To date, Scouting for Girls have achieved eight top 40 singles, sold over 4 million records in the UK[3] and received over 1 billion global streams.
It has been noted that the band was looking for a spirited way of removing themselves from the drudgery of their everyday lives, looking to the whimsy of childhood fantasy through playing a Moog organ.
Their first recording was a demo of Keep On Walking which impressed the judges of the 2005 Glastonbury unsigned competition so much that they offered them a place in the final, despite the band having never performed live before.
Although they failed to win the competition the band spent the next couple of years building a large online presence through Myspace and hosting their own club nights at the Trinity Pub in Harrow.
By 2007 the band had written and recorded demos of most of the songs that would make up their debut album and received airplay and performed sessions on Radio 1 and XFM.
[5] As the band were signed almost fully formed, with all their songs already written, they headed out to Helioscentric Studios in Rye, East Sussex to begin work on their debut album almost immediately.
Scouting for Girls also made a series of appearances in Europe, Japan, Australia and America in 2008, including performances at 2008's SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas and CMJ in New York City.
[9] In the lead up to the album's release, Scouting for Girls performed in the Woolpack Pub on the set of long-running British soap, Emmerdale for a Radio Aire session.
In addition to all their singles, the album also featured new material including the song "Millionaire" which peaked at 52 in the UK charts after release on 22 July 2013.
[14] In September 2019, Scouting for Girls released their fifth album, The Trouble with Boys, featuring the singles "Count On Me" and "Grown Up" (co-written by James Blunt).
A UK tour to promote the new album was also announced for November and December 2019 including a sold out headline show at the Shepherds Bush Empire.
The band reinterpreting their favourite tracks from their early childhood as a means to escape the boredom of Lockdown[15] On 25 November 2022, to celebrate their 15th anniversary, Scouting For Girls released an exclusive double vinyl live album recorded in The Trinity Bar Harrow.
To celebrate their anniversary and the end of Covid lockdowns the band returned to The Trinity Bar in Harrow to play their first album in full.
These two nights sold out in minutes and this recording is interspersed with jokes, stories, a couple of disastrous musical starts and even a marriage proposal.
[5] Members of the fanclub were called Wolfcubs, and received a welcome pack put together by the band which include a CD of recent demos, a membership card which allowed discounted entry to their gigs, a regular SFG newsletter (similar to the famous Scouting For Boys guide book), and badges.
[24] The band also hold an annual intimate show at the highest pub in the UK, The Tan Hill Inn to raise money for Children in Need.