detaylı biografi / detailed biography

1989



Skip back to the start of the tape, back to the turn of the 80's when making a living from rock and roll wasn't even on the map for Noel, Mike and Fergal, three quarters of what was originally The Cranberry Saw Us.

Teyibin başına saralım ve Noel,Mike ve Fergal, The Cranberry Saw Us'ın üç kurucusu için,rock'n rollun yaşam biçimi bile olmadığı 80lere dönelim.

By that stage U2 had already chalked up their own first decade of worldwide success. Globe-trotting tours and albums such as "Unforgettable Fire" and "Joshua Tree" opened international doors for the Irish music industry who were ready to prove that there was more to Ireland than Bono and company.

Bu dönemde U2 çoktan dünya çapındaki başarısının ilk 10 yıllık serüvenini tamamlamıştı. Hızlı Dünya turneleri,Unforgettable Fire ve Joshua Tree gibi albümler, İrlandanın Bono ve arkadaşlarından daha fazlasını barındırdığını kanıtlamak adına İrlanda müzik endüstrisine uluslararası kapıları açmıştı.

The 80's produced new Irish international stars Clannad, Enya, Hot House Flowers, Sinead O'Connor and Chris De Burgh. U2 set up their own label to seek out and promote new acts. U2 bassist Adam Clayton championed the cause of Limerick band, Tuesday Blue.

Seksenler Clannad, Enya, Hot House Flowers, Sinead O'Connor ve Chris De Burgh gibi uluslararası İrlandalı starlar çıkardı.

"We used to listen to U2. Sure who didn't", says Mike. "Then there was The Smiths, New Order, The Cure..."

Mike:Bir zamanlar U2 dinlerdik,kim dinlemezdiki,sonra tabi The Smiths,New Order,The Cure da vardı.

"..Depeche Mode, REM," Fergal adds. "Stuff that was very popular".

"Depeche Mode ve REM de",Fergal ekliyor. "Stuff da çok popülerdi"

"We were all just into the music," says Noel. "Anyone who's into music wants to be in a band or be part of the music. Anything to be near or around it, even though a lot of people don't end up doing it. So we all wanted to do that. And we were quite content just rehearsing. Then we'd do a few gigs and get pissed after them, - that was just grand. And that'd be it until the next weekend."

Noel:"Hepimiz müziğin içindeydik, müziğin içinde olan herkes ya bir müzik grubunda yer almak yada müziğin bir parçası olmak ister.Birçok kimse direk müziği bırakmasada birşekilde kıyısında yer alır.Bizde bunu yapmak istedik ve provalar yaparak bile çok mutlu olduk.Sonraları bi kaç çalışma yaptık ve işin içine bulaşmıştık,ki bu muhteşemdi.Bir sonraki haftaya kadar yaptığımız buydu."

Brother's Noel and Mike Hogan were friends with Fergal Lawler. Back in 1989 they formed The Cranberry Saw Us with singer Niall Quinn.

"We were all very young at the time," says Mike. "Some of us had jobs. We'd rehearse on the side, at weekends and maybe on a Wednesday if we could. Then we got a few gigs. But we never looked forward - we never thought about record contracts or that we were going to be famous" he laughs, as if it's still difficult for him to take in that they are in fact one of the most famous bands in the world.

Back then they were known to just a fraction of music fans in Limerick city. Noel would write some music and the band would play it rough at rehearsals or in an early demo.



Noel ve Mike Hogan Kardeşler Fergal Lawler'la arkadaşlardı.!989un başlarında vokalist Niall Quinn le The Cranberry Saw Us ı kurdular.

1990



With no game plan and little thought put in for the future, Niall decided it was time to leave. He wanted to work in music, but not with these guys. On the way out the door, he mentioned the name of a girl who was a friend of his girlfriend's. "You might give her a try on vocals" he said.

Gelecek için herhangi bir strateji yada en ufak bir düşünce ortaya koyulmadan,Niall ayrılma zamanının geldiğine karar verdi.Müziğe devam etmeyi istedi ama bu adamlarla değil. Ayrılığı sırasında bir erkek arkadaşının sevgilisinin ismini verdi. "Vokalde onu bir denersiniz" dedi.

