VIDEO: "Man, do Scarborough people sing loud!" says The Script frontman Danny O'Donoghue

The Irish band, which comprises Danny, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power, has released seven albums, six of which made number one in the UK album charts

In an interview with reporter Louise Perrin, Danny, 41, spoke affectionately about the town, the tour, his bandmates and plans for new music in the future.

Danny on returning to Scarborough

“I love Scarborough. Obviously I’m not from England, but I’m always astonished by how different each place is.

“In Scarborough, we went into a few boozers, and everybody was so welcoming.

“Sometimes, because I live in London, it can be a little bit standoffish, but the Scarborough people, for me, might as well have been from Dublin. They’re so forthcoming and really nice and very giving.

“They absolutely love our music as well, and man, do they sing loud! Scarborough people sing very loud.

“One of the first songs I ever learnt in music was Scarborough Fair, I love that song, probably has nothing to do with the place! But I just love it!”

Who chose the songs for the Greatest Hits tour?

The public did really. It actually makes the greatest hits easier when you can kind of see online what the reaction is.

“You can look at streams and your top ten songs on Spotify, or any streaming platform, and then the rest are down to privately which ones you want on there.

“Certain songs have certain meanings to us as a band. They may not be the biggest hits, but for us, for other reasons, they tend to be songs that stick in the mind as far as big lynch-pin songs for our career, so they kind of pick themselves.

“There’s only maybe one or two contentious songs that we were kind of like ‘let’s flip a coin’.

“There’s other songs, the outlier songs, a song called 'The End Where I Begin' which I absolutely love.

“Because we write so many songs, there’s even one, one that I keep going back and listening to, and it’s actually a song called No Sound Without Silence that never made the album which was titled No Sound Without Silence.

“It just didn’t fit with the mood and the mode of what’s going on. But I still continue to go back to it, so I would have liked to add it as a kind of hidden gem.

“It’s a great position to be in to be able to say we have so many hits that it was tough to get them all onto that one CD.

“ It’s funny to think about it, I kind of age myself by saying it, but also I feel like, wow! What a body of work we’ve done over the past 14 years, it’s been a hell of a ride.”

Danny on anthem Paint the Town Green

“We tried to do the set without it, and that’s a song that didn’t chart, it wasn’t a single. But on St Patrick’s Day, all around the world, every radio station plays it as a staple diet.

“It’s almost like Christmas time, you know, when they play the Pogues, it’s kind of like that vibe now.

“It’s just been like the wallpaper of St Patrick’s Day. It’s almost like a national anthem at this stage.