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http://img409.imageshack.us/my.php?image=r...07aguassje1.jpgDOLORES O'RIORDAN
"Alone I feel comfortable, I don't depend on anyone" The ex Cranberries connects with her spirituality, releases new album and discovers the pleasures of being a solo artist. BY J.C.Calm, ironic and very serious in some moments, but very conclusive on her appreciations and beliefs, days before her show in Chile, Dolores O'Riordan tell us from Dublin the secrets and motivations behind her expected solo debut -an album that the press had predicted since her No Need To Argue tour in 1995, but a reality just from this year. "One day I woke up and discovered that I had 30 songs written in a notebook. It was impossible not to do something with them. Nobody had asked them to me and less expected them. That's life, it's exciting", says O'Riordan. Are you listening? was reocrded between Canada and Ireland and coproduced by Dan Brodbeck and Youth, Killing Joke's ex bass guitarist who worked with The Verve some years ago. A dream-like debut for this emblematic voice of rock?
Was it easy to select the 12 songs that constitute the album?Not really. But I think that the selection is correct because it reflects events or moments that had been very important for my life in the last 5 years, like the birth of Dakota, my mother in law's death, the great love I feel from day to day for Don and the convulsed and advanced world we live in.
In songs like "Ordinary day" you still can feel the legacy of The Cranberries. Has it been difficult for you to move away from the ghosts of th past? What is this song about?There's Paul McCartney's albums that still sounds like The Beatles. Was it inevitable that that happened to me and The Cranberries? No? The past is always there, it's part of your life, but also it's part of the evolution that every artist must live. I wrote "Ordinary day" just when The Cranberries and I took a break after the Wake Up and smell the coffee album tour (2001). It was the first time that I took a break and it was the closest to come back to reality since a joined the band being an adolescent. It's a reflect on come back to live in a normal world, when Dakota arrives to my life and that inocence touches the most profound of the heart and makes me respond to how we can protect our children in this advanced world. It's a moment to relax that invites me to live the actual time in an optimistic way.
In this 5 years of musical silence, what were you thinking about?In a moment I felt that nostalgia of being a child again, not feeling stress, worries, nor living accelerated or creating songs, or in promotion, interviews, travels, etc. I remember a lot the tour with The Cranberries in USA and how much I missed my mom being there. I remember that it wasn't enough to hear her voice and in someway songs like When we were young reflects that necessity to come back to the past and cling more to your family.
The last thing you said, the necessity of being with your family, did it influence determinedly The Cranberries separation?Not strictly. Everyone started to feel that had to take other ways. Mike and Noel had projects in mind and the decision was stop. The last 2 albums didn't receive the expected response and at that moment I just wanted to be with my family.
What differences do you perceive in your music career being alone?Freedom, tranquillity and answer for myself. Being in the band, many times, in spite of being many years with them, you're always trying to fit and join to what the founders want for it project. Alone I feel comfortable, because I don't depend on anyone.
Your solo album has receive positive and negative critics in UK. Do you pay attention to what media says?The truth is I don't care much fo the negative reaction of the press. I've been more than 20 years in this bussiness and you get used to good and bad moments; to good critics and others not that good, as it happened with the album To the faithful departed. The key o deal with it is not think in them or simply, like I usually do, not read the specialized press that only tries to generate reactions to make more news later.
Where do you inspire when you want to write songs so deep like "Stay with me" or "Black widow"?I use to go to the sea everyday, in fact the most of my lyrics comes from the ocean. I like to walk for hours and hours by the beach, breathing pure air and receiving all the energy of the nature. "Stay with me" is a prayer where I pay tribute to something I usuallly do: pray. The death of my mother in law increased my spirituality and it's a pray for her. In "Black widow" I describe that 3 months process that cancer took to slowly take her away. It was very sad, but it's an homage to her strenght, love and kindness that she had in all these years with me.
Is this the dream-like debut for you?Yes. I'm very fine mentally, I want to show that live and I feel that I've written songs very emotionals that relates with my environment. I have the support of a great record company, Sanctuary; my family support and I've worked with professionals like Dan Brodbeck, who is very rspected in Canada. There're songs that I'm sure people won't forget. The most important thing is that this album arrived at the right time.
What is going to happen with The Cranberries? Are you going to reunite?I don't know. I don't think about that now. The Police took a 23 years pause, maybe our lasts less, maybe 10 or 15 years, I don't know.
-First album you bought"In the ghetto" by Elvis Presley
-Song that you hear when you're sadFrank Sinatra always cheers me up
-A rock classic that you'd like to had writtenAny Elvis song
-Your favourite song with The CranberriesLinger
-A band where you'd like to be inLed Zeppelin
-New band that dazzles youSnow Patrol
-Voice that still moves youMorrissey
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