While they were looking for a singer, that same girl was looking for a band. Something new. Raised on a mixture of traditional Irish music and Catholic hymns, Dolores O'Riordan had been singing since the age of three. Now in her teens she didn't know what to do with the rest of her life. But she knew she could sing.

Onlar bir vokalist ararlarken, bu kızda bir grup arıyordu.Yeni birşeyler. Geleneksel Irlanda müziği ve Katolik ilahileri karışımında büyüyen Dolores O'riordan 3 yaşından beri şarkı söylüyordu. Şimdi gençlik döneminde yaşamının geri kalanında ne yapacağını bilemiyordu. Ama şarkı söyleyebileceğini biliyordu.

"There was no real pressure to get a job," she says. "I was still in school. I didn't have to make any crucial life decisions - yet!"

"Bir iş sahibi olmam için üzerimde baskı yoktu". "Hala okuyordum. Henüz önemli hayati kararlar almak zorunda değildim." diyor Dolores.

When she heard there was a band looking for a singer she decided to go along and audition for them in their rehearsal room. She didn't know them. But she had nothing to lose. It was May 1990.

Vokalist arayan bir grup olduğunu duyduğunda, onların yanına gitmeye ve provalarında sesini denemeye karar verdi. Onları tanımıyordu ama kaybedecek birşeyi de yoktu. 1990 Mayısıydı.

"The minute she started singing," Ferg smiles as if looking back on an old snapshot, "We thought we had something. We were stunned."

Fergal eski bir sahneyi anımsar gibi gülerek "Şarkı söyleyeme başladığı dakika birşeyler elde ettiğimizi düşündük, sersemlemiştik."

They ran through a few numbers that Noel had written.

Noel'in yazdığı bikaç çalışma üstünden gittiler.

"That was it," Noel remembers. "I had a tape of some of the music. I asked her to go off and write some lyrics for it. The next week she came back to the rehearsal room and she sang "Linger"!

Noel o anı hatırlayarak " İşte buydu, bikaç parçanın kaydını ona verdim ve üzerine çalışıp söz yazmasını istedim. Sonraki hafta stüdyoya(prova odası) geldi ve "Linger!" ı söyledi."

It was chemistry from the start. And though they still didn't know where to take this, they knew there was something special in the air.

Daha başlangıçta kimyaları uydu. Ve bu işi nereye götüreceklerini bilmeselerde ortada özel birşeylerin varlığından emindiler.

"We still hadn't a clue what we were doing, " says Dolores, thinking back. "But we were doing it."

"Hala ne yaptığımızı tam bilmiyorduk ama yapıyorduk." diyor Dolores geçmişi düşünerek.

Their first gig together as The Cranberries was in September 1990, in a small Limerick venue called "Ruby's" where the band played to an audience of 60. Among the numbers performed were originals penned by Noel and Dolores, sparking a writing partnership that continues to this day.

The Cranberries olarak birlikte ilk performansları 1990 Eylülünde, Limerick'te Ruby's barında 60 kişiye verdikleri konserdi. Çalınan parçalar Noel ve Dolores tarafından kaleme alınan,bugüne kadarda devam eden bir ortaklığın ilk kıvılcımlarıydı.

Fergal describes how after a few more local gigs, they put what original music and vocals they had together in a six-track demo called "Nothing Left At All". More than 300 copies were snapped up by a growing base of fans. And on the advice of a friend they posted a copy off to a couple of record companies, including U2's label, Island Records.

Fergaş birkaç yerel konserlerden sonra, müzik ve vokallerin tamamen kendilerine ait oldukları "Nothing Left At All " adlı 6 parçalık bir demo hazırladıklarını açıklıyor. 300den fazla kopya gittikçe büyeyen hayranlar tarafından kapışıldı. Ve bir arkadaşlarının tavsiyesi üzerine bir kopya da birçok plak şirketlerine yollandı,buna U2'nun plak şirketi olan Island Records da dahil olmak üzere.

1991



Island Records were one of the labels to respond positively. It would take six months of negotiations before they finally signed them. And as Dolores adds: "Before my final year in school was over we had a deal for six albums!"

That's when the real work began.

A series of tours took them on the road across the UK and away from home for the first time. The band played support to a number of different breaking acts including "Top" and "Moose". The tables were then reversed for one night only when they played as the main act. And the support was "The Verve".

