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А я наконец-то (не прошло и месяца :))) скачал интервью Долорес тому самому Зегуту для канала M6. Долорес там вся такая общительная и жизнерадостная, а еще она очень быстро шпарит по-французски. :) Похоже, что за эти 4 года она подтянула свой французский, потому что раньше она всегда говорила, что ее френч "комси комса". :)))) В общем, интервью мне очень понравилось. ;)

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Еще одно офигенски интересное интервью Долорес! Она рассказывает много чего интересного о прошлом группы, о том, как писала песни, чему посвящена песня Withooy You И т.д.

Experience counts as Cranberries' Dolores goes solo
Enjoyment > Music > Features
CHRIS MUGAN
The Independent

Published: 04 May 2007
© 2007 Independent News and Media Limited
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/f...icle2509097.ece

Experience counts as Cranberries' Dolores goes solo
The Cranberries' vocalist is recording again after her maternity leave. Now solo, Dolores O'Riordan talks to Chris Mugan

Showcase gigs are usually uncomfortable, anodyne affairs, where a new signing performs for a record label's staff and invitees. The cool reception and polite applause can make for a dispiriting start to a solo career. Dolores O'Riordan doesn't let this get to her. The former lead singer of The Cranberries may only be performing in the basement of a private members' club, but she punches the air as if reaching out to the furthest reaches of a vast arena. As the former singer of one of Ireland's biggest cultural exports, adjusting to more intimate venues is going to take some time. At least she is enjoying performing again, after her old band stuttered to a close.

Next day, the star from Limerick looks just as fresh-faced as we chat about the gig in a north London office complex. She laughs when I mention the eye-popping energy of drummer Graham Hopkins, formerly of Northern Ireland's explosive rock outfit Therapy?. "He broke six sticks that night, you know," she says proudly, in a brogue that betrays her roots.

The vocalist is just as proud of the rest of her new band. "It's a relief because I do want to tour and you need to have that energy and bond, so it's all falling into place. Especially because this record is not a stylised or manufactured thing, it's about the songs."

As if to emphasis the point, she is dressed in black with a studded belt that would suit fellow Irish legend Phil Lynott. Despite the rock look, O'Riordan still exudes the maternal glow of a mother of three. She was last in the news in 2004 for being unsuccessfully sued by a former nanny, though it is more life-changing events that inform new album Are You Listening?. Death and new life are the two poles between which she has oscillated over a four-year stretch.

"I was doing it as therapy," O'Riordan explains about the personal nature of her songwriting, and the time it took to release her first solo record. "I wanted to switch off and be a human being, so I escaped from the industry and the whole entertainment side of things. For 14 or 15 years I'd always felt under pressure, because there was always another album to come, and another album then."

The Cranberries formed in Limerick in 1990, with 19-year-old O'Riordan imposing herself as the band's precocious lyricist. Indeed, her calling card was the words to what became one of their biggest hits, "Linger". Their debut album came out three years later and after a faltering start propelled them to fame on both sides of the Atlantic. Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? was ignored in the US until The Cranberries toured there and got on MTV, while it took 12 months for "Linger" to become a UK hit.

Their rise continued with their second album No Need To Argue and its histrionic smash hit "Zombie". Throughout this time, the band toured ceaselessly and racked up sales across the world. Such a focused work ethic stood them in good stead as their output declined in quality and the three albums that followed saw ever-decreasing sales. A sound now aimed at the arenas they played failed to win critical plaudits or new fans, leaving them with such consolations as the minor hit "Promises" in 1999 and a best international sales award in Taiwan. Fittingly for such constant giggers, their swan song was support slots with the Stones and AC/DC.

Almost since The Cranberries achieved success in the Nineties, rumours have abounded that O'Riordan would go solo. "People were always saying that," O'Riordan complains. "I wanted to fulfil the journey with [the band], not just jump ship when we had the success. By going through the highs and lows, you learn from your mistakes."

Stars, The Cranberries' greatest hits set, was a full stop for the band, though before then its members knew the end was nigh, especially as they began to raise families. "There were a lot of things happening in the background, a lot of sick kids. We had one child in an incubator for three months and the same one had leukaemia," O'Riordan says, careful to protect identities. "One of the guys was coming from hospital to the stage for a year and a half. Another guy got glaucoma, so there was so much illness."

Only now can O'Riordan admit the toll that success took on her. When she auditioned for the band in 1990, this youngest of seven siblings still lived with her parents. As The Cranberries achieved success in the US, their singer became infamous for a haughty manner and elfin size, which she reveals was due to an eating disorder. She admits to having gone through therapy early in her career after a nervous breakdown in 1994.

"I was 90 pounds in weight, not sleeping, not eating and having a lot of panic attacks. I didn't know what was happening; you don't when you're cracking up, and I couldn't go home. I didn't want to go back there with my tail between my legs; I was too proud. Then I went to see a really great psychoanalyst. He saw a lot of entertainers. I needed to get away and find myself. So I went off to the forest for a few months and learnt how to relax. I smelt a flower for the first time in five years and started crying because I realised I'd forgotten about life."

O'Riordan uses the word "human" a lot, as if to stress that being human is more than simply being a member of a species, it is a state of mind. Her lyrics, too, are full of self-help jargon, whether it is being unable to "relate to you", or learning to "accept things".

In 2003,O'Riordan's mother-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer and given eight months to live. That inspired "Black Widow", one of the earliest songs to be written for this album. The singer took time out with her Canadian husband to support his family, putting her kids into school there. "She came round a lot, so that song was about watching her," O'Riordan remembers. "You don't know what cancer is like until you go through it with someone, starting on the inside and eating its way to the surface."

If she has taken one lesson from her time with The Cranberries, it has been not to take herself too seriously. "It's not about being perfect. If I make a mistake, it's not the end of the world. When I was younger, I'd be so depressed. I'd sit for hours in my dressing room and couldn't move on in my head. In my twenties, I thought I knew so much about the world, but when I hit 30 I made so many boo-boos I realised I never knew it all. It's peculiar when you're young to have everyone looking at you; you get paranoid and self-conscious. I'd stay in my room doing six hours of yoga."

She admits to behaving in an arrogant manner. "If you're with yourself all the time and not meeting anyone or experiencing anyone, you can't evolve. You get up on stage and get this attention that isn't natural. I lacked normality and relationships. I had no friends for four or five years, while they all went to college."

