22/05: Pro Sound Web
Published Date: 3 May 2010 by PSW Staff
THE CRANBERRIES UTILIZE MEYER SOUND MILO LINE ARRAYS ON EUROPEAN TOUR: More than 70 Meyer Sound line array loudspeakers available to deploy on the tour, depending on venue
Following a seven-year hiatus, The Cranberries returned for a European tour showcasing their greatest hits, and to reinforce the band at venues from 4,000 to 20,000 people, Dublin, Ireland-based live sound provider Litton Lane deployed Meyer Sound MILO line array loudspeakers.
“This Meyer Sound system is brilliant,” says Tom Wiggans, FOH mixer for The Cranberries. “Because the setup is going to achieve such even coverage, you can be confident that the audience will be hearing exactly what you’re hearing.
“The Cranberries have got a wide range—from pop ballads to Irish folk to full-out rock music—which is exciting to mix,” Wiggans continues. “I’m into preserving the expression that the band has given me. With the MILO, it’s easy to get your inputs set and get that dynamic range, without compressing things.”
In addition to 34 MILO line array loudspeakers, Litton Lane and system tech Dan Seal used 24 Meyer Sound MICA line array loudspeakers, 16 M’elodie line array loudspeakers, and 20 700-HP subwoofers.
“I particularly like that the high end of the MILO sounds quite natural and clean with no hype, while the coverage in the low end from the 700-HPs has been spectacular,” Wiggans notes. “The MICA system is amazing. It has the characteristics you’d expect from a smaller box, but they’re a little bit punchier. When venue size dictates that we use the MICA as the main system, I barely notice the difference—certainly I haven’t had to do anything to my mix to compensate.”
The self-powered loudspeaker design also proved valuable. “Sometimes in an arena, you need 40 meters of speaker cable to reach the array from the amplifiers, which can throw in lots of different loading criteria in terms of cable impedance,” says Wiggans. “Obviously, that’s not an issue with Meyer—it’s a real advantage.
“My previous gig in Brussels with another sound system was a nightmare, but this time around with the Meyer Sound MILO the audience reaction was incredible—my ears were ringing from the crowd noise,” Wiggans says. “I definitely won this one.”
THE CRANBERRIES UTILIZE MEYER SOUND MILO LINE ARRAYS ON EUROPEAN TOUR: More than 70 Meyer Sound line array loudspeakers available to deploy on the tour, depending on venue
Following a seven-year hiatus, The Cranberries returned for a European tour showcasing their greatest hits, and to reinforce the band at venues from 4,000 to 20,000 people, Dublin, Ireland-based live sound provider Litton Lane deployed Meyer Sound MILO line array loudspeakers.
“This Meyer Sound system is brilliant,” says Tom Wiggans, FOH mixer for The Cranberries. “Because the setup is going to achieve such even coverage, you can be confident that the audience will be hearing exactly what you’re hearing.
“The Cranberries have got a wide range—from pop ballads to Irish folk to full-out rock music—which is exciting to mix,” Wiggans continues. “I’m into preserving the expression that the band has given me. With the MILO, it’s easy to get your inputs set and get that dynamic range, without compressing things.”
In addition to 34 MILO line array loudspeakers, Litton Lane and system tech Dan Seal used 24 Meyer Sound MICA line array loudspeakers, 16 M’elodie line array loudspeakers, and 20 700-HP subwoofers.
“I particularly like that the high end of the MILO sounds quite natural and clean with no hype, while the coverage in the low end from the 700-HPs has been spectacular,” Wiggans notes. “The MICA system is amazing. It has the characteristics you’d expect from a smaller box, but they’re a little bit punchier. When venue size dictates that we use the MICA as the main system, I barely notice the difference—certainly I haven’t had to do anything to my mix to compensate.”
The self-powered loudspeaker design also proved valuable. “Sometimes in an arena, you need 40 meters of speaker cable to reach the array from the amplifiers, which can throw in lots of different loading criteria in terms of cable impedance,” says Wiggans. “Obviously, that’s not an issue with Meyer—it’s a real advantage.
“My previous gig in Brussels with another sound system was a nightmare, but this time around with the Meyer Sound MILO the audience reaction was incredible—my ears were ringing from the crowd noise,” Wiggans says. “I definitely won this one.”
