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The lead singer of hit band The Cranberries, Dolores O’Riordan, has returned with her debut solo album, Are You Listening? Here the Irish songstress reveals the reasons behind The Cranberries’ hiatus and how she’s come a long way from gigging in a bread van.
What made you want to record a solo album?
I just arrived at that point in my life and hit the 30 mark. I’d done the five [albums] and greatest hits with The Cranberries and it seemed like the obvious thing to do. We’re all friends so there’s no bitterness and we could even do a reunion at some stage.
What can we expect from solo Dolores?
It’s a lot more experimental than anything else I’ve done before. It has some dark moments but also some bright and positive ones.
How different was it making an album without the rest of the band? This one was definitely more challenging, although time was my on my side – it took me four years. I wrote 30 tracks and we picked 12. I tried to do it properly and be really happy with it.
What are you listening to at the moment?
It’s really sad, I have an iPod but I don’t even know how to download. My husband downloaded two yoga CDs for me but I’m caught in a time warp. It’s because of having kids, I don’t listen to much if I’m not making it.
How did you end up as the wedding singer in Adam Sandler’s film, Click?
He just phoned me up and said that he and his wife’s favourite song was Linger [by The Cranberries]. He said he’d written this movie and it was important to have this song in the wedding scene. He’d lost his dad about a year before and he writes an awful lot from experience. I was there for ten days, flown out, had my own trailer, real first-class treatment. I kept thinking that I was dreaming. It was all a bit surreal.
How did you become the The Cranberries’ singer? I auditioned. They played a few songs for me, I played some songs for them. My wardrobe at the time was very dodgy, I was wearing pink pants and a frilly blouse and I really didn’t look the part, but when I sang I could tell they were impressed.
Did you ever guess how successful you’d become? We hadn’t a clue. If anything , we were very lucky. We just started working
parents was a bread man. So we’d drive the van around surrounded by equipment and sitting on pans in the back.
Did you do a couple of deliveries and then go and play a gig?
No, but we used to eat the bread because we’d spent all our money on beer and we’d be starving. So there we were doing the beer and bread in the back of the van. The bread was always really fresh as well. Those were the days.
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