This explains the unevenness of some of her songwriting with The Cranberries, when she would churn out such desperate polemics as "Bosnia" ("We live in our secure surroundings/ And people die out there"). O'Riordan rolls her eyes at the memory. "Taking four years off was such a good idea, because you experience so much. When you try to write an album in a year and you're living in a tour bus, you can only write about being famous or being stuck in a hotel room."

What immediately strikes you about Are You Listening? is how personal the record is. "When you go through experiences, whether they are really dark or beautiful, they give you inspiration, but it's just life, isn't it? There were no boundaries because I was representing myself and I felt I could really spit things out without inhibitions. If you have pain and issues, once you get them out of your system, every time you perform you feel better. You know you're not the only one, because everyone else feels it. You become human again."

Another part of the learning process has been the varied collaborations since she left The Cranberries. O'Riordan has worked with the German dance pioneers Jam & Spoon, Italy's famed crooner Zucchero and on the soundtrack for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. She even had a cameo as a wedding singer in the Adam Sandler vehicle Click.

But it was working with David Lynch's favourite composer Angelo Badalamenti that had the most impact. "You learn something from all these people, like with Jam & Spoon I was doing a more soulful style, but I contacted Angelo direct. I loved Twin Peaks, and I love that darker music. I realised how much I could do on my own, when he'd send me music and I would lay down vocals at home."

O'Riordan nursed her youngest girl Dakota on the set of Click, after a period of inactivity to raise the child and ensure that her other children did not feel left out. When she returned home, she wrote her song for Dakota, the first single "Ordinary Day", and set about writing in earnest. She's married to the former Duran Duran tour manager Don Burton, so forming a band was simplicity itself. The most surprising thing about the album, especially after the lilting melancholy of "Ordinary Day", is its rocky extremes, notably the super-heavy, Metallica-style power chords on "In the Garden" and the venomous "Loser".

It is less of a shock when you learn that alongside Therapy?'s Hopkins, there is the bassist Marco Mendoza, who has played with Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, while Toronto-based Steve Demarchi played guitar for The Cranberries. Yet O'Riordan had not planned on a rock sound. She mentions the song "Letting Go", again about her mother-in-law, and which was leaked.

"When I started out recording this album, I wrote two songs that didn't make it on to the record. 'Letting Go' had this funeral march thing, and 'Without You' was about missing my own family. They were both soft, piano-driven songs, so I thought this album was going to be nice and ethereal, but then I wrote 'Black Widow' and I started yelling. I realised I needed drums to take it to the next level, so it all kind of unfolded from there. I didn't know what kind of music it was, because I don't have that much knowledge."

Another track, "Angel Fire", reminds us of O'Riordan's spiritual side. She was brought up Catholic and still has fond memories of the former Pope, John Paul II. She is a regular performer at the Vatican's Christmas concerts, where she premiered the song last year. "I'm Christian in lots of ways, but not conventional. A lot of the stuff I learnt, I take with me today - that we should let each other be ourselves. I was chuffed to see the inside [of the Vatican] and I met Il Papa, who was lovely, very saintly. I was mad about him. I thought he really cared for the poor and he loved to meet the people. I saw him when he came to Limerick, when I was a kid. So it was pretty mindblowing to take my mum out to meet him."

Despite the involvement of the mega-producer Youth on the single and "Apple of My Eye", recording Are You Listening? has been a relatively stripped-down affair. The band would fly in to either Toronto or Dublin, where her children go to school, and lay down up to six songs in a two-day session. "They were really great players and it was great that we didn't have the pressure of a major studio," O'Riordan enthuses. "Sometimes you draw a mental blank in that situation, which you don't have in a little room."

O'Riordan has rediscovered her magic in homely surroundings. With a band she trusts and a healthy work-life balance, she is unlikely to consider a Cranberries reunion in the short term. Indeed, the solo artist jokingly points out that 2010 would mark her old group's 20th anniversary.

Relations between them remain cordial, though, with offers of guitars for her forthcoming tour. Not that she needs their help - O'Riordan has found that she gets further when she travels light.

[Philosopher]

Небольшое, но интересное интервью

by Rob Grainge. Wednesday, May 02, 2007

The lead singer of hit band The Cranberries, Dolores O'Riordan, has returned with her debut solo album, Are You Listening? Here the Irish songstress reveals the reasons behind The Cranberries' hiatus and how she's come a long way from gigging in a bread van.

What made you want to record a solo album?
I just arrived at that point in my life and hit the 30 mark. I'd done the five [albums] and greatest hits with The Cranberries and it seemed like the obvious thing to do. We're all friends so there's no bitterness and we could even do a reunion at some stage.

What can we expect from solo Dolores?
It's a lot more experimental than anything else I've done before. It has some dark moments but also some bright and positive ones.

How different was it making an album without the rest of the band? This one was definitely more challenging, although time was my on my side – it took me four years. I wrote 30 tracks and we picked 12. I tried to do it properly and be really happy with it.

What are you listening to at the moment?
It's really sad, I have an iPod but I don't even know how to download. My husband downloaded two yoga CDs for me but I'm caught in a time warp. It's because of having kids, I don't listen to much if I'm not making it.

How did you end up as the wedding singer in Adam Sandler's film, Click?
He just phoned me up and said that he and his wife's favourite song was Linger [by The Cranberries]. He said he'd written this movie and it was important to have this song in the wedding scene. He'd lost his dad about a year before and he writes an awful lot from experience. I was there for ten days, flown out, had my own trailer, real first-class treatment. I kept thinking that I was dreaming. It was all a bit surreal.

How did you become the The Cranberries' singer? I auditioned. They played a few songs for me, I played some songs for them. My wardrobe at the time was very dodgy, I was wearing pink pants and a frilly blouse and I really didn't look the part, but when I sang I could tell they were impressed.

Did you ever guess how successful you'd become? We hadn't a clue. If anything , we were very lucky. We just started working Ireland and going around in a bread van. One of the lads'
parents was a bread man. So we'd drive the van around surrounded by equipment and sitting on pans in the back.

Did you do a couple of deliveries and then go and play a gig?
No, but we used to eat the bread because we'd spent all our money on beer and we'd be starving. So there we were doing the beer and bread in the back of the van. The bread was always really fresh as well. Those were the days.

[Dess]

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Опыт имеет значение: Долорес из Cranberries начинает сольную карьеру
Enjoyment > Music > Features
CHRIS MUGAN
The Independent

Опубликовано: 04 мая 2007
L 2007 Independent News and Media Limited
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/f...icle2509097.ece

Долорес из Cranberries начинает сольную карьеру, или Опыт имеет значение

Насидевшись дома с детьми, солистка Cranberries возвращается в шоу-бизнес.
Долорес О'Риордан, теперь уже как сольный исполнитель, дает интервью Крису
Мьюгэну.

