The Cranberries: the music we loved and hummed in the 90s was finally live in Bucharest
It might have been just that type of stage talk all singers have when meeting a new audience, but the Cranberries leading singer Dolores O'Riordan said at the end of the show in Bucharest last night that the public was an inspiration. And then, just before leaving the stage, she gave away her necklace to a little girl in the audience, who had been sitting during the entire concert on her father's shoulders, close to the stage, with her ears wrapped up in a pink noise protection headset.
The Irish band rocked the evening last night in Bucharest. The concert was among the first in the European tour which marked the band's reunion and the first ever concert in Romania. There were 90 minutes of joy.
Romanian fans had long awaited for this moment. The songs from the 90s worked like a charm for the public – so no wonder everyone knew the lyrics- even the young. There were families in the audience - we've seen people in their 40s who came with their kids. For many of these, it's understandable: the Cranberries' music was what the youth of the 90s had been waiting for after so many years of cultural confinement in the communist era.
Dolores O'Riordan was a core of energy during the entire evening. And her amazing voice never let the public down (although before the tour started, doctors had found a vocal cord nodule which might have endangered the entire tour). In Bucharest, she has talked to the public, moved in her own, personal, funny way, run on the stage all evening. She has even included a couple of personal things in her speech. “This is a song I composed 16 years ago, just after I got married. Yes, I have been married for 16 years. It takes patience,” she said before playing Promises 'Dreaming my dreams'. Dolores is 39 and has been singing for the last 21 years.
The Cranberries was set up in 1989, in Limerick, Ireland. The first name of the band was 'The Cranberry saw us'. The band sold over 14 million records in the US and has four albums in Billboard 200 ('Everybody Else Is Doing It', 'So Why Can't We?', 'No Need To Argue' and 'To the Faithful Departed and Bury the Hatchet').
Their debut album was 'Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?', in1993, which sold five million copies in the world. The second album, in 1994, 'No Need to Argue', went directly number six on US tops, exceeding the success of the first album.
Corina Saceanu
