A previously “lost recording” of a 1994 live performance by The Cranberries in London is set to be released for the first time.
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Entitled ‘The Cranberries: Live At The London Astoria II, 1994’ the recently unearthed performance saw the band perform at the now defunct venue and showcase nine songs from their landmark album ‘No Need To Argue’, which was released later that year and featured their massive hit ‘Zombie’.
Comprised of 15 stripped back live recordings, it also features a host of songs from their 1993 debut ‘Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?’ including ‘Pretty’, ‘Linger’ and ‘Dreams’.
It will be available in multiple formats including a 2xLP Limited Edition Molten Lava Vinyl, standard black vinyl, CD, and digitally on September 4 via Island/UMe. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.
“It was such a buzz playing in The Astoria,” said drummer Fergal Lawler, reflecting on the show. “We had returned from the US and taken a bit of time off for Christmas. This was our first concert back in London after achieving such success in America. We were delighted to see a few of our hardcore fans at the front of the stage, I think we felt proud that all our hard work had finally come to fruition.”
Frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan passed away in a London hotel in 2018, with her death subsequently ruled a result of accidental drowning in a bath, caused by alcohol intoxication.
The band’s hit single ‘Linger’ recently featured on the Apple TV adaptation of Cape Fear.
Javier Bardem stars as Max Cady in the latest version of the classic psychological thriller story, based on the 1957 novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald.
Cady is a vicious and unreformed ex-convict, who is released from prison and sets about seeking revenge on Tom and Anna Bowden (Patrick Wilson and Amy Adams), the couple who represented him 17 years earlier in court.
Cape Fear has been made into two acclaimed films: the first in 1962 directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, and the second in 1991 directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte.
The tracklisting for ‘The Cranberries: Live At The London Astoria II, 1994’ is:
‘Pretty’
‘Dreaming My Dreams’
‘Linger’
‘Ridiculous Thoughts’
‘Daffodil Lament’
‘How’
‘Everything I Said’
‘Not Sorry’
‘Waltzing Back’
‘Dreams’
‘Zombie’
‘Liar’
‘So Cold In Ireland’
‘Empty’
‘Still Can’t…’