При подписании нового контракта певец вынужден выступить перед персоналом
своего выпускающего лейбла и приглашенными гостями из музыкальной среды, а
давать такие презентационные концерты, как правило, - дело неблагодарное.
Холодный прием и вежливые хлопки могут основательно сбить начинающего
сольную карьеру артиста с толку. Но Долорес О'Риордан не позволяет себе
заморачиваться на этих вещах. Даже если бывшая солистка Cranberries выступит
в утлом подвале частного клуба - она и там будет так растрясать руками
воздух, как будто пытается дотянуться рукой до самого дальнего зрителя на
огромной арене. Конечно, непросто сразу же приноровиться к менее масштабным
площадкам, если еще вчера ты был явлением международного масштаба и выступал
на стадионах. Но, по крайней мере, Долорес вновь может получать удовольствие
от собственно выступлений - теперь, когда ее старые камрады заняты совсем
другими вещами.

На следующий после концерта день звезда из города Лимерика выглядит такой же
свежей и бойкой - мы обсуждаем вчерашний концерт в офисных кварталах
северного Лондона. Я упоминаю о том, как зверски зажигал тогда барабанщик
Грэхем Хопкинс, бывший музыкант "Therapy?", североирландской взрывной
рок-группы, и слышу в ответ смех. "Между прочим", - гордо заявляет она, и я
поневоле отмечаю, как ее происхождение выдает сильный ирландский акцент, -
"он в тот вечер поломал шесть барабанных палочек!".

Остальными музыкантами новой группы солистка горда ничуть не меньше. "И это
прекрасно - ведь тур, а в тур я очень хочу, потребует от ребят очень много и
энергии, и той самой общности, связи между нами, так что все складывается.
Дело еще и в том, что сама пластинка - не стилизация и не ширпотреб, так что
дело в самих песнях".

Ее слова подтверждает ее же облачение: она вся одета в черное и опоясана
предметом гардероба, подходящем другому ирландскому корифею Филу Линотту.
Впрочем, к этому весьма себе рОковому виду у Долорес примешивается еще и
женский шарм матери троих детей. В последний раз я читал о ней в прессе в
2004, когда ходила информация о том, как ее неудачно пыталась засудить
бывшая детская няня, впрочем, не этот инцидент оказал влияние на настроение
нового альбома Are You Listening?, а другие, более серьезные жизненные
события. Смерть и зарождение новой жизни - это две крайности, между которыми
Долорес и курсировала на протяжении четырех лет.

"Я хотела придти в норму, излечиться", - проясняет О'Риордан личную сторону
написания песен и объясняет то длительное время, что писалась пластинка. -
"Я чувствовала желание переключиться и побыть нормальным человеческим
существом, и потому убежала из музыкальной индустрии и в принципе из
шоу-бизнеса. Ведь я 14-15 лет постоянно чувствовала это давление: вот надо
сочинить и выпустить новый альбом, а потом еще альбом..."

Образовались Cranberries в городе Лимерике, в 1990 году. Солистка
коллектива, 19-летняя О'Риордан, позиционировала себя как развитого не по
годам молодого поэта. И в самом деле, визитной карточкой ее стали тогда
слова к песне "Linger", которой суждено было стать мега-хитом. Через три
года вышел первый альбом, и если в первое время успех его был весьма
сомнителен, уже вскоре он принес группе славу во всех странах по обе стороны
Атлантического океана. В Штатах "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't
We?" не замечали, пока Клюквы не приехали туда с туром и попали на MTV, в
Британии же "Linger" стал хитом лишь через год.

Группа поднялась еще выше благодаря своему второму альбому "No Need to
Argue", и в особенности хиту "Zombie" с него, драматическому и
мегауспешному. На протяжении всего того времени группа безостановочно
колесила по миру с концертами и грузовиками распродавала альбомы. Хоть такая
дисциплина и обеспечила музыкантов твердым положением в своей среде, новый
материал стал несколько слабее, посему три последующих альбома продавались
хуже по сравнению с первыми двумя. Музыка, создаваемая теперь с тем
расчетом, чтобы играть ее на стадионах, не смогла завербовать новых фанатов
или вызвать бурные крики одобрения, и все, чем пришлось довольствоваться,
был незначительный сингл "Promises" в 99-м и награда за первое место по
продажам в Тайвани. Лебединой песней коллектива, как и положено столь
концертной группе, стало пение в промежутке между выступлениями the Stones и
AC/DC.

Слухи о том, что Долорес собирается начать сольную карьеру, начали
курсировать еще с тех пор, как в девяностых Клюквы начали пожинать первые
плоды успеха. "Всегда находились люди, которые так говорили", - жалуется
Долорес. - "Но я хотела пройти весь путь до конца с ними [с группой], а не
бежать с корабля на самом пике успеха. Ты будешь учиться на ошибках, только
если по-настоящему переживешь и взлеты, и падения".

Stars, сборник самых хитовых песен Cranberries, ознаменовал для группы
полную остановку в творчестве, хотя и до его выпуска члены коллектива
понимали, что конец близок, особенно, когда начали обзаводиться собственными
семьями. "На фоне всего этого происходило много разных вещей, у парней были
больные дети. Одного ребенка пришлось поместить в инкубатор для
выздоровления на три месяца, потом у него же обнаружили лейкемию" -
осторожно, остерегаясь конкретики в именах, говорит О'Риордан. - "А один из
наших так полтора года и маячил: из больницы - на сцену, со сцены - в
больницу. Другой заболел глаукомой, в общем, столько всяких болезней...".

Только сейчас О'Риордан может признаться в том, насколько дорогой была
расплата за ранний успех. Когда она давала с группой первые интервью в 1990,
младшая из семи детей все еще жила с родителями. Когда Клюквы завоевали в
Америке успех, о певице стали ходить злые толки как о заносчивой особе, как
критиковали и ее миниатюрность, которая, по признанию Долорес, была
следствием нарушений с питанием. Она рассказывает и о том, как вынуждена
была пройти курс терапии в начале карьеры, в 1994-м, после нервного срыва.

"Во мне было 90 фунтов весу (а это примерно 41 кг - прим. пер.), я ничего не
ела, не спала и терпела множество приступов паники. Что именно это было, я
не знала; когда человек на грани, он это не осознает, а домой я пойти не
могла. Не могла, поджав хвост, приковылять обратно к родительскому порогу -
была слишком гордая. Потом я встретилась с очень хорошим психоаналитиком,
который повидал на своем веку артистов в той же ситуации. Я должна была
отойти от всего, найти себя. И несколько месяцев я ходила в лес и училась
расслабляться. Впервые за пять лет я понюхала цветок - и расплакалась: я
поняла, что забыла про саму жизнь".

