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Crash Test Dummies (RCA) 5 7 NO GOOD (STARTTHE DANCE)...... (XL) 41 37 DIE LAUGHING...... Therapy? (A&M) 6 6 ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS.. Absolutely Fabulous (Spaghetti) 42 26 TAKE IT BACK ...... (EMI) 7 ( - ) ANYTIME YOU NEED A FRIEND... (Columbia) 43 ( - ) HARMONICAMAN...... Bravado (Peach) USLPs 8 3 AROUNDTHEWORLD...... () 44 ( - ) EASETHEPRESSURE...... 2woThird3(Epic) 9 2 COME ON YOU REDS 45 30 THEREAL THING...... Tony Di Bart (Cleveland City) 3 THESIGN.,...... Ace Of Base(Arista) 46 33 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD.. Prince(NPG) 1 THE CROW (OST)...... Various(Atlantic) Football Squad (Polygram TV) 3 NOT A MOMENTTOO SOON...... Tim McGraw(Curb) 10 21 DON’TTURN AROUND ...... Ace Of Base (Metronome) 47 (_ ) get INTO YOU...... (Mushroom) 4 CHANT...... Benedictine Monks (Angel) 11 13 SWAMPTHING...... The Grid (deconstruction) 48 (—) YOU...... Bonnie Raitt (Capitol) 5 FRUITCAKES...... Jimmy Buffett (Margaritaville) 12 9 EVERYBODY’S TALKIN’... The Beautiful South (Go! Discs) 49 ( - ) I AIN’T MOVIN’ ...... Des’ree (Dusted Sound) 6 AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER...... Counting Crows (Geffen) 50 ( - ) ELEPHANT PAW (GET DOWN TO THE ) 7 ABOVE THE RIM (OST)...... Various (Death Row) 13 8 INSIDE...... Stiltskin(WhiteWater) 8 THE DIVISION BELL...... Pink Floyd (Columbia) 14 19 NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH) _ Pan Position (Positiva) MRIB 9 12 PLAY...... R Kelly (Jive) Primal Scream: cell out! & Jocelyn Brown (Arista) PICTURE: DEREK RIDGERS 10 ALL-4-ONE...... AIM-One (Blitzz) 15 10 SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU...... Guns N’ Roses (Geffen) 11 NUTTIN’ BUT LOVE...... Heavy D & The Boyz(Uptown) 1 j— ) JAILBIRD...... Primal Scream (Creation) 12 TONI BRAXTON ...... Toni Braxton (LaFace) 16 22 TOTHEEND ...... Blur(Food) 2 (— ) U & ME...... Cappella (Internal Dance) 13 MUSIC BOX...... Mariah Carey (Columbia) 3 1 HYPOCRITE...... Lush (4AD) 17 14 CARRYMEHOME...... Gloworm(GoBeat) 14 SWAMP OPHELIA...... (Epic) 4 (— ) CREAM EP...... Tiny Monroe (Laurel) 18 15 SHOOP...... Salt’N’ Pepa(ffrr) 15 THE CROSS OF CHANGES...... Enigma (Charisma) 5 2 LAZARUS ...... The Boo Radleys (Creation) 19 29 ...... (Capitol) Billboard 6 3 DESIRE LINES...... Lush (4AD) 7 4 MY MERCURY MOUTH EP 20 ( - ) ANYTIME, ANYPLACE...... Janet Jackson (Virgin) The Dust Brothers (Junior Boy’s Own) 21 35 BACKTOLOVE...... Brand New Heavies (ffrr) 8 (— ) INCREDIBLE...... M-Beat/General Levy (Renk) 22 ( - ) CLOSERTOGOD...... Nine Inch Nails (Island) 9 (— ) BASKETCASE...... Compulsion (One Little Indian) 23 ( - ) TAKEMEAWAY...... D:Ream (Magnet) IB 7 SLAVE NEW WORLD...... (Roadrunner) 11 6 HOMOPHOBIA...... Chumbawamba (One Little Indian) 24 (—) U & ME...... Cappella (Internal Dance) 1 SEALED WITH A KISS...... Jason Donovan (PWL) 12 15 SUPERSONIC...... Oasis(Creation) 25 ( - ) CRAZYMAN...... Blast featuring VDC (MCA) 2 THE BEST OF ME ...... Cliff Richard (EMI) 13 8 DELICIOUS...... Sleeper(Indolent) 26 20 FASTER/PCP ...... (Epic) 3 EXPRESSYOURSELF...... Madonna (Sire) 4 BACK TO LIFE...... Soul 11 Soul featuring (10) 14 (— ) F IS FOR FAME...... Voodoo Queens (Too Pure) 16 THEREALTHING...... 2 Unlimited(PWLContinental) 27 5 RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM...... Sinitta (Fanfare) 15 ( - ) HIGHCHAIR...... Sulphur(Transgloba!) 36 ANYTHING...... SWV(RCA) 16 11 LIKEAMOTORWAY...... Saint Etienne (Heavenly) 28 6 SWEET CHILD O’MINE...... Guns N’ Roses(Geffen) 17 9 TURN ME OUT...... Kathy Brown (Stress) 29 18 OMEN I I ...... Magic Affair (EMI) 7 FERRYACROSSTHEMERSEY 18 (— ) RE02 ...... Dave Clark (Big Bush) 30 ( - ) I WANNA BE YOUR MAN... Chaka Demus & Pliers (Mango) The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden & 19 12 THE BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE...... Prince(NPG) 31 12 SWEETS FOR MY SWEET ...... CJ Lewis (MCA) Stock Aitken Waterman (PWL) 20 ( - ) PULL THRU’ BARKER...... Prolapse (Cherry Red) 32 ( - ) I SWEAR...... AII-4-AII (Atlantic) 8 MISS YOU LIKE CRAZY...... (EMI USA) 21 20 BASS CADET EP ...... Autechre () 9 ON THE INSIDE (THEME FROM PRISONER: CELL BLOCK H) 22 23 HEADACHE ...... Frank Black (4AD) 33 25 CRASH!BOOM! BANG!...... Roxette(EMI) Lynne Hamilton (A1) 23 28 MARKED AND TAGGED EP ...... Bivouac (Elemental) 34 27 THE EP...... Pulp (Island) 10 DON’T WANNA GET HURT...... (Warner Brothers) 24 17 TANTRA...... Technova (Sabres Of Paradise) 35 17 MORETOTHEWORLD...... Bad Boys Inc (A&M) Nine Inch NaiVs Trent Reznor: deity 25 13 THE JULIE EP...... The Levellers (China) 36 ( - ) SHINE...... (Bubblin’) scoundrel 26 5 THETEAZER...... Solitaire Gee (Phat) 27 RE ALWAYS...... (Mute) 28 25 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD Prince(NPG) 29 18 2 MINUTE MIND...... Blessed Ethel (2 Damn Loud) NETWORK UK TOP 50 LPs 30 10 ANARROWTHROUGHTHEBITCH 1 WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO...... Wham! (Epic) 2 TWO TRIBES ...... Frankie Goes To Hollywood (ZTT) Palace Brothers (Domino Recordings) 1 2 EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT, SO WHY CAN’T WE 27 33 BROTHER ...... Brand New Heavies (ffrr) CIN 3 ONLY...... Spandau Ballet (Reformation) (Island) 28 22 EVERYTHING CHANGES ...... (RCA) 4 SMALLTOWN BOY...... Bronski Beat (Forbidden Fruit) 2 1 SEAL II...... Seal(ZTT) 29 (—) DOMINATOR...... Time Frequency (Internal Affairs) 5 LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY...... Denise Williams (CBS) 3 ( - ) REALTHINGS...... 