"At first doing those small clubs was great, it was a laugh," says Mike. "You start out and it's great. After a while some of the places are real dives where you have to walk off the stage and walk through the crowd to get to the dressing room, getting patted on the back and the words "that was a great show". Then there were rats in the dressing room, like the one in Washington on our first trip to the U.S. - there was one up on the pipe above our heads.

"Then there was Hull, in England," Mike remembers. "This guy used to get us curries.". The rest of the band ignites into laughter at the memory.

"It was the promoter actually.." says Dolores.

"And the curries were the colour of mud.." Mike continues.

"The promoter converted his house into a venue.." Dolores adds. "And he had a dog," Mike laughs. "And everyone used to feed the dog these curries and he was the size of a big seal, he was so fuckin' huge. We went back some time later and the dog wasn't there any more. I'd say he'd popped off."

"Overdosed on curry.." Fergal laughs.

"Then I remember we slept in somebody's house and there was like a million Melody Makers and NME's in the bedroom and they were all yellow.." Says Dolores.

Fergal winces: "There was a smell of moss. We were trying to find some place to sleep in-between the papers. And I remember the hairy curries left lying around the place from the other bands who played weeks before us."

"So," Mike concludes, "when you get to play the bigger places it's a whole lot better. For a start there's better quality curries."

"Yeah, we knew we were coming up in the world." Noel laughs.

In October, the band put out their own four-track release called, "Uncertain". Yet even though the record company knew they had buckets of talent, the tape went virtually unnoticed by music fans.

1992

At the beginning of the year, with Island Records behind them, the band hired a local studio to begin work on their first album. But those shots at the big time were a disaster. Neither the songs nor the production was working out.

The band hired new management and asked The Smiths producer, Stephen Street, to take control of the recording sessions. He agreed and joined the band in Dublin some months later. This second attempt would prove a lot more promising. Out of these sessions came the songs for the following year's debut album release "Everyone Is Doing It, So Why Cant We?".

Away from studio, the band played on, doing dates around England in the summer, including the world famous London Fleadh Festival where Irish culture and 'rock and roll' meet head on every year, where traditional Irish music shares centre-stage with the likes of Elvis Costello and The Pogues.

They also played support to Indie giants "Mercury Rev" and "House of Love" at a concert in the Royal Albert Hall - a venue that they themselves would headline just a few short years later.

Out of the Stephen Street sessions, the band released "Dreams" as their debut single, in September 1992. It sneaked into the lower half of the Top 100, again with little public notice. However, the reviews of the single were very positive. The band was just happy to be on the road, gigging and partying across the UK.

"It was fun back then," Fergal strokes his chin. "We were in the back of a transit van - the four of us - the gear was back there as well, so we were a cosy little bundle. But we were new, we didn't know anything. A big adventure. And we made the most of it."

Dolores laughs ? "We had no problem sleeping. Back then, we just drank ourselves to sleep. You can't do that when you're older!"

At the end of the year The Cranberries came home to Limerick for a show at Christmas. They had taken their first steps on the great rockin' roller coaster. They had toured the UK; they had recorded their debut album with a seasoned producer; And now they were making a name for themselves in their own hometown.

1993



The band released "Linger", their second single. Once again, reviews for the song were excellent. And once again it only dented the bottom half of the UK charts, getting to No. 74. Funny old world.

"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Cant We?", their debut album, went on sale in March 1993. Like the singles, it would be slow to grow. But grow it did. A year later it would be No.1 in the UK. And seven years after its release it has sold more than seven million copies worldwide.

What made it happen was the taming of the toughest market of them all ? America. While on a support tour with Suede, they found U.S. crowds turned up for the Cranberries and went off to the bar for "Suede".

And later, when Duran Duran's tour was cancelled, due to the singer's illness ? something The Cranberries would experience themselves years later ? Dolores and the lads remained in the States and played a series of sold-out concerts.

The album continued to crawl slowly up the Billboard Top 200. By the time they came home for a show at Feile - Ireland's answer to Glastonbury - they were placed in the U.S. albums charts at No. 84. For Dolores, to be even associated with the very name 'Billboard' was exciting enough. But it wasn't to end there.