В речи О'Риордан часто использует слово "human" ("человеческое существо"),
вероятно, чтобы сделать акцент на мысли: быть "человеческим существом" - это
нечто большее, чем просто быть представителем вида Человек Разумный, это
особое состояние ума. В ее стихах тоже встречаются особые фразы, призванные
помочь самой себе, касающиеся невозможности "быть к вам причисленной" или
попытки научиться "принимать положение вещей".

В 2003 году свекрови О'Риордан поставили диагноз рака груди и сказали, что
жить ей осталось восемь месяцев. Родилась песня "Black Widow", одна из
первых с этого альбома. Певица оказывала помощь своему свекру-канадцу,
помогла с определением детей в канадскую школу. "Она часто к нам приходила,
и песня была про то, как мы присматривали за ней" - вспоминает О'Риордан. -
"Пока не увидишь рак на примере близкого человека, ты не знаешь, что это
такое: как он начинается изнутри и прожирается наружу, к поверхности".

Уж если она и вынесла из эпохи Клюкв какой-то урок, так это - не относиться
слишком серьезно к самой себе. "Не надо быть совершенством. Сделаешь
ошибку - это еще не конец света. А когда я была моложе, я всегда
расстраивалась. Сидела часами в раздевалке и не могла идти мыслями дальше. В
двадцать мне казалось, что я столько всего знаю о жизни - а стукнуло 30, и я
понимаю, что я за это время отколола столько глупых ошибок, что,
оказывается, ничего еще тогда о жизни не знала. Когда ты молодая, очень
необычно, что все на тебя смотрят; становишься параноиком, застенчивой.
Сидела в своей комнате и по шесть часов кряду занималась йогой".

Она признает и то, что вела себя заносчиво. "Дело в том, что если ты долгое
время - "вещь в себе", если ты ни с кем не встречаешься, никого до себя не
допускаешь, то ты не можешь развиваться. Выходишь на сцену и сразу получаешь
огромное внимание людей - и это неестественно. Мне не хватало чего-то
нормального, обыденного, не хватало человеческих отношений. Четыре-пять лет
у меня просто не было друзей - они все пошли в колледж".

Это объясняет некую неровность в ее песнях периода Клюкв, когда она
выштамповывала песни на материале ее внутренних прений, как, например, в
"Боснии" ("We live in our secure surroundings / And people die out there" -
"Мы живем на безопасной земле / А где-то там погибают люди"). О'Риордан
оглядывает прошлое: "Очень хорошим решением оказался этот четырехлетний
отпуск, очень много удалось пережить. Что ты напишешь, если выпускаешь
альбом через год катания по миру в трейлере - разве что о том, каково это -
быть знаменитой или застрять в комнате отеля".

Что сразу бросается в глаза при прослушивании "Are You Listening?", так это
то, насколько личные переживания в ней передаются. "Ты что-то переживаешь,
или мрачное, или прекрасное, и это дает тебе вдохновение - это и есть жизнь,
ведь так? И не было каких-то границ - я ведь просто показывала саму себя, и
я чувствовала, что по-настоящему могу все выплеснуть, без каких-либо
ограничений. Если у тебя есть проблемы, есть боль, то при каждом выпускании
этого всего из себя, при каждом выступлении ты чувствуешь облегчение. Ты
знаешь, что ты не одна, ведь и все остальные чувствуют то же. И ты снова
становишься человеческим существом".

Еще одним элементом нового переживаемого опыта с момента прощания с группой
были разнообразные сотрудничества. О'Риордан работала с немецкими
первопроходцами танцевальной музыки Jam & Spoon и знаменитым итальянским
эстрадным певцом Zucchero, а также записала песню для саундтрэка к фильму
"Страсти Христовы" работы Мэла Гибсона. Даже снялась в эпизодической роли
певицы на свадьбе в одном из лучших фильмов Адама Сэндлера 'Click'.

Но больше всего влияния оказала совместная работа с любимым композитором
Дэвида Линча - Анжело Бадаламенти. "От всех, конечно, получаешь что-то
новое - например, работая с Jam & Spoon, я делала что-то больше в стиле
soul, а с Анжело я связалась напрямую. Я люблю Твин Пикс, люблю мрачноватую
музыку. Он слал мне музыку, а я клала на нее слова и голос - и тогда поняла,
чтО могла бы сделать уже самостоятельно".

На площадке фильма Click О'Риордан нянчила младшую дочь Дакоту - после того,
как какое-то время ничем не занималась и тратила время лишь на ее
воспитание, а также не забывая и о других детях. По возвращении домой она
написала для Дакоты песню, первый сингл с альбома "Ordinary Day", а затем
уже основательно засела за написание остальных песен. А поскольку замужем
Долорес была за бывшим тур-менеджером Duran Duran Доном Бёртоном,
сформировать новый состав музыкантов оказалось проще простого. Очень
удивляет в альбоме, особенно после ритмичной меланхолии "Ordinary Day", его
жесткие роковые песни, особенно тяжелые резкие аккорды в стиле Металлики в
песне "In the Garden" и желчной "Loser".

Все становится яснее, когда узнаешь, что вместе с Хопкинсом из "Therapy?",
в группе есть еще и басист Марко Мендоза, игравший с "Thin Lizzy and
Whitesnake", а гитарист из Торонто Стив Демарши играл еще с Клюквами.
Впрочем, на самом деле О'Риордан не планировала делать упор на рок. Она
упоминает песню "Letting Go", еще одну просочившуюся в сеть песню о
свекрови.

"В начале периода записи альбома я написала две песни, которые потом в него
не включила. В 'Letting Go' был похоронный марш, а 'Without You' - о моей
тоске по семье. Обе мягкие песни, тихие, и я подумала, что, значит, и сам
альбом будет мягким и воздушным, а потом написалась 'Black Widow', где я уже
начала кричать. Я поняла, что для того, чтобы двигаться дальше, нужны были
барабаны, и потом уже все двигалось именно с этой точки. Я и не знаю, как
жанрово назвать то, что в конце концов получилось - я не очень-то в этом
разбираюсь".