07/03: London Free Press
Published Date: 4 March 2010 (11:13 hrs) by James Reaney
LONDON TALENT SINGLED OUT IN RANGE OF CATEGORIES
Dan Brodbeck's celebrated collaboration with Irish rock singer Dolores O'Riordan on her second solo album No Baggage has brought the London recording engineer his first Juno nomination.
Brodbeck, who recorded the album at the EMAC studios in London, was nominated as recording engineer of the year for his work with O'Riordan on No Baggage's Apple of My Eye and Be Careful, a song he co-wrote with her.
"I was elated . . . I've been doing this so long," Brodbeck said Wednesday. He discovered he had been nominated late Wednesday morning after logging on to the Juno website. "There's no feeling like it."
Brodbeck is on the faculty at OIART in London, where he was a student. Last year, he joined O'Riordan and her 1990s band, The Cranberries, at one of their reunion gigs in Canada.
"I joined them for the encore which was really fun to do," he said.
He is also working on demos with The Cranberries at O'Riordan's Peterborough-area cottage.
The Cranberries, who broke up in 2003, are back together and touring Europe.
Fanshawe MIA grads Denis Tougas and John "Beetle" Bailey are nominated in the same category as Brodbeck.
Brodbeck, Tougas and Bailey are a few of the 2010 Juno nominees with London-UWO-Fanshawe ties. The nominations were announced Wednesday.
UWO music grad and international opera star Adrianne Pieczonka is nominated for Adrianne Pieczonka sings Puccini.
In the group category for the Roots & Traditional Album of the year, Toronto's the Good Lovelies -- with 2003 UWO Don Wright music faculty grad Kerri Ough -- are up for their self-titled debut album.
Also nominated are Toronto's Great Lake Swimmers, led by UWO English grad Tony Dekker, for Lost Channels, a recording created along with London engineer and producer Andy Magoffin.
Canadian composer Rob Teehan's Dreams of Flying, nominated in the Classical Composition of the Year category, received its premiere during the National Youth Orchestra of Canada's summer residency at UWO.
The Juno producer of the year award is named for legendary Canadian record producer and longtime Londoner Jack Richardson.
LONDON TALENT SINGLED OUT IN RANGE OF CATEGORIES
Dan Brodbeck's celebrated collaboration with Irish rock singer Dolores O'Riordan on her second solo album No Baggage has brought the London recording engineer his first Juno nomination.
Brodbeck, who recorded the album at the EMAC studios in London, was nominated as recording engineer of the year for his work with O'Riordan on No Baggage's Apple of My Eye and Be Careful, a song he co-wrote with her.
"I was elated . . . I've been doing this so long," Brodbeck said Wednesday. He discovered he had been nominated late Wednesday morning after logging on to the Juno website. "There's no feeling like it."
Brodbeck is on the faculty at OIART in London, where he was a student. Last year, he joined O'Riordan and her 1990s band, The Cranberries, at one of their reunion gigs in Canada.
"I joined them for the encore which was really fun to do," he said.
He is also working on demos with The Cranberries at O'Riordan's Peterborough-area cottage.
The Cranberries, who broke up in 2003, are back together and touring Europe.
Fanshawe MIA grads Denis Tougas and John "Beetle" Bailey are nominated in the same category as Brodbeck.
Brodbeck, Tougas and Bailey are a few of the 2010 Juno nominees with London-UWO-Fanshawe ties. The nominations were announced Wednesday.
UWO music grad and international opera star Adrianne Pieczonka is nominated for Adrianne Pieczonka sings Puccini.
In the group category for the Roots & Traditional Album of the year, Toronto's the Good Lovelies -- with 2003 UWO Don Wright music faculty grad Kerri Ough -- are up for their self-titled debut album.
Also nominated are Toronto's Great Lake Swimmers, led by UWO English grad Tony Dekker, for Lost Channels, a recording created along with London engineer and producer Andy Magoffin.
Canadian composer Rob Teehan's Dreams of Flying, nominated in the Classical Composition of the Year category, received its premiere during the National Youth Orchestra of Canada's summer residency at UWO.
The Juno producer of the year award is named for legendary Canadian record producer and longtime Londoner Jack Richardson.
