The Script’s gift for writing songs rich with heady emotions and ever-bigger melodies has enamoured fans all over the world, leading to a catalogue of global hits including Hall of Fame, The Man Who Can’t Be Moved and Breakeven. Now, the band’s eighth studio album sees Danny O’Donoghue reunited with songwriting partners Andrew Frampton and Steve Kipner, the hit-making writers with whom he and Mark Sheehan created some of The Script’s best-known songs, including Breakeven and The Man Who Can’t Be Moved, alongside producer and songwriter Jimbo Barry, known for work on Hall of Fame, Superheroes and The Last Time. Lead track Man In The Arena is a rousing, defiant anthem driven by stirring martial drumbeats, drawing on all the band’s experiences and worldwide successes over the last two decades while cementing their status as surefire pop rock giants. As their passionate and dedicated fanbase knows all too well, The Script also possess something crucial: a real, emotional and soul-deep connection. This is the animating and uniting idea at the heart of The User’s Guide to Being Human, what matters above all else in music, in life and in The Script. Because after all, “tell me what the hell we're doing if we're not human beings being human”.