Другой трек, 'Angel Fire', показывает духовную сторону души О'Риордан. Она
была воспитана в католических традициях и до сих пор хранит теплые
воспоминания о предыдущем Папе, Иоанне Павле II. Она регулярно выступает на
рождественских концертах в Ватикане, где в прошлом году и представила
впервые эту песню. "Со многих сторон я христианка, но не в традиционном
смысле этого слова. Я до сих пор живу многими вещами, которые поняла,
благодаря этой религии - например, что мы должны позволять друг другу быть
такими, какие есть. Я была вне себя от радости, когда смогла осмотреть, как
там внутри [Ватикана], и встретилась с Папой, он был очень милым, светлым. Я
его страстно любила. В моих глазах он по-настоящему заботился о бедных,
любил встречаться с людьми. Я его видела ребенком, когда он приезжал в
Лимерик. Так что сами понимаете, как мне было здорово много лет спустя
поехать с мамой и встретиться с ним лично".

Несмотря на то, что к синглу и песне "Apple of My Eye" приложил руку
мега-продюсер Youth, процесс записи "Are You Listening?" нельзя было назвать
дорогим и помпезным. Группа летала в Торонто или Дублин, где дети певицы
посещают школу, и за двухдневный срок отрабатывала до шести песен. "Они
классные музыканты, и как хорошо, что на нас не давила атмосфера огромных
студий звукозаписи", - восторженно вспоминает О'Риордан. - "В таких местах в
голове иногда может возникать мгновенное и полное опустение; а в маленьких
комнатах - никогда".

В непритязательной обстановке О'Риордан смогла заново обнаружить в себе
творческую искру. С правильным равновесием между работой и личной жизнью, а
также с музыкантами, которым доверяет, вряд ли она скоро примет решение о
воссоединении The Cranberries. И действительно: в процессе разговора сольная
исполнительница шутливо отмечает, что в 2010 году ее старая группа справит
20-летнюю годовщину.

Между тем, отношения между ними остаются сердечными, гитаристы даже
предлагают ей помощь в грядущем туре. Не то, чтобы ей так уж нужна их
помощь - О'Риордан обнаружила, что она продвигается тем дальше и быстрее,
чем легче экипируется в путь.

[Dess]

Dolores O’Riordan, at home in Ontario

Ingrid Randoja

Dolores O’Riordan’s unmistakable Irish lilt comes wafting over the phone line. She’s in Toronto, having just returned from her cottage in Northern Ontario. Why does the former lead singer of the 1990s band The Cranberries, and a girl from County Limerick, own a cottage in Ontario? “Well I married a Canadian,” she says with a laugh.



Thirty-six-year-old O’Riordan married Duran Duran’s Canadian tour manager Don Burton in 1994, and although the couple and their four kids — ages 16, nine, six and two — live in Ireland, they spend their holidays Canada.



It’s also the place where O’Riordan wrote many of the songs found on her first solo album, Are You Listening? (available May 15th).



“I love it there,” she says referring to her getaway in the woods. “I love the rustic life, and it’s great to have a pad in Canada for when we’re touring.”



The Cranberries disbanded in 2004 after 13 years together and producing five albums that sold a total of 32-million copies worldwide. That meant O’Riordan would finally have the chance to write and sing — in her distinctive, trilling voice — her own songs.



“It took me four years to make the album, the longest I’ve ever gone between albums, and that’s a good thing because I didn’t rush it and I picked the cream of the crop out of the 32 songs I wrote.”



Are You Listening? is bursting with O’Riordan’s trademark vocal dramatics. Songs that begin quietly eventually grow louder and more elaborate, and her haunting voice remains at the centre of it all. Since O’Riordan started singing with The Cranberries when she was just 18, I ask if anyone tried to alter or interfere with her singing style.



“No,” she says quickly. “I was never trained or anything. I just go out there and feel the music and let it in. It’s a spiritual experience for me and anyone who shares the stage with me feels it.



“It’s funny, I’ve gone full circle,” she continues. “When I started music was fun, a hobby, but after The Cranberries became so successful it stopped being fun...it wasn’t fun at all. And then I got busy with my family and it’s come back to being fun, a hobby, and that’s the best place for me to be to enjoy singing and what I’m doing.”

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Еще одно хорошее интервью для VH1.
Долорес отвечает на вопросы. Оказывается, в детстве папа называл ее Delsey Delsey. А еще у Долорес очень плохое зрение. :(


Dolores O'Riordan has come a long way since her early-90s audition for the lead singer job with The Cranberry Saw Us. Her band changed its name to something more palatable (you know them as The Cranberries), launched a campaign of world domination (few have recovered from the far-reaching effects of "Linger"), and now the pint-sized vocalist has struck out on her own with Are You Listening?. O'Riordan's unmistakable lilt swirls over a blend of folk and rock, which is made edgier by atmospheric production from Youth (U2, Paul McCartney). And though the album is the product of serious events such as death and motherhood, a recent chat with O'Riordan found her eager to share ideas on more frivolous things, like her soap opera obsession, getting tongue-tied in front of James Hetfield, and the downside of wearing glasses.



Name: Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan



Born: Limerick Maternity Hospital, September 6, 1971.



First memory: I can remember sitting on the windowsill looking out. It used to rain a lot in Ireland in the 70s, and I'd sit in front of the window. It was where I'd go when I got into trouble, when I lost my glasses. I started wearing them when I was 4 or 5 years old, so I'd sit on them or break them.



Biggest thrill as a child I went to see the movies for the first time when I was 7. It was The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. I thought it was fantastic -- I was blown away because I'd never been to a cinema. It was so cool.



What was your nickname as a kid? My dad used to call me Delsey Delsey. My dad likes to make up wacky names. My dad called us all pet names -- he didn't call us by our first names.



Did you sit at the back or front of the class? I chose to sit at the back, but I was always put at the front. I liked to fool around and I wasn't interested in what was going on as far as the teacher was concerned. I was a bit of a jester in school.



First record bought: The Smiths, How Soon Is Now? It was a tape.



First gig attended: I went to see the Waterboys outside Limerick when I was 17. It was brilliant -- the original Waterboys when they were [at] their high point. It was fantastic to have seen them at their high peak.



First date: I was an early beginner -- I had a boyfriend when I was about 7. We lived in a housing estate that was constantly being developed, so there were these vacant metal containers sitting around the building site, and in the vacant containers, there was a long piece of rubber, so we made a swing out of it. And because it was rubber, it hurt your butt to sit on, so my boyfriend, his name was Michael from around the corner, he would sit on it and let me sit on his lap -- very romantic, when you're 7.



Last book read: Panic by Jeff Abbott -- it's about a guy who thinks his life is one way, but it's not. His life is nothing like what he thought it was. It's an absolutely fantastic read. I couldn't put the book down.



