Shortly after the Giga interview, a Dolores autograph was posted on the Giga page. However, it was only posted for a short period of time and then taken down. Thanks to Jessica van Kessel for saving it and forwarding it.

Source: NBC Giga, thanks to Jessica van Kessel

We reported that days ago, Dolores made a promotional appearence on the Giga network. We now have a hoarde of exclusive screens of this that you’ll only find here! Dolores basically reaffirmed all of the previous news, about doing many festivals for the first half of this year.

Source: NBC Giga

Borders, a US-based music and book store, has an in-store display for Sessions at West 54th. The sign gives all of the information about the show, expecially that it is a show for public networks, with little profit involed. Below the sign are the albums of past, present, and upcoming artists, and of course, “Bury the Hatchet” is on the rack — even though the show doesn’t air for another two months.

Source: Exclusive!

Exclusive news for you! We have high-res scans of the “You and Me” single, released this week in Germany. It also includes a sneak peek at BTH: Complete Sessions! Tracks are:

1. You and Me
2. Dreams
3. Woman Without Pride
4. I Can’t Be With You (Live)

Tracks 1 & 3 from “Bury the Hatchet: Complete Sessions”, Track 4 Recorded Live at De Bercy, Paris, France, December 9th 1999

“You and Me” Front
“You and Me” Back
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Source: Exclusive, thanks to Bernd Dittrich

Dolores appeared for the APH Awards ceremony this past Sunday, as well as doing a small performance. She and the band’s backup singer did “You and Me” and “Dying in the Sun”. Below are some nice vidcaps of the show. Also, a new tour date was announced:

Date: May 20th, 2000
City: Prague, Czech Rebublic
Venue: TBA

Source: “Everybody Else Is Doing It” Homepage

Corresponding with the show, three Cran articles ran in papers in the Czech Rebpublic (where the show was broadcasted). The articles are in Czech (the third has a pic from the show), but it’s nice to see that the band is getting press.

Czech Article 1:

Czech Article 2:

Czech Article 3:

Source: “Everybody Else Is Doing It” Homepage

Other than the obvious new haircut for the new year, a natural brown longer cut, the astute will observe something else — a new tattoo! On her right shoulder, opposite her “Don” tattoo (which she got a few years back), there is a Celtic-style cross. Here are two enlargements:

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Source: “Everybody Else Is Doing It” Homepage

“You and Me” was released this week, and it looks to be limited. I’m not sure of the tracks at the moment. However, Cranfans in Europe had to do a bit of scavenging to find it in stores. I don’t know of the exact track list yet, but I should have that and cover art for you soon.

Source: Frontstage, Ridiculous Thoughts Mailing List

The “You and Me” video has been released! Those that have seen it tell us that it includes more than the Paris footage from last December — it includes some studio footage, too. Cropped into the video is different footage of people running down the street to kiss their lovers.

If we get any stills of the video, they’ll surely be posted here.

Source: Cranberries Usenet Group (alt.music.cranberries)

This comes as great news to US Cranfans. When a submission was asked to the Island representatives at the Official International Cranberries Website about a release for BTH: CS in the US, the following reply was received:

“Hi Kyle,

Thank you for your mail. As far as I know it should be released in the US but stay tuned to the website for more details as [to where] and when it is released.

Best Regards,

The Cranberries Administrator”

I certainly hope he’s right

Source: Thanks to Kyle

Exclusive pics! These are pro shots taken from the Madrid gig last December. Check them out.

Pro Shot 1
Pro Shot 2

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Just read!!!

“On April 17th Island Records are releasing “Bury The Hatchet – The Complete Sessions”. This double CD package will feature all tracks originally recorded for ‘BTH’, plus a sample of live tracks taken from the forthcoming DVD/Home Video to be released in June 2000. The package has been redesigned by Storm Thorgerson and will be a special digipak format. CD 1 will contain all the tracks included in the international release of BTH. CD 2 will feature the following tracks:

Part 1 (Studio tracks)

1. Baby Blues
2. Sweetest Thing
3. Woman Without Pride
4. Such A Shame
5. Paparrazi On Mopeds

Part 2 (Live tracks)

6. Promises
7. Animal Instinct
8. Loud And Clear
9. You And Me
10. Shattered (Live In Berlin)
11. Desperate Andy
12. Delilah

All live tracks were recorded in Paris, France on December 9, 1999 except track 10, which was recorded at Grosse Freheit, Hamburg, Germany on April 16, 1999.”

