. Sorry, I can't help myself. Maybe the 'interview' can be funny (
) but the blog comments are pretty offensive. I dunno if you're interested, but you can post supporting Dol here ("If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear"):
Exclusive! Are you listening?Curry chips is proud to present a blog exclusive! Yes indeedy, a rare interview with the reclusive Dolores O'Riordan, no less.
Nat King Coleslaw caught up with her as she tried, like other celebrities, to outrun him. He then persuaded her to sit down for a chat.
NKC: "So Dolores, thanks for taking the time to talk to Curry Chips and buy me lunch. Could I start by asking you about the inspiration for your new album 'Are you listening?'"
Dolores: "Sure. It was named after a particularly stressful exchange with my ten-year-old son. He came home from school asking if he could just be called Taylor from now on - instead of Taylor Baxter, like. So I said to him 'And what would your sister Dakota Rain make of that?' Sure he didn't care. Said the lads were calling him Baxter Soup and Oxtail Bottom."
NKC [sigh]: "Kids. They can be so cruel."
Dolores: "Yeah. So I said if you change it to Taylor then they'll just call you Tinker Taylor Soldier Sailor and you wouldn't like that. He said some very upsetting things to me then and I hit back with a few. After he slammed the door, I added 'Are you listening?' and I just stopped and thought 'That's it, that's my next album title right there'. And when the creativity hits you like that, you have to sit down and let it flow through you. So I grabbed a pencil and I wrote 'Loser' there and then".
NKC: "Ah yes, 'Loser'. Some say it's your finest lyrical work since 'I just shot John Lennon' - would you agree?"
Dolores: "Ah, listen, you can't go comparing art with art like that. Good art rises above such piffling trivialities."
NKC: "Well, I think it is. I think they're both brilliant but I think 'Loser' just edges it. I mean '...John Lennon' bursts through your cranium with this:
It was the fearful night of December 8th
He was returning home from the studio late
He had perceptively known that it wouldn't be nice
Because in 1980, he paid the price
but 'Loser' has
Guess who just fell over your toys?
Your da, just in from the boozer
You know what's coming, it's no surprise
He'll burst your mush, you loser
which just leaves me breathless and shaking my head at the results."
Dolores: "Yeah, fair enough."
barmbrack.jpg
NKC: "And if I can continue with another example from the new album...on this track, you cast a cold eye on a situation which obviously troubles you greatly. The Iraq war."
Dolores: "Yeah, that really pisses me off. What a disaster. It's all about the oil, you know. There never were any weapons of mass destruction. All a distraction."
[Dolores pauses]
Dolores: "There you go. My muse knows not the hour. Destruction...Distraction. Two sides of the same deadly coin. I must write that down. Gimme your pen there."
[Dolores scribbles on her hand]
NKC: "Anyway, as I was saying, you address this terrible inhumanity in 'Angel Fire'."
Dolores: "Yeah. On this track I use what might be considered absurd juxtaposition to highlight to futility of the conflict, and how it seems like it's happening on another planet to some people.
My mother rings the doorbell, she's got brandy and barm brack
Not thinking for a moment about the suffering in Iraq
So while we sit in paradise and we nibble on a biscuit
My mind won't stop going back to today's carbomb in Tikrit
NKC: "Profound. So you're living in Canada at the moment - did you get fed up with south Kerry?"
Dolores: "I did."
NKC: "Did you ever hear the local tribute band 'The Dingleberries'? They're meant to be quite good."
Dolores: "I can't say that I have, no."
NKC: "Their debut album 'Men in the rigging' is actually due out soon. Any truth in the rumour that you're negotiating a multi-zillion pound deal to rebrand one of your biggest hits for a luxury clothing company?"
Dolores: "What? Where'd you hear that now?"
NKC: "Ahem, bear with me now because I want to do this justice."
[NKC sings]
hat.jpg
"What's on your heeeee-ead
On your heeee-eee-eeeead
Abercromb-eh
Abercromb-eh
Abercromb-eh
e-eh
e-eh
e-eh
o-oh
o-oh
doo-doo-"
Dolores: "STOP! Fuckin' loser."
[Dolores gets up and walks out; NKC continues to sing]
NKC: "With their tanktops
on your buns
and their tanktops
on your buns
for your heh-hed
for your heh-hed
you are buy-ing."
[NKC ceases his ululations]
NKC: "There she goes. What an artiste."
[This interview really took place. Swearond'bible]
