Cranberries reunite for tour after seven years

After nearly a seven-year break, Irish rock band, The Cranberries is all set to reunite for a tour in North America and Europe with a few new songs as well as well known songs such as ‘Zombie’ and ‘Linger’. Singer, Dolores O’Riordan performed with only some band members in Dublin in January, making in the first time since the band broke up in 2003. They met again at O’Riordan’s new home in Canada at the christening of her son Taylor.

The band’s website states, “Never officially broken up, the band instead has been on hiatus, and being in the same room and playing music together for the first time made them realize how much they had missed each other.” (http://www.cranberries.com).

The tour will start in Toronto in mid-November this year, according to the Irish Times newspaper. They will continue on to North America towards the end of the year and then to Europe in early 2010.

One of the most successful Irish bands, The Cranberries was formed in Limerick in 1989, originally under the name ‘The Cranberry Saw Us’. O’Riordan is responsible for the change of the band name to ‘The Cranberries’. Widely associated with alternative rock, the band’s work incorporates indie, indie pop, rock, post-punk and pop-rock elements. Their debut album ‘Everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we?’ made them famous worldwide and sold over five million copies in the United States. with over 14.5 million albums sold in the United States alone, The Cranberries has four top 20 albums to its name on the Billboard 200 chart and eight top 20 singles on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.