They followed it up with the catchy She's So Lovely in September, reaching number seven and spending six weeks in the UK Top 40.

Bassist Greg Churchouse says the London trio are now hoping for a Christmas number one with their next single, Elvis Ain't Dead, which is released on 17 December.

Were you pleased with the success of She's So Lovely?

The band will tour the UK in March and April 2008

We were really amazed, we didn't really have any kind of expectations that it would do quite as well as it did.

We were kind of hoping top 40 and it went into the top 20 and then went up to top 10. It was phenomenal.

How did you form the band?

Roy and Pete actually met in the Cubs when they were seven or eight and then myself and Roy met when we were at senior school.

We started our first band when we were 13, and then Pete joined the band about 10 years ago. We've been playing together ever since, really.

Why are you called Scouting for Girls?

It comes from the book Scouting for Boys that Robert Baden-Powell wrote. It was kind of the forefront of the scout movement.

It is kind of like a manual telling boys how to do camp fires and how to stalk and track animals, that kind of thing.

Scouting for Girls takes its name from being a boy and turning into an adult and discovering love and girls and break-ups and getting new jobs.

How have you found fame?

Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting For Boys was a best-seller

We've been trying to play music and doing what we do for quite a few years, so now we actually get to do it at a professional level, which is amazing.

I do wake up in the morning and kind of pinch myself to check that this is actually really happening and I'm not dreaming this.

How did you get discovered?

We released our own little bi-monthly CDs with a few tracks on them and we put on our own shows in our local area in Harrow.

After a while we managed to pick up a nice healthy fan base through MySpace.

We got ourselves management in December of last year and within six weeks they had managed to find us a record deal, which was awesome.

Were there ever any times when you felt like giving up?

We had always worked part time - myself and Roy worked in a shop, and Pete worked as a plumber.

But we've always put music first. While our friends were out there getting proper jobs, mortgages and getting married, we were still stuck working part-time with no money.

The band built up a fanbase on social networking site MySpace

Obviously there were days that we felt disheartened but music is what we have always wanted to do. We'd still be doing it now even if we didn't have a record deal.

How would you describe your music?

Happy pop tunes. We don't try to be anything we're not.

We tried that when we were in a rock band and it just wasn't really us. We're just three normal down-to-earth guys who like good melodies and nice harmonies that make good fun music.

What does the future hold for you?

At the moment we are pretty much trying to take each day as it comes and enjoy the privileged position we've been given.

We'll be finishing this tour in mid-December, doing some promo for Elvis Ain't Dead, and then a couple of weeks off for Christmas.

We've asked Santa to give us a Christmas number one. Pete the drummer thinks it's a sure thing. So much so that he's put a bet on it.