Scouting For Girls 5-Date Irish Tour & Ticket Details Announced
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Written by Nigel Sachdev
Scouting For Girls have announced a five date Irish tour this April to celebrate the release of their new album 'Everybody Wants To Be On TV'.
Joining Scouting for Girls on the Irish tour will be one of Ireland’s best new bands, Fox Avenue.
The indie pop trio play:
19th April 2010, Savoy, Cork
20th April 2010, Dolans Warehouse, Limerick City
21st April 2010, Mandela Hall, Belfast
23rd April 2010, Olympia Theatre, Dublin
24th April 2010, Royal Theatre and Event Centre, Castlebar
Tickets for Scouting for Girls Irish tour with special guests Fox Avenue are on sale now. Click here for tickets.
In 2008, Scouting For Girls became the biggest selling new band of the year in the UK. Having toiled for ten years unsigned, the three boys next door sold over 900,000 records of their eponymous number 1 debut album, and were nominated for three Brit Awards (British Breakthrough Act, British Single (Heartbeat), and British Live Act, to become the UK’s most successful new pop band.
Fronted by the exuberant showman, Roy Stride, Scouting For Girls quickly became renowned for their contagious piano-led pop songs (She’s So Lovely, Heartbeat, It’s Not About You, Elvis Ain’t Dead), that connected with a huge audience and reaped multiple sold-out tours. Those live shows grew as Scouting For Girls mania gripped, buoyed on by the huge radio support, the venues were upsized across the country and sold-out just as quickly. By the end of 2008, they had performed to hundreds of thousands of fans, and outsold bands twice their size in the live arena.
The initial recordings of their forthcoming second album, ‘Everybody Wants To Be On TV’, were ruthlessly scrapped by the band after the Brit Awards 2008, when they had decided it needed re-writing and re-shaping. Whole songs were dropped in Roy Stride’s mission for a collection of perfect pop songs. The resulting album, produced by Andy Green at Helioscentric Studios in East Sussex, is unshakeably bold, confident, and a genuine step up in sound that loses none of the band’s early charm, but builds and expands upon it as infectiously as only they know how to be.
Scouting for Girls release their new single This Aint A Love Song this Friday 26th March with their album, Everybody Wants to Be On TV following on April 9th.
The UK tour, which was announced last month, is as follows:
28th April 2010, Nottingham Royal Centre, Nottingham
29th April 2010, Liverpool Su Mountford Hall, Liverpool
30th April 2010, O2 Academy Birmingham, Birmingham
2nd May 2010, Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2nd May 2010, Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle
3rd May 2010, HMV Picture House, Edinburgh
4th May 2010, O2 Academy Glasgow, Glasgow
6th May 2010, O2 Academy Leeds, Leeds
7th May 2010, Manchester Apollo, Manchester
8th May 2010, Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
10th May 2010, O2 Academy Sheffield, Sheffield
11th May 2010, Oasis Leisure Centre Swindon, Swindon
12th May 2010, Colston Hall, Bristol
14th May 2010, Bournemouth Solent Hall, Bournemouth
15th May 2010, Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth
16th May 2010, Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth
18th May 2010, Margate Winter Gardens, Margate
19th May 2010, HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London
24th May 2010, The Brighton Centre, Brighton
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