Could The Stetz Be the Band to Support The Script?

As the huge sound of electro rock filled the room in The Bunker at Laverys, Belfast, last night, it's no surprise that The Stetz have been shortlisted to open for The Script when they come to Belfast next month.

The Northern Irish four piece entered a competition by Freedom Live, a brand new music series bringing some of the best live music acts to Northern Ireland, with the hope of supporting The Script when they come to Belfast on May 11.

With a unique sound The Stetz describe as ‘indie rock electro pop’, a panel of industry experts chose them as one of the five unsigned acts to go forward to an online vote.

The shortlist will be announced officially on Pete Snodden’s Breakfast show on 97.4 Cool FM tomorrow, but then it's the N.I. public that will be given the final say.

Shocked to be shortlisted, the band consisting of Mark Le Sal, 30, Paul Phoenix, 30, Pete Roulston, 31, and James Everett, 32, would love to have the opportunity to open the show. But if chosen they won’t let it go to their heads.

“Supporting The Script would be good craic, that’s about it like,” said Phoenix, “we just wanna play, we don’t do it because we want to be famous.”

Watching this band play, so immersed and full of energy, it's clear that for The Stetz it's all about the music. They wouldn’t have cared if they were playing to an empty room. Le Sal said: “To be honest it wouldn’t faze us if we didn’t make it in the UK at all.”