August 12, 2024 • 11 mins
The Script's Danny O'Donoghue Opens Up About The Death of Bandmate Mark Sheehan
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Our next guest is a lead singer of the Legends
who you might know from this anthem for first or
if we take it back to twenty twelve with this
belt and now the Script is coming back to Australia
(00:24):
for the first time in nearly three years, coming in
hot with their new album Satellites Turphy and with over
(00:46):
ten billion streams. These Brits are coming in very hot today.
Robert and Kip welcome lead singer Danny O'Donaghue.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We just called you a brit Oh my accident. Did
you hear that, Danny?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Did I?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I thought you were talking about the five bricks that
we've been nominated for. Okay, okay, wow, No, these bricks
are coming in because we've just got a brick for
being for doing a billion streams in England.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So must have been is that right? Yes, it must
have been. That We'll let him off. You're very don't
want to go near the Ireland.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
We've been watching a lot of of the Olympics over
the last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Do you get into them? Mate?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Come on, because islands a lot of the country, like say,
there was some like fake gold medals.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Island's another country like us that that's above their way.
You've got four gold island, three bronze, like for for
a little country, island gives it a red hot guy,
don't they.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
We're like tenth in this in the out of all
the countries, we're tenth in the metal race right now.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, okay with bloody.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Amazing considering you know out drinking isn't in the Olympics, you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Know what I mean telling isn't the Olympic sunburns. Imagine
if sunburns were in you kill us.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You do know what number Australia is though, don't you what? Three?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Number three?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Three? Well, yeah, I mean yeah, that's bloody great.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm gonna say, yeah, Well, you're an island now, We're
an island water. We're arounded by water. You guys drink
as much as weedy as well.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So okay, I feel like the affinity between Australians and
Irishmen is beyond anything else. Like I feel like, I
don't know, maybe the world feels that about Ireland. Is
that the world that feels that you're that they're close
to the island or is am I actually feeling disaffinity?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The world yes, does think that they're suffinity the Ireland,
but Australians have the claim for it as in like
the Australians.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Actually really we feel that a bit Australians, you know
what I mean? You say love it, you know what
I'm saying, Like the.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
World feels like, oh, we're all friends with the Irish
actor is an irishtan and the bar everyone's like one
sixteenth Irish or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes, but it's there's an Australian there.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Irish people look at Australian we know, we know, you know,
get the same humor, we get we know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know what I'm saying, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Is that why you've chosen to do your Brisbane concert
on Australia Day.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, that's exactly why to do it had to do
with me, Yes, and my knowledge. You know that that
would have been the best day.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It is perfect, I mean, and it is that a winery.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I mean, it is it gets so drunk right.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Think of it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Pro people are going to be wasted by the Yeah,
it would be the first concert that was ever canceled
by the audience.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It's I went too drunk to go on the audience like.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Thirty minutes beforehand, the whole audience are going to saying
sorry we had a canceling.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's a technical difficulty and you.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, yeah, I will say that. All the time watching
watching the games in Paris, all I think of is
what a great anthem song it is?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Like you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I love it as well.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And to be honest, I'm you know, I watched Ireland obviously,
watching watching them, particularly the boxing because I love boxing
them in boxing myself. Yeah, but I just feel like
after any win or anything, I'm just like, let's cut
up that, Let's cut a highlights for that, get it
on Instagram straight away.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Get all the fame out there. Yeah, like this is
too good.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
How far did you go with boxing?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I've been well, I've.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Been boxing for about seven years right like recently, I
mean I mean everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I started to train, yeah, seven years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And then because I'm a pop star, I can go
to any gym in the world. So I've been in
with like Freddie Rochi who trained Money Paki out so
I was in training with him. I got to internet
seems play some Sheffield ingle, Dominic ingle.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I was in there.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And then my big claim to fame because I love
Floyd Mayweather. It's a great tactician because I trained with
his dad. I trained with Floyd Wow in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So yeah, Dan's got hands. Yeah yeah, I love it,
to be honest, I love boxes my first love and
then I love. I do enjoy M M A and
I like it a little bit of motai.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So I trained.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I recently trained with the the UFC interim champ Tom Aspinall,
which was on his he has.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
He's got a great channel on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I think it's available in Australia called the Fight Lab.