2 Unlimited (PWLContinental) 30 30 MIAOW...... The Beautiful South (Go! Discs) 6 HEAVEN KNOWS I’M MISERABLE NOW... (Rough ) INDIE LPs 4 3 OUR TOWN -THE GREATEST HITSDeacon Blue (Columbia) 31 26 NEVERMIND...... Nirvana(Geffen) 7 PEARL IN THE SHELL...... Howard Jones (WEA) 5 ( - ) THE LASTTEMPTATION...... (Epic) 32 15 ILL COMMUNICATIONS...... (Capitol) 8 DANCING WITH TEARS IN MY EYES...... Ultravox (Chrysalis) 9 HIGH ENERGY...... Evelyn Thomas (Record Shack) 1 1 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE I I...... Various(Warp) 6 4 THE DIVISION BELL...... Pink Floyd(EMI) 33 23 HEART, SOUL & A VOICE...... Jon Secada (SBK) 10 SEARCHIN’ ...... Hazel Dean (Proto) 2 3 TEENAGER OFTHEYEAR ...... Frank Black (4AD) 7 ( - ) AROUND THE NEXT DREAM...... BBM(Virgin) 34 17 A CARNIVAL OF HITS Judith Durham & The Seekers (EMI) 3 4 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO UTOPIA? Astralasia (Magick Eye) 8 11 MUSICBOX...... Mariah Carey (Columbia) 35 RE ...... Crowded House (Capitol) 4 2 SUITS...... Fish (Dick Brothers) 9 5 ...... Blur(Food) 36 28 CRASH!BOOM! BANG!...... Roxette(EMI) 5 5 STACKED UP...... Senser(Ultimate) 10 8 ALWAYS AND FOREVER...... Eternal (EMI) 37 37 ...... Crowded House (Capitol) 6 (— ) THEMES FROM...... Vapourspace(Internal) 11 (— ) PURPLE...... Stone Temple Pilots (Atlantic) 38 19 GOIN’ BACK-THE VERY BEST OF. . .1962-1994 7 ( - ) ULTRAVIOLET...... Ed Alleyne-Johnson (Equation) 1 SUNDAY GIRL...... Blondie (Chrysalis) 8 ( - ) ...... Scorn(Earache) 12 10 THEPLOTTHICKENS...... Galliano(TalkinLoud) Dusty Springfield (Philips) 2 DANCE AWAY ...... Roxy Music (Polydor) 9 7 ROYALTIES OVERDUE...... Various (Mo’ Wax) 13 (—) TRUE SPIRIT...... (Circa) 39 18 THISWAYUP...... Chris De Burgh (A&M) 3 REUNITED...... & Herb (Polydor) 10 9 ANARCHY...... Chumbawamba (One Little Indian) 14 6 I SAY I SAY I SAY...... Erasure(Mute) 40 25 LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS...... (WEA) 4 POPMUZIK...... M(MCA) 11 ( - ) CAFEDELMAR...... Various (React) 15 (— ) ZINGALAMADUNI... Arrested Development (Cooltempo) 41 35 PHILADELPHIA (OST)...... Various (Epic) 5 BOOGIE WONDERLAND...... Earth, Wind And Fire (CBS) 12 30 ...... Primal Scream (Creation) 16 16 HAPPY NATION (US VERSION) ..Ace Of Base (Metronome) 42 36 D:REAM ONVOL1...... D:Ream (Magnet) 6 DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW...... Abba(Epic) 13 ( - ) LIVEONTHETEST...... NilsLofgren(Windsong) 7 BRIGHT EYES...... ArtGarfunkel(CBS) 14 ( - ) LIVEONTHETEST...... Graham Parker (Windsong) 17 14 GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET.... Crash Test Dummies (RCA) 43 24 THEVERYBESTOFMARVINGAYE MarvinGaye() 8 PARISIENNE WALKWAYS...... (MCA) 15 11 GIVE OUT BUT DON'T GIVE UP... Primal Scream (Creation) 18 13 CRAZY...... Julio Iglesias (Columbia) 44 31 DAVID BYRNE...... David Byrne (Luaka Bop) 9 BOYS KEEP SWINGING...... (MCA) 16 8 CLUB CULTURE...... Various (Stress) 19 ( - ) BAD BOYS INC...... Bad Boys Inc (A&M) 45 29 ELEGANTSLUMMING...... M People(deConstruction) 10 SHINE A LITTLE LOVE...... Electric Light Orchestra (Jet) 17 6 I SAY I SAY I SAY...... Erasure(Mute) 20 7 LIFEFORMS...... Future Sound Of London (Virgin) 46 27 STREET ANGEL...... Stevie Nicks (EMI) 18 RE LET LOVE IN...... And The Bad Seeds (Mute) 19 12 ARIA...... Asia (Bullet Proof) 21 12 THE CROSS OF CHANGES ...... Enigma (Virgin) 47 47 GIVE OUT BUT DON’T GIVE UP... Primal Scream (Creation) 29 RE GIANTSTEPS...... The Boo Radleys (Creation) 22 ( - ) BALLS TO PICASSO ...... Bruce Dickinson (EMI) 48 38 INUTERO...... Nirvana (Geffen) 21 RE CHAOSAD ...... Sepultura (Roadrunner) 23 ( - ) BLADE RUNNER (OST)...... Vangelis (EastWest) 49 ( - ) LIVE: WITHOUTTHE AID OF A SAFETY NET 22 23 CHILL OUT OR DIE II ...... Various (Rising High) 24 9 THE BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE...... Prince(NPG) (Compulsion) 1 THE STREAK...... Ray Stevens (Westbound) 23 17 DEBUT...... Bjork (One Little Indian) 2 HEY, ...... Showaddywaddy(Bell) 24 ( - ) FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO 25 42 SUITS ...... Fish (Dick Brothers) 50 ( - ) ULTRAVIOLET...... Ed Alleyne-Johnson (China) (One Little Indian) 26 20 FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (OST)Various (Vertigo) MRIB 3 THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US 25 ( - ) RIVERRUNSRED...... Life Of Agony (Roadrunner) PICTURE: STEFAN DE BATSELIER Sparks (Island) 26 26 URBAN DISCIPLINE...... Biohazard (Roadrunner) 4 ...... The Rubettes (Polydor) 27 19 IN LOVE WITH...... MamboTaxi(Clawfist) 5 THERE’S A GHOST IN MY HOUSE... R Dean Taylor (Tamla Motown) 28 10 FREEWHEELIN’ ...... Electric Boys (Music For Nations) 6 JUDY TEEN...... Cockney Rebel (EMI) 29 ( - ) A COLLECTION OFPREVIOUSLY... 