The Script Tickets, Various Venues
The Script
With their music recently coined as a new brand of Celtic soul, the Irish trio, The Script are performing in venues in Dublin, Belfast and Birmingham.
The band comprises Danny O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power who met in their early teens in Dublin and found a common ground in their love of American black music.
It’s this influence coupled with a lyrical Irish background that informs their unique songs full of emotion and passion; “Irish people have soul, “ says Danny, “It comes from generations of pain and generations of understanding emotion to be able to physically get that solid sound.”
Danny and Mark started writing songs together and for several years made demos for other artist in the States. After joining up with drummer Glen, who Mark says, “just whipped the ass of all those LA musos, “and was the “funkiest drummer around with real energy and swing,” the Script was created. A debut single, We Cry a moving anthem about everyday struggle, reached 13 in the UK charts and the album The Script went straight to number one in the UK charts, generating 600,000 in sales.
Simmering in a melting pot of indie, R&B and pop melodies and soul, The Script’s songs are powerful stuff, with raw emotion contained within conveyed by Danny whose voice has been described as a synthesis of Bono, Justin Timberlake and Morten Harket.
Since their album success, The Script have been hanging out with some seriously big names, opening for Paul McCartney at New York’s CitiField, for U2 at Dublins Croke Park and as a support for Take That’s Circus Tour.
The Script is well and truly in production.