Описание
The Script - ирландская поп-рок группа, образованная Danny O’Donoghue (лид-вокал и клавишные) и Mark Sheehan (гитара и вокал), ранее выступавшими в составе группы "My Town". Дебютный альбом "My Town" был провальным, и после распада группы Дэнни и Марк переехали в США, где занимались продюсерской деятельностью с такими исполнителями как The Neptunes, Rodney Jerkins, Teddy Riley и Dallas Austin, а спустя несколько лет, решив создать новую группу, вернулись на родину, в Дублин, где к ним присоединился барабанщик Glen Power, и они стали называться "The Script". Весной 2007 г. ими был подписан контракт с лейблом Phonogenic. Их дебютный сингл "We Cry", вышедший только через год (25 апреля 2008 г.), попал в ротацию на все самые популярные радиостанции Великобритании, принеся группе долгожданную известность. А следующий сингл "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" был еще более успешным, заняв 2-е и 3-е места в британском и ирландском чартах соответственно, тем самым позволив группе громко заявить о себе, как об очень перспективных новичках на британской поп-рок сцене. В августе 2008 г. вышел их дебютный (в новом составе) альбом "The Script", который сразу же занял первую строчку в рейтинге самых продаваемых альбомов Великобритании и Ирландии.
Biography
Danny O'Donaghue (25): "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 (27): "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 (28): "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.
"The true vision is to hit people in the heart," declares Glen.
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."
"One day I heard Stevie Wonder singing and the hairs on the back of my neck went up," says Danny. "I didn't even know people could sing like that, I'd never heard the acrobatics of it before." He spent years in his bedroom, practising vocal licks. "I'd try and emulate all those records, even down to string arrangements. Some of the best singers have emulated a musical instrument - Amy Winehouse is a saxophone - but the violin is the one for me, the vibrato, you can bring so much heartfelt emotion in."
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