7 THEINCROWD...... Bryan Ferry (Island) Lou Barlow (City Slang) 8 JARROWSONG...... Alan Price (Warner) 30 ( - ) THEAMBUSH...... Ambush (Hartnouse) 9 ISEEASTAR...... Mouth & McNeal (Oecca) CIN 10 THE NIGHT DIED...... Paper Lace (Bus Stop) FILM BOX OFFICE 1 FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL 5 )...... Rank 2 NAKED GUN 33V3-THE FINAL INSULT (12) ...... UIP 1 THE BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO...... (Apple) 3 INTERSECTION (15)...... UIP 2 OH HAPPY DAY ...... Edwin Hawkins Singers (Buddah) 4 NO ESCAPE (15)...... ^ ...... Guild 3 LIVING IN THE PAST...... Jethro Tull (Island) 5 GRUMPY OLD MEN (12)...... Warner 4 TIME IS TIGHT...... Booker T And The MGs (Stax) 6 LOOK WHO’S TALKING NOW! (12) ...... J...... Columbia Tristar 5 ...... (RCA) 7 MY FATHER THE HERO (PG)...... BuenaVista 6 DIZZY...... Tommy Roe (Stateside) 8 MRSDOUBTFIRE(PG)...... 20th Century Fox 7 SOMETHING INTHE AIR...... Thunderclap Newman (Track) 9 SCHINDLER’S LIST(15)...... UIP 8 BIG SHIP...... Cliff Richard (Columbia) 7 ACE VENTURA - PET DETECTIVE (12) ...... Warner 9 HIGHER AND HIGHER...... Jackie Wilson (MCA) MRIB Everybody else has done.. it - The Cranberries squeeze into Number One 10 GET BACK...... The Beatles (Apple) ^dddSBD^ isijtj? " fflB M HBHHkbk H t JHB^BHHI £ * ' J 3 g i% ~ aC '3'V%> & * ' -S'." | ringleaders but eventually won independence for the 26 t / D T flggjf wpffi ^ aBre| ^Pl Jjl§j 1KNI bH counties. It’s freaky to think this may be a Cranberries single - the same who originally hit the big time with a sad little ballad that rhymed “linger” with “finger” - and there’s no getting away from the first hit to do so since The • It’s the least likely combination in music since it, you have to acknowledge it. Bay City Rollers’ ‘Bye Bye Baby’... Bono and Sinatra, but it’s rockin’. Mad old That’s why Neville the “‘Zombie’ is a really powerful percussionist got dressed up as song, and lots of people have Buddha teams up with sensible Idi Amin. And you’ve got to laugh pinpointed that one, so we might young budding superstar DOLORES CRANBERRY too; that’s why release it as a single. Everybody’s going on about it - the crowds to declare ‘The Sun Does Rise’ and ponder life (Wobble’s drummer and husband of Sinead O ’Connor) is dressed as were calling out for it all the way and exactly how the enlightened can get away a blacksmith. Life’s as funny as through the last American tour. I with fencing tom. STUART BAILIE watches f— . You can see God in people mean, I’m a patriot up to a and the divine mother in a certain point but I wouldn’t kill them get it on. Natural light: ROGER SARGENT woman. And I do. You can also someone, or even be a see the nasty f— ing side...” loudmouth about it.” o what do you is the celeb that happened Dolores’ church-going, choir­ So can Dolores deal with this think of it?” without our permission. The past has led some writers inevitable new press pressure? other Cranberries may have been to portray her as an unflinching “I never find myself having any Dolores asks, hip indie obsessives but Dolores Catholic believer. This cropped articulation problems. If people pulling the was basically keen on religious up in her first NME interview in ask me questions, I’ll give them shreds of her jeans music and Irish trad, even C&W ’9 1, when she reflected that the answers. I never get freaked out when her dad got her to sing church was “doing a grand job” . about interviews too much. I just open at the leg, ‘Yellow Rose Of Texas’ in the She’s currently preparing for an tell them I’ll kill them and skin revealing a gruesomely pub. outdoors Catholic wedding later them alive...” patched knee-cap - the “The boys in the band were this summer (“ he’s a fine six W e finish by rambling on about into Everything But The Girl and footer and he’s from the other jungle techno, Limerick most famously damaged all these modern things,” she side of the world... Canada”), but roughnecks (“pretty rough”), joint in showbiz since remembers, “and I was saying, like Wobble, Dolores now seems about pentatonic scales, the are there still bands out there English class system and the Gazza hit the deck last to accept that life isn’t simply.a apart from the big Top Of The Duo involved in solar project: Dolores and Wobble put their heads together question-free, cosmic joyride. success of the Megadog April. Pops bands? They said, ‘yeah, it’s “You can wake up one phenomenon, which Wobble Jah Wobble peers in closer, called the indie scene,’ and I have,” she admits, grinning. “ I’ve “very Interesting times” . This Wobble tells us about the oriental morning,” she figures, “and take helped initiate with a blinding gig admiring the mass of stitching and didn’t even know it existed.” got a tendency to write about follows the weirdest party master at the East End club that whole perspective - that at north London’s The Rocket the lurid purple lesions, a Y Dolores didn’t manage so negative things. I’m just more political broadcast there’s ever where he studies tai chi. The old Jesus Christ was born of a human club in W inter '9 1. formation of scar tissue wherein smartly on the interview circuit inspired when I’m negative. been on TV - a manifesto man instructs people in the being. As a Christian and a Dolores is raving about a new the doctors have sliced and then, but now, of course, she’s That’s one of the reasons I liked suggesting that what Britain really spirituality of martial arts every Catholic, that’s what you’re song she’s done called ‘No Need spliced the ligaments, inserted major. So major that when you this song, because it’s different needs is less parliamentary crap evening. By day, however, he’s a taught