So if you want to go and you can see
me on there, just he's shown news and you know
it's just.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
One for training and then straight for the head as well.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
You know, mate, your nose does not look like you
are into boxing. It is like straight on your face.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Doctor did a good job.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You're very very evasive because yeah, it doesn't look like
you've been punched too many times.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, but it's funny.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But because I have to be prepared of what you
might go into and get its sparring, because I have
a very punishable face. You don't want to this face.
You look at a statement, they get distracted.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
By this, you know, I didn't want to say it,
but now that you've said it, they really does look punishable.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You can you can curve me or put me in
one of those balls, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Like, So, did you write that song hoping that you'd
one time make it into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
No, it's funny, it's like a self prophesizing song because
I think that song is going to go into the
Hall of Fame because in the Hall of Fame so
many bloody times. Yes, I knew I wasn't going to
get there. I knew it wasn't going to be me.
Maybe maybe one day the song will get ducted in you.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I ask you one serious question because I am a
massive fan of the script and I'm so grateful you're coming.
And I love the fact you're going to be appearing
at Serra may and A winery because it is like
the perfect the perfect venue for you. But how are
you going to go without Mark? Like this is the
first gig that the band's coming back. I mean that
must be full on.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, it's always full on. I mean we've the shows.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
We've been doing shows probably about six months now, and
obviously the first ones were well, they.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Were difficult to get through.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But also we feel like we're given the opportunity to
fans around the world because of how many lives that
he touched. We're given the opportunity to those people to
be able to pay respects and obviously openly grieve.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
At the shows as well. You know, the songs.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Playing the songs is the crowds, and singing the songs
is almost.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Like the crowd's way of just like getting us through
it as well.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So, like I said, it'll never be the same script,
and nor would we want it to be, because it
was magical. You know, we had such an amazing twenty
year run nearly and then, like I said, now we
changed the line up on it to go from instead
of being.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Three piece, we're now four piece, and we wanted.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
To kind of draw a line because I just feel
it be unfair to try and fill is shoes because
we never will.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So you know, we're just trying to change it up.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So there's a new it's it looks new, and it's allowed.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You're allowed to be.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Positive about a change as opposed to may be sitting
in the past. And I feel like, like I said,
instead of also you know, grieving the loss of somebody.
We want to celebrate this life. And I feel like
these are Irish maybe even Australian tendencies of what we
try to do around funerals and dealing with debt is
to try and do in the best possible way we can.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So it's good.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It'll be hard, man, and some some shows there's tears
on some shows. That's supharic. Some shows, you know, but
that's life. You know, That's life, isn't it. And we're
we're blessed We've got a lot of people helping us
through it. But also I'm dealing with this in real time.
I'm grieving in front of everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
There's nothing I can do, so I'm just trying to
get through the best I answers.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
It was interesting because when I heard that he died
and it was so sudden for us, I mean obviously
not for you guys. And when I realized that you
were going to go back on tour, I thought, well,
if you guys can do it. I mean, you've known
him since you were twelve, You've started the band with him,
you traveled to America with him, You produced extraordinary artists
like Britney spears with him. So if you can do
(09:29):
that and get up on stage, then I'm okay to
go to a concert and have a great time with you.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate I never thought of it that way.
Music has always been interlinked with with herapy for me
getting over the death of people like I. Ever since
I can remember, I've been singing. You know, I sang
on my I sang at my communion, I sang at
my confirmation. I sang at my mom's, my dad's funeral.
(10:00):
I sang at my mum's funeral. I sang at my
auntie's funeral. Music is just like it's a way we
get over things. And it's not just personally, but you know,
all of us, all of the kids sang piano man
at my dad's funeral, and that was because that was
why the song that reminded of him so much, and
it was just like we get together through that whole
(10:22):
week We're practicing. I'm trying to like be band leader
and stuff, and it's like it takes my mind off
what I'm actually going through and help and helps with
the you know, a group of people being around me.
But I just you know, even Marks myself and Glenn
got up and sang at Mark's funeral. But it's it's
just a way that it was like, how dare I not?
You know, It's something that I love to do and
(10:43):
I really trug some emotion into it, and it's just
it's something different.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Maybe it's weirder for weird for different nationalities, but for
Irish people it's like, let's get let's drink and sing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Well, Satellite it's the new album drops next week, so
that's on Friday the sixteenth. Tickets are on sale. If
you would like to see the script, please when you're
in Brizemane drop in. We'd love to see you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
We'd love to see you.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Thanks mate, Thanks guys,
Our next guest is a lead singer of the Legends
who you might know from this anthem for first or
if we take it back to twenty twelve with this
belt and now the Script is coming back to Australia
(00:24):
for the first time in nearly three years, coming in
hot with their new album Satellites Turphy and with over
(00:46):
ten billion streams. These Brits are coming in very hot today.