09/10: Billboard
Published Date: 7 October 2009 by Gary Graff (Detroit)
CRANBERRIES WRITING NEW SONGS AS REUNION TOUR NEARS: Some new material is part of the plan for the Cranberries, but the reunited Irish band will work its way slowly to that point according to singer Dolores O'Riordan.
"It would be nice to come up with a new record. I don't see why not," O'Riordan tells Billboard.com. "They ideas are always there, so hopefully something will come out of it."
O'Riordan -- who instigated the Cranberries hiatus in 2003 and released her second solo album, "No Baggage," in August -- says that Cranberries guitarist Noel Hogan "has been sending me lots of music, and I've been continually writing." But she's cautious about guessing what will come of it. "It's one of those things where we have to see what happens when we get back together and start playing," O'Riordan explains. "There's no point in bringing out a crappy record. You want it to be really good, so hopefully the creative juices are flowing and the energies are right. We're all pumped and excited and we've got that hunger that we had when we first started out."
The Cranberries hit the road for the first time in seven years on Nov. 12 in Baltimore. The group's original lineup of O'Riordan, Hogan, his brother Mike and Fergal Lawler is intact -- "At the height of the Cranberries we made a pact that we'd never play as the Cranberries unless it was the four of us," O'Riordan says -- and will play 19 shows in North America through Dec. 7. O'Riordan says the group is looking at more touring in 2010, including stops in Europe, Russia, South America and other territories.
"A world tour would be really great," she says. "We're gonna give it a good crack. I say tour 'til we drop! We've been sitting on our butts for seven years, so it's exciting we're all into it and we miss it."
As for repertoire, O'Riordan says the Cranberries will play some of her material but fans can expect hits such as "Linger," "Zombie" and "Dreams," as well as some deeper cuts from the group's five-album catalog. "I toured in 2007, and I played the (Cranberries) stuff with those musicians, but the energy was different," she notes. "It didn't sound and feel the same.
"Anyone can play a song, but sometimes the energy people have when they wrote the song has a certain feeling you can only get from them. So I'm looking forward to feeling that energy again, the sound of the Cranberries."
CRANBERRIES WRITING NEW SONGS AS REUNION TOUR NEARS: Some new material is part of the plan for the Cranberries, but the reunited Irish band will work its way slowly to that point according to singer Dolores O'Riordan.
"It would be nice to come up with a new record. I don't see why not," O'Riordan tells Billboard.com. "They ideas are always there, so hopefully something will come out of it."
O'Riordan -- who instigated the Cranberries hiatus in 2003 and released her second solo album, "No Baggage," in August -- says that Cranberries guitarist Noel Hogan "has been sending me lots of music, and I've been continually writing." But she's cautious about guessing what will come of it. "It's one of those things where we have to see what happens when we get back together and start playing," O'Riordan explains. "There's no point in bringing out a crappy record. You want it to be really good, so hopefully the creative juices are flowing and the energies are right. We're all pumped and excited and we've got that hunger that we had when we first started out."
The Cranberries hit the road for the first time in seven years on Nov. 12 in Baltimore. The group's original lineup of O'Riordan, Hogan, his brother Mike and Fergal Lawler is intact -- "At the height of the Cranberries we made a pact that we'd never play as the Cranberries unless it was the four of us," O'Riordan says -- and will play 19 shows in North America through Dec. 7. O'Riordan says the group is looking at more touring in 2010, including stops in Europe, Russia, South America and other territories.
"A world tour would be really great," she says. "We're gonna give it a good crack. I say tour 'til we drop! We've been sitting on our butts for seven years, so it's exciting we're all into it and we miss it."
As for repertoire, O'Riordan says the Cranberries will play some of her material but fans can expect hits such as "Linger," "Zombie" and "Dreams," as well as some deeper cuts from the group's five-album catalog. "I toured in 2007, and I played the (Cranberries) stuff with those musicians, but the energy was different," she notes. "It didn't sound and feel the same.
"Anyone can play a song, but sometimes the energy people have when they wrote the song has a certain feeling you can only get from them. So I'm looking forward to feeling that energy again, the sound of the Cranberries."
28/08: FaceCulture
FaceCulture has now posted the video interview the had with Dolores O'Riordan (better known as the frontwoman of The Cranberries) on May 18th. They spoke to her about painting, experimenting with songs, her latest album No Baggage, fear, a broadend vision, the journey of life, the song The Journey, the song Apple Of My Eye, The Cranberries, urge to make music and more.
