Frontman Danny O'Donoghue says the group refuses to live in the past
Members of The Script - Glen Power, Danny O'Donoghue and Mark Sheehan
Rockers The Script were branded traitors and ‘Union Jack b*****ds’ by fans after playing an intimate gig for the Queen.
The Dublin band told how they were targeted by nasty Twitter trolls earlier this month after playing in front of the monarch at the BBC’s London headquarters.
Guitarist Mark Sheehan said accepting the royal invitation was not a decision they made lightly.
He told the Irish Mirror: “We thought Ireland might possibly hate us for doing this. How are they going to feel about it? How is this going to go down back home.”
Frontman Danny O’Donoghue, 32, said they refuse to live in the past and got on board as part of the new relationship between Ireland and Britain.
He said: “Irish people have a stigma where we get drinks and shillelaghs pinned to us everywhere we go. But we want to represent modern Ireland. We are not chewing over old stuff, we are looking to the future.
”I wasn’t going to be an ignorant little b***ocks. We had been requested by the Queen personally to do this. We’re supposed to be ambassadors for the Youth Of Ireland so we went and did it, showcasing Ireland and Irish music, the way we do around the world, and U2 did before us.”
But they described their choice of song to perform for Queen Elizabeth, David Bowie’s classic ‘Heroes’ which contains the lines “I will be king. And you. You will be queen” as tongue in cheek.
Danny also told how people have slammed them over their decision with vicious online messages.
He said: “We were tweeted afterwards by crazies calling us ‘Union Jack b******s’ and loyalists but we did it to show we represent modern Ireland, in the spirit of a new relationship between Britain and Ireland.”
The Script were back on home soil yesterday to launch the Arthur Guinness Projects which together with a mentoring and promotional support programme will invest €3 million in people across the country over the next three years, with up to 20 projects benefitting annually.
Danny said: “It’s not a song contest. We’re looking for someone that is innovative in their ideas, something fresh and new and something to offer the world. It could be a label, music App, it’s so open.”
The busy band are gearing up for a summer of gigs which will take them on a five-week tour across the States.
They also plan to write and record some new material for their fourth album due out early next year.
Drummer Glen Power revealed: “We’re bringing a coach with a recording studio with us across America to embark on what inspired us. It’ll be the first time we tried to write an album on a tour bus – so that’ll be fun.”
But Mark added that he is too angry to write any more songs about the state of the country.
He said: “I think it’s storm the castle gates time and pull them out by the hair and get rid of them all. I would love to. Flip the f**king coin.
“Any corrupt f**ker that is doing what them boys – bankers and government – are doing. I think we’re out of talking and singing about it.”
Meanwhile, Danny is still on a high from winning The Voice with act Andrea Begley last weekend but admitted that he had never heard of Andrea’s famous aunt, queen of country, Philomena Begley, until recently.
The handsome star said his next big role with the hit show is to “bridge the gap between The Voice and Christmas and ‘what are we going to get into the shops for Christmas?’
“Universal got a bollocking last year for taking too long... I think (the album) will primarily lean towards covers although she writes fantastic originals but it’s a huge task to ask, that’s a development thing.”
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