Cranberries
Cranberry Saw Us from; Limerick Active; 1989 – 19
Style; Indie
Line up;
Vocals; Niall Quinn
Guitar & Backing Vocals; Noel Hogan
Bass & Backing Vocals; Mike Hogan
Drums; Fergal Lawler
Cranberry Saw Us
Cranberry Saw Us released a 4 track demo in 1990, it was recorded at the Xeric Studio in Limerick (in 1989) and is the only recording by the Cranberries to feature the original vocalist with the band Niall Quinn. The 4 tracks were “Throw Me Down A Big Stair”, How’s It Going To Bleed”, Storm In A Tea Cup” & “Good Morning God”.
Cranberry Saw Us, “Anything” was released a 4 track demo in 1990, it was recorded at the Xeric Studio in Limerick (in 1989) and is the only recording by the Cranberries to feature the original vocalist with the band Niall Quinn. The 4 tracks were “Throw Me Down A Big Stair”, How’s It Going To Bleed”, Storm In A Tea Cup” & “Good Morning God”. The songs were engineered by Pearse Gilmore, owner of Xeric Studio & vocalist with Limerick band Private World.
Artwork
The artwork for the sleeve of the cassette tape was by Niall Quinn.
coming The Cranberries
In or around March 1990 Dolores O’Riorden took over on vocals from Niall Quinn. The bands style of music changed as well. Niall would become the drummer with another local Limerick band The Hitchers.
The Cranberries had two brothers in the band, Mike (Bass) & Noel (Guitar). Noel would write music for the songs while Dolores came up with the Lyrics.
After recording the group’s demo, Noel Hogan quit his job and started sending out the group’s demos to labels and radio stations. It was an employee who worked at Xeric Studios, who provided Hogan with the addresses of record labels.
When one of the demo tapes was sent back to the band, it was addressed to “The Cranberries” and thus the band’s name was changed. The record labels would end up biting at the demo.
Rough Trade Records was the first label to show interest in the group, followed by Virgin, Island and EMI. The band played a showcase at a local university, resulting in reps from those labels flying in from London to watch the performance.
O’Riordan recalled to the LA Times, “We had been together six months and had just six songs to our name, and 32 record company people flew in to see us and we were afraid for our lives.”