The Cranberries: how we made Linger

‘The guy it’s about sent me a long letter asking if we could meet up again. But I thought: “It’s too late. You dumped me!”’Bands in Limerick just did cover versions, so when I met this group called The Cranberry Saw Us, I was immediately impressed: they wanted to write their own songs. They couldn’t really play, which was part of their charm. Noel Hogan, their guitarist, used to make up his own chords, sometimes with just one finger. Linger was the first