Biography
Danny O'Donoghue and Mark Sheehan have known each other since they were children growing up in Dublin.
Sheehan and O'Donoghue were formerly part of a band called Mytown, which had formed in 1996. Striking up a songwriting and production partnership, they were invited to Canada to collaborate with some of their heroes, including Dallas Austin, Montell Jordan and Teddy Riley. They were in the US for a few years and got a record deal until the company dropped them. They stayed in the US and worked there as producers, but later moved back to Dublin, where they recruited drummer Glen Power for their new band The Script. Power learned to play drums when he was just eight and he had been playing sessions from the age of fifteen, using the money to work on a solo project in his home, but that went on hold when his collaboration with Sheehan and O'Donoghue produced three songs in one week. The band signed to Phonogenic in 2005, and released an EP on Last.FM. The band's influences include U2, Coldplay, The Police, The Neptunes, Timbaland, and Van Morrison.
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