


Instead of moshing and crowd surfing, the audience was mostly relaxed, happy, and just starstruck by The Cranberries beautiful, yet sometimes still dark music. Although widely associated with alternative rock, the band's sound also incorporates indie pop, post-punk, Irish folk and pop rock elements. The band consists of vocalist Dolores O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler. Their style is a bit more melodic than the angsty 90's rock vibe I remember being drawn to, like so many other listeners of alternative rock. The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989. This music video was presented in black-and-white. Besides, Samuel Bayer, who once directed Zombie, also directed this single music video. In the age of auto-tuning, Dolores and The Cranberries brought such an authentic, almost past world sound to the concert that night, it was hard not to be swept up in their total Irish whimsical charm. The Cranberries Greatest Hits Torrent Tpb It describes how Dolores was eager to have a simple life after having achieved success.This song reached No.4 in France and No.5 in Australia. But what I didn't know is The Cranberries have been releasing music on and off since then, including their 2012 album, Roses (which is what they were touring at the time).ĭolores O'Riordan is truly a vocal master, seeing her perform live, I was blown away at how completely identical she sounded to the songs on the album. Sure I knew "Zombie" and "Linger", their two big radio hits during the mid-1990's. was simply one of the best rock concerts I've ever been to, especially considering I wasn't very familiar with The Cranberries before that evening. Getting to see The Cranberries in 2012 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.
