PODCAST EXCLUSIVE: Scouting For Girls star Roy Stride reveals 2026 tour and album details
The 22 date UK shows - next March and February - will see frontman guitarist and songwriter Roy, drummer Peter Ellard and bassist Greg Churchouse, play greatest hits and new songs celebrating the 15th anniversary of iconic platinum-selling second album, Everybody Wants To Be On TV, out now in new picture disc and vinyl formats.
PODCAST: In a first interview about the plans he said super fans will be able to get regular updates about the new album and even help to shape its content, which is already sounding Motown-like and 'classic Scouting', inspired by his recent creative burst in LA, from where he spoke to Graham Walker - listen to their full chat below or click HERE.
The Everybody (Still) Wants To Be On TV 2026 Tour - full details below - will visit Belfast, Dublin, Brighton, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff, Margate, Southend, Norwich, Cambridge, Nottingham, Birmingham, Glasgow, York, Sheffield, Newcastle, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Oxford, Portsmouth and London.
A brand new album will drop straight after the tour.
BUY ANNIVERSARY ALBUM: 15th anniversary edition Everybody Wants To Be On TV is out now - order here.
PRE-ORDER NEW ALBUM: Scouting For Girls’ new studio album is coming in 2026 and a limited Wolfclub edition, with signed lanyard and access to a ticket pre-sale for the tour now open - click here.
Any remaining tour tickets will go on general sale fom 10am GMT on Friday, May 2 - click here.
.The Everybody (Still) Wants To Be On TV tour will see he band play most of their second album live, featuring chart-topping track This Ain't A Love Song.
Alongside Roy is promising all te greatest hits too, including She's So Lovely, Elvis Ain't Dead, Heartbeat and more - plus tracks from the forthcoming, yet untitled, album.
After 15 years of topping charts and festival stages, Scouting for Girls aren’t just looking back — they're building something bigger, brighter, and even more irresistible for 2026.
Roy explained how the special limited Wolfclub edition of the new album, with signed lanyard, will not only get fans pre-sale tour tickets access but regular updates to a behind the scenes making of the new album, with the chance to influence how it turns out.
It is a chance to be part of the journey - a rare and personal invitation into the heart of their music-making.
"The new album is a work in progress, and that's why we've done this special lanyard version. This will actually allow you to see the process happening," he said.
“It's really for super fans, because there'll be videos every couple of weeks of me going, 'do you like this song? Is this the direction we want to go? 'And we'll be swayed a bit. You know, if we play a song and people love it, that will take us in some direction.
"I've got a provisional album title in my head, and I've got four or five really great songs, which, again, I'm sort of working with. I'm in LA, it's sunny, the music is going to be sunny and fun and happy, a bit soulful, a bit Motown - it's music to make you smile.
"When the three of us get together in a room or record music together, it always feels a bit like that first album. Just three guys in a room really is the key to a great song. So it will be, classic Scouting."
They've sold more han two million records, had over a billion streams, eight top 40 singles, won countless awards - including an Ivor Novello - played to fans all over the world and celebrated four top 20 albums.
The 2010 album famously spawned the No.1 single This Ain’t A Love Song, and cemented the band’s place in British pop history with over 300,000 domestic sales.
Of the Everybody Wants To Be On TV 15th anniversary celebration he laughed: "We’re a band after any excuse for a party or a gig.
"We wanted to do something for this album, for its 10th anniversary, but that was during lockdown, so we ended up just doing a couple of track by track releases and talked about it. So this is a chance for fans to hear a few of the deeper cuts from that album, on the tour.
"We'll be doing most of the album live, but because it was only half an hour t will also give us time to do all the big hits, which everyone loves. We'll play one, maybe two new songs. The whole night is about taking people on a really fun sing along nostalgic ride."
He said they used to feel the pressure to repeat chart success after their first self-titled album sold over a million records.
" I've learned now that the only thing that's important is that you love the song. That's the most important thing, because that's how that first album came about. It was because I genuinely loved those songs. The songs that do the best are the ones that I genuinely love.
"The secret to is just loving what we do.”
2026 TOUR DATES:
FEBRUARY:
26th - Belfast, Telegraph Building
27th - Dublin, The Academy
MARCH:
2nd - Brighton, Dome
3rd - Bournemouth, O2 Academy
5th - Bristol, O2 Academy
6th - Cardiff, Great Hall
7th - Margate, Dreamland
9th - Southend, Cliffs Pavilion
10th - Norwich, UEA
12th - Cambridge, Corn Exchange
13th - Nottingham, Rock City
14th - Birmingham, O2 Academy
16th - Glasgow, O2 Academy
17th - York, Barbican
19th - Sheffield, City Hall
20th - Newcastle, City Hall
21st - Manchester, Apollo
23rd - Liverpool, O2 Academy
24th - Leeds, O2 Academy26th - Oxford, O2 Academy
27th - Portsmouth, Guildhall
28th - London, Roundhouse
EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ON TV TRACKLIST:
Side A
- ‘This Ain't A Love Song’
- ‘Little Miss Naughty’
- ‘Good Time Girl’
- ‘Famous’
- ‘Silly Song’
- ‘On The Radio’
Side B
- ‘Blue as Your Eyes’
- ‘Posh Girls’
- ‘1+1’
- ‘Take A Chance On Us’
- ‘Gotta Keep Smiling’
- ‘A New Day’
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