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24 September 1994 New Musical Express— Page 31 • THE CRANBERRIES are no indie fops, but neither are they major label . Oh, and Dolores’ personal life was falling So one minute she will frown at her drink, lips apart. In short, everything went wrong. curled down, and, with a petulant reference to The lackeys. And after much bedridden -searching, singer Dolores has “I was going to leave the band at that point,” Cranberries’ early days, snap: “It seemed as though decided that she isn’t going to go mental. SIMON WILLIAMS goes straight shudders the singer. “I couldn’t take it anymore -1 we were being ridiculed by some very small- couldn’t even get out of bed. I discovered that life’s minded Englishmen. I was reading some STUPID to the sauce to find out exactly w hat everyone else was doing. not a sweet trip at all. It seemed to me to be the CRAP about me!” Then she’ll switch back into Turkeyshoot: STEVE DOUBLE biggest farce. All I ever wanted to do was write Earth Mother mode and, with the sort of songs and be a singer without being hurt by the enthusiasm norm ally reserved fo r Jesus A y nee upon a time there was And now, quite frankly, they couldn’t give a shit. industry. I just freaked.” conscripts, claim that, “Everyone is cool,everybody gflr |fi| a girl. A shy girl - Sitting in the bar of ’s Gresham Hotel, Later, the terrifyingly affable Fergal and Noel has got something to offer!” Dolores O ’Riordan is (alarmingly) fresh from a M L^Pcripplingly so, some (the former resembling a sexy pseudo-Adam Similarly, there’s one moment when she recalls four-hour photo session. While ‘The Lads’ Clayton, the latter a Fred Perry-tastic cousin of going back to Limerick, post-platinum sales frenzy, reckoned - but fiercely (drummer Fergal Lawler, guitarist and Graham Blur) relate a story which sums up just and being confronted by “big men” shouting individual with it. A girl with an bassist brother Mike) are holed up in a rehearsal how little The Cranberries knew about anything “There’s that bitch! There’s that rock star!” at her room across town, the singer comforts a Bailey’s back then. as she walked down the street, which she now offbeam, hermetically-sealed life on the rocks, armed with a peroxide blonde crop, Apparently, the first time they ever stayed in a dismisses with a curt shrug and an unnervingly thatwas comfortable but false eyelashes and a flesh-defying array of ear London hotel, they discovered the dangerous calm: “You always meet the odd asshole wherever studs. frustrating.She knew she loved thrills of the mini-bar in their rooms. Believing its you go.” Then there are other rare moments when Delores: “i couldn’t take it anymore” The Cranberries have undoubtedly made contents to be free, they emptied all the mini-bars she slips into crushing cliche-speak and talks about children, she knew she had a talent, people sit up in their Leatherworld sofas and think. they could find and got cheerfully smashed. “The gift” that is her musical talent (cue “Being “Because no matter what you ever achieve in life I but shedidn’t have a due what was About three million sales worldwide. About Incredibly, the following day all the mini-bars were given a voice and the ability to w rite songs is don’t see how any human being can get satisfaction ‘Linger’ lingering around the Top 20 for what felt goingto happen to her as a w om an. refilled! So, scarcely believing their luck, not to something I love so much...”). from destroying a little child and seeing his mother, like several decades. About a sheifload of awards mention the generosity of the capital’s hoteliers, For the most part, however, over the space of who carried it for nine months and pushed it out Thensomething happened to change her life so donated by MTV and a humbled Irish music mafia. the band invited all their mates round and drank an hour Earth Mother and Tank Girl somehow from between her legs and all the pain and dramaticallythat within five fierce, frantic years About American tour when The everything all over again. Cool. come together as a rather neat, caring, considerate suffering she went through, seeing her lose him. she w ouldlook like a totally different person. Cranberries stole Suede’s thunder and then When they checked out. The Cranberries were whole with a fanatically philosophical undercurrent. Why? Because she just happened to be walking W ithinthat time she would be worshipped, decided to take their lightning as well, just for confronted with bills of £460. Each. Not so cool. Which is rather fortunate, because The down the street. abusedand adored once again. She would be good measure. About - and here’s the crux - one Now, of course, they can laugh about it. Because Cranberries - unwittingly or not - are about to “To me, the whole thing is very confused. A lot whiskedfrom obscurity off around the globe. She of the craziest (see insane, erratic, seemingly over one day way back when (time is irrelevant - this is drive straight into the eye of the Irish political of people need to grow up. If these adults have a w ouldgo ski-ing, unwittingly become a significant at one point) careers in the history of pop. supposed to be a fairytale, right?), Rough Trade hurricane. problem with these other adults well then, go and representative for her home country in America supremo became involved in their fight them. Have a bit of bails about it at least, you and cometo abhor the snooping, swooping press. CRUCIAL FACT: The Cranberries are about as career. And, , The Cranberries clasped the JUST AS‘Everybody Else Is Doing It, So W hy know? Don’t stick a bomb somewhere where It seemedas though she would suffer a nervous ‘indie’ as Mike Oldfield’s arse. Blonde crops or not, guiding hand of someone who realised that these Can’t We?’ was a perfect title for the timid you’ll hurt kids and ordinary women who never did breakdownone day and wear designer clothes the their relationship with hipper-than-bastard-thou four half-shy, half-bewildered band members had demanding some attention, so The Cranberries’ anything to you. Some people might think they’re next.Her picture would be flashed around the coolness lasted about five minutes a bloody long more to them than the crippling ‘New Sundays’ tag forthcoming second album - neatly poised to join getting their point across, but to me... it’s pathetic, world, notleast her ‘sensational' wedding shots. time ago. And while The Lads’ may have they had been ascribed. They toured the UK with the pre-Christmas rush - is called ‘No Need To really.” She w ouldbe the centre of attention and it would developed sufficient fondness for the likes of The Belly. They rambled around Europe with Hothouse A rgue’. Dolores talks about her love of Irish history, crack herup. She would hang around with Duran Smiths to start a band in the first place, when Flowers. And then America called. Sticking with what has turned out to be a how maybe once upon a time there was a reason Duran, Atimes t she didn’t know what was reality Dolores ran way from her strict Catholic Finally, the oft-delayed debut album ‘Everybody staggeringly successful formula, the likes of ‘I Can’t for the killings, but that time has long since passed. and w hatwas a particularly fantastical fantasy. upbringing in the Irish village of Ballybricken, the Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?’ stumbled from Be With You’ and ‘Dreaming My Dreams’ are She says th at th e song is as applicable to Rwanda o r N o w and again she would stop and look at 18-year-old knew bugger all about the Creation the drawing board and into the shops. When The wistful, gentle wanderings, the proverbial koalas in Bosnia as it is to Northern (“It doesn’t herself,her husband and her surroundings. She label sound or the hazy noodlings of shoegazing, Cranberries started touring the States with rock zoo, dealing with enough aspects of love, name terrorist groups or organisations. It doesn’t w o uld seeall the hangers-on, the fervent let alone the delightful forthcoming releases on The it was selling 40,000 copies a week. Then it loneliness and loss to make Kleenex sales rocket take sides - it’s a veryhuman song.”), and that strangers,the friends she left behind. And she was up to 50,000 a week. Then 70,000. with American males. when James Bulger was killed in Liverpool she would say,“Why the f— am I doing this?” Dolores, thrown into the hectic whirl of gigs, But before that comes a single, ‘’, which could feel a new sense of evil in mankind. So th a t’sthe story of Princess Diana sorted, tour buses, hotels and more gigs, claims, “It wasn’t shows that Dolores has swiftly moved on from When faced with the idea of Irish then. freaky at all, I wasn’t even thinking about it”. But learning how to play guitar (she only started last media types across America, desperate to ‘live’ And,funnily enough, that is the fairytale - nay, then again... “After ten weeks of it you do start year) and is now getting to grips with effects , sinking their teeth into ‘Zombie’ and hairy tale - of one Dolores O ’Riordan. thinking, ‘Oh, we must be near selling a million by pedals. So the fuzzed-up underbelly of ‘Zombie’ refusing to let go, she shrugs and insists that “I’m now !”’ goes “GRRRRR!” (in a restrained, tasteful an artist and I’m entitled to say ‘I am not going to T O P U T it politely, business, much like More importantly, The Cranberries had crept Cranberries kind of way), and up above Dolores talk about that’.” life w iththe Windsors, is not noted for Happy into a marketplace that cared diddly squat for sings about bombs and guns and how all this Ultimately, she says, no matter the implications Endings.For every success story there are a hipdom or the . An element of their fighting in is pretty bloody stupid. or repercussions inherent in writing such a song, ► - m illio nlosers milling around the bottom of the newfound audience embraced the band’s Celtic Appropriate enough, you might think, bearing in and no matter the ever-present dangers of being pile. For each gloriously fulfilled dream there are mi e a spirituality, hankering after their own spurious mind the recent media overkill on the ‘25 Years O f that open, that honest, Dolores simply wants to dozensof Bum Gravys scratching away at the arse Reagan-style Irish roots. Conversely, a fair chunk of Trouble’ since British troops made themselves at make people think. endo f th e rainbow . bit of balls about it. ■ their fanbase thought that Limerick was home. And downright spooky when you consider “I think I’m in a position where if you feel really And even The Big Breakthrough hardly somewhere in . And none of this mattered guarantees a lifetime of languid delights. If you Don’t stick a bomb because this new land was huge, innocent to the “I’m always conscious that when I’m sitting manage to get through the layers of management, band and, unlike the suffocating confines of Dublin PRs, record company execs and bodyguards, just somewhere you’ll hurt or London, absolutely gagging for a spot of gently- there I don’t want my knickers to be ask and George Michael about fondled fioprock that involved a (cough) cutesie pie success. Because when the world knows your s Irish lilt instead of a sweating lump of kid u r name, part of your globally-renowned spirit sinks plummeting onto your head. Unsurprisingly, (and andsays, ‘O h shit’. Damaged Goods. hold on to your passports Messrs Hunt, Anderson he* ?” - D ■ es More than any other year, 1994 has proved Four years on, little has changed. True, she has and Albarn), Dolores is rather smitten with w h ata potential minefield the whole mindless some vague idea observing, at one point, “There Am erica. that, a week after our conversation, the IRA strongly about something and it really annoys you, non really is. From Kurt’s grisly suicide to the are so many women in bands over in England “I LOVE IT over there!” she gushes. “It’s got so announce the ceasefire. then other young people will think the same as you ghastly Reading antics of the Love/Dando/Barlow trying to sing, but all they do is go ‘EEEEEEK!’,” much going for it that Europe hasn’t, and The original idea was to hook up with the band and something can be done about it. But first you unholy alliance; from the rambling Roses’ the eeeeeek! being delivered with a resonance that sometimes it can be annoying but most of the time at the video shoot for ‘Zombie’, which was have to be aware before you do anything about it.” continued exile to The Stuffies’ demise; from what resembles Bjork having a brain haemorrhage. it’s great. The narrow-mindedness of where I supposed to take place in . True enough, saw to Richey Manic’s lyric sheets. Yet for the most part, like someone who’s just come from and what I’ve seen annoys me so much over the next couple of days a film crew will be in SUCCESS HASN’T made fools or freaks of The A t one point this summer it felt as though the had a damn good Frenchie with the Blarney Stone, that I love the open-mindedness of the Americans. Northern Ireland shooting footage. But The Cranberries just yet. Nope, Dolores isn’t going to whole horrible, punk-inspired ‘success sucks!’ she’s content to babbie on about hanging out with The women will never judge other women. They Cranberries will be staying, umm, in Dublin. become the next Sinead O ’Connor; honest virtues ethic was going to send half of our so-called some of the most seriously ridiculed people in the will never look at someone else and say, ‘Look at “A street is a street,” explains Dolores, defiantly, or not, she knows where to draw a veil between heroes toppling like drunken, drugged-up known universe... her, she’s a slut!’ In the States, women come over “and your mentality says that what goes on in the the public gaze and her private life. Yes, dominoes. “? , I know them well,” to you and say, ‘You’re beautiful!’, and that’s lovely. street has got nothing to do with people in a band is a big C ranberries fan. Remember that is now claiming she beams. “They’re f—ing sound, if you excuse There’s no bitchiness. standing there looking glamourous. It looks too Yes, Dolores wears rather natty designer clothes to be a housewife who, presumably, has never had my vulgarity. Simon (Le Bon) is the nicest man, and “Men seem to be a little more open with their m ental.” for free. Yes, Duran Duran rather like them. Yes, a domestic cleaning experience. Remember that he’s mad about his kids. And Yasmin’s a sound emotions, too. Guys cry all the time over there, So where are the band recording their parts fo r The Cranberries are level-headed types with three years ago the record company told Blur that woman and a great mother, a really cool woman.” because they weren’t told as kids ‘Don’t cry! Boys the video? occasional flaky rock’n’roll outbursts. And yes, their career was over. Remember the pressures, See, to The Cranberries there is bally all don’t do that!' They’re told to express “LA.” when ‘’ flutters into the top the level of expectation shoved upon shoulders difference between touring with Suede or the themselves.” Right! Admittedly, The Cranberries will be end of the chart, ‘Everybody Else Is Doing It, So barely capable of carrying an entire album’s worth Durannies. This isn’t being post-ironic. It’s not This, one presumes, is not the American norm. filmed within the confines of a studio, but it proves W h y Can’t W e?’ w ill still be lurking around, ticking of decent material. being ironic at all. And that is the key to their Walking through Manhattan, you are unlikely to just how wary people have to be when it comes to on towards that next platinum disc. Dolores does. That’s why, in retrospect, the success. During their initial rush of attention, bump into gangs of youths marauding , dealing with The Troubles’, so crassly has pop Success? Pah! alpine incident which left her knee in a Gazza-style Other People took The Cranberries (described as sobbing into their bandanas over the dead squirrel culture crash-landed into Belfast before. “In the States last week I had to do this state of disrepair earlier this year is seen as a ‘leprechauns’ at the time) under their supposedly they’ve just buried in Central Park. Hazarding a Remember ‘Invisible Sun’ by The Police? O r interview and this magazine wanted to do a thing blessing in disguise. Because it meant that The knowledgeable wings and strived to transform the guess, Dolores has been fortunate enough to meet ‘Belfast Child’ by Simple Minds? The relationship on women for their 25th anniversary. So I went Cranberries' singer had to stay in bed for a month. intrinsically naive into the naturally Pop Kid- American women who want to be her friend for between pop and politics may have had some kind down there and your man was like, what you have And put everything into perspective. friendly. So the band toured with Scouse stompers life (or at least until her records stop sprinting out of spiritual second honeymoon over the past to do now is take your clothes off for a few shots. “I don’t think I would be as happy now Top. And then with morose sorts Moose. And of the stores), and the blokes are sensitive types couple of years, but rarely have the likes of Senser And it was like no, I’m not doing that, no way! I’ll w ith th e band if th a t hadn’t happened,” she says, they brought out a single, ‘Uncertain’, and then... who reckon that ‘Linger’ is written solely about or looked as only take off my clothes for my husband, “You can be doing things and not thinking. So I had everyone lost interest.Everyone. them, which obviously gives them a divine right to desperately stupid as Jim Kerr unleashing his Celtic DARLING! a chance to have a good think about everything Having signed spectacularly to Island, The dribble over the singer until some friendly bouncer conscience on a disbelieving public. “I hate all that crap, it’s so cliched. I’m always that had happened to us, and I decided that I Cranberries saw labelmates PJ Harvey and Stereo comes along and helps them ever-so-gently out of And so to ‘Zombie’, a song written by Dolores conscious that when I’m sitting there I don’t want wasn’t going to go mental.” M Cs storm ahead in the release schedule stakes. the building. in the wake of the bombings last year. my knickers to be showing off. To me it’s like, This is no display of fanciful dramatics, either. They had management problems. They had tried But then that’s Dolores O ’Riordan in a nutshell - Fittingly, it’s here that the singer’s usual fizzy, why? What’s that got to do with your head and Dolores speaks matter of factly and follows it up to discover a Brave New W orld, only to find that one part stompy Tank Girl, one part caring, sharing freeform chat is usurped by hesitant your music? And the guys aren’t into that - they with a contradict-me-if-you-dare glare. Because Dublin was dead to them and London so Earth Mother. And it’s a bizarre, contradictory contemplation. never wanted me to go, “Pout, baby, pout”. See, The Cranberries have had their