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Foro de Música => Foro de Música => Mensaje iniciado por: Serena en Enero 05, 2009, 10:52:06 pm
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Hope you're all having a great New Year's holiday! In honor of the site launch, the new year, and all new things coming in 2009, Dolores wanted to kick the year off by sharing with you the title and track listing for her forthcoming release! The album is entitled "No Baggage?"
and the track titles, in no particular order, are:
Skeleton
It's You
Tranquilizer
Stupid
Be Careful
What You Wish For
Apple Of My Eye (new version)
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Fly Through
Lunatic
Giuseppe
Switch Off The Moment
The album is tentatively slated for release in May of 2009.
source : www.doloresoriordan.ie
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-The Team
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Ya se han filytado canciones!!!!!!!
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The Cranberries reunite in Dublin
10 Jan 2009
And Hot Press, naturally, was side-of-stage for the whole thing.
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The Cranberries – well, three quarters of them – reunited last night in honour of Dolores O’Riordan joining the likes of The Edge, Al Pacino, Helen Mirren and Salman Rushdie in being made an Honorary Patron of Trinity College’s Philosophical Society.
After being interviewed in front of 300 wildly appreciative Trinners students by Hot Press’ Stuart Clark, Dolores and the brothers Hogan who hadn’t been on stage or in the same room together for almost six years performed string-quartet assisted versions of ‘Linger’, her 2007 solo hit ‘Ordinary Day’ and that other Cranberries chestnut, ‘Zombie’.
“When I was asked a few weeks ago if I was up for it I thought, ‘Oh, it’ll be a nice simple acoustic job’, but Dolores being Dolores she decided she wanted to make a real occasion of it and have a string section as well,†Noel Hogan told Hot Press beforehand. “I kept leaving it, but finally got my old notebooks out last night and slipped right back into it. We rehearsed this afternoon and, I have to say, it sounded pretty good.â€
It certainly did. Despite professing to some pre-gig butterflies, the band were as note perfect as they were back in their ‘90s heyday prompting the inevitable question – are the Cranberries going to get back together?
“Definitely down the road, but not right now,†Dolores says, “because we’ve all got kids and babies. You can’t really do both – be on the road all the time and be a good parent. To bring kids into the world, you need to be there for them. I’m really enjoying taking things at my own pace.â€
Which means local newspaper talk of The Cranberries playing Thomond Park is, for the time being, wide of the mark.
Fans will be pleased to hear though that Dolores’ second solo album, No Baggage?, is due in May with ‘Skeleton’, ‘Tranquilizer’, ‘Lunatic’ and ‘Switch Off The Moment’ among the stand-outs.
Also in the can and awaiting summer release is the first album by Noel Hogan and Oxford singer Richard Walters’ collaborative project, Arkitekt. It’s trailed on March 1 by ‘14 Waves’, a song that packs the most potent of pop punches. The duo are planning to spend a goodly part of 2009 on the road which, laughs Hogan, “will surprise my three kids who are too young to remember The Cranberries and think their dad’s job is hanging around at home. We’re both excited about playing these songs live and building things from the ground up. It really does feel like a new beginning.†He also has a compilation of Limerick acts ready to go on his own Gohan Records label.
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Hi guys,
Popped by to update ya on the The Trinity College gig. It was a blast. Really a very cool feeling to have received such an honour! Everyone at the college was really lovely. A big thanks to everybody there for putting together such a special night!
Playing with the guys again was totally brilliant, and I think it went really well. It was great seeing them this week. Don took a few photos that night, and we just posted them in my latest photo album. Check em out! He also took some video that we just mailed out to the team, so you'll all be seeing that soon too.
Hope you're having fun on the site, and I'll speak to you all again soon.
Dolores xx
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Videos del dia 9!!
Zombie
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYRW5Bxq0Q (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYRW5Bxq0Q)
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Ordinary day
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=l074jkG92E8&NR (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=l074jkG92E8&NR)
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Linger
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFX-Mx1_Ic& (http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFX-Mx1_Ic&)
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No Baggage hitting stores August 24, 2009 WORLDWIDE!
4/20/2009 -
Tour Dates will be announced shortly.
The first single, "The Journey", will hit radio in June 2009.
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May 12th & 13th: Madrid, Spain
May 14th & 15th: Paris, France
May 17th & 18th: Amsterdam, Holland
May 19th: Belgium (city TBA)
May 20th & 21st: Milan, Italy
May 25th: Berlin, Germany
May 26th: Cologne, Germany
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Dolores O’Riordan, songstress and critically acclaimed voice of The Cranberries, has announced that she will be releasing her second solo album, No Baggage, on Monday 24th August.
Co-produced by Ontario-based Dan Brodbeck, the album sees O’Riordan exploring many emotive subjects. “I probably haven’t worn my heart on my sleeve like this since the second Cranberries album [1994’s No Need to Argue],†she says. “It’s at times very confessional and dealing with my true emotions. Everyone, through their experiences or their background, has had terrible moments where they think they can’t handle it. With this record I’m trying to show that, no matter how bad things may seem, it’s not really that bad in the big picture.â€
Looking forward and backwards – sometimes simultaneously – is one of the new album’s primary themes, as evidenced on tracks such as the quasi-Beatlesque ‘Fly Through’ and its yearning for unambiguous solutions, the bittersweet nostalgia of the insinuatingly catchy ‘It’s You’, and the blunt, seemingly self-critical ‘Stupid’. ‘Skeleton’, meanwhile, takes its title not just from the physical structure at each person’s core but also from the all-too-common “skeletons in the closet†that we all have. ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me’, with its Indian-styled instrumentation and structure is a song that O’Riordan is clearly proud of. “That song’s really about how there are two kinds of people: those who are believers and have faith, and those who scoff at such things,†she says. “It has a kind of mysterious sound to it, unpredictable; it doesn’t sound anything like normal.â€
Available on CD and as a digital download, the album’s full tracklisting is as follows :
1. Switch Off The Moment 7. Apple Of My Eye (new version)
2. Skeleton 8. Throw Your Arms Around Me
3. It’s You 9. Fly Through
4. The Journey 10. Lunatic
5. Stupid 11. Tranquilizer
6. Be Careful
Since leaving The Cranberries, who sold more than 40 million albums worldwide, O’Riordan has been splitting her time between Dublin and Ontario, Canada. Her interests in life extend far beyond her musical abilities; she is a devoted wife and mother to four beautiful children, and is also a gifted visual artist.
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Entrevista!!!
Interviewer: Please welcome Dolores O'Riordan, everybody!
Dolores: Give me a five there, lad! Loving it! Loving it!
I: Five, five, five!
D: I'm loving the show, I think it's great.
I: You're enjoying the show so far?
D: I love it. I think it's a great show, it's very young, it's very cool.
I: It's very cool.
D: Yeah.
I: You look--
D: Yeah, totally rock and roll, love it.
I: You look great, I love the hair, it's fantastic.
D: Yeah, I know...
I: It's got that, hwoo! I just got off of a motorbike, hwoo!
D: Yeah, I know, check it out, hold on, hold on!
I: Go on.
D: The side profile is the best, it's like...
I: Go on.
D: Shwwwoo!
I: Okay, pretend I'm blowing...
D: And it's kinda like...
I: ...you like uh, like uh...
D: You blow and I go... See, it's great. I love it.
I: WOw!
D: Sound effects and all.
I: Did The Cranberries, The Cranberries, uh, regroup, uh, reform briefly recently? What happened there?
D: I uh, do ya know, it was, I, uh, Trinity College, uh, made me a member of their Philisophical Society...
I: Yes.
D: Don'tcha know...
I: I don't know.
D: Oh no, it's really cool, actually, instead. I mean, I was really chauffed...
I: Yes.
D: And, uh, eh, the Society's been going on for hundreds of years. It's like, Yeats is a member and all this, so I was totally chauffed. I was, y'know, and um... So I said to the lads, like, "Hey, do you wanna come up and play along?" 'Cause I said I'd do a couple of songs. I'm not really the greatest with doing the old, uh, holding the audience and making a big old speil or doing a lecture or whatever.
I: Sure.
D: It was like, "Do you wanna talk?" And I was like, "No, I just sing. I'm better at singing."
I: Sure.
D: So yeah, the boys came up with me and we had a string quartet and we just, uh, played a few tunes and it was really nice.
I: What was it like? Y'know, playing with the gang again, and meeting up again like that?
D: It was really weird, like at first, I hadn't seen them for like four or five years, and, um, at first when I saw them it was like, initially it was like, "Okay, show me your cabin." So we're checking out eachother's bellies, and how big our bellies were, and the grey hair. It was like, "How much grey hair've..." Y'know, all that. But then after a few minutes it was kind of like, as if we saw eachother yesterday, y'know, so...
I: Yeah. And does it feel a gazillion years from the time you first met when you were forming the band, uh...?
D: Ah, yeah, it actually does. Y'know, 'cause even when I see videos, like Linger and stuff like that, I look and I go, "Hfff." I mean, that was like, 18, 19 years ago, so it's a long time.
I: How old were you then, when you, when you started the band, roughly?
D: 18.
I: You were 18?
D: Yeah.
I: So very young to be kind getting stuck into it all up into it like that.
D: Yeah, the bass player was 16, and, no, I mean, like, the eldest in the band, I was 18. The drummer was 18. And the other two lads were 17 and 16. So we were really youngins, y'know.
I: And it got big fast, I think.
D: Very fast.
I: Would that be fair to say? It was pretty, hwoo!
D: It was very much overnight, yeah...
I: And, and it got quite, it got global. And I mean, it wasn't that you were just playing a wee little then going home. I mean, this was out and about.
D: Yeah, it was really, it was really global and kind of instant, y'know, but, um...
I: Was it scary?
D: Y'know, at the time we didn't have time to think about it. We were just like, work, work, work. And it was like, fly here, go into a hotel, y'know, ffuh, live in a hotel room, and just do press, and sing, and, y'know, makeup, interview, gig.
I: Yeah.
D: Makeup, interview, gig. And it was just like that, y'know, and, uh...
I: Doesn't sound like much crack, is it?
D: It wasn't actually, like, y'know, initially like, that was always my dream, to kinda do, y'know, the rock and roll thing.
I: To be a rockstar.
D: And the band. To be a rockstar, and whatever. And so it happened, but, I think after a while I realized it wasn't much fun, uh... I think after about six years of just living in hotels and doing that for ages it kind of, um... I wanted something else in life. Y'know, so then I, I realized that I probably, y'know, having kids and stuff like that.
I: That changed. But when you were in the middle, the eye of the storm as it were, and you describe that life of hotel rooms and press trips, and probably doing gigs and concerts and so on, did you...
D: Yeah.
I: I mean, did it become, did it get to the point where you were so well recognized that you were out with the fake beard and glasses on?
D: Yeah, yeah.
I: Was it?
D: I remember actually, when I met my husband, and he was working with Duran Duran, and we were opening up for them. And I remember when, um, I'd go on stage and we were the opening, like, and after we finished I would go into the audience with a wig and that and watch Duran Duran. And I just loved like, the idea of being in the audience with this wig on, em, and I used to go up to, um, y'know, the t-shirt stalls, where you're selling all the merchandise and stuff, and I'd go up and, um, I'd listen to all the fans talking about The Cranberries and I'd be just in the middle of them, they'd be going, "She was this and she was that..." And I'd be standing next to them kinda going, yeah, y'know. But with the wig and all that, like, nobody recognized you, so it was grand like that.
