Mark Sheehan, guitarist - dead at 46.
That's harsh.
Of the old line-up of the Geraniums, I did sessions with a variety of their many off-shoot bands. We also hired Neil McCartney (Wigan UK) for several European and Scandinavian tours back in the 90's/00's. Great player, versatile, sings well, plays fiddle, guitar, bass, piano, decent engineer too. I also worked on Jenny Woods side project 'Hoochie Mama' with Reza Mottiar: we did sessions for RTE on several occasions. Then we used Moll (bassist) in a latter-day version of PAMF (The Pussy-Assed Mother-Fuckers) and also house band at a club I ran with Dreadzilla and DJ Paco at Dublin's DA Club. First drum'n'bass club in Ireland, two floors of bands and DJs from 2000/0200 on Saturday nights. Mental club, absolutely nuts for the ecstasy and cocaine.
The Irish scene is very small, you deal with the same people time and again.
We got muscled out by MCD who had a far bigger budget than we had: in fact, if they had a hundred euros to invest, they'd be one hundred euros ahead of us.
By the arse of our pants mostly, but still great fun.
The Script do precisely nothing for me.