Feargai: “ It’s not, ‘How are you?5, it’s ‘How are The Cranberries?’.” Noel: “You have a lot more cousins than you used to!” Mike: “And people you went to school with come up and remind you that you went to school with them.” N oel: “ School is the classic. Guys th a t would have probably beaten you up are your best mate!” Dolores: “ Friends are totally normal, • If you wanted to see THE CRANBERRIES while they were still playing tiny indie dubs, but there’s other people who are you’vemissed your chance: they’re waving ’bye to all that at Leeds’, emt, minuscule T&C. constantly aware of the fact that you’ve As Auntie Dolores, dreaming of shiny stadia, leads the ageing ‘kids' through a ‘nice’ smg- become something different than you were. You don’t change, your life changes, that’s all. You grow up " V S t e ila r art-w ork: STEFAN PE BATSEL1ER according to your environment. Inevitably we would have grown up t was a plainly rhetorical because we were only 18 when we ' . projects at other times. started. But some people think that you question. “How you theatre events - thereby concluding this And how the assembled mass of bank look down on them, and that’s terrible. gonna keep ’em down short UK jaunt of “make-up” shows. tellers, car mechanics and student Y ou rfriends don’t think that. Your friends know that you’re the same and onthe farm, after These ai e initially nurses lap it up. Just as the cancelled because r unconventional star qualities of Dolores you struck it lucky and fair play to you.” theyI Paree?” recuperation following a skiing accident,O’Riordan won them a landslide among How are you coping with these indie Inspiredby the American America’s mall-dwellers, they’ve put a club gigs? we?” status as the band toured abroad, firm downpayment on Britain’s precinct Dolores: “We’re trying not to be too generation too. W ith her simple-minded rock star-ish about it all but... the sound global r e es. songs, so easy to “SING!” along to. The is SHITE! Ah, it’s a good challenge to go W o rld W ar One, when set Were they not contractually obliged Cranberries are about to make the back to the small clubs.” to do so, the band freely admit they transition from playing large halls to Noel: “It’s a good buzz doing these to th e music of W alter wouldn’t be now, after huge arenas look trifling. shows after being in the big places, but . several reschedules, they can use theseAnother unlikely-looking factor in this we know it’s only for a week or so. If it Lewis andJoe Young found shows titNottingham, Sheffield, inevitable process has assembled in a was a whole tour of that... ” T&C dressing-room. Rarely can there Mike: “This w ill be the last time we’ll that they had a bona fide whet appetites for their upcoming debuthave been a group of musicians so ever play places that size. Unless we 1919 Tin Pan Alley smash on UK arena tour and an REM stadium thoroughly unfazed at their status as decide to go back to that for a while.” Noel: “We have had some really good their hands. support slot. This w ill be the last time Feargai, Mike and Noel. Dispensing The Cranberries slum it for as long as drinks and bonhomie, they laugh off gigs this week. The smallest place we Severity-six years on, it’s a query stilltheir star continues to ascend along suchtonight’s technical problems, argue played, Rock City in Nottingham, was resonance. For proof we needa giddy . exponential route. This, quite about whether ‘Parklife’ or ‘Definitely great.”