I: Sound like a little spy, like listening.
D: Yeah, it was fun to kind of, just be in the middle of the crowd, y'know.
I: I hope they were saying nice things, right?
D: Uh, yeah, y'know, usually, like...
I: When, life after The Cranberries, you mentioned there motherhood, um, you've, how many kids you've got? 412 children?
D: Four! But I have a bonus child, like. My eldest is my stepson, he's... He's gunna be 18 this year. And then um, my firstborn will be 12 this year. And, and they're all at home watching. Is that the moniter?
I: Well, it can be.
D: 'Cause I told, Dakota's four...
I: Well, how about this one? Look over here.
D: After this, kids! Go to bed.
I: Yes.
D: Beds! Be good for Nana! 'Cause now...
I: How old's, how old's Dakota?
D: Uh, she's four.
I: And how about that?
D: She's the boss! She's the small boss.
I: She runs the show.
D: Oh, totally! She runs the house. Y'know, the babies always run the house, like... And, uh, then Molly's eight. She's making her First Communion...
I: Oh.
D: On the 9th. And Taylor's making his Confirmation on the 29th. SO my hands are full with all that. And the album coming out, y'know, so it's all a bit mad.
I: That's your other child.
D: But it's lovely. I totally love having kids.
I: And who's looking after them tonight now?
D: My mother.
I: Your mother. She's uh, the uh...
D: Hello!
I: She's the all-important Granny. She's...
D: Nana, yeah.
I: Nana, yeah, you've got her. Did motherhood change you dramatically or was it just another step in your life? Did you, did you become a different human being, do you think?
D: Yeah, I think, uh, I think it changed me a lot. 'Cause, I think that, y'know, I always had, like, this idea when I was a kid growing up, like, "Oh, when I grow up I wanna be a rockstar and join a rock band, blah blah blah." But I did that, and it all happened. And I was the most miserable person in the world. I like, I remember the biggest hit The Cranberries had was Zombie, and it was #1 in 26 countries, and I was so lonely! But then, the penny dropped, it was like, lonely at the top. And now I know what that means. I was miserable because I had no friends and I didn't go out and I just lived in hotels, so I, I kind of realized, that that's not what it's all about. You know, you kinda...
I: Who did you call when you're that lonely?
D: Em, I don't know, I could, uh...
I: You must've a phone number that you called. You know, you have to need someone. You need somebody when you're that bad, when you're that...
D: I, no, no, I was totally cut off. Like serious, I just did, I called my parents, that was it, like, at that stage.
I: That's it?
D: Yeah, but then, y'know, but that all passed and stuff like that. But I remember that having kids was kind of the moment where I realized that, you know, that when you're, when you're young yourself, you think this is what you want to do with your life. And that answer, is like, if you're gunna be a rockstar and have your fame and have your success... But I just found that it wasn't the answer. I wanted more. And then when I started having children I just found that was really cool, having a family. And funnily enough, like it's the simple things that really, that really like, mean a lot, y'know...
I: Like to basics, I mean, even down to food. With literature saying that times are bad and people are returning to the basics. And you were at the pinicle of your career and you found it was back to basics. Kids and...
D: Back to basics, simple stuff, y'know, at the end of the day...
I: Can I ask you about that awkward moment that you had in your life with the nanny situation that went to court and so on. What, what happened there?
D: Well, it was a disaster.
I: What happened?
D: I mean, that was just, y'know, honest to God, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see it, man. That was just all about about cash, you know what I mean? Ching ching.
I: Well, recap it briefly for us.
D: You know what, it was going on for years, because, uh, she worked for me when, um, my son was two, he's 11, and it was going on behind the scenes, the threat, the game, Celebrity Blackmail, I mean, whatever you call it, y'know. Like, "If you don't give me 180 grand, I'm going to say blah blah blah blah blah." And it was like, "Y'know what, I wouldn't give you a fiver." I wouldn't pay anyone for telling lies, lads, you know what I mean? Honest to God, like, and, y'know, you know what I thought as well? You know what I thought as well?
I: Huh?
D: I thought, you remember Michael Jackson had a situation as well, where he had a lawsuit where everyone was going, "Oh, he settled out of court before!" If you settle out of court it could...
I: Suspicion.
D: Something to hide.
I: RIght.
D: And I thought, "I have nothing to hide," right? And I'm going to fight this. And my lawyers were saying to me, y'know, "If you settle, if you give her 200 grand she'll go away." And I was like, "I'm not paying anyone to go away when they're making up crap about me," y'know? So I said, "Look, at the end of the day, I don't care what it costs. This is about principle. I'm not fighting over a pair of shoes, I'm defending my family. Somebody's trying to disregard my family name and I'm going to stand up and fight." So I did it. It was... It was difficult. It was hard, but, y'know what, if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger, so I went through it. But what kind of peeves me off about the system it that at the end of the day it cost me 500 grand to defend myself, half a million.
I: That's a lot of money.
D: And supposedly she's supposed to pick up the cost, but, y'know, I never see it. But it wasn't ever about money. But I tell you, if it was the other way around, and, if she won, I'd have people banging my door going, "Oh, you better pay." You know what I'm saying?
I: Yes.
D: So, I...
I: You're fortunate that you were in a position to afford to defend your own name.
D: I was fortunate, but then...
I: Yeah.
D: You see, the trappings of fame and celebrity status, these are the things that...
I: Yeah.
D: Y'know, you're not prepared for. And the grass is always greener at the other side. It looks great. "Oh, God, you have this..." But, y'know, you're at kind of a tie which, and it sets you up and puts you at a position that things occur to you that you could never forsee, you know?
I: I think I met you about four or five years ago, I don't know, maybe longer, and I don't know what stage you were at in the world, but you were a little shyer. If, maybe it's not the word I would use.
D: Yeah.
I: But you seem relaxed and very happy, uh, this evening.
D: I changed now, that's the thing...
I: But you do seem to be...
D: As you get older, right, stuff sags, everything's sagging, and you get wrinkles and all that, right? But you kinda think at the end of the day, y'know, if you could get the old head and put it on the young shoulders it would be brilliant, but they always say you can't put an old head on young shoulders. But as I get older, what I do like about getting older is that you kind of start to figure things out, and you start to relax, and you start to enjoy life, and...
I: Yeah.
D: And you start to get to know yourself a bit better.
I: Did you, did you make a conscious decision to look after your own kids then and say, "Look..."
D: I did.
I: Did you?
D: That was it, oh Jesus, I mean...
I: Why is that?
D: I mean, really. God Almighty. I mean, 'cause all the stuff that came out, like, that unfolded during that whole case...
I: Yeah, yeah.
D: It was like, at the end of the day, I seriously didn't know the individual. So I was kinda, y'know, there's a good thing that came out of it. I was like, very apprehensive about bringing anyone in to my life, or near my kids again, it was like... And in a way, I suppose, y'know, it made me decide that, y'know, I'm gunna give up the singing career, I will do the odd tour and just a little bit now and again, because I feel it's, it's in me, it's in my nature. It's it's my, it's one of my gifts and...
I: It's an outlet for you as well.
D: Yes, yes, it's an artistic outlet.
I: Yeah.
D: It's an expressive outlet. It's kind of part of who I am. But, um, also when you have children, y'know, it's a beatiful gift. Not everybody, y'know, not everybody is blessed with the ability to create children.
I: Sure. Yeah.
D: Or, or to be fertile or whatever. And when you have them it is, it is a gorgeous gift. And you really have to...
I: And you're greatful for it as well.
D: Very grateful.
I: At at the other end, you mentioned the album, a new album, an album coming out in what did you say, August is it?
D: Um, it's actually coming out in America in July, and it's coming out in Europe in August.
I: And will we see you on stage? Will you be touring? Will you be doing all sorts of shenanigans with us, or...?
D: I, uh...
I: Are you going to go low key?
D: No, I play by year, like if, y'know, I'kk fire it out there and if it sticks onto the wall I go out and do a few gigs or whatever. We have to see, it's kind of like gambling, rock and roll. You kind of throw it out there and, y'know, y'know, if it's like, if it's catching on, like, I'll definitely go on the road, y'know. But it's funny. I was coming out tonight, and it's my first time doing an interview, right, for a year and a half, right, and I goes to my son, I was all done up, and the baby was going, "Oh, mommy, where did you get all those?" My clothes, like. 'Cause I'm always in track suits, like. And I'm like, "Upstairs, in my closet!" And, uh, I said to the young fly, I said, "So what do you think?" And I showed him my gear, he's 11. And he goes, "Oh, it's really nice, mommy." And he goes, "Yeah, but have you got a cardigan? Cover yourself, will you!" You know, I swear! You know, you're kids turn into...
I: You're so embarassing!
D: I know! It's like, "Mom!" They're not used to that.
I: Yeah, yeah, that... You're so embarassing.
D: It's pretty funny.
I: I've really enjoyed seeing you on the show tonight. Come back and see us again.
D: Oh, of course.
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El single!!
The Journey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09HWI_ZpqqQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09HWI_ZpqqQ)
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No baggage es el resultado de meses de trabajo. O'Riordan ha vuelto a confiar en Dan Brodbeck y juntos han coproducido los 11 temas que conforman este segundo trabajo para la voz de The Cranberries.
O'Riordan está promocionando el disco en una gira promocional por Europa. Hace unos días hizo una parada la cantante irlandesa para visitar nuestro país y presentar este segundo trabajo en solitario. Dolores O'Riordan asegura sentirse "en el mejor momento" de toda su vida y ha definido este disco como un proyecto más positivo, en contraposición a Are you listening?, su debut. La artista no sólo tiene previsto publicar el disco a finales de agosto, sino tambiíén iniciar una gira para mostrarlo en directo, aunque no existen ni fechas ni ciudades cerradas.
El adelanto se pondrá en el mercado, sólo en Estados Unidos, a travíés de iTunes el 2 de junio. El tema elegido para la presentación, The Journey, es una canción pop-rock con toques celtas y con la inconfundible voz de la O'Riordan.
Las 11 canciones de No Baggage son:
Switch Off The Moment
Skeleton
It's You
The Journey
Stupid
Be Careful
Apple Of My Eye
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Fly Through
Lunatic
Tranquilizer
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The Journey (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC9CXyCSl2U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC9CXyCSl2U)
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El single a la venta!!
For 0,99 $ on Itunes US
(change your store nation on the bottom of the page on your Itunes)
There is no bside for the moment (maybe they'll add Loser later)
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El album a la venta aqui (http://cgi.ebay.it/Dolores-ORiordan-No-Baggage-PROMO-ACETATE-Cranberries_W0QQitemZ120424083156QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CDsDVDs_CDs_CDs_GL?hash=item1c09d5aed4&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2)
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She is now a tanned, relaxed, mother of four (a stepson aged 18, Taylor Baxter, aged 12, Molly Leigh, eight, and Dakota Rain, four) who has swapped her love of running for country-walking with her husband Don Burton, her former tour manager whom she married in 1994. She is also on the brink of releasing her second solo album in August, No Baggage, which still bears her inimitably lyrical, Limerick-accented voice, but with softer and brighter lilts than with The Cranberries.
The songs, she says, were inspired by motherhood and reflections on life, such as "Switch off from Life", delivered in almost a whisper, and "Be Careful (what you wish for)", which could almost be a reprimand by the older, wiser Dolores to her younger self. "The album's about life and the journey of life, looking back at the journey, and being aware of the fact that you only have one life and to love in the moment of your life," she says.