Wow. Wow wow wow wow wow. If this does not get released in the US, I WILL NOT BE HAPPY!!! *ahem*. Excuse me.

Source: The Cranberries Official International Homepage

Dolores arrived in Germany on Sunday to begin a new round of interviews and appearences in Berlin and Düsseldorf. Schedules appearences include interviews with radio stations, MTV Germany, and NBC Giga.

Source: The Cranberries Official International Homepage

Dolores did an online interview this morning for Doc Rock and MTV Germany. The following have been confirmed, much of which is very noteworthy:

-A gig for Brazil has been confirmed for between the 2nd and 5th of April
-Album #5 will be produced by Stephen Street!
-You and Me will be released next week!
-Dolores is planning on taking part in a movie by next year
-In addition to the new tour dates (below), the band is also scheduling for Belguim, Switzerland (15th of August), Denmark, Italy (15th or 16th of July), and more…
-The band has so far written three harder songs for the new album and one ballad
-There is not a new cransong called “Atosa”
-Album #5 is currently slated for a January 2001 release
-The band, sadly for fans, will not be doing any of the new songs live until the album release to avoid the publication of bootlegs 🙁
-The new live video is now slated for a release on June 28th.
-In their free time, the band is planning on writing some songs for soundtracks
-Dolores has an Arab horse 🙂

Source: Doc Rock (German) and The pretty Cranberries (Spanish)

Date: April 7th, 2000
City: San Juan, Puerto Rico (US)
Venue: Munoz Marin Amphitheater

Date: April 14th, 2000
City: Lisbon, Portugal
Venue: Atlantico Pavillion

Upcoming dates in South Africa, Israel, Greece and Turkey will be announced shortly

Source: The Cranberries Official International Homepage

We now have more deatails on the MTV Germany Contest. One the site, you can choose your favorite Cranberries live track from December ’99 from the ten samples listed. The two songs that receive the most votes will be added onto the CD in video format. So the tracks for the “You and Me” Limited Edition will be:

1. You and Me
2. Dreams (LP Version)
3. Live song from Paris #1 (video)
4. Live song from Paris #2 (video)

There is still no word on what tracks the regular version will have. However, the site says the that CD will be released in late March (as opposed to “early” as stated before).

Source: J. Verweij, via alt.music.cranberries

Thanks to The pretty Cranberries, we have scans of the Italian “You and Me” promo, which is quite different from the other promos. This one has just been released recently, in contrast to the Spanish promo, which was released in mid-January.

Front Scan:

CD Scan:

Source: The Pretty Cranberries (Spanish)

According to The pretty Cranberries, Dolores is currently looking around for a role to fill in a movie. She hopes to take a part in a movie by the end of this year.

Source: The pretty Cranberries (Spanish)

MTV Germany is having a special contest for the upcoming release of “You and Me”. Visit their page, and enter their contest to win an MTV Limited Edition Enhanced “You and Me” single, which will include two video tracks. Other prizes include Cran T-shirts and 10 copies of BTH to be given away. “You and Me” will be released in early March.

This info is from a rough translation, so hopefully, we’ll have more info later.

Also on the same page are some downloadable Real Video clips of the show from Paris in December. Check it all out here. (LINK NO LONGER AVAILABLE)

Source:MTV Germany (German)

This news comes as a surprise to me.. appearently, Mexicans woke up this morning with an unexpected piece on news on the TV. This morning, Dolores confirmed in an interview via telephone that that band has booked a gig for Mexico this year. Here are the specifics:

Date: April 9th, 2000
Place: Mexico City, Mexico
Venue: National Auditorium

This is the third announced tour date for this year, and the first show in Mexico since 1993. If you speak Spanish, there is a nice article here (LINK NO LONGER AVAILABLE)

Source: Exclusive, thanks to Carlos Saide

I stumbled across this this morning thanks to my brother (a big punk fan)… Appearently, there is a song on the MXPX album, “Teenage Politics” that bears some uncanny references to the Cranberries. The song is called “Delores”. Check out the album cover and lyrics…

“Delores”

My girl hates the IRA
it’s true she just a Fantasy
Don’t know her she don’t know me
We’d make the perfect memory
Nothing in this world could be better
than falling in love with her
she’d write me the most beautiful of songs

1, 2, 3, Go! Go! Go! Go!

