The Script in studio The Script Bible series presents 2014 Inside this issue: Birthplaces of 2 The Script In Studio the first album The shed in 2 Special Edition for The Script Bible Challenge Dublin Olympic Studios 3 Thank you for playing the “hibernation” period. Us- Here’s to many more al- challenge with me this ing public interviews (and bums to be created, mem- winter, it’s been a lot of google heavily) I put this ories to cherish, songs to Science&Faith 3 fun to have all here. Con- together to try to give us sing. in Santa Monica gratulations for winning fans a little insight to how this special booklet, hope the albums we all love so Studios of the 4 you’re gonna enjoy it! much, were born. second album The following stories were I’m so proud of the jour- Studio 3, through 5 published as a series of ney the lads have covered the eyes of The blog posts on The Script and really looking forward Script Bible blog in February, to the rest that’s still ahead 2014, right in the middle of us! #3 and The 5 Voice UK of The Script’s “The stories behind the Working on the music” 6 fourth album About The Script Bible Special thanks for their help and support to: The blog started in Au- Family was a better dis- and precious. And if we Frederica, gust, 2013 to share all traction than I could’ve can learn to accept and @fredericah20 those stories I’ve collected planned for had it been a love who we are through Jasinta, during my obsessive re- conscious decision. The Script’s example (or @RKScriptLove search. I’ve always been through any example for Laura, interested in the stories It’s all to share the love we that matter), I believe that @Me_not_B behind any music and last all have for the guys, not the world has become a year it coincided with a just for the music but also better place. This is the And my relentless personal tragedy that gave for standing for who they thought that makes me put support team of Lyn- sey, Simo, Donna, me more time than I need- are. For being the best in all those hours into this Naomi, Emma, Ei- ed to survive those version of themselves in- love-project. Hope you, stead of trying to be some- leen, Janey, Andrea, months. Researching old too, can enjoy it! Agnes, Birgit— interviews, watching vide- one they’re not. I think couldn’t have done it os, talking to The Script we’re all different, unique Love, Andrea without you! Birthplaces of the first album Venice Beach was where “the con- When he told them first that he was One of the first songs born out of dom of the music industry broke and a drummer, Mark didn’t believe those sessions was ‘Before The The Script was born” as Mark put it him. He’d seen Glen in Dublin as a Worst’. Seeing this video from 2007 bluntly. Himself and Danny, who guitarist and he thought that Glen gives a good feeling of what their were living in LA at the time, spent calling himself a drummer was jamming might have looked like. Fridays at their home studio, writing “fucking cocky”. So at the first chance or jamming out various musicians they put him on the kit to see if he from Pearl Jam to Nine Inch Nails. could swim. He sure did. They con- tinued their jamming the next day “We’d get messed up and that was our and the day after that and the day Friday night out.” (Mark) after that, rather ruining Glen’s holi- day but ending up with a couple of When Glen arrived from Dublin to solid songs. have a vacation in LA, he met the “The only Venice Beach I saw was on a guys in the studio and they started postcard on the wall.” (Glen) jamming together. Before The Worst at The Script’s home studio in Dublin The shed in Dublin It was a celebratory moment. Three lads from Dublin, working hard all “It’s a paradox, because it’s so sad that the two of them aren’t their lives, finally signed a record deal in America. Of course it had here to see our success, but we wouldn’t have made the album we happened before with MyTown, and Mark and Danny were likely to hold did if it hadn’t all happened.” (Mark) back on the celebration. But then more shit hit the fans: news were received about Mark’s mother hav- fort from the fact that his mum saw it all, he was there one day, and gone the next. Writing music was ing terminal cancer. The band him fell in love and heard some of the outlet that helped them, “going moved back to Dublin, and they set their songs. up a studio in the back garden of into the studio was like therapy sessions”, Danny said, and the songs born in Mark’s mother’s house, just behind “In her eyes I was always successful be- that period reflected what the band St James’s Hospital where she was cause I was following my soon moved to. collectively went through. dreams” (Mark) One of those songs is the poignant “We were going through what felt like Within four months of Mark’s moth- the most joyous fucking days of our lives er’s death, the trio faced another ‘The End Where I Begin’ that and we now had this to deal with. She crisis when Danny’s father suddenly doesn’t focus on only the loss, but had cancer and there was no hope. It was passed away. Right in the middle of also the recovery. a kick in the fucking teeth.” (Danny) It wasn’t easy on anyone. Mark spent his nights with his mum and came back to the studio pouring all his pain and emotions into the songs. The others could do nothing but be there for him and manage the ups and downs of those 10 months Danny in the We Cry video as well as possible. Mark drew com- Page 2 The Script In Studio Olympic Studios The band finished recording The the most comfortable and happy Dogs here in 1973-74. Mark be- Script album in this studio that had there. ing the big Bowie fan must’ve more than 40 years of memory enjoyed that. edged into its walls. Olympic Studi- Paying attention to every detail, go- Some tracks on Kaiser Chief’s Employment album from 2005 os were established in ing through every beat and every line with their have been recorded and/or 1957 and moved to its producing hat on, The mixed here. Their lead singer, current location in 1967 Script finalised their Ricky Wilson is now sitting in where it was built to be debut album ready for Danny’s chair on The Voice the best and compete release. UK. with the best. Having Snow Patrol, Ireland’s other achieved that The Roll- “There’s a lot of throwa- popular band had their fifth al- The Rolling Stones at the ing Stones recorded 6 way music around nowa- bum, A Hundred Million Suns Olympic Studios, 1968 mixed here in the same year albums here and other days. We like to think of when The Script. famous artists include every layer that goes into The Zutons, who The Script Jimmy Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led our records.” (Danny) toured with in 2008, had their Zeppelin, Queen – even the Beatles second album partially recorded left their usual spot at Abbey Road Today the studio has been turned here. into a cinema but during its rich his- to record here. tory some familiar names pop up: U2 was the last band recording in The Script all said that having pretty the studios in 2011 before it closed David Bowie recorded Diamond much grown up in studios, they feel down. Science and Faith in Santa Monica “Once you find who you are, It’d been two years on the road with And the glue that holds it together? the first album that took the band to Tea, of course! it's really easy to be in a more than 20 countries from Ireland to Japan, America to New Zealand, "We love tea. Tea probably fuels all of band, and that's exactly what our songs. Yeah, tea and pota- supporting bands like U2, Take That toes." (Mark) its amounted too, and if you and Paul McCartney. Before going on the road with American Idol win- As all three members play various change anyone in that mix ner, David Cook in November of instruments, it happens that Glen 2009, The Script took a break in San- comes up with a piano riff, or Danny you're going to get a different ta Monica. They were in and out the finishes the lyrics Mark started, or studio in between appearing on ra- Mark arranges percussion. They go sound.” (Glen) dio and TV shows like Ellen still back and forth between each other. promoting the first album. They’ve said that there’s not one main songwriter in the band, they all But what’s the songwriting process can do various parts of the songwrit- like in the land of The Script? ing process at any given time. Since they have different tastes in music, that mashup creates the unique “It can start with any number of things sound of The Script: happening, usually a guitar riff or piano part or a great lyrical line someone has come up with or overheard being said “We’re all into different types of music somewhere and then we just go with the and always feel like we’re collaborating Mark and Glen at when we actually work together within flow and jam out till we are all feeling Venice Beach it.” (Glen) the band.” (Danny) Page 3 The Script in studio Studios of the second album The work started in Santa Monica, home for the Christmas holidays.