A young music fan had the night of his dreams in Limerick on Saturday night (July 12) when he got to perform alongside his favourite band, The Script.
Young Charlie charmed the crowd as he sang and helped perform a little piano piece alongside his musical hero and The Script frontman Danny O’Donoghue on stage at Thomond Park.
O’Donoghue told the crowd at the band’s only Irish date on their Satellites tour that he picked Charlie out of the masses after the lad caught his eye dressed in a Satellites t-shirt, a Script bucket hat, and waving a giant flag of the Irish pop-rock band.
Charlie performed a duet with O’Donoghue and band on a circular stage, located in the middle of the heaving crowd, during a version the band’s ballad Never Seen Anything “Quite Like You”.
“Everybody give it up for Charlie,” O’Donoghue screamed as he invited the boy to join him on stage.
Young Charlie warmed the heart of O’Donoghue and the Limerick crowd when he pointed at the singer and sang “I’ve never seen anything quite like you tonight”.
O’Donoghue returned the favour with “I’ve never seen anything quite like Charlie tonight”.
“Deadly,” beamed O’Donoghue after the boy hit the final note on the singer’s piano to bring the Thomond theatre to its feet.
“They’re all singing your name bro,” O’Donoghue told the boy as the crowd chanted “Charlie…Charlie…Charlie”.
O’Donoghue and band rocked a sun-drenched Limerick with their anthemic pop-rock including hits such as Hall of Fame, The Man Who Can’t Be Moved, and Superheroes.
With Limerick recently used to winning senior hurling All-Irelands – five in the past eight years – The Script concert, at one point, was akin to another All-Ireland afterparty as the band’s light show shrouded fans in green and white during the group’s storming Irish rock anthem Paint The Town Green.
On a glorious summer night of craic, it all went to script.