In 1990 O'Riordan replied to an advertisement for a singer for a band, then called The Cranberries Saw Us. The barefooted, quirky-haired lead vocalist shot to fame instantly with the rest of the band as The Cranberries' debut album, Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We? sold more than five million copies in America, and the act subsequently went on to become one of the biggest rock acts of the 1990s, selling 14.5 million albums in the United States alone and producing five albums in 13 years.
But, just like her experience on the black run, the journey came to a crashing stop at the age of 32.
Overwhelmed by a mix of performance anxiety, exhaustion and paranoia, O'Riordan and the rest of her band members announced a "hiatus" and stopped recording together. By then, they had also released the albums No Need to Argue (1994), To the Faithful Departed (1996), Bury the Hatchet (1999) and Wake Up and Smell the Coffee (2001) as well as a greatest-hits compilation.
"I just wanted to stay at home, do the laundry, take my children to school. Just switch off and be a mother. I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school, I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous," she explains.
In fact, years earlier, at the age of 23 and during the height of her band's fame, O'Riordan had an experience that closely resembled a nervous breakdown. "It was really bad, a bit like the film, Jacob's Ladder. I thought people were watching me all the time. Looking back, I went nuts for a while. I didn't want to go out or leave my room and even when I was in the room, I'd see faces looking at me."
Part of this anxiety was born, she thinks, from having "too much too young", but some of it was also cultural. In Ireland, she says, where she had grown up singing in front of audiences in pubs, "people don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries," she says.
When she gave birth to her first child aged 25, she turned away from singing abruptly to transform herself into an "ordinary" woman and mother.
"It was a life-changing moment. I felt a huge urge to survive. I wanted to be here. For a long time before this point, I didn't want to be in the world. It was like being born again. I thought to myself, "I don't want to make music again". I stopped singing, even in the shower. When I started singing, I'd say "no" and stop myself."
When her son was two, she finally made peace with her musical past and returned to the recording studio with her bandmates to make the poignantly named album, Bury the Hatchet. "My son helped me get better. He made me happy. I wrote "Animal Instinct" about him. I found my happiness again so I started singing again."
"Before that, before my breakdown, I didn't live in the moment. I basically had the wrong kind of love and attention around me. I lived six years in a bus with strangers, touring the world with the band, seeing the insides of hotels. I lost touch with my friends. I was lonely all that time. I went nuts I was so lonely. These were days before mobile phones so I had to find a phonebox just to talk to my parents. I lost a lot of my youth."
O'Riordan is the youngest of seven children and always the talented "baby" of the brood. Born in Limerick to a devout Catholic family, her stark, punkish appearance was partly informed by her love of bands such as Depeche Mode, REM and The Cure, to whom she listened as a teenager, and partly by a reaction to the enforced austerity of her mother.
"Growing up, there was a lot of pressure for women to be good looking but my mum was very strict and she didn't allow me to wear make-up. Looking back, it was good for me. It slowed me down from becoming an adult too quickly."
She always knew she wanted to be a singer. Writing her first song, aged nine, her school teachers and friends knew it too. It came as no surprise when she became a household name in Ireland, as a teenager.
"Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round and the whole class would listen," she recounts to me.
She has in the past made comments about the difficulties of working with women, and her own preference for being around men in her professional life, which has led to some criticism. But to conclude she is "unsisterly" would be a profound misunderstanding, she says.
"At a certain age, girls are complete bitches. They're terrible, females, compared to men. We are far more complicated creatures. Boys get things off their chest. Girls will play mind-games for a long time. We just have more complicated psychologies."
This second solo album is a follow-up to Are You Listening?, released in May 2007, but despite the fact that she's now "going it alone", she has not discarded the idea of a reunion tour with The Cranberries. But not just yet.
"It's funny, we all got together a few weeks ago and we've all got kids and babies. To bring kids into the world, you need to be there for them. I'm really enjoying taking things at my own pace."
'No Baggage' is out on August 24
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Dolores O'Riordan, ex The Cranberries, regresa con No Baggage a travíés de Cooking Vinyl el 24 de Agosto y Record Collector le preguntó que ha estado haciíéndo.
"Nada mas que grabando mi segundo album en solitario, es mi mayor prioridad. He estado pintando durante los últimos años y estoy mostrando mi trabajo en mi sitio web".
-Hay algo que no haya sido lanzado de las sesiones pasadas?
Probablemente hay por ahí algun trabajo sin terminar de The Cranberries y mío, aunque no tenemos planes de un box set.
-Tienes cintas de bandas de escuela?
Una - Fead An Lolar, que significa El Silbido de Aguila. Era letras irlandesas con flauta, chelo, guitarras, cucharas, violines y silbatos de hojalata. Todo muy tradicional.
-Cuál álbum considerabas el mejor en ese entonces?
"Strangeways Here We Come" de The Smiths.
-Escuchas mucha música?
Hago meditación todo el día, así que me gusta música atmosferica de yoga, eso me ayuda a eliminar energía negativa. Tambien rock de los 80s a los 90s, el country, como Garth Brooks y Brad Paisley. Pero no me gusta el rap.
-Cuál fue el último álbum que compraste?
The Script.
-Escuchas tu propia música?
De una forma tíécnica, cuando he terminado de grabar me gusta escuchar emocionalmente, pero despuíés de unos meses, se siente como la última cosa que quiero escuchar, por que me hace pensar en el trabajo e ir de gira y dejar a mis hijos. Poner otra cosa o quizá lloraríé!
-Quíé le preguntarías a tu heroe de la música?
Metallica fueron mis heroes. Pero cuando los conocí, mi boca se congeló, y lo único que pude decir fue "cómo están?"
-Cuál fue el mejor concierto que has visto?
David Bowie y Nine Inch Nails.
-Quíé cosa en tí sorprendería a la gente?
Tengo una vista pobre y a veces veo doble.
-Cuál es tu peor hábito?
Ahora y otra vez, fumar como chimenea y beber como pez.
-Cuál pregunta desearías que la gente dejara de hacer?
"Quíé hora es?"
-Quíé ambiciones incumplidas tienes?
Caminar por la Muralla China, escalar los Andes, conocer curanderos en Perú, ir a Fiji y trabajar con mis hijos de misioneros.
-Si no fueras músico, quíé serías?
Nuts(Sin palabras)
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La ex vocalista de The Cranberries vuelve por su cuenta este verano y más carismática que nunca. Dolores O'Riordan publica tambiíén en agosto No baggage, su segundo álbum en solitario, del que podremos escuchar un adelanto este domingo en í“rbita Pop.
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The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan is back from the brink and going solo—she tells Susan Daly why she’s taking on the pressures of fame once again
Dolores O'Riordan will not be reading this article. She doesn't care to know what I, or anyone else, thinks of her. “One of the mistakes in my younger days was reading the press,†she says. “I should have said, ‘You've done it, move on, que sera sera, you know?' You're just going to be psychoanalysing yourself. I've got bigger fish to fry.â€
It's not as aggressive as it sounds. It's a note to self. Must not get stressed. Must keep things in perspective. The bigger fish are not the usual self-aggrandising ambitions of a rock-star ego. They are her kids, her marriage and her mental health. Looking after all of these involves practising a degree of self-protection that it took a nervous breakdown and physical collapse to learn.
O'Riordan at 37 looks a lot like the tiny, sharp-faced teenager who fronted Limerick band The Cranberries to international stardom. Her hair has reverted to a severe peroxide crop similar to the one she sported on the cover of The Cranberries' second album, No Need To Argue (1994).
The rock chick 'do replaces the earth-mother, tumbling brunette locks from the time of her debut solo album, Are You Listening? two years ago. That was her first outing since The Cranberries went on hiatus in 2003. She, the brothers Noel and Mike Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawler are still friends. They have 12 children between the four of them, a unifying factor that gets them together socially.
“We are all in that incubation period so it made sense to step away from each other and have a bit of time out,†she says.
For all that, she brands this period as one of R&R rather than rock 'n' roll, O'Riordan releases her second solo album this month. No Baggage has a raw acoustic feel to many of the songs, and the emotive O'Riordan keen is still in full throttle.
It's not about multi-platinum sales this time, she says. She already knows what it is to have 40 million album sales under her belt. “I'm not one of these people who is really serious about her career — I write because I have to write. It's what I was put on this earth for. I'm a writer. I'm an artist. I can't help it,†she says. A little trace of ego, then.
The album came to her easily, “an eclectic bunch of songsâ€inspired by the present and the past. She likes the“freshness†to it, a result, she thinks, of walking through the fields for weeks, listening to demos made at her home in Howth, Co Dublin on her iPod and then laying down finished vocals in three or four takes.
“For the four years I was at home, I was living in the full-time motherhood world. Then when I brought out Are You Listening? it was a huge change. Back in a bus, living with a load of lads, huge change, there was no lack of inspiration,†she says.
“There are songs, as well, about the thought process, about what goes on inside your mind when you're under pressure.â€
The track Skeleton, for instance, reflects on the “shadows from the past†that haunted O'Riordan even while The Cranberries were selling 40 million albums worldwide. Fame was a terrible weight around the neck of the sensitive country girl who suffered so badly from stage fright at early gigs she would sing with her back to the audience. It was a vulnerable state in which to be catapulted into rock's premier league on the back of first album Everybody Else Is Doing It, Why Can't We?
O'Riordan references the other major Irish rock act to break America. “With U2, it was their third album when they broke through. They came from a city, they were used to crowds. I was a girl — I didn't even know the boys; they were strangers, I jumped on the bus with them.â€
Unformed and naí¯ve, she was isolated in a celebrity bubble. “It was hard because in those days there were no mobiles, no emails. So if you wanted to call your mum, you had to get your few coppers and go down to the phone box in the hotel.â€
Her inexperience saw her “sign my soul away†and struggle under a heavy workload. “I remember there was a stage where I was doing two gigs a night — I was going on stage at six and coming off at eight. That's how we got there, how we got so big in America. Going back on at nine and coming off at 11. No wonder I got burnt out.â€
She was already well down the road to depression when, halfway through the promotion of No Need To Argue, O'Riordan was in a skiing accident, aged 22. “I ended up in a hospital for a month. I was on morphine. I had major surgery, was on bedpans. No one spoke English. The band were so big, and suddenly I was in hospital and I got depressed. Then I got it again, six months down the road.â€
By the time her naturally thin frame registered a frail six and a half stone on the weighing scales in 1996, O'Riordan was already a physical and mental wreck.
“I look back and see photographs of myself and I do recognise that I was 23 and, oh God, I was so bony.†She pulled out of a worldwide tour with the band and was sent from doctor to doctor to verify for insurance purposes that she was too unwell to be on stage.
She can talk about all this now because she feels she has dealt with it. While she makes some sweeping statements about fate and destiny, O'Riordan also speaks about accepting her “demonsâ€. She says things like, “If aperson is judgmental on me, it's just because they don't love themselves.†The hallmarks, one thinks, of much soul-searching and therapy.
“And I find writing very therapeutic and very healing. It's really terrible when your life spirals out of control like that, but later on you can look back and you can talk about it honestly, without being ashamed of your weaknesses and what happened to you.â€
It seems strange to me that someone with such a dysfunctional relationship with fame would want to put her head above the parapet again. Are You Listening? plunged her straight back into the quagmire of record-label difficulties when Sanctuary Records, who she signed to on going solo, were taken over by Universal. “So I only got the chance to release one single and my CDs were pulled out of the shops. It was a nightmare. I went from the frying pan into the bloody fire!â€
This is where O'Riordan's newly acquired steeliness comes in. She slightly reworked a favourite track, Apple Of My Eye (about husband Don Burton), from that album and rereleased it on No Baggage to make it her property again. “I wrote it years ago, but it's a nice old love song. I think it would be a lovely single,†she says.
