Reveries for the laziest day of the week
9 November 2025
Irish rock heroes THE CRANBERRIES who were fronted by the wonderful,
unfortunate Dolores O’Riordan (1971-2018) released their prizewinning
debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We, completely
written by O’Riordan in 1993.
It went #1 in the UK and #4 in the US.
It featured the mesmeric musing SUNDAY.
The song was released as a promo single in
the US.
British indies PALE WAVES are making, eh, waves since 2014, mostly in their home country with darkwavish pop tunes. So far, they released 4 albums, with last year’s Smitten as the most recent.
Last weekend they took the stage at the Reading Leeds Festival. As many acts do at festivals, they also did a cover. Their version of The Cranberries‘s classic anthem Zombie (more than 1,5 billion streams on Spotify) is copied/pasted, but it works, so does the crowd think.
Great concert posters from the past…
SUEDE
THE CRANBERRIES
4 October 1993
Santa Fé, US
(You needed to
be 21 to get in!)
15 January 2023
It’s already 5 years today since Irish iconic songstress Dolores O’Riordan
and beloved, charismatic frontwoman of The Cranberries left this world.
In January 2018, O’Riordan traveled from New York City, where she lived, to London
to work on her side-project D.A.R.K. and to meet people from record label BMG and talk about a new Cranberries LP. She spend the night of Jan 14th in the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, Mayfair.
At 2 a.m. (15 January), O’Riordan had a phone chat with her mother. Later that morning, she was found lifeless in the bathroom. A medicine pronounced her dead at 9:16 a.m.
Only 46.
She died as a result of accidental drowning in her bath following sedation by alcohol intoxication. Empty bottles were found in her room as well as some prescription drugs. Toxicology tests showed that her body contained only “therapeutic” levels of these medications but a blood alcohol content of 3.30 g/L (0.33%). R.I.P.
This affecting interview from 1995 – with her parents in the audience – brings tears to your eyes. Dolores O’Riordan despite being a global pop star, was so down to earth, so grateful for what she achieved so far, and looked/talked irresistibly gorgeously. Sad, very sad loss.
R.I.P.
DOLORES O’RIORDAN: Bio – Discography
Brand new sonic impulses…
1 March 2019
On 15th January it was exactly one year ago that THE CRANBERRIES‘ wonderful frontwoman DOLORES O’RIORDAN passed away, only 46. A couple of weeks ago
the surviving band members announced that they already had 11 demo’s recorded
with Dolores vocals on by December 2017 for the new album they were working on
at the time. They finished the songs over the past year after getting the blessing by O’Riordan‘s family. The final result is new longplayer, entitled IN THE END. First single
All Over Now was launched mid-January and today another new track was shared.
THE PRESSURE is a lovely pop song, but the lyrics evoke painful emotions and hearing
Dolores O’Riordan rather hopeful voice makes it hard to believe that she’s here no more. Listen here to this heartbreaking beauty…
THE CRANBERRIES: Facebook – Album ‘In The End’ out 24 April
‘Dreams‘ by JAPANESE BREAKFAST
Original by THE CRANBERRIES
Michelle Zauner from Philadelphia indie rockers Little Big League has been covering
THE CRANBERRIES‘s 1992 twinkling debut single DREAMS live with her solo project JAPANESE BREAKFAST for a couple of years. And now she recorded and released her touching interpretation of that melancholic beauty for Spotify’s singles series. Here is
the sparkling version…
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‘Dreams’ was on the Irish pop rockers’ 1993 debut album
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?
Here’s THE CRANBERRIES original version…
Rest in peace, Dolores O’Riordan…