28/08: KROQ 106.7
Karen from KROQ has published a little clip of an interview she had with Dolores and they talked about the tour with The Cranberries, the possibility of recording the 6th Cranberries' album and the release of 'No Baggage'.
If you can't listen to the interview CLICK HERE.
Thanks to 4everXtasy for the info.
28/08: CBC Radio Q
Q broadcasted today an interview with Dolores in which she also played Linger, It's You & Zombie. This time she said that maybe we'll hear new Cranberries songs during the tour and that they might record a new album together the next year. It's probable that the podcast will be available for download tomorrow.
DOWNLOAD the podcast HERE!
Thanks to Rick for the information.
DOWNLOAD the podcast HERE!
Thanks to Rick for the information.
27/08: Backstage
Backstage, is a Radio program in Madrid, Spain hosted by Luis Blanco which has just published an interview with Dolores O'Riordan where she talks about her new album, the video recording for 'The Journey' and a little bit about the tour se had planned. The audio is available through this program's MySpace.
Thanks to Kike for the information.
26/08: Irish Independent
Published Date: 21 August 2009 by Susan Daly
TAKING THE STRAIN: The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan is back from the brink and going solo—she tells Susan Daly why she’s taking on the pressures of fame once again
Dolores O'Riordan will not be reading this article. She doesn't care to know what I, or anyone else, thinks of her. “One of the mistakes in my younger days was reading the press,” she says. “I should have said, ‘You've done it, move on, que sera sera, you know?' You're just going to be psychoanalysing yourself. I've got bigger fish to fry.”
It's not as aggressive as it sounds. It's a note to self. Must not get stressed. Must keep things in perspective. The bigger fish are not the usual self-aggrandising ambitions of a rock-star ego. They are her kids, her marriage and her mental health. Looking after all of these involves practising a degree of self-protection that it took a nervous breakdown and physical collapse to learn.
O'Riordan at 37 looks a lot like the tiny, sharp-faced teenager who fronted Limerick band The Cranberries to international stardom. Her hair has reverted to a severe peroxide crop similar to the one she sported on the cover of The Cranberries' second album, No Need To Argue (1994).
The rock chick 'do replaces the earth-mother, tumbling brunette locks from the time of her debut solo album, Are You Listening? two years ago. That was her first outing since The Cranberries went on hiatus in 2003. She, the brothers Noel and Mike Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawler are still friends. They have 12 children between the four of them, a unifying factor that gets them together socially.
“We are all in that incubation period so it made sense to step away from each other and have a bit of time out,” she says.
For all that, she brands this period as one of R&R rather than rock 'n' roll, O'Riordan releases her second solo album this month. No Baggage has a raw acoustic feel to many of the songs, and the emotive O'Riordan keen is still in full throttle.
It's not about multi-platinum sales this time, she says. She already knows what it is to have 40 million album sales under her belt. “I'm not one of these people who is really serious about her career — I write because I have to write. It's what I was put on this earth for. I'm a writer. I'm an artist. I can't help it,” she says. A little trace of ego, then.
The album came to her easily, “an eclectic bunch of songs” inspired by the present and the past. She likes the “freshness” to it, a result, she thinks, of walking through the fields for weeks, listening to demos made at her home in Howth, Co Dublin on her iPod and then laying down finished vocals in three or four takes.
“For the four years I was at home, I was living in the full-time motherhood world. Then when I brought out Are You Listening? it was a huge change. Back in a bus, living with a load of lads, huge change, there was no lack of inspiration,” she says.
“There are songs, as well, about the thought process, about what goes on inside your mind when you're under pressure.”
The track Skeleton, for instance, reflects on the “shadows from the past” that haunted O'Riordan even while The Cranberries were selling 40 million albums worldwide. Fame was a terrible weight around the neck of the sensitive country girl who suffered so badly from stage fright at early gigs she would sing with her back to the audience. It was a vulnerable state in which to be catapulted into rock's premier league on the back of first album Everybody Else Is Doing It, Why Can't We?
O'Riordan references the other major Irish rock act to break America. “With U2, it was their third album when they broke through. They came from a city, they were used to crowds. I was a girl — I didn't even know the boys; they were strangers, I jumped on the bus with them.”