to believe. And then some To Argue’, which she likes metal and then later come back tell Dolores that the UK is finally form e.” and a lot more ‘Yogic Flying’. fence for stolen watches. When days you get up and everyone’s because it’s just her vocals and an to separate the muscle and flesh going for The Cranberries in a Wobble was glad because the The Natural Law Party are Wobble’s mate quizzed the wise just a wanker. The next day you organ playing the bass notes, just that had wrongly set. Yum. proper way, that her is tune had been around for years, mates of George Harrison. In the one about his day job, the master feel Jesus is in everybody, be nice like it was when she sang in Wobble coos respectfully. He’s currently Top in the UK the strangest, most unique gospel recent TV ad, an NLP spokesman just said, “Well, a guy has to make to everybody. It depends on your church, years ago. Wobble is impressed. charts - a good 15 months after song, looking for a decent voice. showed us film of these blokes a living, doesn’t he?” own frame of mind.” laughing about his appearance in We’re all impressed. If not for its release - and still rising on the Since the lyric was a bit lofty (“ it’s tucked into the lotus position, So what’s the deal on crime- Dolores seems to welcome the the John Lydon biography. “I read the circumstances of the injury back of a TV campaign and the a song about awakenings, and the flipping themselves high onto busting meditation and yogic idea that Ireland’s conflict it and thought, f— , we w eren’t (skiing in the Alps - indie traitor!) emergence of a big crossover journey of life and all that,” says springy matresses, which they say flying; how much credit does between church and state may bad little geezers. I’d forgotten then at least for the speed of audience, she’s confused. Wobble), there was no point in has helped reduce the crime rate Wobble give to loopy gurus, and soon be eased. A fresh about a lot of those days.” recovery and the certifiably gory “So what record is that? The rushing it along without a really in Liverpool by 60 per cent. when do you decide to call in the referendum on the right to We get on to the mind- scale of the injury. A month first Cranberries album, you special singer. Meditation and hopping around bullshit detector? divorce may be successful boggling topic of European tribes before, the biz had been rife with mean? You know, I haven’t a clue “There’s a spirit there that on your arse, they say, is the “Well, I ain’t seen it but that Meanwhile, the national | and how the Celts actually stories that Dolores and her - I’m forever in my own world.” comes over,” Jah explains in his solution to all the nation’s grief. stuffs possible. There’s lots of trauma over a 14-year-old girl originated in northern India - gammy leg were a PR invention So what about the new best cockney Buddha tones, “and You run this past Wobble great stuff going on, but I’m not who was raped and impregnated hence the similarity between to allow her time to chill out (just by her father’s friend - then “A lot of people need some Asian vocal styles and the like Dylan with his mythical bike I never get freaked out about interviews too much. I just tell denied for a while the right to decent housing and an Irish sean nos singing tradition, crash in ’66) and get sane again. travel to for an abortion how the older songs are even Well, she’s limping a bit, but them I’ll kill them and skin them alive Dolores - may have helped Irish society to opportunity to work. And related, and how this kind of otherwise Dolores isn’t flaking be less rigid in its beliefs, to allow realisation makes national out at all; preparing instead to Cranberries live video - the one the people there are gonna pick because the guy has some sure how much relevance that’s a new kind of tolerance they’re likely to f—ing prejudice seem really stupid. rock the Fleadh at Finsbury Park, with the handful of unreleased up on the spirit, and that’s the amazing, funky beliefs himself. got to a single mother in a tower to prevail. “It make me laugh when and after that to get ready for a tracks, previewed live at idea of it. It’s just an intuition, and There’s the track on his new block. “ I hope so. I love Ireland a lot, punch you in the face if there’s all this talk of pure blood,” big college tour of America. London’s ; what’s then Dolores picks up on it and album called ‘I Love Everybody’ “ I don’t know too much about and I really think things will get says Wobble. “Especially in this “ I don’t know if I’ll be moving Dolores’ opinion on that one? transforms it, and it becomes a which is basically a string of divine it, but my natural inclination is to easier. As far as the 14-year-old you tell them they should country when it’s one of the that much on stage for a while, “ I still haven^t seen it, to be living breathing thing. If Dolores revelations in the mean streets of take the piss out of it. I think who was raped goes, I think she biggest bastard races .” though.” honest. Is it any good then?” hadn’t sung it, it would’ve been London (“am / limitless in space... meditation is great, I meditate, should have been allowed to meditate.” - Wobble But a rocking bastard race as No chance of a bit of Irish For her part, Dolores was keen put back on the