FANS of pop-rocking three-piece Scouting For Girls will be thrilled to know they are coming to Southend as part of their headline tour in November.

It follows their new album Still Thinking About You, due out on October 16 on East West Records.

The million-selling trio from west London – who are best-known perhaps for their hit She’s So Lovely – will be touring through to December with their new batch of material since the west London band’s first album in 2012.

“We tried to make a collection of songs that worked together, which we’d never really done before,” says frontman Roy Stride. “And we wanted to make songs that connect truthfully and emotionally. It’s about being instinctive, and honest.”

Scouting for Girls are Roy (vocals, guitar, piano), Greg Churchouse (bass) and Pete Ellard (drums). The boys met at school and formed the band in 2005. Now, with four top ten albums and four top ten singles to their name, including a No 1 album (2007’s self-titled debut) and a No 1 single (2010’s This Ain’t A Love Song), Scouting For Girls have been nominated for four Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello, and have sold-out Wembley Arena and Royal Albert Hall.

Understandly so, Stride is in demand as a songwriter and producer, and his compositions have been recorded by One Direction, McBusted, Olly Murs, and 5 Seconds Of Summer.

“As weird as it sounds, so few records these days have any real instruments on them,” he says.

“We’ve got proper pianos and proper strings.

“We didn’t want anything tuned on the vocals. We’d just sing it till it sounded good and natural.

“On Still Thinking About You, we’ve embraced what people love about this band, and we’ve made the ultimate Scouting For Girls record.”

Visit southendtheatres.org.uk for booking and further information.