Surprisingly, the Irish public still hadn't caught on to the Cranberries sound by this stage, which is why they played that festival gig in a side-show tent, while Chris DeBurgh was the headline act on the main stage. The following year they were the headline act of the whole weekend event.

The Cranberries were on their way up. Slowly, throughout the summer and autumn the album crawled up the American charts, and finally into the Top 10. It was an astonishing achievement for this humble band from Limerick.

1994



With no time to rest, The Cranberries began recording songs for their second album early in 1993 - songs that were written while on the road, touring the first album. Once again Producer Stephen Street picked up where he left off with the debut. Among the early numbers to be recorded in their London studio was "Zombie" and "Ode To My Family".

With a little bit of breathing space after the initial London sessions, the band and Stephen took to the ski slopes of France where Dolores took on just a little bit more than she bargained for. A fall on a very fast slope caused some serious damage to her right knee. The leg had to be re-built and re-enforced with steel screws in a series of operations.

But she still managed to step out in style in July for her wedding to Canadian Don Burton. Life on the rock and roll road can lead to all sorts of flings and new friends. But shortly after meeting the Duran Duran tour manager on that early American tour, Dolores was telling friends that she had met the man for her. The wedding attracted the world's press who watched as Don and his best man literally rode into town on a horse to marry his girl!

The couple took off on their honeymoon, backpacking and camping in Ireland. One of the places they visited was Dingle, in the heart of Ireland's Southwest. They fell in love with the area and decided to look for a place to live there. It wasn't just a case of the smoochies for Don and Dolores. Love was in the air for the other lads in the band who all had Limerick sweethearts to return to after the tours.

The pace was starting to quicken in their professional lives, however, and free time was being squeezed with even more requests for appearances around the globe ? requests that were almost impossible to turn down for a band that was beginning to step out as world stars.

But nothing could prepare them for the pace they were about to encounter with the release of the single "Zombie" in September and their second album "No Need To Argue" in October 1994. MTV awarded "Zombie" the best single of 94. And the album went on to sell a staggering 16 million copies, more than double the figure of their debut.

There is no fast lane to accommodate success like that.

"A career like this - you don't go to university, you don't get a degree. It's no normal job. So basically, it's really all down to luck," says Dolores as she sucks in the past like smoke from an old cigarette. "We had a lot of success with the first album - and we were very young. And we felt the pressure to go back and record a second album, which we did - and we recorded a better album according to people "out there" because we sold twice as many albums as the first one.

"But instead of feeling accomplished, we just received more pressure. And the centre of our lives changed completely - 150 million per cent."

The band kicked in to the massive "No Need To Argue" world tour, taking in England, Europe, North America and their first visit to Mexico.

1995



In early '95, it was back to the UK and Europe, including Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, France, Holland, and Belgium. This tour triggered the single "Zombie" and "No Need To Argue" to No.1 simultaneously throughout Europe.

In America, they were filmed by MTV for their 'Unplugged' series. Then they made the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. Later in the year, while stopping over in Washington, DC for a promotional visit, word leaks out that they're going to do a free Unplugged show at the Washington Mall. A crowd of more than 10,000 turn up and the Police force the show to be cancelled for lack of security.

On the other side of the planet, the four band members are stunned at the sold-out banners for concerts in Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

More dates, more headline shows, more festivals, sharing the bill with the band they listened to before there even was a Cranberries ? REM.

"Everyday for me was a schedule," Dolores continues. "I'd wake up at 9 and I'd have something to do every hour, at 12, something else at 3. There was always the make-up, to make me look cute. So what happens then is you never have a chance to look at your life, to realise what's happening, until you take "the break" and you look back and you wonder - was that me?

"In a way now, when I look back at videos like "Ode To My Family " (the album's second single) or MTV Unplugged I look at it and I think to myself - I can't really remember that.

"And in the middle of all that we were completely lost. And when the band were really huge I don't think we were really enjoying it at the time. All we wanted to do was come off stage and get drunk. We didn't sit down and talk to each other as much."

One tour melted into the next in a never-ending journey across continents, to feed the fans.'sell the product'. All the band members agree - their lives rushed past like scenery through the window of a very fast train.

"It was like a dream", said Mike. The rest of the band nod in reflection.

