The Script talk about their Greatest Hits and ‘going big’ on tour in 2022

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5 Nov 2021, 16:38

The Script talk about their Greatest Hits and ‘going big’ on tour in 2022

The Script came to the top of the tower to perform on Friday morning, and the Irish hitmakers were in fine form as they joined Sam Pinkham on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky.

It was a particularly early wake-up call for frontman Danny O’Donoghue: “It's early in the morning! I was up at four o'clock this morning, I was on the treadmill going for a little walk,” he explained.

Sam couldn’t believe what he was hearing: “Are you serious?” 

“Yeah! These are really high songs to sing,” laughed Danny. “And then you want to put all the emotion in,  so I don't want to be coming in here and warming up live in front of everybody around the UK.”

“So you go on a treadmill to warm yourself up before you sing?” asked Sam.

“Well I was in a hotel, so they supplied the treadmill,” joked Danny.

The band have released their first ever greatest hits compilation album, called ‘Tales from The Script’.

Danny explained how the record came about: “We’re back to live music, we've been very lucky though. Coming out of COVID, we decided to put this album together, it's kind of like a greatest hits. But for us, it just feels like a massive party!”

“I’m really trying to be super positive about the future, we were trying to figure what we will do when we come back out again, now that we’re allowed” wondered Danny.

“I just wanted to go and play guitar for my friends in a place that I know, maybe a pub, which then got a lot bigger,

“We ended up saying that a greatest hits is probably the best thing we could do right now, because people want familiarity,” he insists.

“People want to go back to the things that they used to do with the people they love, and sing the songs that we all know.”

They’re getting ready to go out on the road for their Greatest Hits dates in 2022, starting in Belfast on Saturday 14th May and finishing in Edinburgh on Saturday 16th July.

The band is preparing a set list full of the songs you love: “Hall of Fame, Superheroes, all of those hits are there. It’s a ‘don't bore us. get to the chorus’ tour” Danny sums it up.

Danny explained how they narrowed down the songs to feature on the album: “We get in the ring and we put on boxing gloves” he joked.

“Over the years we've had six albums out, so it’s the singles pretty much from each one because they're the ones that we felt most emotionally attached to

“But there was the last three spots that were on the album that we're like ‘no, this is my favourite’ ‘no I want that one!’ ‘You have this one!’ so it’s a little bit of fisticuffs at dawn. No, it’s all good though.”

Danny is keen to thank their fans after the album went to number one: “I want to give a shout out to everybody who knows me right now, and The Script family in particular,

“They've been with us now for nearly 12 years. They’ve been with us from the births of some of our children to the deaths of our parents. They're not really fans anymore, they're family,” he said.

“I say this a lot but I really mean it, you know. I'm just dying to get back out to these people.”

The band have a mammoth tour planned: “I think we're doing like 96 shows across something like 30 countries - we're not just going back out again, we're going all out. We're going big! Go big or go home!”

Tickets and the album are onsale now: thescriptmusic.com