O'Riordan fixes me with an uncompromising eye. She's stronger now, she says. She has Don, the former Duran Duran tour manager whom she married in 1994, by her side. She is stepmother to his 17-year-old son; mother to their three children aged from 12 down to three years.
Family comes first, which is why they are moving to Canada for now so that 12-year-old Taylor can attend high school. I don't know it when I meet her, but O'Riordan will cancel the US tour she had planned for late summer, without stating a specific reason. Dolores comes first these days.
“My husband is with me now and I'm a lot older now. I'm like the mother now. It's not like I'm a little girl who's developing things and I don't know what the heck they are. Once you've hatched a few chickens yourself, there's nothing that can embarrass you. I'm a lot more relaxed and what-not.â€
Relaxed Dolores is a funny concept. The woman opposite me is a fizzing ball of energy, “hyper†as she might be described in her native Limerick, almost too bright-eyed and “onâ€.
But she insists she is at peace. She paints abstract canvases, some of which she posts on her website for her devoted fanbase to view. “It's very, very hard to rise me now. I guess I have been through a lot for my age. I feel like I have survived some kind of thing, in a way.â€
It's not correct to say that Dolores O'Riordan comes with no baggage. There's plenty of it. She just knows better how to pack it away
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Madrid (EFE).- Sorprendió a propios y extraños cuando, a finales de 2003, abandonó The Cranberries para iniciar su carrera en solitario. Tras un debut prometedor con Are you listening?, Dolores O'Riordan presenta el martes No Baggage, un trabajo que que la cantante describe como "luminoso y positivo". La ex de The Cranberries, que asegura sentirse "en el mejor momento" de toda su vida, no evita hablar sobre el grupo que le lanzó al estrellato internacional: "Es inevitable que mi voz estíé asociada a The Cranberries. Yo soy The Cranberries, y siempre lo seríé", declara.
PALABRAS CLAVE
Toronto, Limerick, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Sex Pistols, David Bowie
Mirada penetrante y dura, pero al mismo tiempo cálida y cercana, O'Riordan asevera, en una entrevista con Efe, que "nunca" se separará de la formación con la que vendió 35 millones de discos, e incluso aventura un posible regreso: "Quizás dentro de unos años The Cranberries salgan de gira otra vez".
La artista de Limerick, que con No Baggage se enfrenta a su confirmación como solista, profundiza durante once canciones en "esos momentos duros" en los que uno cree que nunca será capaz de levantarse. "Lo importante -precisa- es que puedas darte cuenta de que, por mal que veas las cosas, todo puede mejorar".
O'Riordan ha jugado con el título del disco, No Baggage -Sin equipaje- para referirse a la carga emocional con que la vida caracteriza a todas las personas: "¿Hay alguien sin equipaje? Todo el mundo tiene su equipaje, porque es lo que te convierte en quien eres y te hace más fuerte". Switch off the Moment, tema que abre el disco, es una reflexión sobre el insomnio y sus causas: "Cuando tienes en la cabeza muchas cosas que te preocupan, es imposible dormir". "Entonces -añade- necesitas a tu lado a esas personas que pueden transmitirte calma".
Dolores O'Riordan, que tambiíén sufrió problemas para conciliar el sueño, asegura que ya he dejado atrás "las pastillas para dormir", sustituidas ahora por "discos relajantes". "Cuando era joven no había ordenadores portátiles, pero ahora son muy útiles, porque puedo llevarme mi música de yoga a todas partes", declara entre risas. "Sentimientos, esperanzas, inseguridades...", cita la artista cuando se le pregunta por las inspiraciones que impregnan No Baggage. "Siempre trato de ser absolutamente honesta sobre lo que siento, y creo que este disco es un buen ejemplo", afirma.
Contra lo que se pudiera esperar, Skeleton no habla de huesos y calaveras, sino de los secretos y vergí¼enzas que las personas "esconden en sus armarios". Por su parte, la balada Lunatic expone la necesidad de olvidar aquello que provoca la infelicidad, puesto que puede "conducir a la locura".
O'Riordan, luchadora, explica que no podría concebir "una vida sin retos". "Cuando la vida es perfecta se convierte en aburrida; tienes que desafiarte, porque eso te da una razón para vivir", expone esta mujer que cita como referentes musicales a Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Sex Pistols o David Bowie. Por otro lado, la fortuna se ha mostrado esquiva con O'Riordan en las últimas semanas, cuando se ha visto obligada a cancelar la gira de presentación de "No baggage", que debía comenzar el 24 de septiembre en Toronto, sin más motivos que "los tiempos de cambio" para justificar la decisión.
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Dolores O'Riordan regresa dejando atrás a The Cramberries. En su segundo intento como solista trae un disco lleno de letras positivas y ritmos experimentales. No Baggage es el título del nuevo trabajo de la irlandesa, que se estrena el 25 de agosto, y cuyo primer single The Journey, ya se editó en junio.
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Dolores O'Riordan ha vuelto a la actualidad por ser uno de los miembros del jurado del talent show The Voice en Irlanda y por estar preparando su tercer disco en solitario.
Pero tambiíén es noticia por una triste razón, la vocalista de The Cranberries ha ofrecido una entrevista al periódico Sunday Independent en la que se ha armado de valor para confesar que sufrió abusos sexuales durante entre los 8 y los 12 por un vecino de confianza de su misma urbanización de su casa en Limerick, al sur de Irlanda.
Dolores explica que estos abusos son los culpables de sus múltiples problemas psicológicos, entre ellos la depresión y la anorexia que sufrió, y que le ha costado años de terapia poder intentar superarlo. De hecho, su canción Fee Fi Fo del álbum Bury the Hatchet (1999) habla explícitamente del abuso infantil.
La cantante cuenta que se ha decidido a contarlo, apoyada por sus hijos, porque cree que el amor y la comprensión de sus fans pueden ayudarla a superarlo: "Siento que me he quitado un gran peso de encima y que me va a ayudar mucho abrirme y confesárselo a toda la gente que compró mis álbumes y que me quiereâ€.
Diferentes organizaciones han felicitado el coraje que ha tenido O’Riordan para confesar el hecho. La directora del “Centro de Crisis por Violaciones†de Irlanda, Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop, ha declarado que el paso dado por O’Riordan servirá para animar a innumerables víctimas en todo el país a salir del anonimato y buscar ayuda: "Creo que ha demostrado tener un enorme coraje y generosidad al contarlo, porque cuando gente como ella habla sobre el terrible trauma al que se ha visto sometido anima a otros a hacer lo mismo".
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According to a Facebook page of Eric Alexandrakis, he is currently working with Dolores O’Riordan on some new music!
“Excited to be working on new music with the uniquely talented Dolores O’Riordan [The Cranberries],†Eric Alexandrakis wrote.
Eric Alexandrakis is a Greek singer/songwriter/composer/producer living in Miami, FL. According to his bio, he is best known for incorporating “a brand new technology invented by his long time friend, inventor Scott Moskowitz; that technology was digital watermarking [...] which is now used by every company in the world that uses any form of digital exchange, from record labels, to film studios, to banks and more.â€
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According to a new interview by Kellie Lewis, Dolores O’Riordan wants to help her favorite The Voice of Ireland contestant with the recording of her debut EP.
“Dolores now wants to work with me on my original music. That wouldn’t have been possible if I had won, so I am really happy,†Kellie explained in the interview for Limerick Leader. “I feel free at the moment. I feel really lucky. The be-all and end-all was getting to work with Dolores so now getting to work with her even further, after the show has finished, is my dream come true.â€
Kellie Lewis of Team Dolores took second place in The Voice of Ireland final, losing out on the top spot to Brendan McCahey from Team Bressie.
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We’ve reported previously that Dolores O’Riordan is going to help her favorite The Voice Of Ireland contestant Kellie Lewis with the recording of her new songs, and now, according to Kellie’s twitter, we know that Dolores will produce Kellie’s first EP.
Kellie wrote that today is the first day of recording her debut EP:
“En route to studio-This is day 1 of recording my E.P with Dolores as the producer and I’m so excited!!â€
Good luck, Kellie! And we can’t wait to hear more from you and Dolores!
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As mentioned in most of the main Irish newspapers last week, a source close to the singer announced that Dolores O’Riordan should not take part to the RTE talent contest this year.
Although the mother of three children was “credited with breathing a fresh lease of life into the show†and said several times that she was enjoying the experience, it seems the lengthy journey back and forth from Canada was a too hard to endure every week.
Let us remind you that the singer is also expected to release a third solo album this winter and probably tour in 2015.
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Un portavoz de la Policía irlandesa (Garda) indicó que una mujer de unos 40 años de edad, a la que no identificó, fue detenida despuíés de que el avión de la aerolínea irlandesa Aer Lingus aterrizase a las 05.30 horas (GMT) en el aeropuerto de Shannon, al oeste del país.
Según la RTE, O'Riordan, de 43 años, fue llevada a una comisaria cercana, donde puede permanecer retenida durante un periodo máximo de 24 horas, según la legislación vigente.
"Se pidió que, tras aterrizar el avión, subiera a bordo la Garda, despuíés de que se denunciara la comisión de una agresión contra una azafata de Aer Lingus. Un agente de la Garda tambiíén fue agredido durante la detención", agregó el portavoz policial. Los medios locales aseguran que la azafata sufrió heridas en un pie y que fue trasladada a un hospital próximo al aeropuerto de Shannon para recibir tratamiento y ser examinada, mientras que el policía agredido no presenta daños.
O'Riordan, madre de tres hijos, reveló el pasado año a un periódico "The Sunday Independent" que una "persona de confianza" en el entorno de su casa de Limerick, al sur de Irlanda, abusó de ella durante cuatro años. Tenía entre ocho y doce años y la traumática experiencia ha sido algo que siempre ha "llevado a cuestas", declaró la artista, quien destacó que le ha costado muchos años de terapia superar ese trauma.
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Dolores O'Riordan has been discharged from hospital and released without charge from garda custody following an alleged air rage incident.
The Cranberries singer was arrested in Shannon this morning after coming off a flight from JFK in New York.
Gardaí were on standby at the airport after they were notified that a passenger had become disruptive on board the Aer Lingus flight and had to be restrained.
A member of the cabin crew was brought to hospital for an X-Ray on her foot.
A file in relation to the incident is being sent to the DPP.
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THE mother of Dolores O’Riordan, the superstar singer who was at the centre of an international media storm this week over an alleged air rage incident, has revealed that her daughter is separating from her husband after 20 years of marriage.
Speaking exclusively to the Limerick Leader this Wednesday, Eileen O’Riordan said Dolories was in a “very vulnerable†state and is under the care of a psychiatric doctor at an undisclosed location in the country.
“She is going through a marriage separation at the moment. That’s hard for anyone,†said Eileen, who lives in Ballybricken.
The 43-year-old Cranberries lead singer was arrested at Shannon Airport shortly before 5am on Monday in connection with alleged assaults on a flight attendant and a garda on board a flight from JFK airport in New York.
While Dolores, a mother of three, is “doing much betterâ€, she failed to recognise her mother when Eileen visited her at Shannon garda station following the incident.
