Read the article/interview with Noel & Fergal on ipaper.co.uk

Bootleg vinyls seem to be trendy again these last months… at least when it’s about The Cranberries. A new one just surfaced a few days ago and is titled “May The Saints & Angels Watch Over You”

A little more interesting than what’s been released lately, this one was recorded in Madrid in April 1999. Back cover says soundboard recording, and you probably all know the show was broadcast on Spanish TV, so no doubt the audio is coming from this source… pirates are lazy people!

As always with bootlegs, there is no store listing and you have to search record shops, eBay, or other websites and apps. Photos below from Vinted!

Read the article on independent.ie (subscribe to unlock the article!)

Read the article on news.com.au

Fergal interviewed a few days ago on a morning TV show called “Today” which airs on Channel 9 in Australia.

For now you can watch only a cropped version made for the show’s Facebook & Instagram pages. The widescreen video was only shown on TV, hopefully soon someone will share it somewhere someday…

Thanks to Jason for the info and link!

UPDATE – 18 AUGUST (11:15 PM)

That was fast!
Widescreen format now shared on YouTube.
Special thanks to Jason once again!

Yesterday, and more than a month and a half after the release of the 3LP edition, all the other “No Need To Argue (30th Anniversary)” editions were physically released. For die-hard collectors, there are European and US pressings for each format (2LP, 1LP, 2CD, 1CD) and even a Japanese 2CD edition (SHMCD).

All the tracks except the MTV Unplugged ones are also available on all streaming platforms. Once again, the MTV Unplugged is a 3LP Edition exclusive.

Producer Stephen Street posted a very important tweet regarding the remastered album; so this is not just another reissue again and again:

Order your NNTA30 copy(ies) on the official links here.

And new, new merch is also available on the official shop here (more items than previously announced about 2 months ago).

These past weeks and to celebrate the anniversary, The Cranberries shared quite a few unseen footages from the archives. And now for release day, even 2 more rarities:

First, the “Ode To My Family (Iain Cook Remix)” official music video published in 4K on YouTube, crafted from never-before seen footage from the 1994 original shoot.

Secondly and still on YouTube, 55 seconds of never-before seen music video cuts of “Ridiculous Thoughts”

Launch of Seamus Flynn’s new book “Limerick Athenaeum · If Walls Could Talk” next 18 August from 2pm to 4pm at People’s Museum in Limerick.

Special guest Noel Hogan will be launching the book dedicated to the Athenaeum theatre as The Cranberries played there quite a few times in the early years of the band.

The doors of what was known in its last incarnation as the Theatre Royal have been closed since 1997 and Seamus Flynn was the former owner of the venue in its late years.

All proceeds go to Historic Houses of Ireland and Limerick Civic Trust.
More details on heritageweek.ie

Title says it all. Images from eBay. Officially out tomorrow!

Fergal talks to Jonathan Thornton from the website OUTSIDELEFT.
Read the interview published just a couple of days ago on outsideleft.com

Iain Cook’s remix of “Ode To My Family” drops next Friday. To celebrate, The Cranberries shared on Instagram yesterday 20 seconds of unseen footage from the music video shoot.

Still celebrating NNTA 30th Anniversary, another 45 seconds of unseen footage were shared yesterday on The Cranberries Instagram. As The Cranberries wrote, “A new perspective on a familiar intro”

Still celebrating NNTA 30th anniversary, The Cranberries shared a conversation with Fergal & Stephen Street on YouTube today.

A new bootleg LP named “Irish Dreams” was recently released. Nothing really new musically talking, see back cover photo below for tracklisting, and in the same style as the last 2 bootlegs released on vinyl a couple of years ago and without any interest (Live At The Alabamahalle, Radio Sessions 1992-1994).

Available on a few record shops, eBay, etc… it’s bootleg, there’s no store listing!

“Zombie” (piano cover) from the “Wednesday” Netflix series (Season 2, Episode 4) is now available on YouTube and most of streaming platforms since yesterday.

Still celebrating NNTA 30th Anniversary, The Cranberries shared on Instagram yesterday, 24 seconds of unseen footage from the “Zombie” music video shoot. Awesome to discover years after more details of cult moments… like never-before seen close-ups of Dolores’ golden head piece.

Noel and Mike Hogan are reuniting for the first time since Dolores O’Riordan’s death to perform some of The Cranberries most popular songs at the Electric Picnic festival in Ireland this month (29, 30 and 31). They will be joined by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and a special mystery guest.

The choice fell on “Zombie” by The Canberries (Piano cover, Season 2, Episode 4).
Read the article on radiowise.uk

Still celebrating NNTA 30th Anniversary, and just like “Zombie” a couple of days ago, The Cranberries shared on Instagram 1 minute of unseen footage from the “Ode To My Family” music video shoot. Another great rarity!

Still celebrating NNTA 30th Anniversary, The Cranberries shared on Instagram about 1 minute of unseen footage from the “Zombie” music video shoot. Great rarity!

The Instagram video was also shared on Facebook as a poor clone simply passing the Instagram link which seems to be their new way of posting stuff now… and it’s becoming a total shame! No more real posts on their website for so long, and soon no more real posts on their socials… just a quick made Instagram Stories à la TikTok and that’s it. For Fuck’s Sake!!!

Read the article on spin.com

More details published by Universal Music Japan here regarding the SHM-2CD to be released on 15 August 2025 that you can pre-order here (as already mentioned in a previous news).

