REVIEW: The Script 'No Sound Without Silence' Tour at Capital FM Arena

Disclaimer: Due to the latest Wix update the existing blog system has been replaced and therefore all existing posts needed to be republished. These are not new blog posts. The original publication date of this post was 11.03.2015

Tuesday 10th March. 6pm. A gentle buzz and hum of anticipation and excitement is already surrounding Bellar Gate. Two years on from their album #3, The Script are returning to Nottingham’s Capital FM Arena for their No Sound without Silence tour, which if anything like the last, promises to be spectacular.

With the calendar days crossed off and the phone countdown at zero, the day is finally here.

It’s been an incredibly successful eight years for The Script and after such humble origins the band are now performing on big stages across the world. This is their third time in Nottingham and as always the arena is packed, with fans of all ages turning up to see them perform.

The show kick-starts with support act, Tinie Tempah, a last minute replacement for Labyrinth who had to pull out of the UK tour a week before it began in Glasgow. Whilst Tinie Tempah’s music is very different to that of The Script, it was certainly an impressive start to the show. Opening with Written in the stars, Tinie Tempah performed both old and new songs, from Tsunami to Flash, and knew exactly how to operate a crowd. His boundless energy and brilliant dancing really warmed the crowd up for the main event. For the reason we’d all come.

For The Script.

Their entrance was visually spectacular, a procession of green illuminated flags leading the band out from the back of the arena to the front of the stage. The flag holders were fans, 40 people who had entered a competition to win the chance to be a part of the performance.

Opening with a track from their new album, 'Paint the Town Green', really set the tone and atmosphere for the evening from the start. An energetic, upbeat song; 'Paint the Town Green' is certainly one of those singles that you can’t help but belt out the lyrics and dance along to. The set-list itself, whilst mainly made up of No Sound Without Silence material, managed to have a good balance of new songs and some of the big hits from all three of their previous albums. The lighting too was quite spectacular along with the footage and images projected onto the screen behind the band.

Another aspect of the act which made The Script’s live performance so spectacular was the band’s charisma. The interaction between each other and the audience made the concert seem much more personal and unique, as they offered an insight behind why they had written some of their songs, or little anecdotes about each other. A crowd favourite that returned from their 2013 tour was a little stunt surrounding the song Nothing. The song makes a lot of references to drunk calling and therefore prompted Danny O’Donoghue to implement some crowd participation. Asking a member of the audience to ring their ex, O’Donoghue then took the phone and the band begin to play the song to the person at the other end, the words “You’ve got nothing” being particularly emphasised by the crowd. As the song ended O’Donoghue returned the phone, leaving the audience in fits of laughter; the owner of the phone euphoric and the ex completely bewildered. ​ Back to the music and whilst the performance was largely upbeat, the band took a moment half way through the set to slow everything down with an emotional performance of Never Seen Anything “Quite Like You” and the song that really brought them to fame, The Man Who Can’t Be Moved. Always a crowd favourite. For this part the band transitioned to a podium in the centre of the crowd, a more intimate performance with O’Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power thanking the fans for their support over the past eight years. The encore and set finished quite fittingly with Hall of Fame, leaving the crowd on a high as they exited the arena and with the promise that they won’t leave it two years before returning again.