Danny from The Script becomes a one-man soap opera
Beccy opened the show with a warning about hand signals. While trying to tell a driver that his lights were off, she had used a gesture that he appeared to interpret as a very different invitation. Scott and Chris expanded the discussion into a search for genuinely useful international signs, especially the elusive sign for needing the toilet when abroad.
Danny O’Donoghue from The Script joined in and said the question was familiar to any lead singer facing a long set. He explained that he would repeatedly visit the toilet while preparing for a gig, before a vodka and cranberry helped settle the nerves. The band were preparing for Radio 1’s Big Weekend, and Danny was eager to return for the start of festival season.
The interview moved to The Script’s live history, including a last-minute occasion when they filled in for Lady Gaga at a Take That show. Danny remembered arriving with very little time to prepare and appearing in a blonde wig with a star drawn on his face, although he was relieved that the band played their own songs rather than attempting Gaga’s.
Scott then developed one of the show’s most elaborate bits: treating the band’s singles as episodes in the same melodramatic story. In his version, the man from The Man Who Can’t Be Moved waited in a sleeping bag for an ex, became cold in Breakeven, drank too much, left his door open and eventually seemed to be living with a lion in the hall. Danny played along as Scott and Beccy diagnosed the fictional character’s steadily worsening life choices.
Later, Scott returned to his Düsseldorf weekend and his fascination with German Pop Idol. Despite not speaking German, he had followed the final, recruited help translating the winner’s announcement and discovered that the two finalists were a couple. The programme also continued inviting listeners to contribute their ordinary Big Weekend plans to the Radio 1 film, with Scott insisting a good story mattered more than professional equipment.
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