v ' - : simply, is no longer their world. Maybe’ is better and dwell on their D olores: “ Rock C ity! It was as good as v Country Club in Leeds, where And of course, spiritually at least, it recent sojourn at a swish Midlands Central Park or Universal The Cranberries are grappling uneasily never was. For Dolores to regard a health farm where, it seems, they spent Amphitheatre!” amounts to a re tu rn to th e ir 1,700-capacity civic hail as an “ indie several days getting completely Why do you feel more comfortable rustic roots. How are they coping with club” recalls the similarly deluded Jim hammered. “1 don’t think we made playing big places? this sudden flashback to farmlife? W ith Kerr back when Simple Minds broke ourselves very popular with the other Dolores: “It’s more natural because some difficulty. through the enormodome threshold in guests,” Noel considers, reaching for the it’s profiling. When you go out on tour I !: /accustomed as she now is to: halls the late-’80s. In an interview, Kerr was champagne. Only the pricey libation for a year-and-a-half you’re building. You incapable of hosting the Horse O f The /: looking forward to some gigs at gives him away. Every other aspect of start out playing 2,000 seaters, then you Year Show, Dolores O ’Riordan marches Glasgow’s Barrowfands, saying it was his demeanour befits a young man happy go to 4,000 and then the last tour was around in a state of some agitation. good to be getting back to the clubs. to have been supporting Arse Bracket at 8,000 seaters and they were all sold out, Pointing at the monitors, she then When it was suggested that with a the Northampton Roadmenders (a and then the next tour is 15,000. So it’s gestures forcefully to the side of stage,capacity of nearly 2,000 the Barrowlands proper indie club). a steady build, and it’s just so weird to where The Cranberries’ new soundmanhardly qualified as a “club”, in mitigation Dolores does not join us in this go from 8,000 seaters down to a 1,700. fo u r songs in to a Kerr pointed to the fact that it had a post-gig wind-down. Instead she went And it really looks like a 1,000 capacity contract he must be wishing had gone ro o f. straight from the stage onto the coach w ith everybody stuffed in like sardines. elsewhere for. The Leeds T&C might have a roof but and off to Edinburgh, This does not It’s mad! ’Cos in the arenas it’s all nice Ms G’Riordan’s band-mates, too, lookits occupants tonight are making a come as a surprise. As well as their and clean and everything smells good as if they’ve had more fun watching hearty stab at raising it, via sheer amour- Island Records press officer, who drove and the sound is similar every night... ” bananas decompose. Walking over to power. “Dolores! Ah ioovya!” an the NME up from London, The Mike: “The dressing rooms are nice.” guitarist Noel Hogan, Dolores elicits a especially distraught Tetley-boy sobs. “I Cranberries have Lindsey, their own Feargai: “You know what to expect” shake of the head and a clearly visible love you too, sweetheart,” replies thepress officer, in tow. If the press officer’s Dolores: “The building structures are mouthing of the word “Shit!”, Over on henna-headed object of his traditional role is to act as a buffer pretty similar every day. They’re usually bass, N o e l’s bro th e r, M ike, can only befuddlement. Indie club or not, Thebetween band and journalists, then ice-hockey rinks or something.” shrug his shoulders. And at the heart of Lindsey’s role is to act as a buffer Granted, on paper this could read like the racket, Feargai Lawler ploughs on, between band, journalists and the band’s they’re taking the piss, but no - The gripped with the doughty conviction so record company; effectively, the band’s Cranberries love playing arenas because typical of drummers that if anyone can management’s earthly representative. It they smell nice and each one looks the see them through this it’ll have to be was she who had warned us that while same. It would come as no surprise if him. It’s not How are we were welcome to come and meet their next American tour came Another squall of feedback issues “the boys” after the gig, Dolores “w ill be sponsored by Holiday Inn and Burger from somewhere inbetween the you? It’s How are doing a run ne r” . King, so they could then cross an entire brothers Hogan and Dolores swivels 90 That she could do so and start the continent playing in identical-looking degrees, unleashing a glare worthy of The Cranberries? journey to Edinburghsans gargons is venues, staying in identical