USA: THE CRANBERRIES TO RELEASE THEIR FOURTH ALBUM ENTITLED "BURY THE HATCHET"

Record ID: 388259

  • Title: USA: THE CRANBERRIES TO RELEASE THEIR FOURTH ALBUM ENTITLED "BURY THE HATCHET"
  • Date: 13th April 1999
  • Summary: REUTERS TELEVISION (SOUNDBITE) (English) O'RIORDAN SAYING "I think when we do play live I think people, or fans that have seen us on the third album will notice the freshness." (SOUNDBITE) (English) FERGAL LAWLER SAYING "Yeah, cause we played the Nobel Peace Prize (event) and that was our first concert in two and a half years and that ws kinda our way to judge if we're r
  • Embargoed: 28th April 1999 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA2X7GCVBOBZN1AVI6C9F8LBL1I
  • Story Text: The Cranberries will release their long awaited fourth album entitled "Bury The Hatchet" this month.After three years on hiatus, all the original members are in place and readying for a brief US tour beginning in Washington, DC.
    After a three year hiatus, the Cranberries will release "Bury The Hatchet", their fourth album in a seven year career that has seen the group sell well over 28 million records.
    The success of the group began in 1993 with the release of their debut album "Everybody's Doing It So Why Can We" also on Island Records.The album included their breakthrough tracks "Dreams" and "Linger", a song lead singer Dolores O'Riordan co-wrote just a week after meeting guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawler.
    Once the album hit the US in late 1993, the group bacame an instant success, their next albums, "No Need To Argue" and "To The Faithful Departed" combining to push worldwide record sales to over twenty-eight million units.
    The songs on the new album were written by O'Riordan and Noel Hogan, a partnership that has produced the majority of the Cranberries' catalogue over their years together.There are thirteen original tracks on "Bury The Hatchet", a testament to the fact that the bandmembers all played a larger role in the production of this album, which was put together with co-producer Benedict Fenner.
    The band is hoping to continue the winning formula of their first three efforts, but without the gruelling tour schedule that those releases demanded.
    "Basically we hadn't had a break for so long, so it came to a point for a few months that we didn't like going onstage..."
    says O'Riordan."We didn't like doing the gigs, and we didn't like living on the bus and we didn't particularly want to see each other that much anymore."
    The quartet from Limerick, Ireland are one of the most successful rock bands in the world, but their growing success in the US after the release of "To The Faithful Departed" left them feeling exhausted instead of euphoric, and forced the cancellation of remaining dates on their then worldwide tour.
    With the long hours of the past tours behind them, the band is now well-rested and ready for the road says Lawler.
    "We played the Nobel Peace Prize Concert and that was our first concert in two and a half years and that was kinda our way to judge if we're ready to play live again, to go back on the road again, and we really enjoyed it."
    The nine city tour starts in the last week of April in Washington, DC andup on the West Coast by the middle of May in Los Angeles.Tickets went on sale this week, marking the first time that concert tickets have been sold exclusively over the Internet.A fresh outlook and a sense of humor about it all seem to characterize the mood of the band leading up to their big return.
    "We're starting off small because to be honest you can't afford to go out and do huge tours anyway.We have to wait and see how it does and if it does well and the demand is there and it takes off yeah, we'll start playing to bigger crowds if the bigger crowds want it.Obviously then you can get the big crew and the lights because when you're playing to eight or ten thousand people or more you have to put on a bigger show, you can't just do this four little leprechauns in the corner.
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