The Script are back with a brand new album and a huge run of global tour dates kicking off later this year.
The band – fronted by singer Danny O’Donoghue – will release ‘The User’s Guide To Being Human’ on August 14 via BMG, with lead single ‘Man In The Arena’ out now.
It serves as the follow-up to 2024 LP ‘Satellites‘, which dealt with grief following the death of bandmate and friend Mark Sheehan a year earlier and was accompanied by an international arena tour which paid tribute to the musician.
Recorded in Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, the latest offering from the band paves a clear path for The Script going forward.
O’Donoghue says: “The title is what this album is about. If you need something to remind you of the spectrum of feelings and emotions that make you feel human, this is it.”
On the single, with lyrics taken in part from a famous speech by American President Theodore Roosevelt, he elaborates: “He talks about how honours don’t belong to the critics. They don’t belong to the people sitting on the couch, laughing at the person in the ring stumbling and falling around.
“The honours belong to the one who gets in there and whose face is marred with dust and blood. I remember reading it and being like: that needs to be in a tune, the energy in it is beautiful.”
‘The User’s Guide To Being Human’ is released on August 14 and available to pre-order from Amazon, HMV, Rough Trade, Townsend and more. Listen to ‘Man In The Arena’ below.
Tracklist: The Script – ‘The User’s Guide To Being Human’
1. Man In The Arena
2. The Crowd Was Singing Wonderwall
3. Scars Align
4. The User’s Guide To Being Human
5. After We’re Gone
6. Living Our Life Without Me
7. I’m 100 Different People
8. Years
9. Alive
10. Grow Old With Grace
11. One Team For Life
In support of the album, The Script will embark upon a tour of the UK and Europe throughout October and November, launching with two dates at Dublin’s 3Arena on October 30 and 31, before playing across the UK, ending at The O2, London on November 21.
From there, they’ll four shows across Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, picking things up again in March and April 2027, with stops in the Philippines, Australia, Singapore and Indonesia.
Before then, the group will play to over 1.3 million fans this summer with a run of 15 UK stadium shows with Take That, followed by five dates with Luke Combs, including Slane Castle in Ireland.
Tickets go on sale Friday, May 29 at 9.30am BST and are available here. The full list of dates is below.
OCTOBER
30 – 3Arena, Dublin, IE
31 – 3Arena, Dublin, IE
NOVEMBER
2 – SSE Arena, Belfast, UK
5 – Utilita Arena, Newcastle, UK
6 – Utilita Arena, Birmingham, UK
7 – Co-op Live, Manchester, UK
9 – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, UK
10 – First Direct Arena, Leeds, UK
12 – P&J Live, Aberdeen, UK
13 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, UK
14 – Utilita Arena, Sheffield, UK
16 – International Centre, Bournemouth, UK
17 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff, UK
19 – M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool, UK
21 – The O2, London, UK
23 – Zenith, Munich, DE
24 – MEH – Düsseldorf, DE
26 – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, NL
28 – Lotto Arena, Antwerp, BE
MARCH 2027
18 – Mall Of Asia, Manila, PH
23 – Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, AU
25 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, AU
27 – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, AU
31 – Indoor Stadium, Kallang, SG
APRIL 2027
3 – VENUE TBA, Jakarta, ID