“Hates the IRA”? “She’d write the most beautiful of songs”? Coincidence? Make your own decision…

Source: Exclusive

Another odd piece of merchandise… This Bury the Hatchet tour jacket surfaced just recently, which leaves me to believe that it is from the latter tour leg, from last December.

Source: Exclusive

Well, if I hadn’t seen a picture, I would claim it didn’t exist. Below is a scan of the Guitar Tabs book for Bury the Hatchet. It looks like the book was Euro-only release. Songs (in order) are:

Animal Instinct
Loud And Clear
Promises
You And Me
Just My Imagination
Shattered
Desperate Andy
Saving Grace
Copycat
Whats On My Mind
Delilah
Fee Fi Fo
Dying In The Sun
Sorry Son

Source: Exclusive

Well, it looks like the editing of the “You and Me” music video is finished and is ready for airing. The official page states that music channels should begin showing the video very soon. The video was recorded live last December in front of 17,000 in Paris, France.

Source: The Cranberries Official International Homepage

According to the official page, the release date for the Live in Paris video is June 5th of this year. The video will be released worldwide in DVD and VHS formats.

Source: The Cranberries Official International Homepage

According to a recent press conference, Dolores and Fergal have confirmed a summer tour date. The date is April 29th, and the city is Dublin, Ireland. This will be after the Espárrago Rock concert, making it the second live show this year.

Source: The Cranberries Official International Homepage

Here we have yet another photo as offspring from the CK photo shoot.

Source: MTV

We have a very nice high-res shot of Dolores from current US magazines with the advertisement. The image is quite large, so click the thumbnail below for the full size.

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Source: Exclusive

Apparently, quite a few people thought the recent French EPOK article was one of the best they’ve read in years, so here’s some highlights for you:

“She was interviewed in Epok, a French zine and the article was really interesting as she [Dolores] stated that she did not like at all who she was before (during the EEIDSWCW period), and that she would never again write songs such as Zombie, because of the political issues when you wrote such engaged rock…quite surprising though. I will definitely post the whole French article there soon, as it made me thought of all the opinions that were posted a month ago about what this list members think of ‘Berries music and how it evolved. The original ‘Berries spirit is definitely lost, I guess so, as Dolores clearly stated she would never write again the same love songs she used to.
In this very interview (I’ll send it tomorow), she said that she feels like playing in a movie in the future: “It would be fun”. But, she also said that she will work on the next album. Nevertheless she says too that she hates some love songs she wrote earlier, because she has now found true love, and she consideris she did not know what she was speaking about when writing these songs.”

Thanks to Francois Gibello for the article highlights.

Source: Cranberries RT Mailing List

Finally we have an airing date for Sessions at West 54th.

Date: May 14, 2000
Time: 12:00 A.M. (Midnight) EST
[West Coasters, that’s 9:00 P.M.]

If you don’t know what channel it’s on, Sessions at West 54th is a public broadcast program, so you’ll have to check your local listings for the channel.

Thanks to Adam over in the Zombieguide Tour section for the info!

The Waltzing Back Website brings word of perhaps a new Cranberries song from the next album. The song is supposedly titled “Cruel Summer”, and was heard by attendees of the Europe Loud and Clear Tour during the sound checks. Bands usually tinker around with new songs during sound checks, so there may be truth to this rumor.

MTV is offering some CK downloads in conjunction with thier show, House of Style. Each artist has a corner of the page, featuring some cool downloads including high-res Dolores backgrounds and a screensaver. Be sure to check out Dolores’ section here. (LINK NO LONGER AVAILABLE)

We have some better-quality EPOK scans with smaller tags, too! Check them out:

Dolores 1
Dolores 2
Dolores 3

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These pics are compliments of the latest addition to Zombieguide, Zombieguide Europe! Zombieguide Europe (formerly The Shattered Cranberries Homepage) caters especially to the European Zombieguide audience, but they’ve got tons of great stuff for the rest of the world, too! 🙂

The CK ads featuring Dolores have been printed and distributed. Below is one of the first of them — a CK promo postcard featuring Dolores sporting Dirty Jeans. I’ve also been told that there are billboards of this image in major US cities! If someone could get a picture of that, that would be great!

