, and getting bigger - we've enjoyed everything we've done in our musical career up until now. I've never really believed in living for the past - it's about the future. You've got to enjoy what you're doing now. Before we had a record deal I was working in a shop. I used to just get on and enjoy it. I actually went back to the same shop today to take my car for an MOT. Greg: As long as you have something which you enjoy doing, you make the best of it. Roy: The release of the single is exciting and we actually just saw ourselves on the TV a minute ago! It's amazing how much better we looked a year ago! The Living... Daylights (the boys all start singing) Pete: My favourite Bond Film is The Living Daylights! Roy: Mine is the last one Roger Moore did where he was really old. Greg: The recent Bond theme tunes aren't as good as the old ones. Roy: There are some duff ones. The Madonna one wasn't great. The Tina Turner was alright. Nobody Does it Better and Live and Let Die are all proper classics. The Shirley Bassey ones are good (all break out into Diamonds are Forever). Very iconic. I think the Bond films need a new song-writing team! (all laugh) Living... in a Box Peter: I'm not really great with presents and will usually give people what they ask for. If they give me a list, it will pretty much be something on that. Greg: Me too - I'll usually just go to M&S Roy: I'm more interested in receiving presents! I do like to give people presents when they're not expecting them though. Actually I bought our tour manager an iPod. He told me he didn't have one so I got him one. Peter: And then he opened it and said 'oh but it's only 4Gb'. Greg: The thing is, when you give your girlfriend unexpected presents, she just gets suspicious and says 'What have you done?' Roy: The best present I ever got was a Millennium Falcon (all agree). I thought I had it one year and when I opened all the presents, it wasn't that at all. It was a truck or something. I did get it in the end though. Peter: I got a tangerine. Living... TV Pete: I like Most Haunted Greg: I'm just getting through the last series of Heroes. That's really good. Roy: I'd definitely cook something as well. That's the thing you miss on tour - cooking good food 'cos you tend to just eat crap all the time. The funny thing is when you come home, all you want to do is sit at home, watch TV and have a roast and not really go out. Being away you eat out every single night because you have to. It's not necessarily good food either. I’m vegetarian and I've had every vegetarian burger in this country and none of them are that good! Pete: And it is nice to see your friends and family. Scouting For Girls' new single, Its Not About You, is out 4th August.