looking hotels Medusa. We can only guess what the Feargai down to The Cranberries’ fleet of three and eating identical tasting food. monitor tech is thinking. We can, coaches, one for the crew, the other OK. One: an-ice hockey rink was Money, money, money it's rich band’s world: (left to right) Feargai, Dolores, Mike and Noel however, speculate with a reasonable Cranberries continue to give it large, two for the band. While the record a designed for ice-hockey, not rock’n’roll. degree of confidence that at this playing to an imaginary punter with company PR is at pains to stress this is cause for celebration. N ot quite on awith par the artist for a while. But hey, if you Dolores: “We all find it very strange dole and the dole’s the same in England Two: have you ever watched a gig from particular moment Dolores O’Riordan ticketis number 8,000 clutched in his n o tnecessarily a case of Dolores in her with the startling discovery that want to convey the impression that the when we go home for a long time as it is in Limerick. So we could have but “It’s mad how many people come the back of Wembley Arena? You m ight thinking to herself something along the sweaty paw. And this despite the bus and the other three in theirs, what Crunchie bars are actually good for yourpeople who ultimately pay your wages because for the past five years we’ve we couldn’t see the point. What is the as well be watching it on TV. In fact, you lines of: “Thank God this is our last indie handicap of not having their full stage with Dolores already having a separate teeth, but on the way. To this end, we aren’t capable of talking about been more touring than we have beenpoint of leaving all your friends and your and tell me their two-and-a-half- quite often are because they’ve installed club gig... ever!” . set-up, due of course to the venue’sdressing room, tw o and two are are gathered in a function suite at themselves without someone’s hand to living a stable lifestyle. There’s a family and the people you’ve grown up video screens... sheer goddamn indieness. Leeds is pleading to be put together to see howEdinburgh’s Carlton Highland Hotel, cling onto (for whatever reason), it’s a re-adaption to be done in your mind with to go and live in a horrible, big, year-old kid was singing ‘Zombie*. Dolores: “I know, but the strange W l CAN do so because an hour therefore denied Dolores’ traditionalfar they can get. proceeding on the perfectly reasonablew inner. when you go back and it’s very freaky cruel city where you don’t know thing is that people still go, so it can’t be before stepping onstage Dolores saidqueen as bee entrance - emerging fromSo does all this, along w ith several condition that the entire band is involvedWeirdly, as Dolores starts explaining when you realise there’s nothing to do.anybody and you don’t trust anybody Maybe it*s because my voice isn’tthat bad. And when a band gets really much. Popping into the catering area, behind the stageon toa raisedcatw alk costume changes, thestadium rock - ’cos like, they’re a band, right? - and how little timeoff th e band has had over You can go through depressions when because it’scruel , because you lose all big there’s only so many gigs you can do, ed with a couple of crew before descending a steep flight of stepsposturing and the mithering about with the utterly pointless premise of the past three years (three months), that you’re trying to come down, it’s like your roots and your sense of yourself, very girly-girly and they think it there’s only so much you can distribute members. “Is this the last indie club to mix it with her drones — but by way insufficiently mega venues, add up to theLindsey sitting in on the interview. Donaldson/Lewis/Young classic from your head’s going, ‘What’ll I do? There’s your own being. I mean, me and my sounds like their mother.** - Doloresof your voice and talent. You don’t want we’re playing?” she asked, to nods in theof compensation is subject to the full personality schism that rumours insist Please excuse a quick diversion into1919 seems to be playing on a perpetual nothing to do’. But then you go, ‘Oooh, husband (Don burton. Cranberries’ to be on tour for your whole life, you affirmative. force of her crowd control techniques.has rent The Cranberries in twain: their the mechanics of band/joumalist subliminal loop. I can watch Coronation Street, that’ll be production manager) have ju st bought a wanna go on tour for this long and play Now, while it might not be Madison Foremost among these is the demand tooddball frontwoman and her self- interaction, but this has happened to me “Sometimes when you’re being good, I haven’t watchedCoronation house in Toronto but that’s because his “We’ve started calling everybody in we were never a media commodity. to this many people ’cos there’s such a Square Garden, the Leeds T&C is hardly“SING IT!” whenever we reach a effacing colleagues? O r isn’t this how just once before, when Marielia Frostrupsuccessful you don’t know when you Street in about a year-and-a-half.’