Tangled Magazine

The Script – Danny O’Donaghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power – are Ireland’s hottest new trio, releasing their touching debut single, We Cry, in Australia sometime next month. Their music has been described as “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”.

Danny and Mark met in their early teens in the run down James Street area of Dublin, near the Guinness brewery, gravitating to each other through a shared obsession with music, and in particular a love of American black music. “At that time, MTV only came on in Dublin after midnight, it was the fuzzy channel, and for my generation black culture was just a wave through us all,” explains Mark. “It wasn’t about gangs and guns; it was fashion and fun, singing and dancing.”

Striking up a song writing and production partnership, Danny and Mark’s exceptional talent was recognised early, and, to their astonishment, they found themselves invited to the States to collaborate with some of their production heroes, including such legends of modern R’n'B as Dallas Austin, Teddy Riley, The Neptunes and Rodney Jerkins.

Danny and Mark started as a backroom team, making demos for other artists, but when they met fellow Dublin drummer Glen, the dynamic shifted. Although they had never actually heard him play, such was the connection they made that Mark invited Glen on a working holiday to LA.

Something of a prodigy on the Dublin scene, Glen had been playing sessions from fifteen years old, using the money to work on a solo project in his home studio. But that went on hold when his collaboration with Mark and Danny produced three songs in one week. “It was like I found my home playing with these guys,” says Glen. “I had never had a chance with any other band to express myself with such freedom.”

The trio’s debut single, ‘We Cry’, will hit radio in June 2008. “There is not a lot of hope in the song, cause not everybody’s life is full of hope,” explains Danny. “There’s not always roses at the end. But out of all these things that have gone wrong in our lives and everybody else’s lives, the message is ‘together we cry’. Because as long as we’re here together then we can find a way to share the burden.”

Their debut album will follow, promising to be something really special. “There is a whole lifetime in these songs,” says Mark. “We don’t write them in ten minutes. A song takes nurturing, it is an evolving thing. This is a journey, we are in constant change, constant motion. I can’t ever put my finger on what exactly The Script is, I don’t even think I should, all I know is that it is something that touches me deep inside, and seems to touch other people when we play.”

Click here to hear The Script’s debut single, We Cry:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid18089611/bclid70421132/bctid1551167220

Or, visit their MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/thescript