Last movie seen: I think it was the one with Jack Nicolson and Matt Damon -- The Departed. I saw it on the plane. That's the only time I get to read or see movies because I have kids. I thought it was absolutely fabulous. I was well impressed.



Favorite sandwich: I don't eat bread -- I gave it up years ago. But what I really like doing is getting iceberg lettuce and putting fillings in there -- use the lettuce as a wrap. If you get some grated onions, carrots and cucumber, with a little soy sauce, some fresh ginger and garlic -- it's delicious. It's really healthy and organic.



Favorite item of clothing I have to say my pajamas. I just love my jim-jams. They've got Winnie the Pooh [on them], cotton and really soft. They're really childish, kiddy jim-jams.

Have you ever been starstruck? At the MTV Awards in 1995. I had spent my whole life being infatuated with James Hetfield from Metallica. We performed, and afterwards we all went to this bar backstage. He was standing across the way, so I said to my husband, 'Oh my god there he is!' Perchance my band was standing right behind him, so that gave me a chance. Alanis Morrisette's song was on the radio, and he turned around and said "That chick! That sounds so like 'Zombie'!" It was great -- he actually talked to me. I was thinking "I am not worthy." I could not say a word.



Do you collect anything?: I like to collect seashells and leaves. I bring them home and put them under paper and color with a crayon. Having kids is really cool because you get to have all these people that are on the same page as you.



Previous jobs: I had some pretty sad ones. I worked in a chip shop when I was 17. It was called Crank's Corner, and we were serving all the drunks at 2 a.m., so you'd get a serious amount of verbal abuse. That was the hardest job I had, working in the chipper in my small town. It toughened you up.



Favorite time of day: Crack of dawn -- it's a brand new day, a clean slate. Unless I have a really bad hangover, it's great. If I'm sober I love to get up and go out for a walk, and listen to the birds waking up. It's a great time to find peace with yourself.



Hanging on my bedroom wall: Lots of mirrors. I've got a thing for mirrors. And there's a flat TV screen, and the most amazing, austere painting that my husband and I bought in Ontario. It's really weird, it's very Hitchcock, scene of the crime. It's this silhouette of black trees. I don't know if it's done with paint or charcoal. The water is red and the trees are black. It's very eerie.



Ideal vacation: It would be with my kids, my mother and my husband, and somewhere by the ocean. One of the most beautiful places I've ever been is Antigua. When you lay in bed, you'd open your eyes and there was no ceiling, because it's hot all year round. You wake up when the sun comes up, and there's no watches and no clocks. There's no time there.



What's something that surprises people about you? The fact that I'm very, very blind. I can't see anything. I'm hopeless without my glasses. When I'm on tour they have to make this massive set list -- forty pieces of paper, twenty feet long, with giant writing. They have to put very thick, luminous white tape on the edge of the stage otherwise I'd fall off the stage.



What television show are you obsessed with? "Coronation Street." It's a soap opera based in Manchester, England. It's the longest [running] show in Europe -- like 60 years. My grandmother watched it, my mother watches it, I watch it and now my daughters watch it. It's cute. It's one of those soap operas that stands up to time. When I come back after working, it's like mashed potatoes. It reminds me of my granny, when I was a kid.



Swear word you use too much: Shit. Like, "Oh shit."



If I could be any character from history or literature: John Lennon. He's kind of my idol.

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Dolores O'Riordan

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Dolores O'Riordan Interview
By Daniel Robert Epstein
"For the first time in my life, I didn't have the band waiting."

Dolores O'Riordan is best known as the vocalist for The Cranberries. After over a decade with that band, O'Riordan has finally decided to take the plunge with her own solo album, Are You Listening?. I got a chance to talk with O'Riordan as she was rehearsing to perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

UGO: Do you have a show tonight?

Dolores O'Riordan: Yeah, we're doing Jay Leno.

UGO: Cool. So you're there now.

Dolores: I'm here just walking around inside the building. We did Carson Daly yesterday.

UGO: It seems like each song on Are You Listening? had a very different inspiration. Is that true?

Dolores: That's right, yeah. I wrote the album over a four year period and it wasn't a conscientious thing. There was no structure on how it would be written or anything like that. It became a very a fluid, organic experience. I started to write as a hobby again, and that'd be the first time that I had that opportunity since before I joined The Cranberries as a teenager. It was because I just took a break from it all and I just went off and started this.

UGO: Did you know it was going to eventually be your first solo album?

Dolores: I didn't because, to me, life is so exciting and unpredictable so you never really know. You don't even know what you're going to be next year, but I never thought this album would happen. At the start, it seemed like such a big ambition. I thought I'd be able to write all the songs on my own, but I was quite used to having other people to bounce stuff off of. Then a couple of years into it, I'd written loads of stuff and I thought I should do a solo album. After a while, I had about 30 songs and we started shopping around.

UGO: So it was a very different process than writing with The Cranberries.

Dolores: Yeah, I found it to be a really different experience because, with The Cranberries, there was always a certain element of, "I knew they were waiting for me." But this is the first time in my life I didn't have to do it, so it was brilliant to have that feeling. I don't have to make music if I don't want to. Suddenly, you have no inhibitions and you write what you like. On the weekend I'd sit down, maybe when the kids were asleep, have a glass of wine and start playing with the piano. It became a very relaxing and therapeutic process.

UGO: Was the song "Ordinary Day" inspired by the birth of your daughter, Dakota?

Dolores: Yes, she's two years old now. When you're a mother and you look at your little girls sometimes, you have a flash where that could be yourself. They just remind you of when you were small. Back then, I was thinking, "Gosh, what if I really knew when I was four or five what lay ahead of me?" You'd love to make life just so perfect for them but you know that they have to go through challenges and the ups and downs of growing up.

UGO: What was different about the birth of Dakota from that of your other kids?

Dolores: The biggest difference was that for the first time in my life, I didn't have the band waiting. I didn't have to go back to rehearsals at three months or four months and break the nursing. I got to sit around a little bit longer and all I had to worry about was feeding the baby. That was quite nice, because with the other two children I did have The Cranberries waiting. Now, I could just enjoy and not worry about anything.

UGO: I know that your mother-in-law getting ill was what inspired the song "Black Widow." Was it your feelings about it or your husband's feelings?

Dolores: Just my feelings about it. It was really strange because I'd come across so many people who have encountered it in some form or other in their lives. Whether it would be a brother or sister or parent or whatever but I became aware of how absolutely devastating it is.

UGO: How did you end up collaborating with Graham Hopkins?