. So family and friends live there, so that’s the music industry a wanker!” Dolores And that makes you feel like, yeah, so demand. So you just have to play these up (or down) there with the Rayleigh famous chorus, followed closely by people who sell upwards of 11 million did the honours during an interview withshould stop, you’re just on a total roll you start getting back into normal life, like my family and my friends. And we’velaughs. “All the press, media, business what?” places, otherwise people would never Pink Toothbrush, Newport TJ’s or the “PUT YER HANDS TOGETHER!” in the records ~ and who want to sell more - Bananarama. On that occasion, until you’re knackered.” do normal things. It’s nice, like. You got a house in Ireland where he’s heads, everybody. ’Cos you can go, Feargai (nodding): “Yeah, you deservesee you, and at least then they can see Kentish Town Bull & Gate in the sluice-inconvenient lead-ups to said chorusesinevitably behave? Like the song however, seeing as Ms Frostrup’s How does that happen? What’s the have to .” coming into my life. But I don’t think ‘We’ve got cash in our pockets and it. It’s just.” you.” hole hall of infamy. A relic of 19th when nothing much else is happening. suggests, if you’ve been hanging in conversation was a good deal more dynamic that makes you keep working Noel: “ It’s nice to go out and just havethere’s any point in getting your roots upwe’re having a good time’. People can Dolores: “’Cos people like your O nly just. Century municipal munificence, it stoutlyCowed into action, 1,700 northern Paree/LA/You Name It for most of the intelligent than that of her charges, it when, in some respects, it might not be a normal life like everybody else. I thinkand moving somewhere you have no slag you as much as they like, and it music. That’s what it boils down to.” “I think it’s better than to never see contains 1,700 punters. Such an souls dutifully destroy ‘Linger’, then setpast two years that liT o f farm ain’t seemed foolish to protest. Contrary tosuch a good idea? that’s what keeps you sane. ’Cos you connections and it just seems like a doesn’t matter. But we were lucky in How do your friends back home reactthe band, to see them in an arena while audience would represent the zenithabout of turning ‘Ode To My Family’ into a gonna look like much. what The Cranberries’ new big-shot Dolores: “I think you can tell by the could get really flash and move off to LAglamorous place. People make a place,that our fame and success is measured toin you now? they’re at their peak. People used to go many a band’s ambition. For The mid-tempo jig. The greatest commotion, But maybe the truth is a little more American management (notable other demand around the world. You can tell or London or wherever and just keepyour friends make a place for you. 1 thinkrecord sales and not in front covers of Dolores: “I haven’t been back home and see The Beatles and they couldn’t Cranberries, however, playing here is however, occurs whenever the black mundane. Why expect normality from asatisfied customers: Duran Duran) might when your gigs are selling out really fast that thing going all the time, that fast life. people are really important.” magazines. That makes it easier, ’cos for a long time. But there’s a lot of goodeven hear them ’cos the PAs were so akin to a Great Leap Backwards after chiffon-clad Dolores turns her back to completely abnormal way of life? As think, it is not standard practice. In whether you should go or not. And then And you’re never going to have a normalSo the trappings of a celebrity lifestyleyou know that what you’re doing is things about it because you realty get tobad, y’know.” puncturing America’s arena-clad heart the crowd and performs a perfectly Noel says, getting up off his make-shift recent months theNME has interviewed I think if suddenly the gig does not sell life if you do that.” hold no thrall for you? actually a productive achievement. see real people. I mean, if you’ve got There’s this story about Simple Minds, and getting used to sighting