I can’t describe what its like to wake up to the fact that your number one in three different countries on iTunes, but here goes……..

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT is your first reaction, then after that is to call everybody you know to check it with you cause you're sure there must be some mistake and the next is to write this blog and thank all the people who have gotten you there so here goes.

I can’t thank you enough for getting behind this music, we set off a couple of years ago to write heartfelt music be it cool or not and play it to whoever would listen and come to the gigs no matter who they were, where they were from, or what background they came from. See, as we have said from the start, soul is a human condition and not just a genre of music, it reaches down to the depths of a person but most of all it's the TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. And this is the motto we live by when our art is concerned.

When we are writing a song and a lyric comes along that kills you, I mean hits you in the core it’s an incredibly open time to where you have to give yourself to your art. We put our souls on the line everyday for our music, every small show for 10 people to the stadiums we have had the pleasure of playing on we have left a piece of ourselves on and tried our best to give a good account of ourself at every given opportunity. We do this mostly for us, yes! But when we are so scared we can bearly open our eyes walking on to a stage, when we open them we see the light, an incredibly bright light of faces young and old, men and women, and of every race from every place, inspired is no longer a word that works! Nothing can describe that feeling and every powerful word falls incredibly short.

You guys have no idea how inspiring you are to us, to have you to play our diaries to and respond in the way that you do. I’m sure you guys leave with more hoarse in the voice than I do. Can you guys sing these songs from the top of your lungs, which makes the hair on the back of all our necks stand on end night after night.

10 years of trying, 10 years of thinking are we good enough, 10 years of questioning everything we ever stood for, all falls away on a day like today. All you think about is that one feeling I had as a teenager, the one feeling in the pit of my stomach that said I was on the right path even when others were ten miles down different roads. I was right! I was right! I say this because there may be someone out there reading this with that same felling and all I have to say is go for it! We are living proof that dreams do come true. Well, don't forget the ten years of hard work though!!!!!!!!! And if you’re not a lucky person, then just go and make your own.

Science and Faith is a piece of work I am beyond proud of, which Mark detailed out on his last blog so for fear of covering the same ground I will pick up where he left off at these songs LIVE……..

Liverpool,

First night of the tour was an experience I will never forget. Saturday night pulling back the curtains to see all the people waiting for us to come on stage. I nearly forgot every lyric of the new stuff in a second but thankfully it came back minutes later with some deep breaths as I got used to the enormity of the situation. First gig, first time playing 15 songs, what’s going to happen, am I going to give so much to the first few songs I’ll have nothing left for the rest??? Will I forget all the lyrics to ‘If You Ever Come Back’ and spend the rest of the gig kicking myself, which I had done in previous sound checks???

Here is me looking at Glen's lips to see what he is singing, so I know when to come back in. Ha ha.



Will everybody know I have the starting line to ‘You Won’t Feel A Thing’ written on my hand??? How does Mark feel?? How does Glen feel?? Sod both of them, how do I feel??? AGGGHHHHH. And then it comes 5 MINIUTES TO STAGE, stage, stage. Then everything kicks in, it’s like the lead singer in me grabs my own face and slaps it and says grab hold of yourself boy you’re the leader out there don't let them see ya sweating, cause if they smell fear they will eat you alive. Then all of a sudden, an unbelievable calm comes over me, all the lyrics are there in the top of my head raring to go, I’m jumping from side to side like a boxer waiting to go into the ring and starring into the eyes of the rest of the band knowing no matter what happens, they have got my back out there. I’m ready to go…..in three …..two… one…. lights go down and you hear the crowd ROAR !!!! SHIT I’VE FORGOTTEN THE FIRST LINE AGAIN, lads what’s the first line??????? Luckily, I have it written on my hand for such an occasion. Thank God for small mercies and even smaller hand writing as I disappear into the smoke and end up in front of 2,000 people........ then blank.

Then we came off stage, I have left the last bit out on purpose because it’s as if I really am another person out there. Like I said, everything comes clear and calm and peaceful, although I’m in one of the most Chaotic environments, where believe you me, anything can go wrong, but for some reason I’m perfectly calm, come to think of it, we are all perfectly calm because this is what we were born to do. Every one of us on the stage has our problems off it, but once we are on it all comes clear.. THE SCRIPT IS ALIVE with its different arms and legs and heart beating away on stage. Total unity musically and consciously. Again, every word and sentence to describe it fall so short it’s only when you find something in your life you feel so strongly about and get to do it on a daily basis that you will know the fulfillment that comes from it. I love everything about it, the sound check, the meeting fans outside, the swapping stories. I hate to say it, but I even don't mind the hours of waiting because at the end of it the show is the reason why I live THE GIG. To bring these new songs to the people who got us here in the first place.

The new songs have been going down even better than I imagined. When we were writing them, for once all the parts we thought the crowd would join in on they are singing. And the points we thought we would get a buzz from, are actually super charging us. And man, the energy from the crowd is just whipping us up in to a frenzy. I’m never going to do it justice, so I’ll stop here, as all I can say is when you come to a show and wonder why I’m smiling so much, this is why. It’s because of how long it took us to get here, mixed with the thoughts of would we ever get here at all. That’s why these shows and this music means so much to us. Do we get into it on stage? YES! Are we proud of this music? YES! Will we give everything at every show? YES! No matter how much we give on stage, you guys give us 10 times back and we love you for it.

I WISH YOU COULD SEE WHAT WE SEE.



Well, getting ready for tonight’s show, so I’ve gottta go and relearn all the lyrics I just forgot, only kidding, see you on the other side.

Sorry if it seems scattered, but I’m desperately trying to think of the first line again! Ha ha ha ha. Ahh well, the show must go on.

I’ll see yez all soon. But again, thanks for making this small outfit from Dublin, feel like the biggest band in the world.

Peace and light

Danny