The Cranberries - Stars - The Best of Videos 1992-2002 - Part 1
The Cranberries - Stars - The Best of Videos 1992-2002 - Part 2
1. Dreams
2. Linger
3. Zombie
4. Ode to My Family
5. I Can't Be with You
6. Ridiculous Thoughts
7. Salvation
8. Free to Decide
9. When You're Gone
10. Hollywood
11. Promises
12. Animal Instinct
13. Just My Imagination
14. You & Me
15. Analyse
16. Time Is Ticking Out
17. This Is the Day
18. Daffodil Lament
19. New New York
20. Stars
2. Linger
3. Zombie
4. Ode to My Family
5. I Can't Be with You
6. Ridiculous Thoughts
7. Salvation
8. Free to Decide
9. When You're Gone
10. Hollywood
11. Promises
12. Animal Instinct
13. Just My Imagination
14. You & Me
15. Analyse
16. Time Is Ticking Out
17. This Is the Day
18. Daffodil Lament
19. New New York
20. Stars
“We had a piano at home in my parents’ house, so I had been writing songs since I was 12 years old. But I wanted a band with bass, guitar and drums. There was a girl in my flat who was going out with a guy who used to sing with The Cranberries and at the time they were called The Cranberry Sauce. She told me they were looking for a singer and that maybe I should go and meet them. On Sundays they used to rehearse at the local studio, so I went there and met Mike, Ferg and Noel. I remember there were a lot of guys there, probably about 10 of them in the room, just hanging out, and they were about 16, 17 or 18 years old. I was 18 and went in with my Yamaha keyboard under my arm, sang a few songs for them and then they played a few songs for me. I remember thinking they had potential and one of the things they played was Linger – I really liked that one and took home a cassette recording of Noel playing the four chords. Then that week I was busy working on it in my bedroom, trying to work out my parts and what I was going to sing. You know when you’re a teenager, you’re dating and you get a broken heart and it’s just so fatal? Well, Linger came around that ‘fatal love’ kind of stage in my life, when it was all drama.”
How did the band develop from there?
“Well, we used to rehearse in this small little room and we didn’t have any PA or anything – Noel had an amp and Mike had an amp which I plugged my microphone into. It was very hard to hear what I was singing because his guitar was going through the same amp. A few months later we made our first demo with Linger and a song I believe was called Sunday, and Dreams, and I think there was a song called Nothing Left At All.
“Noel sent the demo to a bunch of UK record companies and a little buzz began to occur in the music industry over there. There was a company called Imago with a guy called Terry Ellis, who was interested. Also Island Records and, I believe, Rough Trade were interested, because Geoff Travis ended up managing us for a long period of time. To make a long story short, we ended up going with Island.
“We were doing a gig in Limerick and we had very little live performance experience. We’d only done five or six gigs before, at the time, so I didn’t have a clue how to perform – I was just a bag of nerves. I recall a band called 808 State were playing there that night too. For that show, there was a bunch of these record company people flying into Shannon and I remember coming off-stage and meeting Denny Cordell [from Island Records] who eventually went on to sign us. I had no idea what that even meant!”
You started off working with the legendary producer Stephen Street. How did that work out?
“We thought of Stephen because we were all die-hard Smiths fans, so we got him and he produced the first two albums.”
What was the point when you knew something special was happening?
“Maybe six months to a year later, when we were doing our first European tour. Because up until then we’d only done small, local gigs in Ireland. So we went out to mainland Europe and got the opening slot for the Hothouse Flowers. Their capacities would’ve been around 3000 to 6000 seaters, so that was good experience because we were actually on a tour bus. But I recall we were asked to go to America and we didn’t finish that tour because we were told Linger had gone Top 10 over there. So we flew into Los Angeles and made a video there, and I remember we were on heavy rotation on MTV – I think they played Linger about 12 times-a-day or something like that. It blew up then.”
What advice would you give to budding songwriters and lyricists?
“I suppose it’s important not to worry too much about what people think, because then you’d never write. I do get periods of writer’s block and that can be so annoying when you go through six months of having problems just writing.”
From: https://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/interviews/interview-the-cranberries-dolores-oriordan
How did the band develop from there?
“Well, we used to rehearse in this small little room and we didn’t have any PA or anything – Noel had an amp and Mike had an amp which I plugged my microphone into. It was very hard to hear what I was singing because his guitar was going through the same amp. A few months later we made our first demo with Linger and a song I believe was called Sunday, and Dreams, and I think there was a song called Nothing Left At All.
“Noel sent the demo to a bunch of UK record companies and a little buzz began to occur in the music industry over there. There was a company called Imago with a guy called Terry Ellis, who was interested. Also Island Records and, I believe, Rough Trade were interested, because Geoff Travis ended up managing us for a long period of time. To make a long story short, we ended up going with Island.
“We were doing a gig in Limerick and we had very little live performance experience. We’d only done five or six gigs before, at the time, so I didn’t have a clue how to perform – I was just a bag of nerves. I recall a band called 808 State were playing there that night too. For that show, there was a bunch of these record company people flying into Shannon and I remember coming off-stage and meeting Denny Cordell [from Island Records] who eventually went on to sign us. I had no idea what that even meant!”
You started off working with the legendary producer Stephen Street. How did that work out?
“We thought of Stephen because we were all die-hard Smiths fans, so we got him and he produced the first two albums.”
What was the point when you knew something special was happening?
“Maybe six months to a year later, when we were doing our first European tour. Because up until then we’d only done small, local gigs in Ireland. So we went out to mainland Europe and got the opening slot for the Hothouse Flowers. Their capacities would’ve been around 3000 to 6000 seaters, so that was good experience because we were actually on a tour bus. But I recall we were asked to go to America and we didn’t finish that tour because we were told Linger had gone Top 10 over there. So we flew into Los Angeles and made a video there, and I remember we were on heavy rotation on MTV – I think they played Linger about 12 times-a-day or something like that. It blew up then.”
What advice would you give to budding songwriters and lyricists?
“I suppose it’s important not to worry too much about what people think, because then you’d never write. I do get periods of writer’s block and that can be so annoying when you go through six months of having problems just writing.”
From: https://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/interviews/interview-the-cranberries-dolores-oriordan