Eileen said that medical results indicated there was no alcohol or drugs detected in her daughter’s system.
“Dolores was inside in a room, she was lying on the floor, curled up. She had her head covered and her face covered up. She was trying to protect herself. I gave her a hug. I tried to talk to her. She didn’t realise I was there at all. I put Lourdes water on her,†Eileen recalled of her initial encounter with her daughter at Shannon garda station.
“She didn’t know who I was, she was trying to cover herself from me.â€
Eileen first became aware of the incident on Monday morning after her son received a call.
“I was getting up at about half past six or seven in the morning. I was expecting her, getting her breakfast ready,†she recalled.
She had spoken with her daughter the day previous but a mother’s instinct told her something wasn’t right with Dolores.
“She rang on Sunday to say she was coming. She was OK then but she wasn’t herself. She wasn’t Dolores. She would hide it from me. If I asked ‘are you sleeping?’ she would say: ‘Oh I am, I am.’â€
While she hadn’t seen her daughter for a number of months, Dolores would ring Eileen most days, and going on their conversations Eileen feared that something was going to happen.
“I was waiting for it, hoping that it wouldn’t happen in New York. It would be awful because she wouldn’t have the support there. She is suffering from lack of sleep over the weeks and her brain is racing all the time. She is working very hard. When she was in New York she kept saying ‘when I go home to my mother in Ireland, I will be fine’. She was working in New York producing a new album.â€
While the singer continues to receive medical attention, “she is a lot better than what she was, thanks be to Godâ€.
“She was so bad when I saw her first in Shannon,†Eileen recalled.
“She is under the care of a psychiatric doctor at the moment, a very nice lady. She is still in Ireland. She has a nurse with her and a doctor visits her every day because she can’t go out.â€
Dolores speaks on the phone to her children Taylor, 16, Molly, 13, and nine-year-old Dakota who are currently with their father Don Burton in Canada.
“They just know that mommy isn’t well at the moment,†said their grandmother.
Dolores married Don Burton, a former tour manager of rock band Duran Duran, at Holycross Abbey, Tipperary in 1994 with the reception taking place in Aherlow House Hotel.
The couple who met when The Cranberries and Duran Duran were on tour have owned a number of properties including Riversfield Stud outside Kilmallock where they lived for a number of years as well as homes in Dublin and Canada, during their 20-year marriage.
Reflecting on the alleged air rage incident itself, Eileen said Dolores was being hassled on the flight for autographs.
“She had two glasses of wine with her dinner when she started off but she had no alcohol or drugs in her system. That is completely clear.
“She was accompanied by a producer and songwriter. I believe there were people hassling her to sing and for photographs on the plane. She just lost it.â€
Though the full facts have yet to be established, it is reported that Dolores – whose band The Cranberries has sold over 40 million albums worldwide –stamped on a flight attendant’s foot and headbutted a garda. She was arrested and subsequently hospitalised at University Hospital Limerick.
“She is not like that. Everyone is saying the media have blown it out of all proportion. There is a lot of anti-Limerick in it, a lot of that in it,†said Eileen, who last spoke to Dolores this Wednesday morning.
The flight attendant received medical attention at University Hospital Limerick.
“That girl is a friend of hers. She is a very nice girl. She knows her for years. She was getting out of her seat because as far as I know the man behind her was poking her – the couple were well drunk, free drink of course. She just lost it and got up and walked on the girl. She had big old boots on her.â€
While Eileen said she hasn’t read the media coverage, the general public have been very kind and respectful of her daughter at this difficult time, including the gardai.
“I must say they were extremely nice. They couldn’t have been nicer to Dolores and myself at the time. There is an email from somebody who was on the plane to say that it is a terrible reaction – an over-reaction.
“Anybody I have spoken to – my friends, my parishioners and all the community, all I have got is prayers and good wishes and love from everybody I have spoken to.â€
She credits her strong faith with giving her the strength to remain strong and steadfast for her daughter.
“I never cried about it,†she said.
“I pray. I don’t know what I would do only for my religion. There are so many good people - so many I have met are lovely and are thinking of her and praying for her and what more can we do at this stage.â€
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It doesn’t matter to them that she is a famous rock-star. All that matters to them is that she is clearly in need of help.
Dolores has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She broke up with her husband Don Burton in mid-September and has been living in New York, first in a hotel in Union Square and then in Trump Tower. She has not slept properly in two months and her moods are, at best, erratic.
Everyone around Dolores wants to see her come out of this dark place in her life — but it is a dark place she has been in, if truth be told, nearly all her life. She was raped at the age of eight for four years. A sex abuse victim is always a sex abuse victim.
Dolores, who I would call a friend, rang me on Friday morning and she wanted to talk. She gave me the address she was ringing from. At 3.50pm a dishevelled Dolores opened the door of a private house on a very secluded part of Adare village in County Limerick.
On the table was a bible with the pages held open by a flashlight. There was a picture of Pope John Paul above the fireplace. Essential oils and fragrances are placed in straight, ordered lines on the table, next to candles. “My life has no control,†she told me. “So I line them up to have control.â€
Read more: Cranberries star Dolores 'very vulnerable' after splitting from husband of 20 years, her mother reveals
There are some plates with prawns, half eaten, on them. “I’m putting food in my mouth so I don’t get anorexia and all that again.†She looks frightfully thin. She is drinking wine and seems agitated.
I feel deeply sorry for her as well as deeply sad for her. I ask her several times if she is sure she wants to talk. She is adamant that she wants to talk.
Speaking publicly for the first time since Monday’s incident, Dolores recalls: “Apparently my mother came into the cell. I don’t remember. I had created a tortoise effect. I tucked myself in, under the blanket.â€
I ask her, is it true that she was singing in the cell?
“I was singing in the cell. I was praying. I was meditating because I was freezing. I was black and blue. Look at me!†she lifts up her top and pulls aside her tights to show me the bruises on her back, arms and legs.
Dolores says she wore the mask on the plane because “stalkers†were following her in New York. She mentions John Lennon who was murdered by a stalker in New York.
I ask her about what happened on the plane. “It was very stressful. I am not used to being in a crowd like that. What happened was, people were scaring me. I was going into the corner and saying, ‘Please don’t touch me’. They said to me, ‘Do you think you are someone?’ I said: ‘You know who I am. You know I am the singer in the Cranberries’.â€
Dolores says she would like to take this opportunity to apologise to the Aer Lingus flight attendant, Carmel Coyne, whose foot she bruised on the flight.
“Carmel is lovely. I know Carmel a long time from flying over and back transatlantic since I had the little wee babies in the buggies. I really like her. She knows, for a fact, that it was an accident with my metal shoes. And there was bad people having too much booze roaring at me. And I backed up and I stood on her foot by an accident, like a child in the playground. I’m sorry, Carmel. You know I love you and if there is any way I can help you, I’ll be there for you.â€
Dolores insists she was not drunk on the plane. “I had two glasses of wine with my meal. I ate dinner. Corn-fed chicken with some rice and vegetables and cheese after and then a glass of port, then off to sleep.
“That was the plan. I couldn’t sit down because they were roaring at me and shouting at me, these people. I don’t really care what people think.â€
Last week Dolores’ mother Eileen told the Limerick Leader newspaper that her daughter is in a “vulnerable†place since splitting from Don Burton, her husband of 20 years.
Dolores says that her marriage to Don is over. (This was confirmed by a member of Dolores’ family.) “We have legally Âseparated. It’s done on paper. So, Âlegally, I am a single mom,†she says.
“It’s black and white. You only have one life.
“You can’t be in a situation where you are not happy. It’s as simple as that. I have nothing bad to say about the man. We had a good 21 years. Ultimately it got to the point where it was not good any more. Time to move on. I feel 21 again. I feel like this is my second life.â€
It is very clear to me and Dolores’ family that she needs to find help, but she can be stubborn.
“No, I’m fine,†she insists. “Don’t worry. I’m grand. This is my life. I’ll live it my way.
“I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me any more. I am in charge of my destiny.
“People look at you and see a product. They don’t see a soul. They see an empty hole,†adds Dolores. I ask her if she will go to a Âcounsellor for help.
“Sure, I am a counsellor. Aren’t I counselling the world? Aren’t I after healing billions of people around the world?†she says, referring to her singing.
“I think you get to a point in life where you can’t really feel pain. You can’t feel it. You can sing like a bird and heal people.â€
But you can’t heal yourself.
“No, you never find peace in this realm, but it’s okay, because when my dad went to the other side, he looks after me now better than he did in life. He is with me all the time.â€
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The light has broken through - finally - after a very dark night of the soul for Dolores O'Riordan.
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It seems somehow apt that she would wait until Christmas to do this, during the winter solstice when the sun bursts through for a new beginning on this most spiritual of times.
But the controversial rock star from Limerick did it. She seemed on the point of absolute self-oblivion - allegedly head-butting and spitting at a guard on a plane and being arrested and hauled off to jail with subsequent headlines all over the world.
Then the one-time superstar singer of The Cranberries saved herself and possibly even - because she is a religious person - her soul.
In truth, many of us perhaps thought Dolores wouldn't make it out of the darkness she seemed so engulfed in last November when she was arrested on an Aer Lingus plane at Shannon Airport after a troubling accident on flight EI110.
Although it was obvious that her path towards wellness would be long and difficult one, I was still kind of shocked when I got a phone-call last Tuesday morning from Dolores to meet up in Dublin. My shock stemmed from the fact that she seemed from the phone conversation like she was almost back to her old self.
To put it bluntly, when I met her at a lodge on the outskirts of Adare Manor last month where she was staying with her friend Ole it was, at times, impossible to hold a conversation with her.
Dolores was in such a sad state that I genuinely feared for her life.
When I suggested to her that day that she should go to see someone, she replied, irritated: "Sure, I am a counsellor. Aren't I counselling the world? Aren't I after healing billions of people around the world? I talk to myself. I talk to myself in the mirror."
When I asked her what did she say to yourself she answered: "'That it is not your fault. And I love you. Be nice to yourself. And slow down.' Because I am not going to live that long. I'm 43. If I see 50, I'll be happy. I mean that. People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul, but an empty hole."
So last Tuesday evening - six weeks after meeting her in Adare - Dolores O'Riordan is sitting in my front room in Dublin.
She has brought two members of her brilliant new band, Jetlag NYC bassist Andy Rourke (once of The Smiths) and DJ Ole Koretsky, with her. They are both based in New York and have flown in this morning to spend the week with the world-famous singer in the band.
She immediately puts REM on the CD player and has a bit of bop with Ole. I give her a Christmas present of a book of John Lennon's drawings. I write in it: 'Merry Xmas Dollie, the war is over.'
She looks healthy and her eyes sparkle (like her wit); in Adare last month, her eyes were zombie-like and her speech, as much as it was speech, was slurred and manic.
Like a little angel, she sits by the light of the Christmas tree and reveals the painful truths she learned in last few months.
Dolores seemed to embody what Rosa Parks said when she asked - rhetorically - "Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?"
"I would remind people that we are all human, after all," Dolores says. "I'm taking it one day at a time right now, but I want to thank all of those people who didn't pass judgement on me.
"When you came down to Adare last month, I was like a cheese sandwich with the cheese falling out. The cheese had fallen on the floor!" she roars with laughter.
I say to her that the first sign of madness is the loss of your sense of humour - something that has clearly returned to Dolores O'Riordan in spades.
She bursts out laughing again.