delicate, incestuous that, in spiritual terms at least, both beast whose very naivety leaves her screamingly “There was a funeral, a little child’s funeral, and I we’re not a band who does what we’re told to do. introverted fingers burnt by the industry before. cities were just as closed-in, as claustrophobic as wide open to cynicism, if not outright exploitation. was sickened,” she begins, brow furrowed. We do what we want to do. That’s the difference.” Sauce Men Of The International Chart-Storming Apocalypse... well, , the blond,cropped one’s Dolores - but you knew that... Page 32 - New Musical Express 24 September 1994 24 September 1994 New Musical Express - Page 33 CHUCK LONDON CAMDEN DUBLIN CASTLE CLUB SPANGLE! LOOK, IT’S not our fault, right? Admittedly, the New Wave Of New Wave may just have been invented in some shady, half-pissed corner of NME Towers, but now the crazy coloured tiles of Carnaby Street are quaking with anticipation of... THE NEW ! Seriously! All over a square, oooh, 100 yards of North London Town, The Kids are getting scootered up and rediscovering a new Parka-life. Allegedly. GORKY'S Call them Weller wannabes, or Blur’s babies if you want to be PANTERA ZYGOTIC MYNCI really cruel, but ail around the NEWPORT CENTRE CONGREGATION world the likes of Mantaray, Therman, Alvin Purple, The JESUS CHRIST, it’s a bloody LONDON CAMDEN Weekenders and Create! are abbatoir in here. There’s a LAUREL TREE windmilling and scissor kicking penned-in herd of human cattle WHAT FRESH madness is this? their way through toilet gigs at the front, the same generic There is a band on stage by bulging with "Lala las" as if metalscum crowd you would see the baffling name of Gorky’s grunge never happened. And in Doncaster, Dortmund or Des Zygotic Mynci. They are clearly drinking cups of tea. Enter Moines. That’s how massive the Fall acolytes and they are Reading’s Chuck, a finely-tuned multi-platinum thrash-monster using trombones, Paiitoy powertrio with the kind of tonsil­ straining harmonies that would called Pantera has become while keyboards and skew-whiff we weren’t paying attention, and scare a rocker at 200 paces. guitars to kick up the unruliest now these Texan road warriors Fresh from opening up their of rackets. And yet they still are impossible to ignore. hometown festival - guitarist Paul take a mere 17 seconds to Tonight, they rip Newport’s head still models his luminous off and dance around its spurty- convince you (and the Laurel wristband - they’re in boisterous necked corpse. Tree’s biggest crowd EVER) frame of mind, flaunting a dynamic It's only during the second that superweird can be debut single in ‘Jump’ (funded by song - or maybe the third - that superace. . singer Mark’s dad’s redundancy your brain recovers from the full- But first, the considerably money) and basically going for the on sensory assault long enough less off-kilter Congregation. full steam ahead anti-slacker angle to realise that Pantera are the Singer Billy tries his best, with a weird mixture of cheeky imp BEST METAL BAND IN THE bless him - posturing vainly grins and socially aware stomps. WORLD EVER. They’ve got all the between songs and removing In fact, it’s sometimes hard to things that make metal brilliant - his shirt to expose a liquorice- equate their puppydog exterior awesome firepower, a World War stick physique - and they have with such politico-punchy lyrics - Three lightshow and an all-out at least one rather lovely, particularly when Chuck lapse into Kill Everyone attitude - with Family Cat-esque number in banal platitudes (see "Stand up and be counted!") and the set none of the shitty bits. Better their spindly set. But still, they deliver their payload drags on roughly three songs too ultimately they’re all sweat with such brutal conviction and long. and no glow. skull-crushing volume that any ‘Racey’ is one word that springs By the time the Gorky’s pisstake critique - even NMEs not unreasonably to mind most of all-purpose Mask Of Irony - is finally cease faffing about and the time, however. ‘Irrepressible’ instantly crushed to steaming commence their set of brightly is another. And ‘fruity’ is yet offal beneath their thundering packaged oddities, there’s so another, as Mark punches his hooves. Pantera, on every level, little oxygen in here you can’t bass, launches himself skyward rock. strike a match. Fortunately, with legs akimbo and flogs yet Human stealth bomber Philip most people are holding their another wretchedly catchy chorus Ansel mo is a balls-outbrilliant breath anyway, as the last like a man who has this frontman, out-Rollinsing Henry as night of summer expires in loud’n’lairy Beatpop thing totally he prowls the vast mountain delightfully unhinged fashion. sussed. Woof. range of Marshall