![]() ![]() Recording on the first day without her was really difficult, but we had to do justice to the work Dolores put in, make it sound as good as possible. Some days it’s not even believable and you just have to kind of accept it and get on with it as best you can. “Like even driving around, you will see someone walking past and they might look like her. Some days you are fine, then on other days the reality hits you and even now you can’t believe it,” Fergal explains, saying that they are still struggling to come to terms with the enormity of the loss. “It’s obviously the first thing you think of in the morning when you wake up, what day it is and what happened a year ago,” Noel says, before reasoning that the single release today was, in hindsight, a good distraction to have. “It’s like a little gift she left behind,” he concludes, his head lowered. “The album celebrates the work that Dolores did, and gives something back to all the fans that have supported the band over the years.” The band all agree. ![]() “But there’s delight too,” Mike says, because it’s a chance for fans to once again hear the “incredible voice” of their bandmate a voice which Melody Maker described in 1991 as “the voice of a saint trapped in a glass harp.” The album, Fergal adds, ultimately honours their work together. His brother Mike nods in agreement, echoing the “nervousness” they are all feeling about the release. We finished recording last May so we’ve had it for a long time now.” Knowing that everybody in the whole world is going to hear it after we’ve held it close for so long is a bit daunting. “Suddenly, yesterday, I started to overthink it. “We’ve kept the work very close to our chests and only a handful of people have heard it,” he says. For Noel, it feels strange now the first single is finally out there for all to hear. ![]() Only sharing the work with a selected few, they guarded the material they’d created until they felt able – and strong enough – to share. ![]() Like many who have experienced loss, they coped initially by busying themselves with work in the immediate aftermath, finding solace in the familiar. “I was nervous yesterday, actually,” Noel admits, reflecting on the build up to the release of the first single – ‘All Over Now’. They have, understandably, mixed feelings about the release. Wanting to honour her memory and the work she’d already started, the three decided to finish the album. The radio has just played the first single from the last ever Cranberries album, ‘In The End’, a project they’d all started work on in the months prior to Dolores’ death. The day is impossibly difficult for them: it’s one year to the day that their lead singer and friend of over 30 years, Dolores O’Riordan, died suddenly in a London hotel, not far from where we’re meeting today. Fergal Lawler and Mike and Noel Hogan of The Cranberries greet me warmly on a bitterly cold January day in London. ![]()
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