The Cranberries shared on their Instagram Story only (meaning available for 24 hours) a photo of the contract (edit: a dispatch note, sorry for the mistake) when “Alf Garnett Suite” was hired for a week in July 1995.
If you have no idea what “Alf Garnett Suite” is/means, it is in fact the official name of the sofa appearing on a few photo sessions with the band. The couch is mainly known on the album covers of EEIDI and NNTA… but not exclusively. It was hired quite a few times for The Cranberries (at least 3 or 4 times) and was also used by the band Supergrass in their video for “Alright” as well as a metal band who decided to burn it in a music video. Fuckers! So unfortunately this piece of The Cranberries History no longer exists… TRAGIC!!
Possibly appearing for the first time on the British television sitcom “Till Death Us Do Part” aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975 where Alfred Edward Garnett is the main character (now you know where the name comes from), maybe this sofa and armchairs suite was not unique and a few copies made in the good old days could still exist and be around somewhere; wouldn’t it be nice! (as another famous band said)
I wonder what they hired it for in 1995. I’m pretty sure all the NNTA photo shoots and promo shots were done in 1994. Did they use ithat sofa again after that?
good question indeed. no idea. maybe they changed their plans and the photo shoot was cancelled, or maybe it really exists and we never saw any pics yet, which is unlikely.
was it hired for something else which is not a photo shoot, anyway, I don’t think they used the sofa after that.
or a possible mistake (?), and this dispatch note addressed to ISLAND RECORDS (not The Cranberries) was in fact for the Supergrass video, their single was released in july 1995. Island Records might have mixed their archives up!
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I think that for that sofa to have ended up burned by a metal band, it would have been better if they had used it in the video clip of ‘When You’re Gone’ burning, it would have also been very symbolic, although we will never know, it was part of the idea and that’s why they wanted to rent it out in 1995, who knows.
Nice!
Of course all NNTA shoots were done in 1994. In July 1995 we had the album in our houses already and Dolores had red hair in july 1995.