Concert release material
Midas
Promotions is proud to present The Script at Mall Of Asia Arena, Manila on April 17th
2015!
Title: The
Script – Live in Manila 2015
Venue: Mall Of
Asia Arena
Date a nd Time: Friday, April
17 2015, 8:00PM
Ticket
prices: - PHP 8,000 VIP, PHP 7,000 Patron, PHP 5,500 Lower
Box A, PHP 4,000 Lower Box B, PHP 2,500 Upper Box, PHP 1,000 General Admission
(booking fees not included)
*Tickets
will be on sale starting 9am, October 23rd, 2014 at www.smtickets.com or any SM Ticket Outlets, for inquiries, call
470-2222.
Meet The Script: Danny O’Donoghue (vocals,
piano), Mark Sheehan (vocals, guitar), Glen Power (vocals, drums). Three Irish
men who are as direct – as impassioned – as their songs. The onetime studio
whizzes that have stepped up to form a band, then, on their last album, stepped
front and center. It was called #3
and featured the trio on the artwork. It did exactly what the no-nonsense cover
and title intended.
“The
last album was us stepping out in to the light,” affirms Danny, as impressive a
speaker as he is a frontman, but now with a top-spin of telegenic confidence,
courtesy of his two seasons judging on The Voice on BBC1. “We’d been the
faceless band before that,” he adds with typical candour. “We’d had two albums
that were enormously successful but there was a disconnect – people might know
the song but they wouldn’t know the band, or the name of the band.”
But
their 2012 worldwide smash Hall Of Fame
– a collaboration with Danny’s Voice co-judge Will.I.Am – changed all
that.
“That
song put it in no doubt who this band were,” nods the singer. “We went full
frontal. We went from being the alternative Irish pop/rock to the mainstream.
And that was partly achieved by The Voice,”
he acknowledges, explaining his band-focused reasons for taking the telly gig
in the first place.
“The
excitement and energy went off the Richter scale,” continues Mark. “And it did
that in America too. As we’ve toured and toured there, people are coming back
to the shows, bringing their friends and their parents – a real cross-section
of people and ages. It’s a great thing to have that broad appeal. It’ll give us
longevity.” “It feels like a festival crowd every time,” adds Glen.
Such
was the impact of The Script’s
newfound live power.
“That
sound on #3 – we were loud and
proud,” says Danny with well-earned satisfaction. “We’d spent a couple of tours
trying to perfect the stadium-filling sound. And we found it with Hall Of Fame. And it was amazing to get
to that on our third album – most bands these days don’t even get to their
second album.”
The Script’s fourth album, No Sound Without Silence, is the sound of
a band firing on all cylinders and channelling the momentum of their last,
rocket-powered campaign. They finished touring #3 at the end of last year, took a scant couple of weeks off, then
quickly re-entered their studios in London and Dublin.
The first single,
the ultra-catchy Superheroes, blessed with an appropriate sense of sky-scraping
uplift, and underpinned with crunchy guitar riffs, was one of the first tracks
to be written and was inspired by the highs as they came off stage at one of
their sold out stadium shows in the USA. Superheroes premiered
on radio on Monday 21st
July.
This
trio of songwriters had had so many ideas while touring, they were bursting out
of the specially-built mobile recording studio they’d taken with them on the
bus.
“When
I hear this music I can feel certain states pass me by,” laughs Mark. “We
should have called the album Songs In The
Key of Bus. We put this studio in the back of the tour bus and it
happened to be sitting on top of the engine – and the noise! It was the worse
tour bus in the world. I don’t know how it made it across America. Everyday
something went wrong. The AC would break, or the toilet malfunctioned. One
night it crashed – and we had it recorded! It sounds like the end of the
world.”
Transport
mishaps aside, The Script wanted
their new songs to capture what Danny describes as “that nervous energy coming
straight off stage. It was a bit uncontrollable at the start, it was shooting
everywhere.”
But
gradually these seasoned writers/producers – they compose and record everything
themselves – wrestled their songs into shape.
So
you have a song like the ultra-catchy Superheroes, the first
single, blessed with an appropriate sense of sky-scraping uplift, and
underpinned with crunchy guitar riffs.
Another single contender is The Energy Never Dies,
"about the moment you realise you may not have long left on this
Earth”, says Danny. With the lyric when you know your days are numbered and
you’re looking in my eyes, it’s not the end, cos the energy never dies, “It’s
saying to the one you love, we will meet again in the after life”, explains
Danny.
Without Those Songs is a road song of a different kind. It was
written after a visit to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and is The Script’s hymn to the power of
classic songs, and of classic songwriters. Then
there’s No Good In Goodbye, destined to join Breakeven, For The First Time
and The Man Who Can’t Be Moved as a
live singalong favourite.
Says
Danny, “that’s all we try and do: condense complex thoughts down to really
simple songs. With that one, we wanted to put a twist on a word: where’s the
good in goodbye, where’s the fair in farewell... Then we tried to make that
into a lyrical idea, which seemed to work really well.”
As
counterpoint there’s Flares, a gentle song built around rippling
piano. It started off as a love song, but after Danny’s mother suffered a brain
aneurysm while the band was recording, it took on a new meaning for the front man.
“It’s
about faith – ‘did you see the flares in
the sky, were you blinded by the light…’ And I did, yeah,” admits this
otherwise skeptical man. “The situation changed and it was a fucking miracle.”
Like Superheroes,
Flares is a “very uplifting song, about people getting past
adversity. And when you’re told by more than one doctor that your mum won’t
make it through the night…” Danny stops and shakes his head. “Well, the only
person who changed that – challenged that – was my mum. And she fought her way
through to where she is now,” he says, the relief writ large in his face, his
voice, and his band’s songs.
All
that, and a modern Irish anthem, Paint The Town Green, an
energetic, feelgood, party-on hymn to the spirit of their homeland.
“We’re
not crying on the page,” insists Mark with a grin, “and it’s not super-emotional
as a song. It’s just about missing home and talking about what every emigrant
around the world feels.”
The Script better get used to that. No Sound
Without Silence and its impassioned, catchy, emotional songs will be
keeping them on the road, all over the place, for a good long while to come.
The Script have scored a huge amount of success globally -
they have sold over 20 million records, and all 3 have been multi-platinum
throughout the world. Hall Of Fame, the lead single from last album
#3, was a worldwide #1 single with over 5 million sales, 133 million Youtube views, and over 100 million Spotify plays. The Script have
done especially well Stateside, where they have 5 Platinum singles and have
sold over 1 million albums. Their #3 world tour spanned 11 months, and saw them
play sold out arena shows in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia
including 2 shows at London’s O2 Arena.
