{"id":11727,"date":"2025-08-20T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/11727\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:15:09","slug":"the-cranberries-admit-listening-to-dolores-oriordan-outtakes-was-hard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/11727\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cranberries admit listening to Dolores O\u2019Riordan outtakes was \u2018hard\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cranberries drummer Fergal Lawler said he was surprised at how difficult he found listening to old studio recordings of the band\u2019s late singer Dolores O\u2019Riordan.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Riordan drowned in a hotel bath due to alcohol intoxication in January 2018 and now her former band mates have delved into the archives for an extended 40-track reissue of their 1994 album  No Need To Argue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Lawler admits revisiting old outtakes was a \u201cbittersweet\u201d experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He told the i newspaper: \u201cDolores is speaking in-between takes. And it was hard.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2.1545206.jpg\" title=\"Meteor Ireland Music Awards \/ The Cranberries\" \/> The Cranberries at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards in Dublin (PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of fond memories from that time. But I maybe didn\u2019t expect that to be as difficult as it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Guitarist Noel Hogan described the revisited album as a \u201clovely legacy\u201d and \u201ca celebration of someone\u2019s life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAll the other stuff that happened through all the years, it fades into the background,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the songs people will remember Dolores for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The band from Limerick, completed by Noel\u2019s brother Hogan on bass, sold more than 40 million albums with O\u2019Riordan\u2019s distinctive vocals on hits including  Linger and  Zombie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hogan said her death at the age of 46 was the \u201cbiggest shock of my life\u201d at a time when she felt she was happy and settled after a marriage break-up and revealing she had been sexually abused as a child by a family friend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThat was one of the harder things to deal with, because I felt that the old Dolores had come back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThere was a few years in there where even her and I fell out for a while. But we patched that up. And she\u2019d met a guy who was really good for her, really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The remaining members of the band completed their final album  In The End, but Lawler said: \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s something I\u2019ll ever actually get over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cranberries drummer Fergal Lawler said he was surprised at how difficult he found listening to old studio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[11301,18,117,19,17,337,11302,9168,2104],"class_list":{"0":"post-11727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-cranberries","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-place-europe","15":"tag-place-republic-of-ireland","16":"tag-place-uk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}