question: Listen features collaborations with an Irish rock band that formed in Dublin, Ireland, and whose lead vocalist and keyboardist is who?
answer: Danny O'Donoghue
context: Title: The Stunning
  Passage: The Stunning are an Irish rock band formed in 1987.  In the seven years that they were initially together, they toured relentlessly building up a following that would make them one of the most successful Irish bands ever.  In 1990 their debut album <nowiki>"</nowiki>Paradise In The Picturehouse<nowiki>"</nowiki> spent five weeks at number one and became one of the most-loved Irish albums of all time.  Two years later, the follow-up Once Around The World also hit the number one spot, and the band went on to sell over 100,000 albums in Ireland alone.  Brewing Up A Storm has become an anthem of sorts and is to be heard everywhere from football stadiums to clubs around the country where it is still a guaranteed floor-filler.  Songs such as Half Past Two, Romeo’s on Fire, and Everything that Rises is still to be heard on the radio and have been featured in movies and numerous compilation albums of the best of Irish rock.  They toured the US and the UK with the likes of Bob Dylan and The B52s.  During their time, the band scooped every music prize and award going and their music is still to be heard on the airwaves.  The band split up in 1994 to pursue other interests and they reformed in 2003 to support the re-release of their debut album "Paradise in the Picturehouse".  They perform regularly for select Irish shows and festivals, and in 2014 they returned to New York and Boston for their first gigs there since the early nineties.  The band are currently in the studio recording new material, set for release in early 2016.
  Title: The Script
  Passage: The Script are an Irish rock band formed in 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.  It consists of lead vocalist and keyboardist Danny O'Donoghue, lead guitarist Mark Sheehan, and drummer Glen Power.  The band moved to London after signing to Sony Label Group imprint Phonogenic and released its eponymous début album, "The Script", in August 2008, preceded by the successful singles "The Man Who Can't Be Moved" and "Breakeven".  The album peaked at number one in both Ireland and the UK.  Their next three albums, "Science & Faith" (2010), "#3" (2012) and "No Sound Without Silence" (2014), all topped the album charts in Ireland and the UK, while "Science & Faith" reached number three in the US.  Hit singles from the albums include "For the First Time", "Nothing", "Hall of Fame" and "Superheroes".  The band's fifth studio album, "Freedom Child", was released on September 1, 2017 and features the UK Top 20 single "Rain".
  Title: Lir (band)
  Passage: LiR is an Irish rock band.  Their sound has been described as "a fusion of funky progressive rock, folky mysticism and savvy pop".  The band formed in the late 1980s in Dublin, firstly under the name The Spontaneous Frogs, then Uproar.  They released their first EP, 'All Machines Hum in A', in 1992.  In 1993, they released their first LP, 'Magico Magico!'  under the label Velo Records (Velo was an Irish Indie) in Ireland.  In 1994, they re-released 'Magico Magico!'  to the US, under the independent record label What Are Records?  (W.A.R.?) .  The new version of the album saw a revision to the track listing.  LiR would release their second album, 'Nest', exclusively with W.A.R.? , the following year, in 1995.  Around this time, they were notorious for playing constant live shows in Whelan's Bar, on Wexford Street in Dublin.  The support act was regularly by another Dublin band called Dragonfly (the lead guitarist of Dragonfly later became LiR's second guitarist, after the departure of keyboardist David Hopkins).  The LiR song 'Temple Child' appeared on the What Are Records?  "Ammunition" compilation album, a music sampler of various independent artists.  In 1997 the band appeared on the soundtrack for the movie "I Went Down", with the song 'There Are More Things'.
  Title: The Prelude Implicit
  Passage: The Prelude Implicit is the fifteenth studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas, released in September 2016.  It is their third studio album without founding member, lead vocalist and keyboardist Steve Walsh, who retired from the band in 2014; the other two being 1982's "Vinyl Confessions" and 1983's Drastic Measures.  It is their first album with lead vocalist and keyboardist Ronnie Platt, keyboardist David Manion, and guitarist Zak Rizvi, who started as a co-producer and songwriter before being named a full member of the band.
  Title: The Thrills
  Passage: The Thrills are an Irish rock band, formed in 2001 in Dublin, Ireland.  The band was founded by lead vocalist Conor Deasy and guitarist Daniel Ryan, guitarist and bass player Padraic McMahon, pianist Kevin Horan and drummer Ben Carrigan.  Their big break came with their debut album, "So Much for the City", which became an Irish number one and charted at number 3 in the UK.  The band's sound has been described as "inspired by classic American pop of the late '60s and early '70s" by Rovi and "an ocean-soaked, harmony-heavy homage to California's dreamy dreams, shaking ground, and unrelenting sunshine" by "Pitchfork Media".