the crowd in bizarre dance that involves jerking her bench on the drinks cooler and pluckingthe likes of Elton John, Rod Stewart, out that means the band shouldn’t over­ Like the song doesn’t say - you can “Not at all. I mean, it’s so exciting to You’re achieving something like an friends that suddenly start treating you right, and... Presumably you look the middle distance, rather than clawing outstretched arms from side-to-side andout some more beer, “This band has Keith Richards and REM - superstars in tour. There’s a happy medium.” take the boy out of the farm, but you’ll have a bit of cash now for what we do. author if he writes a book and it sells, as different, and every time you see ’emforward all to the day when you can play at their feet. hopping from one foot to another, been touring way too long... ” the here and now as opposed to aspiringNoel: “And now, we’ll probably give never get that cow dung off your shoe. That’s probably the biggest thing, that opposed to being the trendy thing all the y bloody ta lk about is The stadiums as the norm? Tomorrow The Cranberries play rather like an epileptic crab. AppreciatedAs we are reminded on more than stellar titans like Dolores & chums - andout and go on about how we love time “It’s so strange,” says Dolores. “The you can go home and you go, ‘We have over the newspapers where you’re justCranberries that means they weren’t “Oh yeah, sure. I’m sure Mr Edinburgh’s lavishly refurbished and especially by the women, it undercutsone occasion, to be granted a each tim e the lucky hack has been off, but we kinda know this is the way it first day we could have moved off to cash! A t last! Wankers!’.” there because you’re cool and the mediareally that much of a good friend in the Aerosmith’s having a good life at the demonstrably un-indie Festival Theatrethe haughty demeanour she frequentlyCranberries interview these days is a granted sufficient respect to be left aloneis for us. We’re just so used to this.” London together. We were all on the Sorry? likes you. So I think we’re lucky becausefirst place.” CONTINUES OVER

Page 16— New Musical Express 29 July 1995 29 July 1995 New Musical Express— Page 17 minute. D’you know what I mean? songwriter. It doesn’t matter that they People enjoy it.” are happy to accept the tedious status Do you have any sense of who your quo that dictates bands beyond a certain audience is? stature must play in sterilised air-hangars 'Together people. A lot of college or worse, instead of at least regretting students. It’s mad how many people this state of affairs and wishing they could come and tell me their two-and-a-half­ do something about it. It doesn’t even year-old kid was singing ‘Zombie’. Kids matter that two of Dolores’ new songs seem to like it. Maybe it’s because my are trite accounts of John Lennon’s death voice isn’t very girly-girly and they think and the plight of children in Bosnia, it sounds like their mother, or maybe it’s thereby conforming to two hackneyed because some of the melodies are so rock song archetypes as well as being simple they can chant along. But I just pretty dire portents for the next album. think it’s nice because it’s open to Why? Because The Cranberries have everybody.” got the cash. Because The Cranberries You’re quite bossy with them, aren’t will make a lot more cash. Because The you? Cranberries are a proven market “Am I?” (Feargal, Mike and Noel fall success. Because The Cranberries once about laughing) got dumped on from a height by anyone SING ST! PUTYER HANDS who thinks they know what’s what, so TOGETHER! why should they care? In that sense, fair “ But it’s your show. If somebody play to ’em. The Dolores-to-go-solo doesn’t take control of the situation it’ll speculation surely misses the point that get out of hand. So I like to take controlthis would destroy a winning team. After

“I mean, it’s so exciting to have a bit of cash now for w hat we do. T h at’s probably the biggest thing, that you can go home and you go, 'We have cash! At last! Wankers!”’ - Dolores Yes, that’s a very fine belly-button Dolores of the situation. It looks like they like it. all, I she’s virtually solo at the moment money. Six months ago it was my thinking about going out there herself.like to unwind.” have no complaints. From what I’ve anyhow. Could you pick out Mike in a wedding attire, now it’s my money. O r maybe just spend some much How? seen, a lot of women say they like the crowd? If it ain’t broke, and all that. Apparently when that English paper needed time back on the farm. “Well, he does think I have the best way I do that kind of thing because so Broke, of course, is one thing The printed that, the Irish papers weren’t “ It’s been a long time since we’ve voice in the whole world. I sing to him in many women are so shy. You’ve got to Cranberries are not. A recent survey very happy, ’cos I was the ‘third richest been home for six months. Before, we bed all the time, and he loves that. Mind learn to open your mouth and speak forcalculated that Dolores was the fifth in Britain’, used to hook up at weekends, but you you, he always falls asleep when I sing to yourself.” richest woman in Britain, valuing her in “ It’s like reading about someone else. don’t want to after touring for this long.him at night.” the region of £3.25 million. Sometimes when I’m doing interviews AfterI’ll about three weeks we’ll start Ah. And not necessarily when you’ve T H E Y ’ RE RIGHT,you know. You can “Aye, I’m worth a lot,” she smiles. “A start sarcastically referring to me as getting back together. When you reform,been singing a lullaby either? slag off The Cranberries as much as you good racehorse I am, a fine filly! It’s like, Dolores, ’cos it’ll feel like Dolores is thisyour friendship becomes different. This “ No, I could sing him ‘Zombie’ and like, but it doesn’t matter one bit. It gosh, how do they know? I’m gonna killother person.” can put pressure on your friendship, buthe’d fall asleep! But he really loves what I doesn’t matter that Dolores’ belief in themy accountant when I get home. He’s The other Dolores has got ’til the endwe don’t let it do that. I’m lucky ’cos I do and that helps. Relationships on tour importance of family goes hand in hand my brother, by the way, so I’m really of August, then there’s six months off met my husband on the road when he are a real dilemma. I’ve had my fair share with her vigorous espousal of market gonna kill him for talking to them. It’s from touring. She’s involved with an was working with Duran Duran, and we of disappointments. But all you can do is forces, or that she talks about the funny how people take these random organisation called the War Child Society formed our relationship as he did his get up, put some bandages on your process of being in a wildly successful guesses. Haven’t you got better things to- as are David Bowie and Brian Eno - thing and I did mine. I kinda like to watchknees and get going.” rock band like she were an accountant worry about? I find it funny. Suddenly all that’s trying to raise money to build a him work and he likes to watch me work And maybe we should just leave them (“ profiling” , “demand”) as opposed to a the Irish papers were going on about mychildren’s centre in Mostar. She’s and then at the end of the day we both to it.

Page 18—New Musical Express 29 July 1995 velvet suit and wallops us with one of those huge shit-eating grins. Pandemonium breaks out. THERE'S A new rule in the popster's guide to success: never work with This, my friends, is wish fulfilment children, animals or mad drummers. Let's face it, one Gary Young gone ballistic, dreams gone interstellar. album is, like, ten too many. You just know that there's not a single The f— up potential of tonight's gig, then, is huge. Before two woman here (and it's ten women to songs are up. Velvet Crush's gangly skin-batterer and pioneering rock- every man) who wouldn't go backstage nerd Ric Menck has taken centre stage to tell us about being caught and shag Marti blind if he smouldered by the (ahem) fuzz while taking a shifty piss in a car park. Pavement at them and the spotlight flashed their fans visibly shudder. way, three kids at home or not. It's Worry-ye-not, though, because it's Ric's charmingly awkward Shirley Valentine crossed with the mic-hijackings that carry us through the chugging, workaday half of National Lottery. It couldyou\ be the set. On record the Crush are our Beach Boys, but the first half hour The trouble for Marti is that, love him sounds like Buffalo Tom in a chicken strangling factory. The sun- as they do, not a soul here can smattered summer harmonies of 'Window To The World' and 'Why understand a single word he says. Every Not Your Baby' are buried under a mound of churning, bog-standard time he tries to talk, to tell us how he's grunge fuzz. Meanwhile, one song gets stopped because they forget feeling, a deep Glasgow fog of a voice the obligatory "ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR!" opening. Thank god for Ric. booms out and we just sit there trying Then, somewhere around the "TWO!" of the