amps which Because the Gorks are at Next week: The New Wave Of make up Pantera’s none-more- once the strangest and the New Romantics hits the Bull & black stage rig. Scoring hash off most fantastic thing in too Gate. Probably. the crowd mid-set is a neat long a while. Live, they’re more Simon Williams move, but recommending unsafe accessible than on their sex is pushing the steroid- occasionally impenetrable pumped redneck pose too far - THRUM recordings, but stilt combine joke or no joke. furrowed brows and broad grins LO N D O N THE Still, nobody comes to see Pantera for PC politeness. They by cramming 18 different MARQUEE come to get their heads blown songs into one. OUTSIDE, HUNDREDS of people off by thrash hurricanes like the They do make one are pressing to glimpse Naomi astonishing ‘F—ing Hostile’ - a concession to popularity: Campbell at her West End book grisly prison riot of a tune which almost half tonight’s set is launch. The rumour machine detonates ferocious flailing of sung in English although, in across the road, says she’ll be in limbs for miles around - and the truth, their Welsh lyrics are no the Marquee later to check out neck-snapping riff ‘Five harder to sing along with than, Thrum. But Campbell and her Minutes Alone’ which - no say, the Manics’ English ones. entourage don’t show - and it’s kidding - rocks like a three- But it’s heart-warming proof their loss. legged pig on crack. Pantera are that, after a period of Welsh Inside the Marquee, there’s an the only metal act around trying language isolation, this equally compelling woman holding to match hardcore rap’s amoral generation of Welsh combos Simian guys have aii the pluck: Gorky’s reorganise rock court in the diminutive form of Monica Queen. She’s blessed adrenalin rush head on without - (see also 60Ft Dolls, and here’s the crux - stealing bleating sheep. And that’s to David Lynch’s curiously danceable. Oh, and with a voice to kill for, although it Catatonia, Helen Love) are not from it. This is why they rule, what Gorkys do on the maddest movie yet ( ‘WAWS’). they write pop songs that’d harks from the sun-drenched about to make ignoring them dude. fundamentally bizarre ‘Game Of Yet the chief miracle here is make people like Congregation states of America rather than the easy. So watch your backs, Eyes’. They also, during the that, throughout such weep. rain-sodden streets of her native , because Pantera are Not that you could ignore a course of the evening, sound shenanigans, the ghost of Putting the into Glasgow. THE BEST METAL BAND IN THE band who are busy unleashing like playing Blur’s wackiness never once has the discordant, Gorky’s Zygotic Thrum are part-garage, part- WORLD EVER. And they know a ‘Monster Mash’ for ’90s ‘To The End’ ( ‘Bunch’), the nerve to inquire about visiting Mynci are truly, madly, deeply country and part full-on rock; where you live. indie-literates, complete with on bigger, hours, while the whole sanity- wonderful. somewhere between Lone Justice Stephen Dalton what sounds like a sample of a badder drugs ( ‘Eira’) and the deprived shebang remains Mark Sutherland and The Rockingbirds with a king- sized heart and balls bigger than Buster Gonad’s. Tonight they’re THE CRANBERRIES Catherine Wheel, but she can exocet your feelings spewing out bite-size nuggets of LONDON RONNIE SCOTT'S love, hate and joy with brash guitars and melodies that shimmy world, then follow The Cranberries* example and and shine. They’re ploughing the You can be the coolest and the smartest item ever, Americana-obsessed vein that but if you can’t give the soul-staggers to the dominates Scottish music. But there’s not the piffy gloss of Texas, the impish retro-fixation of Whiteout or the insidious poses of Del Amitri. They’re dirty, passionate and believeable - and naturally, they’re very drunk. Guitarist John Smillie goes dousing the whole show with Irony, weird dumb circumstances. By the end, she’s literally In epileptic during the metal-esque juxtapositions, ali that scene. But Dolores just bleats assault of ‘Rifferama’. ‘Nowhere on about what a silly, star-crazed girl she’s been and To Run’ is a sonic rocker and when it ends two encores later Monica is wailing through a dizzying version of - you guessed it - 's ‘Like A and topical plea for peace live) the kind of raging Hurricane’. The sentimentality she shovels into thos» tunes is Outside, the hapless suits are still milling about waiting for Naomi to surface. Poor bastards, and then tdumph as mind-benders. Thanksgiving's they were queueing for the wrong ■ come early this year, event. | &0tore$, gir1 with a heart bigger than her guitar fret over die relative merits of Swervedhver and : Stuart Bailie Andy Richardson 24 September 1994 New Musical Express— Page 37