shelf and part of the structural support to and you can focus energy and all make her own decision.” well. When they return to the TV dancing, like you normally do on the Wobble collaboration forgotten about. Bridge, I am your left that. But before you astral fly, you studio, the teenage cockney then? because it gave her a fresh theme “That virtuosity thing, it drives breast, I am , I am should learn to walk. A lot of ‘SO COLD In Ireland’ like most hatchet man gone benign and Light entertainers: Dolores and Wobble are inclined to levitate the piss “There’ll be none of that. to work on - to groove to the me crazy, puts a shiver up me Peru..."). It’s one of the most people need decent housing and of the upcoming Cranberries LP, mystical will make music with the Absolutely no jigging about, I’m unconditional joy of Wobble’s back. Dolores has got that purity, remarkable songs of the year, as an opportunity to work. And was written a year-and-a-half ago, situation; being afraid to come you really need to learn, and you single, a scathing attack on die­ Bloody Sunday’ was never “a tearing into the supporters of Irish choirgirl turned wild-child afraid.” ‘The Sun Does Rise’. A change that shamanistic quality. It takes if the mystical, batty old poet they’re likely to f— ing punch you when fame was beginning to back home in case you find out get a few kicks in the arse.” hard Republicans at home, in rebel song” . Sinead O ’ Connor violence, I t s the same auld thing turned political spokeswoman. from her own stock of jagged you somewhere else, and that’s Walt Whitman was transported in the face if you tell them they warp the band and Dolores was that you’ve changed so much. She won’t reveal the title of the particular those who support the hasn’t been forgiven (though she since 1916... with your bombs and Technically, they’ve got W OBBLE A N D Dolores are a dream-songs, the raw why I play music, to get that from Coney Island to Mile End should meditate.” enmeshed in a series of troubled There’s a lot going on and you’re new LP, but Dolores promises armed struggle in Ireland. recants) for singing ‘Irish Ways your guns in your head. ” 1916 was nothing in common, but it’s a queer pair. The former is a adolescence that was scratched buzz, to be in the studio as it goes and allowed to froth and So why did Wobble dress up as business and romantic trying to readjust. Because of that it will be “ a different feeling, When a major Irish act makes And Irish Laws’ at a Troops Out the year of the declaration of Irish stormer - the music transporting quote-churningNME natural (he out over the course of ‘Everyone down especially.” freely. an SS officer for a detail on the relationships that infuenced the these business difficulties, it all probably more mature” . Already, this kind of a statement, it hangs rally and then lending her support independence and the original them, the tw o of them making a was a cover star in ’78 with the Is Doing It...’. Jah Wobble reckons that we’re By way of explaining his sleeve of his new LP? bitter tone of the songs. got very twisted, and I got they’re toying with the idea of over them forever. had to to the IRA. IRA uprising, which caused the right holy show of themselves... first Public Image single), Dolores “That’s one of the problems I currently in the throes of some elegant, yobbo soul power, “ Because that’s the evil in man, “The song is about a personal depressed. When you’re that age, releasing the song ‘Zombie’ as a routinely announce that ‘Sunday But Dolores is unabashed, British to hang the surviving as Jah had rightly intended.

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18 June 1994 New Musical Express - Page 12 Page 12—New Musical Express 18 June 1994 BRING TO THE SLAUGHTER missiles at Therapy?. Do they not fingers folded down in the “ I know,” says Cairns. “We’re Later, the NME suggests that Si like them, or what? traditional Satanic salute.) already starting to get some really we do the Therapy? pictures t h e r a i - : “ No, they’re top,” says Jason, “We just didn’t know how it strange letters, people saying, outside among the masses. is about 17 and experiencing was going to go,” Andy confides ‘You’d better write back or I’m band are up for it - they want to his first beer. “We didn’t know what to expect. going to kill myself, that sort of go out and watch . : ■ : ■■ ■ - ■■■■ ' : So why throw a half-gallon We thought we might get bottled thing.” after all - but A&M, visions of container of scrumpy at them? off, that they’d think that we are Therapy? are the sort of group Therapy? mania gripping the “ Dunno,” shrugs Dog. “Just indie wankers. We’re really that people could get obsessive crowd again, nix this idea. because.” surprised... I loved it.” about. “ I’ve been going out to see Both of them have come to see Backstage, the assembled “We’re really friendly with bands all day and ’s Sepultura and but have metal doyens and their plus ones Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum, bothered me,” shrugs Fyfe. been won over by Therapy?, as all seem to know and love who’s living with Winona Ryder, The process which turns bands indeed have large sections of the Therapy? and he told us that when he gets into Howard Hughes type crowd. Kids in Sepultura, One of Pantera emerges from