  Title: Gerry Smyth
  Passage: Gerry Smyth (14 September 1961) is an academic, musician, actor and playwright from Dublin, Ireland.  He works in the Department of English at Liverpool John Moores University. , where he is Profesor of Irish Cultural History.  His early publications were mainly in the field of Irish literature, although since 2002 he has also written widely on the subject of Irish music.  Smyth was an early advocate of postcolonial criticism in Irish Studies, although more recently he has been keen to emphasise the autobiographical dimension of critical discourse.  "Decolonisation and Criticism" won the American Conference for Irish Studies' Michael J. Durkan Prize for best book published in literary criticism, arts criticism or cultural studies in 1999.  "Beautiful Day: Forty Years of Irish Rock" (co-authored with Sean Campbell) was launched in the Clarence Hotel in Dublin in September 2005.  "Our House: The Representation of Domestic Space in Contemporary Culture" (co-edited with Jo Croft) was launched at the Tate Liverpool in September 2006.  His collection of critical essays "Music in Irish Cultural History" also won the Michael J. Durkan Prize (2009).  Smyth has lectured throughout Europe and the United States on various aspects of Irish culture; most recently he was a keynote speaker at IASIL 2017, held in Singapore.  In September / October 2006 he was Academic-in-Residence at the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco.  He was appointed Visiting Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Vienna between October 2010 and February 2011.
  Title: Republic of Loose
  Passage: Republic of Loose were an Irish funk rock band from Dublin.  Formed in 2001, the band formerly consisted of lead vocalist Mick Pyro, bass guitarist and vocalist Benjamin Loose, keyboardist Darragh, guitarists and vocalists Dave Pyro and Darach O' Laoire and drummers and percussionists Andre Lopes.  Additional percussion and vocals are provided by Orla La and Emily Rose
  Title: Listen (David Guetta album)
  Passage: Listen is the sixth studio album by French DJ and record producer David Guetta.  It was released on 21 November 2014.  It features collaborations with artists from the R&B, hip hop, alternative rock and pop worlds such as Sam Martin, Emeli Sandé, The Script, Nicki Minaj, John Legend, Nico & Vinz, Ryan Tedder (the lead singer of pop rock band OneRepublic), Sia, Magic! , Bebe Rexha, South African male choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ms. Dynamite, Elliphant, Birdy, Jaymes Young, Sonny Wilson, Vassy, and Skylar Grey.  It also features additional production from Guetta's frequent collaborator Giorgio Tuinfort, Avicii, Afrojack, Nicky Romero, Showtek, and Stadiumx among others, with additional writing credits from Austin Bisnow, Jason Evigan, Julie Frost, and The-Dream among others.
  Title: Those Nervous Animals
  Passage: Those Nervous Animals are an Irish rock band from Sligo, Ireland.  Formed in 1981, the original membership consisted of lead vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Barry Brennan, guitarist Padraig Meehan, bassist Eddie Lee and percussionist Cathal Hayden.
  Title: The Walls
  Passage: The Walls are an Irish rock band.  They were formed in 1998 by two ex-members of The Stunning – brothers Steve and Joe Wall.  Their debut album "Hi-Lo" was released in 2000 and included the singles "Bone Deep", "Something's Wrong" and "Some kind of a Girl".  U2 invited The Walls to support them at their second show in Slane Castle in 2002 after the band sent them copies of their debut.  A number of songs from "Hi-Lo" featured in movies: Goldfish Memory, On the Edge, and Dead Bodies.  In 2002 they released the single "To the Bright and Shining Sun".  It was used on an Irish TV commercial and became a hit in Ireland.  The subsequent album "New Dawn Breaking" (2005) included "To the Bright and Shining Sun" and three other singles: "Drowning Pool", "Passing Through" and "Black and Blue".  The 2013 movie Begin Again starring Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo features "Drowning Pool" over the opening credits.  The first track on the album "Open Road" proved a favourite with Nic Harcourt on his KCRW show "Morning Becomes Eclectic" and he invited the band to play a session on the show in 2006.  They played SXSW in Austin, Texas, a few days beforehand.  The following year the band travelled to Australia and played their first shows there, opening up for Crowded House on the latter's first reunion gigs.  The Walls opened the shows in Sydney and Melbourne and also performed their own gigs in both of those cities.  The band's third album "Stop the Lights" was released in 2012.  The first single "Bird in a Cage" became a firm favourite with Irish radio, in particular with Irish DJ Tony Fenton who championed them.  The second single was the title track "Stop the Lights", an autobiographical story of a motorbike crash.  A video was shot for the song in the brother's hometown, Ennistymon, and in the Dublin mountains.  In March 2013 the band played their first shows in Russia and performed live on the Evening Urgant show.  They returned the following year.
citations: The Script Listen (David Guetta album)