It is a heart-rending drama of tragedy and triumph, love and loss, struggle and survival, the epic journey of three young Dublin boys from the wrong side of the tracks who risk everything for a dream.
This is THE SCRIPT. But the ending is not yet written.
Dramatis Personae:
Danny O'Donoghue (26): Lead vocalist and keyboard player with the vocal flexibility and technical range of an American soul legend. "The truth is, I spent a lot of my childhood singing when the other kids were outside playing football and getting into trouble."
Mark Sheehan (28): Production whizz and guitarist. "I'm not trying to romanticise it, where we grew up was a shit hole, it was stealing cars, all the usual bollocks, but music gave me a sense that I could break away. I know it sounds like a cliche, but to me, as a kid, that was my way out."
Glen Power (29): Drummer and multi-instrumentalist, the funkiest white man in Dublin. "My mother always said to find one thing in life that you're good at and the day I picked up the sticks I found it."
The Script are an Irish trio whose music boasts the kind of artful twists sure to turn all preconceptions on their head. This is a whole new brand of Celtic Soul, blending hip hop lyrical flow with pop melodiousness, state-of-the-art R'n'B production with anthemic rock dynamics, classic song construction with gritty contemporary narratives. It's got all the emotion and passion you would expect from across the Irish sea, but it is glittering in its modernity, universal in its singalong addictiveness and global in its syncopation, music for the feet, heart and head. Think U2 versus Timbaland, Van Morrison remixed by Teddy Riley. "Irish people have soul," according to Danny. "It comes from generations of pain, and generations of understanding emotion to be able to physically get that in a solid sound."
"Soul is not a black thing or a white thing, it’s a human thing," insists Mark.