"Dude, I wasn't well in Adare!" she hoots. "I am well again now. I have had great help and support from people who love me. My mom has been great. My brother PJ - he's my little angel. I had a lot of help from people. I don't think I ever felt so cared for before. I always felt like this meal ticket.
"I am just really grateful for the support I have received from my friends," she adds.
"Lots of people helped me stay sane. Help was always close by, but I had to reach out. I'm staying strong and holding on because I know it is all going to work out in the end."
Dolores says she moved to New York in August after she broke up with her husband, Don.
"I didn't sleep for four months. I was self-medicating. I was taking over-the-counter sleeping tablets. I felt cut off."
So, do you feel better now after sleeping properly again in the last month?
"I feel I'm a lot better, yes," she says. "But I don't feel I'm perfect. But I don't think there is such a thing. I get that I am 80pc better than what I was. I understand why people were worried about me. I do understand and it's lovely, actually.
"They don't tell me anything. They just listen to me," she says looking at Andy and Ole.
"It is really nice to be just listened to, because I've been told and told all my life. Told to wake up at this time and sing this song," she says maybe referring to her time in The Cranberries.
"This is the first time in my life that someone is not telling me. I never knew I had so many friends in this industry, but when you open up you receive love. I guess," she adds, "no matter what happens I've got great friends who love me for me, not the fame bullshit. You really see who gives a shit. It's cool but I'm still a bit crazy . ..good crazy though!" she laughs.
"I want to get back to the real world. I'm so bored! But I feel great. I am sleeping great. I didn't sleep properly if at all for months when I was in New York. I wasn't right. I'm a different person now. Happy, finally. I am definitely much more content now," she continues.
"I know I am not 100pc there yet, but I am happy. I will need to keep on my meds to sleep and to be somewhat normal in a mad world," she laughs again.
I say to her that she's not the first person in the world to go through a very troubled time, but she seem to have almost come out the other side.
"Totally. I'm doing okay now. I went a bit mad. Whatever. Yeah, maybe, I did go a bit mad, but it wasn't bad mad, but I am fine now and I've got a great band," she says looking at Andy and Ole again, "and I've got great friends and a great family and a great manager in Danny Goldberg."
"Dolores is in a good place again," says Andy.
"It is great to have the old Dolores back. She is an amazing woman and an amazing artist. We love her."
Ole, who is sitting next to Dolores, was also in Adare that day. He says Dolores has come a long way since then.
"It is just relief," says Ole.
"Relief. There has been some gradual tension building over the last few months that when I got off the plane from New York and met her yesterday I was just relieved [that she was back to herself again.] But we love her. And we're happy that she is better."
Andy, who has a avuncular Manchester edge to him, leans in and says with his arm around her: "She has changed in a million ways. I am speaking about you like you're not here!"
"I was a bit hyper, wasn't I?" laughs Dolores. "But I didn't know I was hyper. . ."
Andy adds: "I used to get phone-calls off you when you would just talk a million miles a hour for two hours. You were obviously not well. We didn't know what to do. But we loved you and we love you. Now you're back to normal."
I say to Dolores that she has have come a long way.
"Thanks. It wasn't easy when I was losing the plot, but I feel more alive than I ever have now. I have learned a lot from all this. I never realised it but I was in a bubble for 20 years. It's nice to feel like a human being again - and not a possession [of the music industry]."
What are you going to spend Christmas?
"I honestly don't know," she answers.
"I don't know where I'm going to spend Christmas. I miss my children more than words can say right now."
We go to a local pub for a drink then on to Locks in Portobello for dinner.
She pays for it as a Christmas pressie and gives me her red bobble hat.
I send her a text the next morning that it was great to see and great to see her so obviously on the road to recovery. She sends a thank you. We all meet up in the afternoon for lunch and go for a walk in the Phoenix Park. Amid the deer leaping around ahead of us in the trees, Dolores talks about the future.
"I just want to stay strong and it will all work out in time."
It is early days in her recovery, of course, but it is clear the poor tortured soul of flight EI110 from New York to Shannon last month has made a huge effort to heal herself. And it shows. It's a new beginning for Dolores O'Riordan. In a life-affirming tale fitting for Christmas time, the young Irishwoman has banished the darkness to come into the light.
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2 days ago the webzine 100% rock magazine published the complete interview Marco Mendoza gave in november and that first appeared in edited form in X-Press Magazine’s 3 December 2014 issue. X-Press Magazine is one of the most-circulated free street presses in Australia.
On the edited version the few words about Dolores were skipped (possibly because Marco was coming to Australia to play concerts with his band The Dead Daisies which has nothing to do with Dolores) but on the long & online version his words about O’Riordan are revealed. Nothing really new that we didn’t know before but one thing : 6 tracks done in studio so far and more to come after his Australian concerts. Obviously this plan was before Dolores was arrested, now it will / should be after after !
Dolores O’Riordan from The Cranberries called me from New York, and so I flew up there. We were at the Electric Lady studios recording, we did six tracks.
I got home, and I’m going to continue that after I’m done with The Daisies, she’s trying to get an album together for a solo project. This’ll be my third album with her.
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Dolores trabajando con el bajista de The Smiths
Al momento estoy trabajando con Dolores de The Cranberries, la conocí hace más de un año con otro proyecto que tengo llamado Jetlag y ya estaba muy segura de que quería involucrarse en una nueva banda, una nueva aventura, así que le mandíé algunas de las canciones y le encantaron, las ha estado cantando todas, y estamos planeando salir al camino probablemente este verano.
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Dolores has officially moved to New York. Indeed the one-time singer with The Cranberries is in the middle of putting down roots by buying a new home in the city that never sleeps - a bit like Dolores before, until, with the help of friends and family, she re-found her Zen inner calm.
"I'm in the process of buying an apartment here in the East Village," she told me. "It's a lovely pad. It's beautiful, with a veranda," said Dolores, who clearly didn't linger in Limerick and decided to make the Manhattan transfer.
"I love New York," she added. "I guess I was captive for so long. So I love it here. The people are so nice in New York. I have tons of fans here and they're polite and discreet."
Dolores enjoyed the festive season in the Big Apple with two members of her sublime new band, Jetlag NYC - bassist Andy Rourke (once of The Smiths) and DJ Ole Koretsky. "I spent Christmas here in New York with Andy, his wife and Ole. It was nice and quiet. New Year's Eve is mad here but really cool. It's so nice to be alive."
It's so nice to have the old Dolores back too
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Again the information come from The Irish Times first. Their article reveals Dolores is receiving medical treatment these days and can’t come to the Court.
The case will be back before Ennis District Court on December 16th for a plea to be entered or a date for a hearing to be set, the court was told.
My client is presently [sic] receiving ongoing medical treatment and presently she’s receiving residential treatment, hence her absence from courtâ€
If the person is having treatment then I think we should facilitate that. Judge Patrick Durcan agreed to the adjournment.
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Out-of-control Dolores O’Riordan shouted: “I’m an icon, I’m the Queen of Limerick†during an air rage incident where she head-butted and spat in the face of a Garda.
During the shocking bust-up in Shannon Airport on November 10 last year, Inspector Tom Kennedy said that The Cranberries singer also spat in the face of and kicked out at an airport police officer (APO).
In court in Clare today, she pleaded guilty to four alleged offences - three of assault and one of obstructing a Garda.
Insp Kennedy revealed that the Linger singer - dressed all in black for the hearing - made two separate escapes from custody.
In one incident she jumped off a stationary ambulance to run towards the Aer Lingus jet and escaped a second time from being handcuffed in the back of a patrol car and ran off before being apprehended by APOs and a Garda.
In one incident, Insp Kennedy said that the 44-year-old mother of three told an APO: “’You can’t arrest me. I’m an icon. I’m the Queen of Limerick. You don’t know who you are dealing with. I pay my taxes so I pay your wages and I am going to sue.â€
At Ennis District Court in Clare, Insp Kennedy said: “Ms O’Riordan was quite irrational, quite aggressive, quite difficult.â€
The inspector said that she initially became quite difficult on a JFK-Shannon flight where she stepped on the foot of Aer Lingus flight attendant, Carmel Coyne, and APOs were notified.
Dolores O'Riordan
The inspector said that while O’Riordan was in the back of a patrol car to take her to Shannon Garda Station, “she was banging and kicking, it looked like she was trying to break the windows but she didn’t do thatâ€.
Insp Kennedy said that after escaping from the patrol car, Garda Shane Dawson gave chase and after apprehending her, O’Riordan “turned around and head butted him into the face and spat into his faceâ€.
He added: “She then alleged that Garda Dawson had grabbed her “tit†and claimed that he sexually assaulted her by groping at her.
"It was a very nasty situation for Garda Dawson and for all concerned.â€
Solicitor for O’Riordan, Bill O’Donnell, immediately accepted in court on behalf of O’Riordan that there was no substance to the allegation made by his client against Garda Dawson.
In his plea of mitigation, Mr O’Donnell said that “these were the actions of a very, very ill personâ€.
He said: “Clearly from the evidence, she was somewhat out of control.â€
Mr O’Donnell said: “Ms O’Riordan was going through a very, very difficult time having recently separated from her husband of 20 years.
“She moved to New York City and hadn’t seen her children for two months, who live in Canada and was living out of a suitcase in New York City.â€
Dolores O'RiordanDolores O'Riordan performs on stage during the first concert of the Festivalbar on May 29, 2004 in Milan
He said: “She was quite unwell during this year arising from the devastating effect from her separation from her husband and not seeing her children.â€
Mr O’Donnell said that O’Riordan was returning to Ireland for the second anniversary of her father’s death.
He said: “This was a very emotional time for my client and she was not in a good place.â€
Mr O’Donnell handed into court a booklet of medical reports on Ms O’Riordan’s psychiatric condition with one psychiatrist concluding that O’Riordan’s actions “were of a person suffering a severe psychiatric illnessâ€.
During one consultation with her in the days after the air rage incident, Mr O’Donnell said that a medic concluded that she was paranoid and delusional.
Ms O’Riordan was shortly after admitted to St Patrick’s Psychiatric hospital and remained there for three weeks.
Mr O’Donnell said that there was no intention by O’Riordan to commit the actions on the day and she doesn’t remember what fully occurred.
He said that she has no previous convictions, had travelled around the world with her career since she was 18 and had never had an incident on a plane before last November.
Another medical report concluded that O’Riordan’s prognosis for the future is positive but she will require medication in the longer term to manage the condition.
Dolores O'RiordanDolores O'Riordan arrives at the Sony Radio Academy Awards 2007 which honour the best in radio broadcasting talent
In the case, O’Riordan, from Grange in Kilmallock, Limerick, has pleaded guilty to four separate alleged offences - including three separate minor assault charges - from the incident at Shannon.
She admitted assaulting Garda Shane Dawson and two members of the Airport Police at Shannon - Ronan O’Reilly and Eamon Power.
Ms O’Riordan pleaded guilty to resisting/wilfully obstructing Garda Dawson in the execution of his duty contrary to Section 19 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994.
Any person found guilty of a Section 2 assault in the district court can be fined up to €1,850 or a maximum of six months in jail.
Judge Patrick Durcan adjourned the case for mention to January to fix a date for sentence.
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Dolores O’Riordan abandonaba los juzgados de Ennis District Court tras mostrar sus disculpas por escrito a los afectados y ser multada con 6.000 euros (£4,690) por su incidente a bordo del avión de Air Lingus que la llevaba desde Canadá hasta Shannon el pasado 10 de Noviembre de 2014. Informes míédicos presentados a juicio demostraron que sufría depresión y un trastorno bipolar cuando el incidente tuvo lugar.
