Danny O’Donoghue, singer with The Script, has admitted to stealing bags of ice from a petrol station while struggling to make a living while working in the US.
O’Donoghue and bandmate Mark Sheehan spent five years working in LA and Miami from 1998 where they were trying to carve out a career as music producers.
Danny told The Sun "Sometimes we'd get work in January then nothing until March - so we were broke. Food was going off in the fridge as the electricity went so we had to rob the ice to keep our food chilled. Sometimes it was off for four or five days until we earned enough money to switch it back on."
The band’s latest album, 'Science & Faith' is currently topping the charts in Ireland and the UK. Danny and Mark formed the band in 2005 with drummer Glen Power.
Danny added: "Nowadays a lot of bands are image-based - being in a scene, dressing a certain way. Their music seems to be second to their perfume lines and what they are. That's not what music is about."
He continued: "If you're in a band with Irish people, the moment you get a big head they will get their pins out and go, pop, pop, pop."
