![]() We finished recording last May so we’ve had it for a long time now.” Knowing that everybody in the whole world is going to hear it after we’ve held it close for so long is a bit daunting. “Suddenly, yesterday, I started to overthink it. “We’ve kept the work very close to our chests and only a handful of people have heard it,” he says. For Noel, it feels strange now the first single is finally out there for all to hear. Only sharing the work with a selected few, they guarded the material they’d created until they felt able – and strong enough – to share. Like many who have experienced loss, they coped initially by busying themselves with work in the immediate aftermath, finding solace in the familiar. “I was nervous yesterday, actually,” Noel admits, reflecting on the build up to the release of the first single – ‘All Over Now’. They have, understandably, mixed feelings about the release. Wanting to honour her memory and the work she’d already started, the three decided to finish the album. ![]() The radio has just played the first single from the last ever Cranberries album, ‘In The End’, a project they’d all started work on in the months prior to Dolores’ death. The day is impossibly difficult for them: it’s one year to the day that their lead singer and friend of over 30 years, Dolores O’Riordan, died suddenly in a London hotel, not far from where we’re meeting today. ![]() Fergal Lawler and Mike and Noel Hogan of The Cranberries greet me warmly on a bitterly cold January day in London.
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