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the cranberries New single available on Seven Inch • Cassette • twoCD box s e t single of the week LIVE IN OCTOBER 3 MANCHESTER ACADEMY 4 WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC HALL 6 NEWPORT CENTRE 7 PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL 9 LEEDS TOWN & COUNTRY CLUB 10 NOTTINGHAM ROCK CITY 12 NEWCASTLE MAYFAIR 13 GLASGOW BARROWLANDS 14 LIVERPOOL ROYAL COURT 16 LONDON SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE - SOLD OUT 17 LONDON SHEPHERDS BUSH EMPIRE KNOW HMV • KNOW MUSIC 24 September 1994 New Musical Express— Page 31 • THE CRANBERRIES are no indie fops, but neither are they major label Limerick. 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 soul-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 rm 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 Dublin’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 Noel Hogan 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 album 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 the infamous 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 Geoff Travis 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, at last, 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 Ireland (“It doesn’t herself,her husband and her surroundings. She label sound or the hazy noodlings of shoegazing, Cranberries started touring the States with The the 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, ‘Zombie’, 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 wannabe Irish then.

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