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Show ES _TheSalt Lake Tribune CALENDAR Friday, November18, 1994 Cranberries’ Fame Weighs Jesus, Mary Chain: Don’t Ask Them Lightly on Their Lead To Explain Name Singer, Dolores O’Riordan By Edward L. Kenney GANNETT NEWS SERVICE Among By Gary Graff KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE Dolores O'Riordan figuresit’s not hard to understand where she’s coming from. The songs she cowrites and sings for the Irish pop group the Cranberriesare simply the reflections and experiences of a young woman whoin recent years left her small-town homeforthecity, broke up with her live-in boy- friend and then got married — all while becoming internationally famous. “That's quite a bit, isn’t it?” O'Riordan, 23, says with prim sat- isfaction. “It’s a different world, and you havetogetit together,” she adds. “You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. “T suppose I swam.” That she did, right alongside herfellow Cranberries, Noel and Mike Hogan and Feargal Lawlor. Formed four years ago in Limerick, Ireland, the quartet made one of 1993's tastiest debuts, a tuneful, pretty and ambientcollection of well-crafted pop songs marked by O’Riordan’s evocative vocals, which owe as much to the Gregorian chants and hymnsshesangin church as they do to more familiar pop music influences. Drivenby thehits “Linger” and “Dreams,” the group’s debut al- bum, “Everybody Else is Doingit, So Why Can’t We,” sold more than four million copies worldwide and landed the Cranberries a spot on the Woodstock ’94bill. Its second album, “No Need to The Cranberries, Gigolo Aunts and MC 900-FootJesus will play Saltair Wednesdayat 7:30 p.m. The show is sold out. pa, Fla., a stop on the five-week U.S. tour. (The tour stops Satur- day at 7:30 p.m. at Saltair.) He spoke recently during the late-afternoon phone call — perhaps Its been an unquestionably quick rise. As Noel Hogan told the music trade magazine Poll- worn down by too many interviews — in a thick accent born of Glasgow, Scotland. Dueto its name, the Jesus and Star, “One day we were in Limer- ick, and then a few weekslater we were being flown aroundto play. Whenwestartedit was just a hobby. It wasn’t any big ambition.” Not to Hogan, perhaps, but Q"4ordan — who, as front woman, shouldersthe lion’s share of the band’s attention — says she’s perfectly happy with herlot. “No,the fame thing didn’t really bother me,” she says. “I love performing,andI love the idea of people buying records. I don’t the idea irreverent people for 10 years and I can’t, bie.” like many he said “We just needed a name.’ Reid spoke by phone from Tam-~- Argue,” is followingsuit; it has already sold a million copies and launched another big hit in the politically minded single “Zom- particularly the band namesin rock 'n’ roll, the Jesus and Mary Chain is one that begsinsight. Butdon’t look for it from William Reid, the band member who cameup with the name. “T’ve been trying to explainit to 3 Acts Spice Up Saltair of people knowing me — or thinking they do — butthat’s a part of what I choose.I choosenotto go to college; I chooseto be a singer.” That was a choice O'Riordan says she madelong ago, when she was growing up in a small town near Limerick. She wrote “Linger” when she was a teen-ager, sitting around her bedroom.“As far as I was concerned, no one wouldhearit,” she remembers.“I Mary Chain could be the best~ known unknown band around so Mike Hogan, left, Dolores O'Riordan, Feargal Lawlor and Noel Hogan ofthe Cranberries. had no idea it would end upon the popcharts.” Still, she saw music as her way out of small-townlife and its modest mentality. “You no longerlive for making your dinner,or for the day you get your money and go out and drink that night,” she says. “Suddenly there’s work, a job to do,” Consequently, the songs on “‘No Need to Argue” are broader and more worldly than those on the Cranberries’ debut. “Thethings a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22,” explains O’Riordan. A couple of numbers embrace issues: “Zombie,” for instance, was inspired by violence connected with the Northern Ireland conflict But the bulk of “No Need’s” songsare culled from the breakup of a longtime relationship; . last summer, O'Riordan married Don through dress with a jewel in her bare midriff. Her mom lovedit, O'Riordan says. Herdad, a “rigid Catholic” whostill counsels his daughter to Burton, tour manager for Duran had a harder time with it. And their wedding picture was on the front page of almost every Irish newspaper the nextday. ‘The more tacky the newspaper, the moretacky the headline,” O'Riordan says with discernible pride. “It was OK for a while, but thenit broke into the controversy of the country. I started thinking ‘Gee, there’s war going on in the Duran and nowthe Cranberries. “It's lovely,” she says of marriage, “but I’m not getting to be the wife that much because we're on the road. I don’t see him too much. He hasto leave early in the morning, and by the time he gets back, it’s ‘Hi, how are you? Good night.’ Butit’s fun.” And their wedding showedthat even a small-towngirl like O’Riordan knowshowtostir up a bit of sensation. Held in a 900-year-old abbey, the groom sported leather, while O'Riordan wore a lace see- a aE “do your husband’s washing,” North of the country, and you’re talking about me’? Let’s getoffit, folks;if I can write a song aboutit, you should probably be writing aboutit, too, 1 would hope.’ ” much so that Reid says he’s heard the joke a lot: Which one of you guys is Jesus and which is Mary? The other guy would be Reid’s brother, Jim. The two of them formed the Chain a decade ago to escape dead-end jobs stacking shelves in a Glasgow grocery store. Underground acclaim quickly followed. Their debut single, ‘Upside Down,” was one of the most successful independently distributed singles of 1984. 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