Al salir de los juzgados junto a su madre y su pareja, Olíé Koretsky, Dolores ha atendido amablemente a la multitud de periodistas que allí la esperaban. Haciendo gala de su solidaridad y compromiso, ha aprovechado la ocasión para aconsejar a los pacientes de depresión y trastornos mentales que busquen ayuda.
“No tengo mucho más que decir. Me alegro de que ya haya terminado,†decía. “Quiero agradecer a los míédicos que me han devuelto la salud mental. Hoy me siento muy bien y muy optimista con respecto a este año. Tengo un par de álbumes que van a ser publicados y voy a volver al trabajo.â€
Uno de los dos álbumes de los que habla Dolores se trata de su proyecto en común con los que fueran Jetlag NYC, ahora “Darkâ€. Hace una semana tambiíén os informábamos de su regreso a The Cranberries, con quienes tiene prevista una gira por festivales que tendrá lugar el próximo verano.
Se acercan tiempos de cambios positivos y nuevos proyectos para Dolores, pero lo más importante, la noticia que realmente celebramos hoy, es que haya recuperado su salud.
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a cantante irlandesa Dolores O'Riordan, líder de la banda The Cranberries, fue multada con 6.000 euros (6.600 dólares) por escupir y dar un cabezazo a un policía tras ser detenida por alterar el orden en un avión en 2014.
La artista, de 44 años, tambiíén agredió a una de las azafatas del vuelo que cubría el trayecto entre Nueva York (EEUU) y el aeropuerto de Shannon, al oeste de Irlanda, el 10 de noviembre de 2014.
En una vista celebrada en un tribunal de Ennis, en el condado de Clare (oeste), el juez Patrick Durcan optó por imponer una sanción económica en lugar de una "condena penal", que hubiese conllevado un castigo más severo.
"En mi opinión, no procedía y no hubiese sido justo criminalizar a la acusada por este caso", dijo Durcan, quien recordó que O'Riordan no tiene antecedentes penales y, como muestra de su arrepentimiento, ha pedido perdón por escrito a todos los afectados por sus actos.
Según ordenó el juez, la cantante deberá donar el dinero de la multa a una asociación dedicada a la reinserción social de presos.
Durante su detención, O'Riordan, quien padece trastorno bipolar, insultó a los agentes y les recordó que es un "icono mundial" y "la reina de Limerick", la ciudad del suroeste de Irlanda donde nació el 6 de septiembre de 1971.
Asimismo, acusó a uno de los policías en el momento del arresto de manosearla y agredirla sexualmente, una afirmación que retiró despuíés durante el juicio.
The Cranberries, con la carismática Dolores a la cabeza, saltó al estrellato internacional a principios de los noventa con temas como "Zombie", "Dreams" o "Linger", y ha llegado a vender más de 40 millones de discos en todo el mundo.
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According to Billboard the debut album from alternative rock act D.A.R.K., featuring The Cranberries vocalist Dolores O’Riordan, former Smiths bassist Andy Rouke and Olíé Koretsky is announced for May 27th on Cooking Vinyl in the USA. The London-based label is expanding its US operations with the opening of a full service label division.
On the other hand Rey Roldan, a music publicist based in New Jersey posted on Facebook last March 7th the following message:
And… we welcome DARK featuring DJ/Producer/Musician Olíé Koretsky, Dolores O’Riordan (of The Cranberries) and Andy Rourke (of The Smiths) to the Reybee stable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COte4R0uubA& (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COte4R0uubA&)
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A huge thanks to Cranberries Mexico and Andrea Nannelli (Cranberries Italia) who found out first details on D.A.R.K. first album today.
As published yesterday, “Science Agrees†is to be released by Cooking Vinyl on May 27th (in Europe for sure, probably June 3rd in the US, we’ll get more details soon as far as other territories are concerned).
Science Agrees
Tracklist can already be found on Amazon:
1. Curvy
2. Chynamite
3. Gunfight
4. Steal You Away
5. High Fashion
6. Watch Out
7. Miles Away
8. The Moon
9. Underwater
10. Loosen The Noose
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MAY 13
D.A.R.K. featuring Dolores O’Riordan
Dolans Warehouse
Limerick, Ireland
MAY 16
D.A.R.K. featuring Dolores O’Riordan
Whelan’s
Dublin, Ireland
MAY 18
D.A.R.K. featuring Dolores O’Riordan
Bush Hall
London, England
MAY 20
D.A.R.K. featuring Dolores O’Riordan
Divan du Monde
Paris, France
MAY 23
D.A.R.K. featuring Dolores O’Riordan
Tunnel Club
Milano, Italy
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Congratulations to Dublin, Ireland
D.A.R.K. featuring Dolores O’Riordan first sold out concert ever.
Tickets went on sale yesterday and stayed online for a little more than 24 hours.
A great show is coming…
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Web!!
http://www.darkofficial.com/site/ (http://www.darkofficial.com/site/)
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La irlandesa se ha aliado con el músico Andy Rourke (exbajista de la banda The Smiths) y el Dj neoyorkino Olíé Koretsky para formar D.A.R.K, una banda bautizada con las siglas de los nombres de sus integrantes y que, a la vez, da idea de la 'oscuridad' (musical) que les inspira.
Por ahora, la formación solo ha desvelado su primer single, Curvy, que navega entre el pop alternativo de finales de los noventa, el electro pop y la pista de baile. Y que incluye uno de los 'quebrantos' tan reconocibles de O'Riordan, pero solo uno.
Pese al secretismo en torno al resto de temas, D.A.R.K ya ha anunciado una primera fecha de concierto en España. Será el próximo 26 de mayo en la Sala Caracol de Madrid, justo un día antes de que el álbum de la banda, Science Agrees, vea la luz.
En el Facebook de esta banda, compuesta por músicos de diferentes generaciones, se puede observar como el proyecto D.A.R.K comenzó a gestarse allá por 2013 por únicamente Andy Rourke y Olíé Kortsky. Más tarde se sumaría Dolores O'Riordan.
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La gente del club de fans español ha dicho esto!
Venta de entradas para DARK aquí Doctor Music Concerts , el viernes 1 de Abril a las 10h Emoticono grin Precio 22 € (+GD)
Tambiíén en ticketmaster, Fnac, Viajes Carrefour y Halcón Viajes.
Si venís, poneos en contacto con nosotros: HABRí SORPRESAS!!! Emoticono wink
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4 de Abril de 2016
Según el artículo de Barry Egan para Independent.ie, Dolores O’Riordan estará entre los artistas que participant en “Rock Against Homelessnessâ€, una Hermosa iniciativa en beneficio de los proyectos para la juventud de Focus Ireland.
Preocupados por la dura situación en relación con la crisis de las personas sin hogar que Irlanda está atravesando, donde 208 familias se han visto destituidas de sus hogares en los dos primeros meses de este año, Independent News & Media ha organizado un proyecto llamado “Rock Against Homelessness†(Rock contra el Desamparo):
El proyecto contará con un concierto en el Teatro Olympia de Dublin, el 24 de April, en el que participarán artistas como The Strypes, Camille O’Sullivan, Le Galaxie o Brian Kennedy. Tambiíén se publicará un CD beníéfico realizado por Independent News & Media que contará con la participación de Dolores O’Riordan, entre otros artistas.
Todos los fondos del concierto y el CD irán destinados a los proyectos para la juventud de Focus Ireland.
Fuente: Sunday Independent
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Otra canción de DARK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1aYLbWg9IM&nohtml5=False (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1aYLbWg9IM&nohtml5=False)
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De Way Out Radio nos llega esta interesantísima entrevista a Andy Rourke y Olíé Koretsky. En ella nos hablan de cómo inesperadamente se creó y gestó el proyecto de D.A.R.K., su modo caótico de trabajar para conseguir la perfecta armonía y sus impresiones sobre la idea de publicar un nuevo álbum, su vuelta a los escenarios, y su propio trabajo.
Anteriormente erais conocidos como ‘Jet Lag’. ¿Podíéis contarme como cambiasteis a D.A.R.K.?
Ole: Nadie quería poner un nombre, incluso Jet Lag no suponía ser un nombre, escribimos un par de mezclas bajo Jet Lag desde 2009, cuando Andy y yo teníamos una residencia de DJs. Simplemente llamamos al grupo así por la rutina con los vuelos de Andy: . D.A.R.K. era simple y compuesto por nuestras iniciales en la banda.
¿Cuánto aporta cada uno en el proceso de composición?
Andy: Ole y Dolores escriben las letras. Todos lanzamos cualquier idea que tenemos y las cosas siempre van cambiando. No hay un patrón escrito fijo.
Ole: Algunas pistas tienen 9 bases de guitarra añadidas gradualmente durante dos años. No síé por quíé acabamos poniendo parches y parches. Tomíé las filas de Andy en donde iba el verso o el estribillo, pero Dolores sabía lo que quería de inmediato y funcionaba muy rápido. Ella es el polo opuesto de Andy y mío, y comprime una gran cantidad de ideas en las canciones.
El álbum tiene un sonido mucho más electrónico que vuestro trabajo anterior. ¿De dónde viene esa influencia?
Andy: Definitivamente creo que Ole está mucho más metido en la música electrónica. Nos unimos por primera vez con el álbum de David Bowie “Low†y el de Brian Eno “My life in the Bush of Ghostsâ€
¿Por quíé no habíéis actuado los tres juntos aún?
Ole: Andy y yo hemos actuado juntos como Jet Lag y fue algo realmente bueno, pero nuestro primer concierto como D.A.R.K. es en mayo, en Limerick.
¿Cuánto conocían a Dolores antes de D.A.R.K.?
Ole: De nada en absoluto.
Andy: Es como que se unió a travíés de mi gestión. Recibí un mensaje de Dolores diciendo que estaba interesada en escribir algo de música nueva y llegar a un proyecto en común. Así que le enviamos las pistas instrumentales de Jet Lag, que le gustaron mucho. No estábamos seguros de si ella sólo quería escuchar la música para un nuevo disco en solitario y no esperábamos contestación
¿Cómo fue la grabación con D.A.R.K. en comparación con los Smith?
Andy: No hemos entrado realmente en el estudio con D.A.R.K. La mayor parte la hicimos durante las tardes lluviosas en Brooklyn. No había presión, era sólo un poco de diversión y no teníamos ni idea de lo que íbamos a hacer con el resultado. Era completamente diferente, ya que con The Smiths tuvimos tres semanas para crear un álbum para luego acabar en una gira y tres sencillos y caras B a elegir. Fue presión, presión, presión. Me gustaba aquello que pero era otra forma de trabajar totalmente opuesta.
¿No sienten nervios sobre la publicación de un nuevo disco?
Andy: Estoy realmente más emocionado. Estoy contento de poder finalmente sacarlo. Ha sido un largo viaje, estoy orgulloso de ello y espero que la gente lo reciba bien. ¡O no! Realmente no me importa.
¿Cuál es su canción favorita en el nuevo álbum de D.A.R.K.?
Ole: ‘The Moon’ para mí. Capta a los tres miembros de una gran manera y además de que tiene una sintonía a la última, muy guay. La distribución es muy extraña, pero compensa con la maravillosa melodía de Dolores al final.
Andy: ¡Yo diría lo mismo!