Dolores CK Postcard (LINK NO LONGER AVAILABLE)

Check out this news from the official page of Noel’s new-found fatherhood, and recording for the next album!

“Jan 21st 2000

The Cranberries have confirmed their first festival appearance this year on April 15, at Esparrago 2000, which is located Jerez (Cadiz area), Spain. This is Soto Grande, Beach. The festival will also include Dover (Spanish), Fabulos Cadillacs (Argentian), Lou Reed (American), Asian Dub Foundation (UK). For more information, go to www.esparragorock.com

Jan 20th 2000

(written by Dolores, Dec 1999)

Hello there all ye Cranberry heads!

I would just like to thank all you guys for your loyalty and support on our “Loud & Clear” tour.

The American leg was quite good, but Europe blew me away. Just some amazing receptions. I was totally impressed. I loved Spain, Italy, France, etc.

Noel is a dad now and Ferg is expecting in the next month or so. They will busy for a while.

We are going to rehearse and write the 5th album. We won’t record it until August and will do some festivals during the year. Our first is in April in Spain at Esparrago 2000 – So we are going to do ass kicking again – Oh I love Rock n’ Roll.

Hope to see you later this year and hope you had a great Millennium and Xmas!

Lot’s of love,

Dolores x”

Yes, although this one isn’t “You and Me”.. Apparently a new promo was released last year called “So Far…”. It is an Italian-only promo, and includes 3 tracks:

1. Linger
2. Zombie
3. Salvation

Here are some new pics from the recent benefit CD/Video that Dolores appears in…

CD1 with QT video:

CD2 without QT video:

Here is a scan of the international You and Me promo, which contains one track. The Spanish promo mentioned earlier contains 4 tracks, which includes:

1. You and Me
2. Promises
3. Animal Instinct
4. Just My Imagination

International 1-track Promo:

Spanish 4-track Promo (cover):

Spanish 4-track Promo (back):

In case you haven’t heard, the Cranberries will be headline a show called Espárrago International Festival 2000 in Spain on April 15th and 16th. For more info, check out the Zombieguide Concerts/Tour Section for more info. In the meantime, check out this propaganda:

Poster:

Ticket:

Finally, promo singles have been pressed and distributed for You and Me! And, of course we have scans for you! Below is the scan of the Spanish promo single, just recently released to radio stations.

The Cranberries Tape Trader has posted some of the most attractive pics of Dolores I’ve seen in a long, long time… As you can see, they were used in the recent issue of the European magazine, EPOK. Check them out.

Dolores 1
Dolores 2
Dolores 3

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We finally have official word about the release of the Live in Paris video, to be released next spring. This press release was given from the company who got the exclusive right to publish it.

“IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT TO HANDLE WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF BRAND NEW CONCERT FILM “THE CRANBERRIES: LIVE IN PARIS”

Home Video and Broadcast Rights Granted in Exclusive Agreement with Island Records, Inc.

CHATSWORTH, CA (December 21, 1999) – Image Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: DISK), a leading licensee and distributor of DVD programming in North America, today announced the signing of an exclusive agreement with Island Records, Inc. that grants Image all facets of home video and broadcast distribution, worldwide, for The Cranberries: Live In Paris, filmed December 9th at the Palais Omnisport de Paris Bercy in Paris.

The Cranberries, the internationally known rock quartet hailing from Limerick, Ireland, was formed in 1989 and their first single, “Uncertain”, was released by Island Records in 1991. The band’s first album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? was released in March 1993 and has sold over five million copies, spawning two hit singles: “Linger” and “Dreams”. From there, The Cranberries went on to release No Need To Argue and To the Faithful Departed, each album more successful than the last, and winning international awards and recognition, including the MTV Award for European Single of the Year for “Zombie”.