up in the morning to go round torecluses is a gradual one - but it and even Motley Crue the caravan next to Therapy?’s the shops or whatever there are could be starting here. It’s the T-shirts are going apeshit during and looks around. He’s nine feet people there going through their thin end of a wedge that ends up the set. across and looks like he beats up rubbish, looking for souvenirs,” destroying bands and shattering The ease with which Therapy? Hell’s Angels for breakfast. If you he says, namedropping human beings. Therapy?, have made the transition from didn’t remember Pantera from shamelessly. however, are probably too the indie circuit - mid-week their sad incarnation, Therapy? seem relatively gregarious, too fundamentally support slots at Camden you might be scared of him. unafraid at this stage in their decent to allow any of this crap to Underworld - to metal stadium “ Hey, you guys were bitchin’ career, although their press affect them too much. Their band is quite unnerving. Not since out there,” he bellows, gripping offrcer gets a panic attack when reputation as the most affable The Cult have a band stepped the bemused Therapy? singer’s MTV want to film Andy out in the men in rock’n’roll is well “We didn’t know what to expect. We thought we might get

- bottled off, that they’d think that we are indie wankers. We’re really surprised... I loved it.” - Andy Cairns on Donington over that great divide. For the hand. “ I wanna get f—in’ drunk throng forHeadbangers’ Ball. deserved. They are completely first time in the history of the with you guys later on.” There’s a lot of fussing and open and approachable. Sure, youInviting hospitality kiosks abound backstage Donington Steve ‘Krusher’ Joule, MC for lackeying, trying to organise want to be safe from potential Ireland the next day and then off close and people start festival - historically a celebration Donington and presenter of ITV security, which eventually doesn’t Mark Chapmans, but it’s to do European festivals. Before encouraging us to get the f— out of the traditional - the crowd are rock showNoizy Muthas corners materialise. They settle for unhealthy to be too divorced he leaves, Andy has time for one of here. singing along to a the band for an interview and keeping the whole thing from real life. Before you know more question: So what about So did the NME have a song (a cover of ‘Isolation’). The basically growls at them for backstage. Andy has to present a where you are you’re living in Primal Scream to headline motherf— in’ good time? As we strangest thing is it seems to several minutes. He’s a born star segment of the programme, and, splendid isolation, dying from an Donington ’95? bend double over the hotel bog make sense. It’s almost and the obvious choice to chair in high spirits, sets out through overdose in the toilet. “Ah, they’d tear them apart,” much later on spluttering out the embarrassing how natural Question Time instead of that the backstage area interviewing he laughs. “Although... if they results of the day’s excesses, the Therapy? are taking to this. dribbling Dimbleby. people at random while the ANDY, MICHAEL and Fyfe played the new album... maybe.” refrain of ‘Nowhere’ running Towards of the set, “Yeah, it would be great,” cameras and entourage follow are last spotted being poured out Almost as soon as Therapy? arearound our head, the answer has before they go mental during agrees Andy, adopting the him. He’s a natural, sort of a of the festival site to return to gone, the atmosphere takes a to be a resolute YES! ‘Nowhere’, Andy goes through Krusher growl. “ So! Maastricht! Roger Cook From Hell. London. They have to fly off to turn for the worse. The bars But never again! the obligatory hard rock ritual of Lemmy?” introducing the band. During the course of the day, “ On the drums, Mr Fyfe respects are paid from Sepultura, Ewing.” - with whom Therapy? have a bit Crowd roars. of a mutual appreciation society “And on , Mr going - Extreme’s Nuno Michael McKeegan.” Bettencourt, various Wildhearts Ihv)aki|ejr)s Of.iTlhe H|e|arjt Crowd roars some more. and members of Biohazard, who “And 65,000 mad started a mini-riot earlier in the motherf—ers out there!!! Thank day by inviting Donington’s you for having us, Donington!!!”50,000 plus to join them onstage. VladThe Impaler sears the devil crowd with his Satanic sulphur breath... actually, itfs Michael from 9tindie wusses Therapy? aiming to catch a pissbomb in his mouth Crowd roars like England have Aerosmith have personally T j h e Sun I Risks [E|P| t’s about half past just put their sixth away againstasked that Therapy? support motherf—in* good time!!! attempt to capture the band on Brazil at the World Cup final in athem at two Scandinavian festivals ten and Castle W gonna have a f—in' celluloid. We’re amused by this parallel universe. It’s pure ham. and metal’s god of evil Ozzy Donington is getting party!!!” until we are soaked with a But then you wonder: irony? Osbourne has joined them in the - Andy Cairns to the damp noxious amber fluid from a plastic really ugly. They don’t do the obvious studio to sing on a version of the active Donington crowd missile. Fortunately, it turns out Donington song, their version of classic ‘Iron Man’, Aerosmith,I having to be lager. ’s cheesy which will be released