Robert and Kip welcome lead singer Danny O'Donaghue.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We just called you a brit Oh my accident. Did
you hear that, Danny?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Did I?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I thought you were talking about the five bricks that
we've been nominated for. Okay, okay, wow, No, these bricks
are coming in because we've just got a brick for
being for doing a billion streams in England.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So must have been is that right? Yes, it must
have been. That We'll let him off. You're very don't
want to go near the Ireland.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Do you know?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
We've been watching a lot of of the Olympics over
the last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Do you get into them? Mate?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Come on, because islands a lot of the country, like say,
there was some like fake gold medals.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Island's another country like us that that's above their way.
You've got four gold island, three bronze, like for for
a little country, island gives it a red hot guy,
don't they.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
We're like tenth in this in the out of all
the countries, we're tenth in the metal race right now.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, okay with bloody.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Amazing considering you know out drinking isn't in the Olympics, you.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Know what I mean telling isn't the Olympic sunburns. Imagine
if sunburns were in you kill us.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You do know what number Australia is though, don't you what? Three?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Number three?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Three? Well, yeah, I mean yeah, that's bloody great.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I'm gonna say, yeah, Well, you're an island now, We're
an island water. We're arounded by water. You guys drink
as much as weedy as well.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So okay, I feel like the affinity between Australians and
Irishmen is beyond anything else. Like I feel like, I
don't know, maybe the world feels that about Ireland. Is
that the world that feels that you're that they're close
to the island or is am I actually feeling disaffinity?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
The world yes, does think that they're suffinity the Ireland,
but Australians have the claim for it as in like
the Australians.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Actually really we feel that a bit Australians, you know
what I mean? You say love it, you know what
I'm saying, Like the.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
World feels like, oh, we're all friends with the Irish
actor is an irishtan and the bar everyone's like one
sixteenth Irish or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes, but it's there's an Australian there.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Irish people look at Australian we know, we know, you know,
get the same humor, we get we know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
You know what I'm saying, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Is that why you've chosen to do your Brisbane concert
on Australia Day.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, that's exactly why to do it had to do
with me, Yes, and my knowledge. You know that that
would have been the best day.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It is perfect, I mean, and it is that a winery.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I mean, it is it gets so drunk right.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Think of it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Pro people are going to be wasted by the Yeah,
it would be the first concert that was ever canceled
by the audience.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It's I went too drunk to go on the audience like.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Thirty minutes beforehand, the whole audience are going to saying
sorry we had a canceling.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's a technical difficulty and you.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, yeah, I will say that. All the time watching
watching the games in Paris, all I think of is
what a great anthem song it is?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Like you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I love it as well.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And to be honest, I'm you know, I watched Ireland obviously,
watching watching them, particularly the boxing because I love boxing
them in boxing myself. Yeah, but I just feel like
after any win or anything, I'm just like, let's cut
up that, Let's cut a highlights for that, get it
on Instagram straight away.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Get all the fame out there. Yeah, like this is
too good.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
How far did you go with boxing?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I've been well, I've.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Been boxing for about seven years right like recently, I
mean I mean everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I started to train, yeah, seven years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And then because I'm a pop star, I can go
to any gym in the world. So I've been in
with like Freddie Rochi who trained Money Paki out so
I was in training with him. I got to internet
seems play some Sheffield ingle, Dominic ingle.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I was in there.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
And then my big claim to fame because I love
Floyd Mayweather. It's a great tactician because I trained with
his dad. I trained with Floyd Wow in Vegas.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So yeah, Dan's got hands. Yeah yeah, I love it,
to be honest, I love boxes my first love and
then I love. I do enjoy M M A and
I like it a little bit of motai.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So I trained.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I recently trained with the the UFC interim champ Tom Aspinall,
which was on his he has.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
He's got a great channel on YouTube.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I think it's available in Australia called the Fight Lab.
