The Cranberries

County: Limerick

Decades Active: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

About The Cranberries

The Cranberries, lead by the uniquely recognisable voice of Dolores O'Riordan, were one of Ireland's best-selling bands of the 1990s, having sold nearly fifty million albums worldwide as of 2019. They were formed in 1989 in Limerick as 'The Cranberry Saw Us', which, thankfully, they changed to 'The Cranberries' in 1990 after Dolores O'Riordan joined, replacing original singer Niall Quinn.

In 1991, they signed with Island Records, and in 1993 released their excellent debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? to commercial success. Their second album, No Need to Argue released in 1994, brought the band to international fame, and included the single "Zombie", which became one of the band's most recognizable songs. They released two further successful albums in the 1990, To the Faithful Departed in '96 and Bury the Hatchet in '99.

Following a switch to MCA Records, their fifth album, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee released in 2001 was not as commercially successful as their preceding albums, and the band cited their dissatisfaction with the label's promotion. The band had a six-year hiatus from 2003 to 2009 and returned with tours of North America, Latin America and Europe and a sixth album, Roses, in 2012.In 2017 they released Something Else which featured unplugged and orchestral versions of ten previously released singles and three new songs.

Tragically Dolores O'Riordan died on 15th January 2018. In mid-September 2018, Noel Hogan confirmed the band's dissolution, which would occur after the release of their final album In the End. During the 2017 tour, and the following winter, O'Riordan and Noel Hogan had written and demoed eleven tracks. Her recorded vocal demos for the album were stored in her personal hard disk drive from her home in New York City. Hogan stated: "We will do this album and then that will be it. No one wants to do this without Dolores...". "So there's a song called 'In the End', it's the last song on the album, and it just kind of summed up the whole album and the band. Because it's definitely the end of it for us. So we've called it that."

Noel Hogan has also been involved in some other projects including Mono Band and Arkitekt.

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