intro to 'Hold Me Up', to puzzle out what the hell he's on something clicks - yes, Velvet Crush realise they're enjoying about. But when he takes off his jacket, themselves. Suddenly the Nashville-punk vivacity that made last year's whool 'Teenage Symphonies To God' LP shine like a stoner's droopy eyeball Because Marti, poor thing, has envelops glorious Byrdsian buzz-rushes like 'Drag Me Down' and the become the victim of his own looks, a stupendous 'Blind Faith'. The rest is pure, triumphant celebration. poet trapped in the body of a sex god. Give 'em a fairweather festival to woo with those syrupy just when the few of us who aren't symphonies and God might just answer back. Oh, and if Ric gets lusting after him are flagging from the sacked, sell your grandparents to own him. oestrogen levels, a huge drawbridge Mark Beaumont comes down and the band stomp across it whilst 10,000 pairs of hands wave in and electric guitars. Overlapped, the air. The group ham it up furiously of course, by washes of shredded by each taking the mic and leading spaghetti westerns and snorting singalongs though 'Every Breath You trancey stampedes. Obviously, Take' and 'Every Time You Go Away' WEIRDOS WITH beards playing this is techno. whilst Marti is left pulling faces behind sandpaperdiscs. Bald geezers Pentatonik's decision to play them, ever more isolated. Jim Leighton with deely hoppers. Endless herdssuch a staunch indie hidey-hole steals the show here, taking the piss of faceless trainspotters gatheredslowly makes sense. The fuzzy out of Marti's absurd singing style on a around endless racks of whale clank of 'Dreadnought' with its snatch of 'Love Is All Around'. Marti song. Let's face it, the Space 1999 bass and punctured gets his own back when he sighs "Shall experimental side of dance has bagpipe keyboards,or the we do another Number One?" - like an image problem. Those blackmarshmallow-xylophoned Sinatra in Vegas - but he's oddly sheep of the family like Uncle 'Zeitgeist' are as hummable as a vulnerable here when personality, for Aphex or weird cousin Scanner toilet duck jingle. an instant, counts for more than looks . are so intently watching icicles Pentatonik aren't afraid to quite exhilarating. So charitable are By the time it's all over the band, melt and walking on eggshells compete with your Brit-poppers they that even dreadful support bandrealising they're destined to be part of that you often end up with a in both energy and catchiness. Scarlet get a generous round of a free-rolling, multi-million selling rather lukewarm 'shroom And they have got a secret applause, until the Martettes stage cabaret act forever, cop out completely. omelette. weapon: glistening like a pearl inSO THIS is what reality looks like. front spot a look-a-like and start They end not with a new angst-ridden Pentatonik, on the other hand, a crystal sea of radiance is current G-Mex, for three nights only, has beengiggling and screaming until the poorlament but with 'All You Need Is Love' have grasped the fact that single 'Crado'. Like a Dalek transformed into the Office Christmas man waves at them in recognition (butand the only option left is to give in to creating soundtracks for drug singing in the bath, it is bright, Party/Pink Pineapple Hen Night from my how his girlfriend glowed!). it all, completely and utterly. adventures isn't enough dangerous and quite, quite Hell. It is Brookside's La Luz without the When Marti actually comes on, all Wet Wet Wet are a British institution anymore.Mainman Simeon beautiful. famous people. And not a Supergrass,hell breaks loose as he starts belting through and through now, and getting Bowring has hit upon a part Far off in the future, man may Oasts or Blur T-shirt in sight. through classic dole lament 'Wishing hetI up about it is about as absurd as blissed ambience, partjammy succeed in recording the sound of Women from 14 to 45 are here in Was Lucky'. Then the recent star of fretting about Robbie leaving Take trance formula that not only a lucid dream. Then we could their thousands, intent on causing Hello!r married to former Miss ScotlandThat. That's life. It's about time we got blazes new dance trails, it's so find that Pentatonik got there mayhem and lusting after Marti FellowEileen Catterson no less, croonswas '7 used to it. solidlymelodic it can be first. until the taxis take them home. It is living in the gutter" in his crushed Paul Moody convincingly played on live drums John Perry MCP PRESENTS the cranberries

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