Dolores: I think I just met him in Dublin at a gig one night. I was looking for a drummer and I was asking around Dublin. But we ended up bumping into him and he started playing on my stuff. I love his drumming style. If you've got a good rocking drummer, it really makes a difference to your sound. We did a gig in London and we did eight songs and I think he broke six sticks. He must hit it pretty hard. Also, Marco Mendoza is an amazing bass player. He plays with Ted Nugent and Whitesnake, so he's from the rock school, but he's got a great technique.

UGO: I read that you collaborated with a producer named Youth. Is that true?

Dolores: Yeah. That was just before Christmas. I had pretty much recorded and written everything. Then, just before Christmas, the A&R guy who signed me suggested collaborating with Youth. So I collaborated with Youth on four tracks. We ended up using two on the album, "Apple" and "Ordinary Day." We also recorded a track which probably could be a B side.

UGO: This is a very stripped down album. How did that come about?

Dolores: I did the majority of the creative process of this record. I did half of it in my house on ProTools. When you're rehearsing with a band in a room, you don't really get to think that much. You don't get to sit back and really think, but with ProTools, you can put it down and then you can sit back and listen to it, then you can actually put it away for four days and pull it back out and listen to it again and hear it with fresh ears. So we did that a lot as well. I tried to keep it very fresh and I tried to listen to it with many different objectives.

UGO: I read that "Ordinary Day" is going to get a remix. What do you like about having your songs remixed?

Dolores: I just think it's all pretty cool, or whatever. People like to get up and do a bit of dance and shaking the booty. I find it interesting.

UGO: I read that you collaborated with Angelo Badalamenti not too long ago. I love his music. How was it working with him?

Dolores: He's fantastic. We did everything on ProTools over a three and a half year period and we only met each other this year in January. Technology is amazing. Angelo is fantastic to work with. It was a big dream of mine to work with him. I approached him and he was like, "Yeah, come on, let's do something." the stuff we did together I really love, because it's just really different. We did a song called "The Butterfly." I usually sent him a bunch of lyrics and then he sent me that music. Then I would lay down my voice or something and sent it back to him.

UGO: The Cranberries have taken a break but I heard that you were interested in doing something with them again.

Dolores: Not really. I haven't written off the idea of a reunion, but I couldn't see it being immediately, because I've really been really branching out and starting to have fun in a different way now. I want to experiment a little bit more for the next few years. After 16 years in a band, it became quite predictable. We'd do an album and then a tour then I had a baby and then we do another album and a tour and another baby. After so long, I wanted to do something different. Maybe we'll do a reunion tour in ten years.

UGO: How did you end up in the Adam Sandler movie Click last year?

Dolores: His people contacted my people and just asked me if I would come and do a cameo. I was pretty flattered because I really like Adam Sandler. I've always loved and admired his work and I find him very amusing. The first time I've ever seen him in a movie was The Wedding Singer. Then I got to play a wedding singer in his movie. It's funny.

UGO: What movies do you usually have on the tour bus?

Dolores: There's usually the Godfather Trilogy, Schindler's List and all those old classics.

UGO: That's some heavy stuff.

Dolores: Yeah, but the drivers have their own stuff.

UGO: But you're happy with Schindler's List and the Godfather movies.

Dolores: I watched them once and I wouldn't watch it again. I don't really like graphic visual violence. I'm not really big into the kung fu movies, either.

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Posted on Jun 6, 07 at 09:12 PM
Celebrity Baby Blog - Forest Hills,NY,USA
By Missy, CBB Writer

Dolores O'Riordan talks about raising kids after The Cranberries


One of the best benefits of having a solo career, Dolores O'Riordan recently revealed, was being able to breastfeed her daughter Dakota Rain, 2, for as long as she wanted. While fronting The Cranberries, Dolores said a return to the band always meant a premature end to the breastfeeding relationship she shared with her two previous children, 9-year-old Taylor Baxter and 6-year-old Molly.

For the first time in my life, I didn't have the band waiting. I didn't have to go back to rehearsals at three months or four months and break the nursing. I got to sit around a little bit longer and all I had to worry about was feeding the baby. That was quite nice.

Dolores says her new song 'Ordinary Day' was inspired by Dakota.

When you're a mother and you look at your little girl sometimes, you have a flash where that could be yourself. They just remind you of when you were small. Back then, I was thinking, 'Gosh, what if I really knew I was four or five what lay ahead of me?' You'd love to make life just so perfect for them but you know that they have to go challenges and the ups and downs of growing up.

Dolores and her husband Don Burton will celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary next month.

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Интервью Долорес испанскому The Rolling Stones. Перевод с испанского на английский сделала Irishgirl.

Долорес рассказывает о том, что ее дочь - фанатка The Corrs; о том, почему сняла сережки; о том, когда научилась танцевать ирландские танцы и о том, что ее путают с Кортни Кокс.

Among Zombies, I CONFESS

Reached fame with the Irish band The Cranberries. It was rumored that she would try it alone. Years has past, tours, childbirths ( three ) and a going down to her hell ( depression, anorexia, isolation and so on ). With Juan Pablo II blessing, Dolores O'Riordan ( 1971 ) returns with Are you listening? and starts her tour in Barcelona ( 29th May, Razzmatazz ): "Spanish fans shout me Lola at the concerts".

Do you know what does "Dolores" mean in Castilian?
-Yeah, of course, calmness or loneliness, isn't it? (*)

What is what you hate the most in interviews?
-When journalists start questions with "once you said..." or "I've read that..."

Well! I've read that you repeled a role in "Titanic".
-Are you crazy? Someone must have put it on the Internet, but it's completely false.

And what about your disagreeable polemics with your compatriot The Corrs? Also a rumor?
-They are adorable! I even know their parents. And my daughter is a superfan of theirs. Nothing, another lie.

Where are all of your piercings? You had a lot.
-I took them away. They are very bad for chakra, causing energy's dispersions.

With this look, dark with long hair, you look like Courtney Cox, Monica in "Friends".
-My husband says it. One day in Toronto, a guy came near me thinking I was her and asked me for an autograph.

Are you the richest woman in Ireland?
-I don't think so. In any case it would be Enya. She is lining (*)

But you've sold more than 30.000.000 of albums!
-Really? I didn't know it.

You should talk with your accountant more often.
-I still look at the costs when I go to the super. One day I bought a tshirt of 150 euros and I felt fatal.

By the look of things, you're a dancing, in spite of that rare things, epileptics, that you did with The Cranberries.
-I'm good in Irish dancing. I learnt it when I was a child, at school, like when you're young in Spain and you dance the typicall dance there, tango, isn't it?