"The press were okay at the start," Fergal adds. "But after the second album, that's when it got really scary. It just got so big. There was no breathing space any more."

"When you become that famous, you're so protected that people start to think for you," says Dolores. "There are people who speak for you, they do everything for you ? so much so that when you come off tour you expect to find your food waiting for you on the table!

"When you're that hot all the simple little things in life are taken away from you.

"Okay, you have to have that protection around you because you're in the public eye, but it becomes very strange because you become isolated from the world, you don't feel very human and you don't know what's going on from one day to the next."

September 1995, With the tour finally over, Dolores performed at a charity concert in Modena, Italy courtesy of a personal invitation of Luciano Pavarotti. She performed duets on "Ave Maria" with Pavarotti and "Linger" with Simon LeBon.

The Cranberries were on top of the world, riding the waves of fame while the fortune was beginning to roll in. The band took a few weeks off to enjoy some of that new fortune. And a good thing too. Striking while the iron was hot, it was then time to head back into the studio for album No. 3.

While on tour for "No Need To Argue", Dolores and Noel somehow found the time to write new songs. The numbers were then arranged during pre-concert sound-checks and performed live, much to the excitement of fans who were keen to see where the music would go next.

So, October '95, the studio sessions began and the band felt they were ready to roll. Stephen Street was replaced by Canadian Bruce Fairbairn, producer to such names as Aerosmith & Bon Jovi, who brought with him a harder American rock style. The album was completed in just five weeks.

Everything seemed right. A new album with the prospect of a new tour. More singles, more rewards, there was only one thing missing from the band ? 'a life of their own'.

"We had toured for a year and a half, non-stop hard-core gigging," says Noel. "So we were playing with our eyes closed by the end of that tour. So the songs we'd written at sound-check ? we just brought them in and threw 'em down.

"It was stupid. It got to the point where we'd finish up in the studio and go on the piss every night and come back in the following day with rotten hangovers. And we still put an album together through all that."

The album was called "To The Faithful Departed".

"We'd sold six million of the first album," Dolores adds. "Then we sold more than double that for the second, so by the time we came out of the studio with the third album we didn't care how much it was going to sell. Yet we committed to another tour. So we did it."

"I listen to 'Faithful Departed' the odd time," says Fergal. "It reminds me of such a horrible time, but it's a great record and there's some beautiful songs on there. It captures a moment, a side of us that we probably wouldn't ever like to see again, but it's there, on the record."

"The third album reflected the feelings that I and the band were going through," says Dolores. "It was the most negative and depressing album. We realised we needed a break, but we were afraid to take that break, in case you turn around and all your fans are gone and you're history."



1996

After Christmas, the band mixed the album and delivered it to the record company. Next came the cycle of videos, press interviews, band rehearsals and by early Spring, the third Cranberries album ? 'To The Faithful Departed' was released with "Salvation" as the first single. The album would go on to sell six million copies.

Shortly after, the band went back on the road for another, by now, gruelling world tour (100 date tour) re-visiting cities they had played in less than a year before.

"We had no life," says Noel, looking back on what he feels was the worst period of the Cranberries career. "The band was our life. We just lived to do the band. And that's really no way for anyone to live. No matter what you do, you need a break from it at times. We just didn't want to be on that tour, from the very start."

"It was unfair to the fans", Mike adds. "We didn't put in our full effort. We were pissed off in the dressing rooms."

Then in May, during a show in Hobart, Australia, Dolores landed badly on the same knee as the one injured in the skiing accident. The pain was intense. On medical advice, the first part of this world tour was cancelled.

Part two resumed later in the year, with a 43 city tour of North America, but not before Noel tied the knot with his girl friend, Kathryn Nash, in Limerick. Time for a honeymoon and a little breather for the rest of the crew.

It was during the U.S. tour, shortly after appearing at the MTV Awards in New York City, that Dolores is once again advised to pull some shows and rest. She is feeling tired and looking weak. There is speculation in the media that she is suffering from Anorexia. The rumours are denied. No one really knew what was actually happening. But one thing was sure ? things weren't getting better.

In October, on the eve of the third leg of the already dishevelled tour, the band met at Dolores' Kerry home and decided to pull the rest of the circus. It was a tough decision. But for them, it was the right decision and way overdue.

"It was the best thing we ever did," says Dolores.

