The Cranberries formed in May of 1990. Dolores had been singing since she was
about three years old, playing piano and writing songs since her early teens.
She was looking for a band to play with. Noel, Mike and I (Fergal) had been
playing our respective instruments for about two years and had played in a band
called "The Cranberry Saw Us" for six or seven months.
The singer in "The Cranberry Saw Us" (Niall) decided he was going to leave
to concentrate on another band he was in, but he said that there was a friend
of his girlfriend's who was a singer, and she was looking for a band. Enter
Dolores!
Noel had been writing pieces of music, and he would bring them to
rehearsals where Mike and I would add our respective parts, but after a while
it got a bit monotonous, as there were no lyrics or vocals.
So, on that night in May, we were in our rehearsal room and in walked
Dolores with her keyboard under her arm. We said our "hellos" and it was all
very embarrassing, especially for her, because there were five or six of our
friends there! Nevertheless she set up her keyboard and began to play and sing
a few songs. Needless to say everyone was stunned. Then we played some of the
pieces that Noel had written and Dolores seemed to like them. We gave her a
tape and arranged to meet for a rehearsal the following week.
The next week came around, as they tend to do, and there we were, all four
of us in the room alone. Dolores said she had really liked the tape and we
decided to run through some of the songs. We played the music for Linger and
she began to sing (BINGO!!). That was it, a match made in heaven!
We rehearsed for the next three or four weeks and decided it was time to
record some demo's to see what the songs would sound like recorded properly.
We were delighted with the results and we managed to get some gigs opening up
for some local bands. Shortly afterwards, Sett, a friend of ours who worked in
a local recording studio, advised us to send the tape to some record
companies to try to get a recording contract. For the next few months we
gigged continuously in Ireland and the U.K., and various record company people
came to see us.
We recorded an EP called "Uncertain" and a few months later we recorded our
first Album, "Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We".
The rest as they say is history!
-FERGAL-
16th December 1997
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