The band took a three-year break from touring and recording in 1996. They are now back with a bestselling album, Bury the Hatchet, which topped the charts around the world. They are also in the midst of an internationally acclaimed world tour of 46 cities, including London, New York, Paris and Milan. To date the band has sold over 31 million albums. This is their first concert, since 1994, to be released to home video, and marks The Cranberries’ first DVD release.
The Paris concert will be released on DVD, videocassette and for broadcast in the Spring of 2000. The DVD will feature Dolby Digital and DTS multichannel audio. The video was produced by Ned O’Hanlon for Dreamchaser Productions, audio was produced by the band and the program was directed by Maurice Linnan.
Visit Image on-line at http://www.image-entertainment.com for information regarding the latest DVD, laserdisc and exclusive VHS releases. Also visit Ken Crane’s DVD and Laserdisc Superstore on-line at http://www.kencranes.com for consumer direct sales.”

The recent benefit for Children’s Promise has been made a 2CD single set in the UK. A portion of the sale of every CD is promised to be donated to the foundation. It is also an Enhanced CD, and includes the music video in Quicktime format for your PC. Also, check the scans for the list of all the artists on the CD.

Single Cover Scan
Single Back Scan

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According to a recent interview with Fergal after one of the recent UK gigs, the Cranberries are considering booking new tour dates for France for June of 2000. Nothing is official right now, but because of the large crowds of the recent French shows, I would say rebooking that area would be a good move on the band’s part.

A new site, “Cranberry Awards”, has given Zombieguide the highest honor — Best Cran Site on the Internet! We here at Zombieguide are very pleased accept this award. Thank you to everyone who has made this site a success! Please click the pic to find out more.

A month after its release, we finally have a pic of “Double Must”! This Euro-only issue was released last month and includes TTFD and BTH.

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Merry Christmas from The Cranberries Herald! And to celebrate, we at The Herald have a gift for you! If you have Doors and Windows, you may have already seen this. If not, enjoy!

Cranberries Christmas Video (Size: 1.83MG, Format: Quicktime, Note: Video works better with older versions of Quicktime than with newer versions.)

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Now this is exclusive! Zombieguide proudly brings to you nine exclusive photos from the Calvin Klein photo shoot. These pics of Dolores will be used in CK ads next year, for his music celebrity ads.

Calvin Klein 1
Calvin Klein 2
Calvin Klein 3
Calvin Klein 4
Calvin Klein 5
Calvin Klein 6
Calvin Klein 7
Calvin Klein 8
Calvin Klein 9

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Yes, there’s lots of exclusive stuff today. You probably remember last month that the Cranberries guest starred on a WB TV show called “Charmed”. Although the Berries did no acting, they did a performance of “Just My Imagination” in a club at the end of the show.

Charmed 1
Charmed 2
Charmed 3
Charmed 4

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As stated by Dolores recently on French radio, the band is going back to the studios again early next year to recrod Album #5. Here is news from the official page to confirm that:

“Dec 06th 1999

(written Dec 4th and 5th)

Hi, how’s it going ?

I’m still alive. I haven’t been writing too much recently as I’ve been concentrating on the tour, so apologies to anyone who has been waiting.

We are in Madrid and I think I’ve eaten too much “Paella”, I’m feeling a little bloated but there are two hours to go before the gig so, it should be digested by then.

All the shows so far have been great, thank you all for coming. We have been playing a mixture of songs from all four albums and the reaction to the new stuff has been fantastic, it still amazes me how fast people can learn the lyrics.

It’s been great flying home every few days, (the joy of waking up in your own bed is a thing you do not take for granted when you have toured for a long time!) I thought it would feel a little strange because I wasn’t on the bus, but I’ve had a few days where I stayed out here (in Spain) for a bit of a party which is always good for bonding!

We were discussing our plans for next year today and I can tell you that we hope to start recording some new material in May and we will definitely be doing Summer festivals around Europe and the Womad festival in South Africa. We are also trying to organize to go to South America but that has not been confirmed yet.

Woo-hoo! Great news today! . In Belfast both sides sat down together around the table so hopefully they will be able to work things out and we will finally have peace in our beautiful country.

It’s now Dec 5th and we are in Barcelona . A few of us went out around the town for a while then we went to eat at the “Hard Rock Cafe” and did a little tour of the bars until 4.30am. But surprisingly I felt great this morning, there is something magic about this city. It is without doubt my favourite!! O.K. it’s time for me to start my stretching etc. before the gig so talk to you later.

DONT FORGET TO CHECK OUT THE LIVE WEBCAST ON THURSDAY 9th DECEMBER. Read message below for instructions!

Take care,

Fergal.”