on an flounced through their T H E UG LY night has been But the band, a sitting target, ‘Breaking The Law’, which would Ozzy tribute album later in the preceded by an ugly day. The get several direct hits. have sealed them forever in the year. Are Therapy? the hardest- set with an aplomb rare weather is grim, the smell from “They threw f—in’ sandwiches hearts of these people. Are working band in rock? in coffin-dodgers, make burning plastic, vomit and fast at us,” says Michael Therapy? then a hard rock band “We agreed to do Donington way for a fireworks food is nauseous. Half the McKeegan afterwards. or just a quote-hard-rock- basically because we wanted to audience are seething drunk, “ Unopened packs. It was really unquote band having a right old play as many festivals as possible display as the metal teetering on of violent funny. They were almost laugh at it all? this year,” explains Andy. “We’re droves flood out of the behaviour, induced from drinking luminous as they sailed towards The correct post-modern doing Phoenix and Reading and a cheap alcohol. us.” festival site. answer is both and neither of the lot of festivals in Europe.” But, against the odds, about For anyone unfamiliar with above, because the idea of a T- They look like a defeated three songs into their set. such things, this is all part of the shirt-toting ‘indie’ band cleaning AS SOO N as they come medieval army carrying home Therapy? have the crowd won charming Donington ritual: up on the bad ass metal circuit is offstage, fans come up to ask for their dead and wounded, limp over. It is pissing with rain and bombarding the stage, and both funny as f— and deadly autographs and take pictures. The bodies hanging between two raining with piss from plastic anyone in the front, with bottles serious at the same time. band still look a bit amused that friends, feet dragging in the dirt. bottles filled with bodily waste of pee or indeed any object that people do this. Backstage, drunks are lurching that sail overhead towards the can be thrown. This, however, is “ W ELL, I hope that the crowd “Can I ask you a favour?” asks into each other and fighting over stage. Therapy? don’t look like a not necessarily a sign of were being ironic when they one girl. “ Can I stroke your cans of lager. There are two metal band, and for a Doningtondisapproval; every band seems to started giving us the devil signs,” beard?” people shagging noisily in the crowd that’s important. For a fewget the same quantity of missiles laughs Andy Cairns later. (Before Andy allows her a quick feel at gents’ Portaloo, rocking it back minutes there’s a real risk that launched in their direction. ‘Hellbelly’, there is the sample of the fuzz and the girl leaves happy. and forwardCarry On style as the they’ll turn on them. NME Anthropologists would have a the Fundamentalist preacher It ain’t exactly the Plastercasters... impatient queue collectively pee photographers Goodacre and here. casting out the devil that loops This is all very nice right now, down their legs. In the distance, Double are at the front of the Jason and Dog (not his real into“Satan, Satan, Satan” . The but isn’t it an indication that the lights of stationary cars and stage, backs to the crowd, name, I bet) have come from crowd respond by holding up Therapy? are set for the stadium vans in a traffic jam stretch almostdodging the bombs as they “ outside ” to hurl their left hands, second and third circuit? to the next county, and you FREE THE MARIJUANA wonder, ‘How the f— am I ever gonna get out of here?’ And just as you’re left pondering that dilemma, some wretched child in RELEASED a T-shirt stands beside you and splashes the contents of his tummy all over your boots. 20.06.94 Then, as you trek the five miles back towards the hotel that has P.O. BOX 1460 managed to lose your reservation 12 " while empty taxis roll by and LONDON refuse to stop, you wonder, ‘Have I had a motherf— in’ good Released on 2xCD’s, Twelve Inch and Cassette. Limited Edition Rarities C l)2 available next week ON U DP 28 N102DQ time, or not?’. 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Life is sweat: Ad4tock EDITED BY IESTYN GEORGE demands more elbow room BEASTIE BOYS FLEADH '9 4 LONDON COVENT LONDON FINSBURY PARK IT’S NOON and the tribes have started GARDEN ROUGH TRADE to gather at the Highbury Cock Tavern SHOP for the long procession down to Finsbury Park. The sun is playing hide- talk of fell mayhem and rioting In the and-seek and the ashen-faced landlord plazas of Covent Carden this Is a has not only cleared his bar of furniture, secret gig that Isn’t eomnten but reduced the patrons to the ignoble knowledge to the world and tier status of drinking out of plastic beakers annoying flatm ate. Thankfully* the “for safety's sake". news has spread to just enough Fair enough, but we’re overtwo miles genuine thrill-seekers to make this away from the Fleadh, this celebratory more than a media showcase, and as one-day festival; a cocktail of Irishness soon as the bewildered and that has its own unique, balmy flavour ' I . ■ ■ creep onto the and a vibe/bonhomie unavailable soapbox-size stage, § heaving gang of anywhere else. You can catch the glints skate kids and fan slab types shove .ip people’s eyes when the decidedly the gang of cameramen out of the