"It was mental," says Noel. "We've said it to ourselves, that if we'd gone through with that whole tour, and not taken the break, we'd probably have finished the tour, and split up. By that time it was almost seven years straight ? non-stop."

"It's like the old cliché," Dolores says. "A kid wants to become a rock star, so they become one, they become famous, and rich, beyond their wildest dreams. And then what does this famous rock star do? They whine their ass off in public, about their new life and the pressures and the strains. And that's just what we did. And of course everyone slated us for it ? and we probably deserved it ? but we were just being honest about how we felt at that time."

For the rest of the year, the four members of the band went their separate ways. Fergal and his girl friend Laurie trekked through Thailand and the Far East. Mike moved to Manchester attending football matches. And Noel and his wife Kathryn opened their own restaurant in Limerick.

Dolores took a long holiday to the Caribbean, before returning to her house just outside Dingle in Co. Kerry. She later recorded a new song called, "God Be With You", for the film "Devils Own", starring Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford, fuelling rumours that the band had split. But that was not the case. Dolores was inspired by a trailer sent to her house by the film company.

1997

Despite having spent the best part of seven years living with each other in studios, dressing rooms and hotels across the world, Dolores, Noel, Fergal and Mike still hung out together over Christmas and New Year's. They had time to themselves, to share with friends and family. Yet they still had time for each other. A good sign.

Sometime the previous year, the band received a letter from legendary drummer and Fleetwood Mac founder, Mick Fleetwood, inviting them to record a cover version from their record-breaker-selling album "Rumours". The album was 20 years old and as part of the Anniversary fun, Mick wanted to record a tribute album, using world-famous bands of the 90s.

The Cranberries obliged and recorded "Go You Own Way". It was to be their only contribution to the music world in 1997.

In April, the band and all their friends gathered in Limerick to celebrate the wedding of Fergal to his girlfriend, Laurie Guerin. During the day, Dolores told close friends that she was pregnant with her first child. She was expecting a new born in November that year.

Press coverage of the band died down. And while fans waited for any sign of new material, the world's music media had moved on to the sound of Brit-pop in the UK, fuelled by the sounds of Ocean Colour Scene, Blur and of course Oasis. The pressure had eased considerably for the Cranberries and life at home had returned to normality.

"We needed home and we wanted to lead normal lives for a change," says Noel. "A house with a family in it is an even bigger pull to come home to."

Dolores agrees. "We'd probably be wrecked rock stars without our homes. We found our real happiness, our highs, at home."

And speaking of home, Dolores and Don put their Kerry home on the market. With Baby No. 1 on the way, Dolores wanted to be closer to her family in Limerick. So work started on converting an old Horse farm in Kilmallock, not far from Limerick City, and in the heart of some of the richest country in Ireland.

But first, there was something all four members of the band had to tackle - together. Could they play as a band once again?

They met at Dolores' Kerry hideaway, which had its own rehearsal studio. It had been almost a year since they last played together. And there, over a period of weeks, the chemistry started to happen again.

"We knew it was working only a few weeks after being together again," Fergal smiles. "It was like, "Oh Yeah!" - the magic is there."

The band flew to Toronto to continue writing new material and in November, Dolores gave birth to Taylor Baxter Burton. After the birth of Dolores' child, the boys went home to Ireland for the holidays.



1998



In January, the band reconvened in Toronto, to record more demos of the songs they had been working on in late '97. All four members recall a great sense of fun and excitement about the Canadian sessions and about the ease in which the new songs were played and recorded.

Early in February, Dolores and her family flew back to their new home in Kilmallock. The band moved in to their rehearsal studio to develop the songs. They had never had such a luxury of time to prepare for a new album.

By this stage, a plan was beginning to take shape with the possibility of a tour to promote the new music. But this time, on the band's own terms. And a band that by this stage had sold more than 25 million albums worldwide could call a few shots.

In May, the band moved in to the studio at Studio Miraval in the South of France to begin recording the new album. At the controls this time was co-producer and engineer, Benedict Fenner who had worked with such diverse stars as Laurie Anderson, Elvis Costello and Brian Eno and James.

"It felt like when we first started out as a band together", says Fergal. "There was a real freshness and happiness that hadn't been there for a long time."