So if you want to go and you can see
me on there, just he's shown news and you know
it's just.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
One for training and then straight for the head as well.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
You know, mate, your nose does not look like you
are into boxing. It is like straight on your face.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Doctor did a good job.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
You're very very evasive because yeah, it doesn't look like
you've been punched too many times.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, but it's funny.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
But because I have to be prepared of what you
might go into and get its sparring, because I have
a very punishable face. You don't want to this face.
You look at a statement, they get distracted.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
By this, you know, I didn't want to say it,
but now that you've said it, they really does look punishable.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You can you can curve me or put me in
one of those balls, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Like, So, did you write that song hoping that you'd
one time make it into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
No, it's funny, it's like a self prophesizing song because
I think that song is going to go into the
Hall of Fame because in the Hall of Fame so
many bloody times. Yes, I knew I wasn't going to
get there. I knew it wasn't going to be me.
Maybe maybe one day the song will get ducted in you.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I ask you one serious question because I am a
massive fan of the script and I'm so grateful you're coming.
And I love the fact you're going to be appearing
at Serra may and A winery because it is like
the perfect the perfect venue for you. But how are
you going to go without Mark? Like this is the
first gig that the band's coming back. I mean that
must be full on.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, it's always full on. I mean we've the shows.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
We've been doing shows probably about six months now, and
obviously the first ones were well, they.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Were difficult to get through.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
But also we feel like we're given the opportunity to
fans around the world because of how many lives that
he touched. We're given the opportunity to those people to
be able to pay respects and obviously openly grieve.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
At the shows as well. You know, the songs.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Playing the songs is the crowds, and singing the songs
is almost.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Like the crowd's way of just like getting us through
it as well.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So, like I said, it'll never be the same script,
and nor would we want it to be, because it
was magical. You know, we had such an amazing twenty
year run nearly and then, like I said, now we
changed the line up on it to go from instead
of being.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Three piece, we're now four piece, and we wanted.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
To kind of draw a line because I just feel
it be unfair to try and fill is shoes because
we never will.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
So you know, we're just trying to change it up.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So there's a new it's it looks new, and it's allowed.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
You're allowed to be.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Positive about a change as opposed to may be sitting
in the past. And I feel like, like I said,
instead of also you know, grieving the loss of somebody.
We want to celebrate this life. And I feel like
these are Irish maybe even Australian tendencies of what we
try to do around funerals and dealing with debt is
to try and do in the best possible way we can.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
So it's good.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It'll be hard, man, and some some shows there's tears
on some shows. That's supharic. Some shows, you know, but
that's life. You know, That's life, isn't it. And we're
we're blessed We've got a lot of people helping us
through it. But also I'm dealing with this in real time.
I'm grieving in front of everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
There's nothing I can do, so I'm just trying to
get through the best I answers.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
It was interesting because when I heard that he died
and it was so sudden for us, I mean obviously
not for you guys. And when I realized that you
were going to go back on tour, I thought, well,
if you guys can do it. I mean, you've known
him since you were twelve, You've started the band with him,
you traveled to America with him, You produced extraordinary artists
like Britney spears with him. So if you can do
(09:29):
that and get up on stage, then I'm okay to
go to a concert and have a great time with you.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate I never thought of it that way.
Music has always been interlinked with with herapy for me
getting over the death of people like I. Ever since
I can remember, I've been singing. You know, I sang
on my I sang at my communion, I sang at
my confirmation. I sang at my mom's, my dad's funeral.
(10:00):
I sang at my mum's funeral. I sang at my
auntie's funeral. Music is just like it's a way we
get over things. And it's not just personally, but you know,
all of us, all of the kids sang piano man
at my dad's funeral, and that was because that was
why the song that reminded of him so much, and
it was just like we get together through that whole
(10:22):
week We're practicing. I'm trying to like be band leader
and stuff, and it's like it takes my mind off
what I'm actually going through and help and helps with
the you know, a group of people being around me.
But I just you know, even Marks myself and Glenn
got up and sang at Mark's funeral. But it's it's
just a way that it was like, how dare I not?
You know, It's something that I love to do and
(10:43):
I really trug some emotion into it, and it's just
it's something different.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Maybe it's weirder for weird for different nationalities, but for
Irish people it's like, let's get let's drink and sing.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Well, Satellite it's the new album drops next week, so
that's on Friday the sixteenth. Tickets are on sale. If
you would like to see the script, please when you're
in Brizemane drop in. We'd love to see you.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
We'd love to see you.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Thanks mate, Thanks guys,
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