It's just minutes before show time and The Script gather in their dressing room for their Cheeky Cheers ritual.
Singer Danny O’Donoghue, guitarist Mark Sheehan and drummer Glen Power clink their plastic glasses together; vodka and cranberry juice for Danny and Mark and ginger ale for non-drinking Glen.
We are led the few yards to backstage. The boys are springing around, on edge, like sportsmen about to race onto the pitch. In the darkness they bond by forming a circle and linking hands.