Then in July, the band returned to Limerick for the marriage of the final bachelor of the band - Mikey. He married his long time girlfriend, Siobhan. After the honeymoon he flew back to join the rest of the crew in a studio in London for more recording. The new album was mixed and completed by the end of September - one year after the band first started working on new songs. Its title - "Bury The Hatchet".

Rehearsals then began back in the studio in Kilmallock to bring the band up to "live" standard, and beyond, to a level they had never previously achieved due to the demands on their time. This pre-tour workout would have a huge effect on their live performances throughout the world in '99.

In November, the Cranberries stepped back out into the public gaze when Dolores and Fergal appeared in Milan, Italy, at the MTV European Music Awards to present an award. Afterwards, at a brief press call, they revealed the plans to return in the New Year with an album plus a world tour, their first in 3 years.

In December, the band make their first live appearance in two years when they perform "Dreams" and a brand new song "Promises" at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Norway.

"It was a strange gig", says Dolores. "There we were, pumped up for our return to the stage and we play to a very quiet bunch of polite people in suits. Very nice, but very quiet."



1999

As they faced into a year full of activity and anticipation, the Cranberries headed back into their rehearsal studio to continue to bring their live show up to speed. A number of journalists were invited down to see the band and interview the members. First impressions told them that this was a very different band to the one that bowed out in '96.

Relaxed, confident and healthy, they had learned a lot of lessons from the past few years and were quite open about it. The title of the new album, "Bury The Hatchet" also spoke for itself. Time to move on.

The first single "Promises" was released in February. Backed by a striking video made by French, Director - Oliver Dahn (who previously worked with them on "Salvation") - it announced to the world that the band was back with a bang.

The album went on sale in April '99 and immediately went to Number 1 across the globe. It sold two million copies in the first month of release and went on to generate three top 10 singles.

"It was just brilliant to be back," says Fergal. "And to be feeling so good and so on top of things.

"Every song off every album is a different memory, a different time," Noel adds. "But none of the memories are too bad. If they were that bad, I think we would have split up. Even though we've hit rock bottom and were pretty miserable and everything, we all came back for more. And there must be a reason for that."

The band took their new music on the road with some club dates in April receiving rave reviews, and followed that with the "Loud And Clear" World Tour kicking in after that, beginning in Miami, Florida. All told the tour visited 90 cities in 23 countries, running until July 2000.

"It was great to be back on the road," says Mike. "It felt right. Everyone was getting on well. Plenty of good times on the tour."

"The structure of the tour was the key", says Fergal "It wasn't one long journey. We'd play for a few weeks in one territory and then take a break for a few more weeks to go back home and be normal again. Then we'd get back on the road for another few weeks. It felt really good that way".

"I think we enjoy it a lot more now," says Dolores. "There's a balance to it. We'd learned a lot back then when we'd been at the top. And it ain't always easy at the top."

The tour brought them back to Ireland for their first date in four years, when they played a brilliant home coming gig at Millstreet in County Cork. With a final date in Manchester in December the following night, the band ended a comeback year that went way beyond anyone's expectations. They weren't just successful, having sold in excess of three million copies of the new album, they were also very happy to be back.

In December, Noel's wife Catherine gave birth to their first child - a baby girl, named Rachel.



2000



A year for new junior Cranberries. Fergal's wife Laurie was also expecting their first child. In March she gave birth to a baby boy - Jacob.

Back to rehearsals, and then back on the road in April, with dates in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Europe. Just a few hours before playing in Cadiz, in Spain a massive storm hit the venue, turning the outdoor stadium into mush and making it unsafe to play. The show had to be pulled. It was one of just a handful of gigs that were cancelled on the whole tour.

As the tour rolled on, the band released "Bury The Hatchet - The Complete Sessions", a double CD featuring - B-sides as well as Live tracks taken from a live show in Paris. For Cranberries fans, it was a must.

Plans were also put in the place for a new album - their fifth - to be recorded at Windmill Lane studios in Dublin - ironically, the location for their third album, "Faithful Departed," which caught them at their lowest ebb five years before. But they weren't afraid to go back to the scene of the crime.

Just as in the old days, the band was starting to stockpile new songs. They had time to develop these off the road as the tour brought them plenty of free time in between the shows.

