Danny O'Donoghue was a coach for the first two series of the UK version of The Voice. He announced in 2013 that he will not be returning to the show, preferring to focus on his band.
On April 14th, 2023, guitarist Mark Sheehan passed away at the age of 46 after experiencing an undisclosed illness.
Discography
- The Script (2008)
- Science & Faith (2010)
- #3 (2012)
- No Sound Without Silence (2014)
- Freedom Child (2017)
- Sunsets & Full Moons (2019)
- Satellites (2024)
When a trope breaks, no it don't break even:
- Blasphemous Boast: In second person, from "Hall of Fame"You can talk to God, go banging on His door
- Bowdlerise: On some radio stations the line "Praying to a God that I don't believe in" in the song "Breakeven" was changed to "Praying to a God that I barely believe in", changing it from an atheist reference to merely agnostic. Other stations will repeat the line from later in the song, "But no wise words gonna stop the bleeding."
- Break-Up Song: Yeah, they have a few.
- "Breakeven" is about a man resenting that his ex has recovered better from his breakup than he has.
- In "The Man Who Can't Be Moved," the singer refuses to leave from the place where he met his ex, waiting for her to take him back.
- "Before the Worst" is a lamentation of everything that caused the singer's breakup.
- "Talk You Down" uses suicide as a metaphor for the singer trying to prevent a breakup.
- No Sound Without Silence adds another in the form of "Man on a Wire", using a tightrope as a metaphor for the singer's risky attempts to rekindle his relationship.
- "Nothing" is a particularly bleak one in which the singer expresses that there isn't anything that can make him feel better after his breakup.
- "The Last Time" is about the singer being upset about breaking up with who he thought was his true love.
- Chronological Album Title: Seen with #3, their third album.
- Christian Rock: "Rusty Halo" is a song in which the singer struggles with losing his faith.
- Dare to Be Badass: "Hall of Fame".Dedicate yourself and you can find yourself
Standing in the Hall of Fame! - Design Student's Orgasm: The cover of their Self-Titled Album, which shows a greyscale hand admist the roofs of industrial buildings holding a couple dancing, the man's head replaced with multicolour beams.
- Drowning My Sorrows: The protagonist of "Six Degrees Of Separation" takes to drinking to deal with the issue of still being in love with their ex. "Nothing" is also about this.
- Driven to Suicide: In the "Nothing" video, the protagonist ultimately commits suicide by jumping off a bridge over his grief from his breakup.
- Grief Song: "If You Could See Me Now" is about the loss of the singer's father, and how they still look for him in the crowd when holding concerts.
- I Will Wait for You: "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" is about the narrator waiting for his lover to come back to her in "the corner they first saw her" and, of course, never moving from it. Said girl being discussed never comes back, or at least such is implied.
- Job Title: "Superheroes".
- Love Will Lead You Back: "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" is a strange take on this trope. The man literally won't move until she comes back.'Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing meAnd your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I could be.Thinking maybe you'll come back into the place that we meet.And you'll see me waiting for you on corner of the street.
- Metaphorgotten: Lampshaded in "No Words." The singer tries to come up with increasingly convoluted metaphors for his love, but he ultimately admits that "I don't know where this metaphor is going."
- Mistaken for Destitute: In the first verse of "The Man Who Can't Be Moved," the protagonist's decision to camp out on the sidewalk with a cardboard sign to grab the attention of his lost love gets him mistaken for homeless by passersby.
- Mood Whiplash: The bleak, nihilistic "Nothing" precedes the sweet, wholesome "Science & Faith" on the latter's titular album.
- Motor Mouth: The rap sections from Mark Sheehan on "This Is Love" and "Before The Worst" are extremely fast.
- Obsession Song: In "The Man Who Can't Be Moved," the singer stands at the corner where he met his ex and refuses to move because of his obsession.
- Protest Song: The band is into politics
- "We Cry" protests economic inequality.
- "Rusty Halo" is a Christian protest song.
- "Divided States of America" protests political division, and seems to call out Donald Trump particularly.
- Religion Rant Song: In "Rusty Halo," the singer discusses losing his faith.
- Re-release the Song: "Break Even" had two versions one for overseas released after "We Cry" and one version for America.
- Sanity Slippage Song: "The Man Who Can't Be Moved", "We Cry", "Rusty Halo", "The End Where I Begin", "Dead Man Walking", "Walk Away".
- Silly Love Songs:
- "This is Love" is a song convincing the singer's girlfriend that they are genuinely in love.
- "Science & Faith" talks about how the singer's love is beyond scientific explanation.
- In "You Won't Feel a Thing", the singer promises to protect his girlfriend from all the pain in the world
- Self-Titled Album: Their debut album is just titled The Script, which is also their band name.
- Stepford Smiler:
- "Six Degrees Of Separation" is about someone who is depressed after a breakup but tries to act like they're happy.
Fake a smile
Yeah, lie and say, "I'm better now than ever"
And your life's okay
Well it's not, no
You're doing all these things out of desperation
Oh, woah
You're going through six degrees of separation- A similar example for "Nothing".
I'm smiling but I'm dying - Talking Down the Suicidal: "Talk You Down" is actually about a relationship, but uses the imagery of talking someone down off a ledge to convince them not to destroy it.
- Three Minutes of Writhing: "Rain" emphasizes a scantly-clad woman dancing with various men. Unusually, this is Played for Drama; the singer is depressed that his girlfriend is dancing with other men, seemingly taunting him.
- Thriving Ex-Crush: "Breakeven" is about the narrator being upset about how his ex seems to have moved on from their breakup much better than him.Her best days will be some of my worst
She finally met a man that's gonna put her first
While I'm wide awake, she's no trouble sleepin'
'Cause when a heart breaks, no, it don't break even, even, no - Title Track: "Science and Faith" is the title of their second album and also a single from that album.
- To Be a Master: The aesop of "Hall of Fame" is to live your life as if this trope is in full effect, for whatever path you choose to follow.
- Unplugged Version: Did a trio of Acoustic EPs, with unplugged versions of some of their notable songs.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: "If You Could See Me Now"."I'm trying to make you proud
Do everything you did
I hope you're up there with God
Saying, that's my kid - Yandere: "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" is sung from the perspective of one of these, refusing to move from the spot where he met his ex until she takes him back.
- You Are Not Alone: This is directly quoted in "Flares." The titular "flares" are a metaphor for the singer's attempts to let his troubled friend know that he is there for them.Did you see the sparks
Feel the hope
And you are not alone
'cause someone's out there
Sending out flares.
- When you've been fighting for it all your life
You've been struggling to make things right
That's how a superhero learns to fly
Every day, every hour, turn the pain into power