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    Dolores O'Riordan Cancels Solo Tour, Revives the Cranberries

    • Posted on Aug 28th 2009 12:30PM by Linda Laban
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    This week, Dolores O'Riordan released her second solo album, 'No Baggage,' and promptly announced that her September solo tour was canceled. An unusual move perhaps, except that the news was accompanied by the announcement of a Cranberries tour, which will begin in North America at the end of the year and continue with European dates in early 2010.

    When O'Riordan spoke with Spinner earlier in the summer about her upcoming solo album and tour, there was no hint that any of this was on the cards. That was, she says, because the idea just came up recently and the decision to reform was only made in the last two or three weeks.

    "I'm a very spontaneous person," she tells Spinner. "I don't really think about long-term. I don't really think about business that much. I don't plan my life that much. I just go day-by-day-by-day, which is kinda cool, right? Because then you don't really worry about what's going to happen in three or four weeks. You just play it by ear. It was a very gradual thing," she adds of the reunion. "I thought I'm not getting any younger. Why wait?"

    The Cranberries, which also includes brothers Noel and Mike Hogan and Fergal Lawler, went on hiatus in 2003 without truly breaking up. The upcoming shows will mix the band's songs with O'Riordan's solo cuts, including several from 'No Baggage,' which was released by Rounder Records Aug. 25.

    "I thought it would be very cool to play the old stuff and combine that with the solo songs and see what it becomes," O'Riordan says. "There should not be any structure or formula in art or music. We should, as artists, follow our hearts and do what we feel."
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    Shane Bertouat 8-29-2009

    I'm going with ... the solo album is pure drivel. Painful to listen to. But its release gets The Cranberries name back out there. And a tour w/ them may bring higher dividends.

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    LEEat 8-29-2009

    YES!!!! I LOVE THE CRANBERRIES!! BEST NEWS I'VE HEARD ALL DAY!

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    audram28at 8-29-2009

    yay Cranberries!!!

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    mikeyat 8-29-2009

    God, i could never stand her warbling voice. One reunion we can do without.

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    APat 8-29-2009

    Speak for yourself, mikey...they had some really haunting stuff and I loved it, and judging from these other posts, you're outn umbered.

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    Debbieat 8-29-2009

    I must admit, I have to agree with you Mikey. I never liked them either.

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    daveat 8-29-2009

    Absolutly beautiful voice, she could sing99 beers on the wall and it would sound great.

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    Azureeat 8-29-2009

    The Cranberries back in action?! Somebody catch me, I'm going to faint. I just loved that one song "Linger". It was the very first song I'd ever sung for karaoke night. But back to the news...I'd like to go to a date one day. I hope we hear some tour news soon.

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    Bat 8-29-2009

    Who is Dolores O'Riordan?

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    johnat 8-29-2009

    Only the hottest f-n chick on the planet...go spank it to you twink vids.

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    FLIPat 8-31-2009

    Altho i will admit her sophomore effort doesnt compare to her 1st album its still pretty damn good. And I cannot express how happy to hear the cranberries are going to tour, best news i've had this decade so far! Solo tour can follow, we have time( i hope).

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