Then, during the last leg of their world tour, as they were playing a show in Belfort, France, Dolores announced from the stage that she was expecting a second child. The baby is due in February 2001.

The last four dates of the tour were cancelled on the advise of the doctor, as Dolores didn't want to take any chances during her pregnancy. The band returned to Limerick before coming to Dublin for album Number 5 in August.

"We want to finish this record before we think about doing another tour. We should know all that sometime early in 2001," says Noel. "Sales don't reflect how good a record is really. When we finish an album we know ourselves whether it's good or not. Apart from that, what sells an album could be about what people are listening to, fashions, trends, and what kind of people are working in your record company at the time. It all plays a big role."

The first half of the new album is in the can. The second half comes in April 2001. But before the new album, the band will release "Beneath The Skin - Live in Paris" - a DVD & VHS package featuring a spectacular show they did in Paris in December 1999. It catches the band at their very best.

Ten years down the road for The Cranberries, and by the sounds of things there are plans being put in place for years to come.

"As long as we're happy doing it, that's the best way to go," says Fergal.

"People used to ask us how long we were going to stick together," says Noel. "And that was when we had just started out!

"How long? Who knows? Ten years. Ten weeks. Who knows." " I think we enjoy it a lot more now," says Dolores. "There's a balance to it now. I put my whole life into the Cranberries. Now it is important to build in breaks that remind us how much we love performing together".



2001

January saw a winding down of any Cranberries activities as Dolores approached her due date. And on Saturday afternoon, January 27th, Dolores gave birth to her second child - a healthy baby girl called Molly. A double celebration as Molly's birth date falls on the same date as Dolores's husband, Don.

Remarkably Dolores was on her feet within a matter of days. And so plans for recording Part 2 of the band's new album look set to stay on schedule.

Just over a month after the birth, the Cranberries brought their own new "baby" into the world with the launch of a new web service. This is the third version of the Official Cranberries Web Service.

October 2001 saw the release of the Cranberries 5th studio album, entitled "Wake Up And Smell The Coffee".

Below is the official MCA Records biography being used to promote "Wake Up And Smell The Coffee" worldwide.

Have you got a moment? That simple query lies at the heart of the Cranberries' WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE, the Irish band's sublime MCA Records debut and first new album in two years. Over the past decade, the Cranberries have sold millions of records and won fans around the world thanks to their tight arrangements, inerrant melodic instincts, probing songs and, especially, the crystalline vocals of Dolores O'Riordan. Now celebrating their 10th anniversary, the Cranberries have got it down, and with their new album they make an earnest, tuneful plea to seize the day while cherishing every moment of life.

In some ways, WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE is a homecoming. The album was produced in Dublin by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Morrissey, Blur), producer of the band's first two albums. Says Dolores, "There's a sense of stability Stephen brings to this band. He used to be so paternal when he first worked with us, and he'd talk to me like I was one of his kids. This time, our relationship is more mutual." Adds drummer Fergal Lawler, "It was great to be with him again. Stephen really understands us and gets the best from every one of us." Indeed, the new album radiates a deep contentment the band members feel in their lives today, both personally and professionally. "This is the calmest we've ever been," says Dolores. "We've proven ourselves by now, so we're really relaxed and really enjoyed ourselves in the studio, totally going with the flow."

Songs like the muted "Never Grow Old" and the premiere single "Analyse" capture the struggle between head and heart, while appreciating life's simpler joys. "There was a point in the last year or so when I finally saw the beauty I had been blind to for so long," notes Dolores. "These songs say 'don't stress worrying about tomorrow, next week, next year, when there's so much beauty around.'" The haiku-like "Pretty Eyes" has a winsome 60's feel, while "Time is Ticking Out" shows that the Cranberries still retain all the turbulent political fury of albums past. The languid "Dying Inside," which describes the steady corruption of a soul, contrasts sharply with unabashed love songs like "The Concept" and "I Really Hope." The slow waltz "Carry On" and "Do You Know" both celebrate the life-force, while the harder-rocking title track throws new light on an old saying. The album closes with the hauntingly personal "Chocolate Brown," cut live with one microphone. "A few songs on the album have different vibes from anything we've done before," notes Mike. "It's nice to do different things, though it's not something we plan. It just happens naturally."


 

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