That's Argentinian.
-Then, salsa.

That's from caribbean countries.
-Flamenco? I love those spoted dresses (*)

In your career's peak, you had a huge breakdown...
-We spent years touring and I couldn't sleep. I slept 3 or 4 hours in a day. My brain didn't work. I woke up in place where I didn't remember how did I arrived to, opened what I thought it was the bathroom's door and I was in a hotel's vestibule with just my underwear...

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* "Dolores"- In Castilian, "Dolores" means pain ( physical and psycological ) or sorrow.
* "lining"- in Spain we use that word to speak about people who is very rich, but I don't know if that's the most correct word in English.
* "spoted dresses"- she is speaking about our typicall "trajes de flamenca" ^^ women wear them in April's Fair, they are spoted and in lots of colours. I made a drawing for her where she was dressed in that way, with Irish flag colours I bought this magazin too and read this, and, in this way, she would remember Seville

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What's in her head
Dolores O’Riordan

By PATRICK STEVEN WAECHTER
Jun. 13, 2007

Four years after breaking with The Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan is back on the scene. With her new album, ”Are You Listening?,” we can only hope that the answer is yes. Her latest features some familiar sound qualities of The Cranberries, but perhaps with a fuller and more mature flavor. Dolores took a few minutes out of her drive through Paris to speak with 411 Magazine.


411 Magazine: Who were your childhood heroes?

Dolores O’Riordan: I looked up a lot to Elvis Pressley. I thought Patsy Cline was great. I liked Frank Sinatra. Johnny Cash. All that kind of stuff. I thought they were all pretty cool when I was a kid. Of course, when I got into the teens, I started to develop my own taste… I got really into Depeche Mode and The Cure, and then R.E.M. and all that that stuff.


What motivated you to go solo?

What happened was that I’d been in The Cranberries for fifteen years. A huge chunk of my life was taken up. It was a chapter of my life, or maybe even a few chapters. When I finished, the greatest hits came out. So, I left the band and I told them I was going to go on a journey where I was going to discover who I was without The Cranberries. I went off into the forest and went out there just being a person and a mother and a wife and a daughter for four years. I was trying to find out what I maybe would have lost over those years as a part of the rat race of being famous. I just wanted to experience real life, some grounding. I really enjoyed that grounding and songwriting started to become a hobby then. Then, I moved back to Ireland and the kids started to go to school and I got the album together.


You have three little ones, no? How are things at home?

Actually, I have four because I have a stepson as well. But I hate to say step. We have four children. Things are great, actually. Very lovely and busy. It’s very nice, because I remember when I left and went off with The Cranberries I wrote about missing my family, but I’m not missing them.


Mother-to-mother, what advice would you impart to Britney Spears?

Well, I think that really she has to go through what she’s going through, because this is something that’s very important for her to find herself. She has had a very difficult journey. I went through similar stuff
when I was quite young. Becoming famous is a very very difficult thing. You go through all of these things and at the end of the day it makes you stronger, stronger, stronger… you hope, anyway. I think she’ll get through it, though. She’s a strong one.


Your album has been my perfect rainy day anti-depressant lately, as it seems to rain nonstop here in Florida. Who do you listen to on days like those?

Have you gotten the new Snow Patrol? It’s a really beautiful album. They’re from Ireland as well. But oh my god, you’ll love ‘em.


My favorite song on your album is ”When We Were Young.” Is that a song about fighting the past?

It’s kind of like when you have little ones, you become aware that they’re in a kind of a headspace. And they’ll never be able to get it back when they hit ten, then twelve, then the teens… and the angst… and suddenly they’re on the next level. In a way, when you’re a kid, you have no stress, because all you have to do is worrying about dressing yourself. I’m just looking back on when I was a kid and saying ”thanks mom, thanks for doing all you did” and hoping my own kids love and appreciate me the same.


”Ecstasy” is another standout song. ”Look, you made me do this to myself.” Sounds like a complicated trip.

Really. It’s kind of about depression. And suicide. And drug addiction. And escapism. Trying to escape from pain, eternal pain. Everybody has a different journey, and it’s never perfect. People always end up with baggage, issues, pain. You can run, but you can’t hide. You do have to face it. But some people can’t face it, so they just leave. It’s very important to open up to other humans when you’re going through stuff, to never be ashamed of what you feel. You need to open up and share it because it’s only then that you get to the next level.


You’re getting ready for a U.S. tour. Will you revisit songs of the Cranberries?

Oh yeah. I play all the old stuff, because people like that, you know what I mean. Those songs, ”Zombie,” ”Linger,” all of them… I played ”Zombie” at my last show and there was one girl who cried straight through it. She was really releasing, and just kind of let it all out. I love playing live. It’s so nice to see what the songs mean to the people out there.

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Ну вот, Долорес наконец-то объяснила смысл песни Ecstasy. :) И еще мне понравилась полная версия истории о том, как она придумала название для альбома. :)

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Даю ссылку на интересное интервью Долорес мексиканскому фанату:
http://www.cranberries.com.mx/news/index.php?itemid=33
Она там много чего интересного рассказывает.

И вот краткое изложение того, что было на пресс-конференции Долорес в Мексике:

The fans made the conference hehe, she told the story of the Willow Pattern, WWWY video was shot in France in just one day, she was very happy to have a one-shot video, they took al the kids from the streets, no casting or anything, it's about youth and wildness, she'll be performing at the movie SECRETS OF LOVE where she'll have another cameo singing a new song from Badalamenti, she loved performing in Click but she can't do that again, 4 hours of make up was just too much for her, she's used for quick things as in the live shows, no specific tour dates from now, she doesn't know exactly what's next, she's in good therms with Noel, Mike and Fergal, she seems to be very aware of what "MySpace" is so she mees to have already hear their solo projects... I know I'm missing more information BUT we have the full video, it's big and in excellent quality so we'll take some time to upload it.

Вкратце для тех, кто не знает инглиш:
- Видео WWWY сняли за 1 день во Франции, чуваков на видео набирали прямо с улицы.
- У Долорес будет маленькая роль в фильме Secrets Of Love, где она поет песню Бадаламенти.
- Долорес больше не хочет сниматься в кино, потому что 4 часа макияжа в Клике - для нее это было чересчур. :)))
- После тура по Ю. Америке она не знает, куда поедет. Планов нет.
- Она в хороших отношениях с Ноэлем, Фергом и Майком и в курсе, что такое Майспейс, так что она могла послушать из сольные проекты.