English indie-pop band Scouting For Girls have just released their

new studio album Easy Cover - and they will be playing the Cheese & Grain this October.

Going back to the music and culture of their childhoods in the 1980s, the band regrouped during what should have been a summer of festivals to curate a joyful album of 80s covers, alongside new, original tracks inspired by the music of the era.

The result - a glittering LP full of solid gold bops from the bands' favourite musical memories, from Tears For Fears, The Waterboys, Cyndi Lauper, Whitney Houston and Phil Collins.

The band admit they cant do justice to the tracks - that's

impossible - they are just trying to have fun and give people the night out they deserve after 2020.

Easy Cover (inspired by Phil Collins' "Easy Lover") was originally intended as a rather sedate, acoustic EP before frontman Roy Stride decided to shelve the project - reminding himself that Scouting for

Girls should never try to be too serious or clever.

It leads with a Tears For Fears' iconic single, Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

Roy said: " "It was on cassette and I was strapped into the back of my Dad's car and we were going to the sweet shop. I must have been about six. When lockdown came in 2020 I found comfort in nostalgia reworking these tracks that reminded me of my childhood.

"Coincidentally, Tears for Fears were also the last band I saw before lockdown. I took my Dad, 30 years on from him introducing the band to me, and it was the first time we had both seen the band live. They were magnificent."

Scouting For Girls have sold over two million albums, two million

singles, been nominated for four Brit Awards and sold out at Wembley Arena.

They are at Frome's Cheese & Grain on October 23.

Details and tickets HERE : the Cheese&Grain