way youngASH amble onto the third stage and start pogoing to the band tuning (out of four), and proceed to make an . . ' ■' : ■ "■ f :g g ; g f j unholy racket - disjointed and ■Hi ohvioiisly have no idea effectively purposeless. But then again, what to play, say or do in this weird what did the Pixies sound like when cauldron but that’s no bad thing* It i they were 16? means toey H || up their Instruments, Celtic elder SHANE MACGOWAN grin at each other amt jam out a is late, but present and correct. i \ ■. ‘: " rm Jy However, most people don’t seem to be ’70s funk grooves* Bat then toeir aware that he’s been replaced, in an sense of humourm4 broom Invasion Of The Body Snatchers sort of surroundings get the better of them, way, by a punk gremlin whose voice and they launch into a brilliantly veers between being completely shot warped -funk number entitled and a thing of beauty. Shane ‘Gimme Some Elbow Boom% aided by a MacGowan & The Popes, to give them g u e s t iViC who appears to fee h iding their full name, play some pub-rebel behind a speaker stack. Funny lads. rockabilly, when not mauling old Pogues N a tu rally , a il th is would fee a....,: songs (‘Streams Of Whiskey’ and eiingesome pub rook siop-a-thon If ‘Fairytale Of New York’ are cool, done by anyone else. These days though), kicking ‘Whiskey In The Jar’ though, the trio are shockingly around, or singing what a nearby proficient instrumentalists with a Irishman reckons is an IRA song. great chemistry and Instinctive feel fo r. DsREAM are ushered in by 30 the music. Plus there are shared minutes of so as not to eccentricities and a biological Inability seem the anachronism their billing to be remotely workmanlike which would suggest. Their leader Peter make anything this band does truly Cunnah is the day’s funniest showman, waving his arms, shouting the odds, Of course they’re cheating with DJ trying out an acoustic number,anything Hurricane and m extra on to cover up the transparency of his thin stage, but that Just adds to the sweat- ^machine soul/. A classy trouper drenched, communal, Jamming-m-tbe* nonetheless. In direct contrast to basement vibe. However, that was just FATIMA MANSIONS’ long bursts of their warming up exercises. The record bile-filled “AAAARGHH”s and moody racks really start flying when Yauch ballads on the third stage, which are hits the monster grunting bass groove the sworn enemy of sophistication. "of ‘Sabotage’, followed mercilessly by It’s a homecoming of kinds forTHE the thrash punk cabaret of ‘Tough CRANBERRIES, whose comet-like Guy’, It’s now unspeakably hot In here, rise is a fairytale come true. Perversely and the ceiling appears to be - or because of Dolores’ recent skiing subsiding. Ah, not to worry, It’s only accident - they decide to play an the people upstairs stomping their feet ‘Unplugged’ set complete with fiddles, whistles, acoustic guitars and the voice However, on we lurch towards amongst voices. Some familiar songs, Armageddon as our heroes abandon like ‘Linger’, survive but others don’t their instruments and toptorap into and you miss the frisson between ‘Root Down’, veins bulging through Dolores’ flights of sadness and chiming their Suedeheads, ielepathicafly crystal clear guitars. communicating their Three Stooges- As night slowly falls it becomes clear esque routines to each ether. To them ^ h y today's audience are a huge it’s an extension of their Incessant mixture of nationalities and cultures, all lads’ banter and Jive talk. To us it's T drinking together and by now in various golhsmacklngly raw, heavy punk funk* states of decay; headliners Of course, their rap style can be CROWDED HOUSE have enough primitive, especially on the ‘Check broad appeal to gather this many Your Head’ material, bat they haven disparate people in a field. feirfy traditional street hip-hop way of While not exactly showmen - more doing things. $tost tracks seem to self-effacing quip-monsters - 's have come out of jamming sessions melodic pop is descended from The and Idea-jugpng brainstorms, which is Beaties (“Wings, more like,” says some what makes the lyrics so brilliantly wag) suffused with a bit of Squeeze for witty, and toe samples and styles so -% additional chart-friendliness. The mad, bad and verging on genius. gorgeous ‘’ After being persuaded about six and the catchy ‘' are filled fi§ i| to play a ccuse more faves, .with yearning, longing, wide-open they end with probably their finest, spaces and melancholia. A London- dizziest collision pop moment to date, based Maori choir and Cook Island log ‘Shake Your Rump’, and finally drummers are drafted in for ‘Together | : ' £1 t| . i . Alone' and Finn ends with a traditional It's off the spiral staircase - a capella Irish farewell, returning the disastrous. With that, signs /■ festival to its Celtic roots after its South the celling, shuffles through the fire Seas diversion. and leaves us foaming at the The tribes stagger into the Finsbury mouth waiting for the tour proper. And Park streets, with amazing wails still In this kind of world-beating form you’ll ringing in their ears. A bunch of Celts: elder (what a) statesman Shane MacGowan (main pic), younger Dolores Cranberry have even less elbow room. Dele Fadele (left) and great pretender Niel Finn from Crowded House Joftitity Cigarettes