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To all our fans we are so sorry to announce that we have to postpone our forthcoming tour until September due to the last minute unavailability of our lead guitarist and the deferral of the release of our debut album until late August. All tickets already purchased will be valid for the rescheduled shows in September details of which will be announced after the weekend. For those of you who cannot make it to our rescheduled shows full refunds will be given. We sincerely regret this and hope to see you at our shows in September.
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D.A.R.K., la nueva banda liderada por Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries) y Andy Rourke (The Smiths), se ve obligada a posponer su inminente gira "debido a la falta de disponibilidad de su guitarrista principal y el retraso en la fecha de la salida de su primer álbum".
Este nuevo grupo tenía un concierto previsto para el 26 de mayo en la sala Caracol de Madrid. Según ha anunciado la banda, tendrá una nueva fecha en septiembre, el martes 27 de Septiembre, en la misma sala Caracol.
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A new teaser of the D.A.R.K.’s debut album appeared online today as Shazam released 30 seconds of the track “The Moonâ€.
Aquí (http://www.shazam.com/es/track/313071033/the-moon)
It is the second time fans get to hear some pieces of the album on Shazam. Indeed an extract of “Steal You Away†was previously unveiled on the platform a couple of weeks ago.
This time, fans can enjoy a preview of Olíé Koretsky and Andy Rourke’s favorite track of the album, as they mentioned in the Way Out Radio interview.
Steal You Away (http://www.shazam.com/es/track/313071025/steal-you-away)
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The tracklisting of the charity album to fight homelessness featuring Dolores O’Riordan among other Irish artists is now known. The website Lovin Dublin just published the full list and it will be the song “God Be With You†concerning Dolores. The album is called “Rising Against Homelessness†and goes on sale this week in Irish record stores, Starbucks outlets and will also be available to download from iTunes.
Price €10.
2016.10.11 rising against homelessness
TRACKLIST:
1. ‘The Patriot Game’ by Munday and friends
2. ‘The Foggy Dew’ by The Chieftains with Sinead O’Connor
3. ‘God Be With You ‘ by Dolores O’Riordan
4. ‘Wild Mountain Time’ by The Waterboys
5. ‘The Town I Loved So Well’ by Camille O’Sullivan
6. ‘The Auld Triangle’ by HomeTown
7. ‘The Night Visiting Song’ by August Wells
8. ‘Children of ’16’ by Declan O’Rourke
9. ‘Villains Remix’ by The Saw Doctors with Giles Packham
10. ‘Hairy Jaysus’ by Kila with Giles Packham
11. ‘Down By The Sally Gardens’ by Heathers
12. ‘Romantic Ireland Is Dead and Gone’ by The Walls
13. ‘The Galtee Mountain Bay’ by Pauline Scanlon.
14. ‘A Song for Ireland’ by Stephen Robinson
15. ‘Foggy Dew 2016’ by Lethal Dialect
16. ‘Amhrán na bhFiann’ by Meltybrains?
As you probably all know, “God Be With You†already appears on the remastered version of the album “To The Faithful Departedâ€. Dolores being credited on this new charity album and not “The Cranberries†it is quite unclear for now whether the song is a new version or the old Cranberries version.
Edit: “God Be With You†was originally recorded and released as a Dolores solo track for “The Devil’s Own†soundtrack, so there’s a good chance that this is still the same old version on this charity CD.
Thanks Richard!!
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Sample High Fashion (https://soundcloud.com/user-896146591/high-fashion)
Sample Gunfight (https://soundcloud.com/user-896146591/gunfight)
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It seems the D.A.R.K.’s debut album “Science Agrees†has been delayed again… As seen in the last lines of the news yesterday the new release date is now set for September 9th in the USA.
An article on the US website Readjunk.com already talked about that last week.
Also last week an article on RockChickenz.com announced the album for September 9th. The website/blog is based in Ireland so the release date announced in the article should concern Ireland (?).
And today another clue, the record shop Fnac in France and Belgium is now announcing the album for “September 2016â€. This probably means the new release date for the whole Europe might be September 2016… and probably the 9th (or close) even if that information is not officially mentionned yet.
If USA and Europe have a new release date for September, there is a good chance that the new release date for the world is September as well. The album was originally planned for May 27th then delayed to August 19th and now delayed again to September… let’s hope this one is the right one!
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New Wave, la electrónica y el tema de la soledad son conceptos clave cuando se habla de D.A.R.K. Formado por Dolores O’Riordan, Andy Rourke, (The Smiths) y el DJ y productor Olíé Koretsky, publican su álbum de debut, “Science Agreesâ€, el 19 de agosto. Sin preocuparse por las normas convencionales impuestas por la industria de la música, se basan en sus propios criterios y experiencia como músicos, aunque Depeche Mode, Joy Division y New Order ejercen una clara influencia.
Christopher Friedmann ha hablado con Andy Rourke para ArtistDirect sobre D.A.R.K. y sus orígenes como Jetlag, sus planes de, con suerte, hacer algunos conciertos por Estados Unidos el próximo invierno y sus expectativas sobre “Science Agrees†y el futuro cercano de la banda. A continuación os ofrecemos una traducción de los puntos más relevantes de la entrevista, que podíéis encontrar completa en ArtistDirect: http://www.artistdirectinterviews.com/indie/dark-andy-rourke-science-matters-interview
Christopher Friedmann: Usted y Ole han estado colaborando como DJs durante un tiempo, pero decidieron incluir a Dolores D.A.R.K. debido a un encuentro casual. ¿Podría describir cómo se encontraron y por quíé pensaron que era lo más adecuado para este proyecto?
Andy Rourke: Voy a corregir en lo de yo y Ole. Comenzamos como DJs llamados Jetlag y luego empezamos a hacer remezclas para un par de bandas. Durante todo el proceso estuvimos haciendo nuestra propia música, simplemente no sabíamos realmente quíé hacer con ella. Puede que tuviíéramos 40 o 50 canciones que se fueron acumulando. Despuíés, a travíés de mi manager, Melissa, y el por entonces manager de Dolores, nos dimos cuenta de que ella estaba buscando algo nuevo a lo que clavarle el diente. Le enviamos las cintas de Jetlag, por así decirlo, en un principio, sin voces, simplemente pistas instrumentales, y ella dijo, “No, no, quiero escuchar la canción completa.†Entonces, las enviamos de nuevo y a ella le gustó mucho, por lo que nos encontramos, hicimos algunas grabaciones, que fueron muy bien – las hicimos todas sobre la marcha, pero sobre todo en Canadá, Nueva York, un par en Los íngeles, aunque la música real estaba registrada principalmente en el sótano de Ole, su estudio casero.
CF: Cuando comenzó a colaborar con Dolores, lo hizo por correo electrónico. ¿Cómo se siente enviar sus creaciones a otra persona sin ningún control sobre lo que va a ser de ellas despuíés de dejar su huella en ellas?
AR: Se siente un poco de nervios acerca de cómo va a ser recibido, pero por suerte no fue un problema. A ella le gustaba, pero era un poco raro enviar material a travíés de correo electrónico antes incluso de encontrarnos con ella. Ahora hemos pasado a convertirnos en muy buenos amigos, nos vemos mucho, hablamos mucho.
CF: New Wave y la electrónica tienen una clara influencia en el álbum y hay algunas similitudes con Depeche Mode y New Order. ¿Tiene un sentido de la tradición, en la que ahora puede concentrarse en el contenido emocional de la música, en lugar de satisfacer las demandas del gíénero en cuestión?
AR: Creo que siempre nos hemos guiado de nuestro instinto y, definitivamente, nuestras influencias y nunca nos hemos sentido obligados a conformarnos con lo que está pasando actualmente en el mundo de la música. Somos un poco egoístas en ese sentido. Nos dejamos guiar por nuestras influencias y nuestra experiencia y la música que escuchamos a diario. Absorbemos de todo como una esponja y, claro, esto ejerce una influencia en la música que creamos.
CF: Aparte de los elementos musicales del álbum, el contenido de las letras es bastante culto. Los temas del aislamiento y la soledad son recurrentes. ¿Se decidieron estos fuertes elementos existenciales al inicio del proceso o son el producto de la química del proceso?
AR: Yo diría que el 75 por ciento de las letras ya las había grabado Olíé para el proyecto Jetlag, y siempre ha sido su forma natural de escribir. No es un tipo muy feliz y despreocupado, ya sabes. Es uno de mis mejores amigos, pero íél no está feliz si no es quejándose. Obviamente se inspira en grupos como Joy Division y New Order. í‰l canta sobre lo que es pertinente para íél y su vida, y sí, no es despreocupado. Creo que sería mejor que hablase con Olíé de este tema. Yo solo soy un humilde bajista / compositor.
CF: Si tenemos en cuenta el calibre de los colaboradores en este proyecto hay una gran cantidad de gravedad detrás de los roles “tradicionales†de cada uno. ¿Alguno ha sorprendido al resto o a sí mismo integrando un nuevo talento aún por descubrir?
AR: Cuando Dolores subió al carro, le dio una dimensión completamente distinta. Era como el eslabón perdido que habíamos estado buscando. Yo diría que fue especial, la primera vez que oímos a Dolores cantar nuestras canciones. Creo que Dolores le puso una luz proceso de grabación, porque dices “Guau!â€, y es cuando todo comienza.
CF: ¿Puede describir, en tíérminos de este proyecto, lo que sería el “íéxitoâ€?
AR: No síé, creo que sería simplemente que el proyecto fuera bien recibido. Solo pedimos que la gente disfrute el álbum. Daremos algunos conciertos en Europa en septiembre. El disco sale de agosto, el 19, por lo que estamos haciendo algunos conciertos para promocionarlo en septiembre y luego espero que vayamos a hacer algunos conciertos en Estados Unidos tambiíén. Dolores está ocupada con The Cranberries en estos momentos. Está actuando por festivales durante todo el verano, por lo que creemos que tal vez, una vez llegado el invierno, podremos hacer algunos conciertos por aquí.
CF: Dada su dilatada experiencia en su carrera y con el ‘rock’ n ‘roll’ – ¿puede compartir algo del momento más aleccionador en su carrera, un momento que le diera una lección de humildad?
AR: Siempre, remontándonos a tiempos de The Smith, siempre ha sido una lección de humildad sólo el ver la apreciación de nuestra música, el amor y la adoración en la habitación. Eso es siempre muy aleccionador. Esperamos poder conseguir eso, y creo que lo haremos, porque los fans de Dolores son muy apasionados. Yo síé que mucho, así que creo que son las experiencias más aleccionadoras para venir. Estoy muy entusiasmado con eso. Me gusta mantener los pies en la tierra.
Nos gustaría remarcar el hecho de que el mismo Rourke insiste en que la fecha de publicación de “Science Agrees†será el 19 de agosto, a pesar de los rumores de un retraso del lanzamiento hasta el 9 de septiembre. Aún estáis a tiempo de conseguir una copia firmada del álbum y de poder descargar “Curvyâ€, “Loosen The Noose†y la recientemente añadida “Gunfight†en Pledge Music: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/dark-science-agrees
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Statement from the band: ‘We are really sorry that we have to cancel these shows. Unfortunately Dolores has suffered an acute back injury. An MRI scan confirmed she has a bulging disc which causes extreme pain which has meant that she has not been able to fulfil several engagements in the last couple of weeks. We had hoped that with treatment and rest she would be recovered for this tour. Sadly this is not the case and the doctors have now advised full rest for at least the next month to ensure that her condition does not become more serious. Apologies for the inconvenience that this causes, it’s simply impossible to go ahead with the tour.’