Unformed and naïve, she was isolated in a celebrity bubble. “It was hard because in those days there were no mobiles, no emails. So if you wanted to call your mum, you had to get your few coppers and go down to the phone box in the hotel.”
Her inexperience saw her “sign my soul away” and struggle under a heavy workload. “I remember there was a stage where I was doing two gigs a night — I was going on stage at six and coming off at eight. That's how we got there, how we got so big in America. Going back on at nine and coming off at 11. No wonder I got burnt out.”
She was already well down the road to depression when, halfway through the promotion of No Need To Argue, O'Riordan was in a skiing accident, aged 22. “I ended up in a hospital for a month. I was on morphine. I had major surgery, was on bedpans. No one spoke English. The band were so big, and suddenly I was in hospital and I got depressed. Then I got it again, six months down the road.”
By the time her naturally thin frame registered a frail six and a half stone on the weighing scales in 1996, O'Riordan was already a physical and mental wreck.
“I look back and see photographs of myself and I do recognise that I was 23 and, oh God, I was so bony.” She pulled out of a worldwide tour with the band and was sent from doctor to doctor to verify for insurance purposes that she was too unwell to be on stage.
She can talk about all this now because she feels she has dealt with it. While she makes some sweeping statements about fate and destiny, O'Riordan also speaks about accepting her “demons”. She says things like, “If aperson is judgmental on me, it's just because they don't love themselves.” The hallmarks, one thinks, of much soul-searching and therapy.
“And I find writing very therapeutic and very healing. It's really terrible when your life spirals out of control like that, but later on you can look back and you can talk about it honestly, without being ashamed of your weaknesses and what happened to you.”
It seems strange to me that someone with such a dysfunctional relationship with fame would want to put her head above the parapet again. Are You Listening? plunged her straight back into the quagmire of record-label difficulties when Sanctuary Records, who she signed to on going solo, were taken over by Universal. “So I only got the chance to release one single and my CDs were pulled out of the shops. It was a nightmare. I went from the frying pan into the bloody fire!”
This is where O'Riordan's newly acquired steeliness comes in. She slightly reworked a favourite track, Apple Of My Eye (about husband Don Burton), from that album and rereleased it on No Baggage to make it her property again. “I wrote it years ago, but it's a nice old love song. I think it would be a lovely single,” she says.
O'Riordan fixes me with an uncompromising eye. She's stronger now, she says. She has Don, the former Duran Duran tour manager whom she married in 1994, by her side. She is stepmother to his 17-year-old son; mother to their three children aged from 12 down to three years.
Family comes first, which is why they are moving to Canada for now so that 12-year-old Taylor can attend high school. I don't know it when I meet her, but O'Riordan will cancel the US tour she had planned for late summer, without stating a specific reason. Dolores comes first these days.
“My husband is with me now and I'm a lot older now. I'm like the mother now. It's not like I'm a little girl who's developing things and I don't know what the heck they are. Once you've hatched a few chickens yourself, there's nothing that can embarrass you. I'm a lot more relaxed and what-not.”
Relaxed Dolores is a funny concept. The woman opposite me is a fizzing ball of energy, “hyper” as she might be described in her native Limerick, almost too bright-eyed and “on”.
But she insists she is at peace. She paints abstract canvases, some of which she posts on her website for her devoted fanbase to view. “It's very, very hard to rise me now. I guess I have been through a lot for my age. I feel like I have survived some kind of thing, in a way.”
It's not correct to say that Dolores O'Riordan comes with no baggage. There's plenty of it. She just knows better how to pack it away.
25/08: Hot Press
ETHEREAL GIRL: In a heartfelt interview, Dolores O’Riordan talks to Hot Press about her new solo record, her decision to move to Canada and the debilitating effects of fame. Plus, why a Cranberries reunion may be a matter of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’.
CLICK HERE to see previous articles published in Hot Press.
25/08: 101.9 RXP
Dolores gave a great interview to 101.9 RXP in NYC today, where she revealed that The Cranberries will be reuniting and embarking on a tour starting in November of this year!!!!
The band will be playing both Cranberries songs AND songs from her new album "No Baggage" which was just released in the USA today, and in Europe yesterday. :)
Dolores also performed beautiful acoustic renditions of "Linger" and of new track "It's You" from the new album "No Baggage".
