Danny O’Donoughue did not know if The Script ought to stick with it after Mark Sheehan died.
Danny O’Donoghue wasn’t positive if The Script ought to proceed
The guitarist handed away in April 2023 following a quick sickness and his devastated bandmates, together with drummer Glen Energy, had a whole lot of conversations afterwards about what their future would seem like with out him.
Chatting with the brand new concern of RETROPOP journal, singer Danny mentioned: “When Mark handed away, every thing acquired placed on the backburner and we have been actually attempting to spherical up the troops so far as, ‘The place can we go from right here?’.
“All people was attempting to work their method via the devastation and resolve what’s subsequent for us. , can we cease The Script? Or can we need to proceed? […] I wanted to complete what we’d began.
“What we’ve executed to this point within the music business to this point has been completely unimaginable – and even when my profession did end tomorrow I’d be actually comfortable – however on the similar time I’m a born musician and I like making music. Genuinely, I do not know what I might do if I wasn’t in music.”
Regardless of the group’s grief, Danny insisted it would not loom massive over their new album ‘Satellites’ as a result of they might reasonably “have a good time” their pal.
He mentioned: “I am positive individuals are anticipating it to be fairly an emotional album, or an album that offers previously, nevertheless it’s not. It is extra of an optimistic album; it’s like, ‘Let’s cease grieving and begin celebrating somebody’s life’.”
The ‘Corridor of Fame’ group fashioned in 2001 and Danny is thrilled that social media has give them a brand new era of followers – significantly as a result of it’s the music they’re targeted on, not the band themselves.
He mentioned: “It is like an Indian summer time, the place we have this complete model new legion of recent Script followers and that is actually thrilling as a result of I am having conferences each week about content material and placing out issues that aren’t the ways in which I might have thought our followers would join with.
“So we have a great deal of totally different concepts about find out how to market our music and one of the best ways to get it on the market, as a result of folks do not really give a s*** about me or the band.
“They only care concerning the songs, which is superb as a result of that’s the way in which it’s speculated to be. I simply come free with the music – take me or go away me!”