The Script's Glen Power says he thinks about death of bandmate everyday

Mark Sheehan died after a brief illness in April 2023

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Oct 14 2024
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The Script's Glen Power has opened up about his grief after the death of bandmate Mark Sheehan - saying he thinks about him everyday.

Mark died in April 2023 after a brief illness.

The band has continued to perform together since his death but Glen admitted it has been tough.

Speaking to Dermot Whelan on The Mind Full podcast, Glen said: “It’s been very tough because when I’ve lost family members, you go through a bit of a process. You have a funeral, people come and then you step away from it.

“In this case, it’s been really hard because we took some time to think would we carry on… and then a bit of music arrived and we said let’s see what happens.

“It’s been very tough because every day is a reminder. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think of Mark. Everything we do is a reminder of him, and I miss him in all kinds of various situations.”

Glen also opened up about his struggle with perfectionism and how he tormented himself for years because he believed he made a drumming mistake when the band supported U2 in Croke Park in 2009.

He said: “The intro was me playing a bit of a drum thing, and I thought I made a mistake. And that ruined the whole night, the after-show party, everything. I beat myself up over that for the whole night. Five years later, I’m sitting down on YouTube and a clip of that comes up.

“There was someone at the front who videoed it and I was like, ‘Oh my god that’s that moment, I’m going to look at it’.

“So I played it and then I rewound it and played it again – I played it about ten times and could not find what I was going on about. It wasn’t there. So I learned a big lesson in that moment.

“My mind can be my own worst enemy. I can perceive a thing and think it is this big, huge Hiroshima bomb going off but to the punter out there watching the gig, they won’t even notice.

“It will come and it will go. The beauty of it is I can now let that go. I would spend five to ten minutes trying to recover from [a mistake] in the performance – now I don’t do that. It’s like a weed flying by, it’s gone, and I’m like, ‘That’s grand, I’ll just keep going, who cares?’.”

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