The Script write off their critics

The Dublin threesome are not fussed by negative reviews, and would sooner measure success by album sales, reports Ed Power

DANNY O’Donoghue’s celebrated quiff is flapping up and down furiously. Backstage at the Button Factory Dublin, The Script frontman has been growing increasingly agitated for several minutes. “I was reading a review of our new album in a British newspaper. The journalist gave it two stars. Then I remembered — on our last record she gave us two stars as well. And it sold four million copies. If that’s what two stars means, I’ll take them every time.”

Seated next to him, drummer Glen Power chips in. “We don’t care what the critics say,” he says. “We make our music for the fans. They’re the ones who matter. There was a review of us in another English paper. They said we played such and such songs — and they weren’t even on the setlist. The journalist hadn’t bothered to go to the gig. We don’t pay any attention to it.”