EDIT: Tower Records also delivers worldwide.

Don’t pay attention to the cover as it is probably a mistake, and there likely to be an OBI as well. So the picture on UMJ is probably just for illustration purposes and should not reflect the real product.

Thanks to Stéphane for the link!

“Zombie” pressed on 7-inch vinyl pearl color, a Urban Outfitters exclusive to be released on 15 August 2025.

Side A
1. Zombie

Side B
1. Zombie (Edit)

Pre-order available only on urbanoutfitters.com
Price: $18.98

The NNTA 30th Anniversary celebrations continue with “Zombie (Iain Cook Remix)” out today, both audio & video. The music video crafted from original film scans and never-before seen footage from the 1994 shoot premiered on YouTube just a couple of hours ago!

…and to be released on 15 August 2025.
Pre-order on shopus.cranberries.com and/or digital platforms.

EDIT:

There’s also a SHM-CD Japan version available for per-order on cdjapan.co.jp
Special thanks to Yau Daniel for noticing!

The Cranberries published on YouTube a couple of days ago and on Instagram and TikTok today, a 30sec video from 1994 recording promo liners for “Zombie”

FUN!

Big news today, the wait is over!
The Cranberries have announced on their website and socials the 30th anniversary of the album “No Need To Argue” …out of the blue and something like 8 months late, but hey come on, this is our Crans, we know ’em, 8 months late is not too bad!

To celebrate, an expanded 3LP edition will be released on 27 June, next week, via Island/UMe. Watch the unboxing on YouTube. Already available for pre-order, the edition includes:

• Freshly remastered audio by original producer Stephen Street
• 2 new remixes by CHVRCHES’ Iain Cook
• Never-released live recordings from Woodstock ’94
• Unearthed “Zombie” demo
• The complete MTV Unplugged performance

Additionally a 2 LP Deluxe Edition, 2 CD Deluxe Edition, Single CD, Single LP and Digital Deluxe will be released on 15 August 2025 and available for pre-order on 27 June.

There is also new merch available on the official website.

“WE MISS AND WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU DOLORES!” … Can you spot?

Simply brilliant and a really classy thing to do. Thank you for this!

The Cranberries shared on Instagram an animated version of the cover with the famous sofa alone used for the promo cds in 1994 (Zombie & NNTA).

The 11 sec. teaser also includes the “Zombie” audio and comes with a link to sign-up to the official newsletter… and with sofa emoticons around!

Sofas everywhere these last couple of days!
Something’s coming…

The Cranberries shared on their Instagram Story only (meaning available for 24 hours) a photo of the contract (edit: a dispatch note, sorry for the mistake) when “Alf Garnett Suite” was hired for a week in July 1995.

If you have no idea what “Alf Garnett Suite” is/means, it is in fact the official name of the sofa appearing on a few photo sessions with the band. The couch is mainly known on the album covers of EEIDI and NNTA… but not exclusively. It was hired quite a few times for The Cranberries (at least 3 or 4 times) and was also used by the band Supergrass in their video for “Alright” as well as a metal band who decided to burn it in a music video. Fuckers! So unfortunately this piece of The Cranberries History no longer exists… TRAGIC!!

Possibly appearing for the first time on the British television sitcom “Till Death Us Do Part” aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975 where Alfred Edward Garnett is the main character (now you know where the name comes from), maybe this sofa and armchairs suite was not unique and a few copies made in the good old days could still exist and be around somewhere; wouldn’t it be nice! (as another famous band said)

FOR COMPLETISTS ONLY as most of these performances have been in circulation for years already!
KROQ 4th Annual Acoustic Christmas · 12 December 1993
Full 2nd night, including The Cranberries, available to download on guitars101.com

Special thanks to Sergei

The Cranberries have published a message on their socials today (Facebook, TwitterX, Instagram) regarding “Linger” being part fo the billions club!

Congrats.

Screenshot of EEIDI on Spotify today… and more than a billion streams for “Linger”

Read the article on ilovelimerick.ie

Also includes 2 recent photos of Noel:

Noel with ILL’s Richard Lynch and Jodie Lee (Noel’s niece now working for I Love Limerick)

Tourism Ireland this week celebrated the 50th anniversary of “Meitheal” (Ireland’s tourism trade event). To commemorate the milestone they released a promotional video featuring Irish archival footage from advertising campaigns over the years… and one more time including “Dreams” by The Cranberries as soundtrack. Iconic!

Watch it on YouTube

Show description: “A new podcast documentary series by The Tenth Man that takes listeners behind the scenes of some of music’s most iconic gigs. Through interviews with fans, musicians, promoters, and insiders, I Was There reconstructs the untold stories of legendary shows that changed the cultural landscape forever.”

Episode 3 (24 March 2025) dedicated to The Cranberries.

Listen on streaming platforms, links here.

Happy Birthday Ferg!

Read the article on independent.co.uk

30 years ago The Cranberries performed on Saturday Night Live! Fergal reflects…
More of Fergal’s interview to be shared by Mus’d Up on socials soon.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGfd37ShBW7/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@musdup/video/7475072007286033672
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t__plAk0sBo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reel/635450456092237

Including The Cranberries!
Read the article on consequence.net

“Dreaming My Dreams With You” a brand new 7-track album/compilation released yesterday on most streaming platforms (Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music…). Possibly something in the same style as the “Wrapped Around Your Finger” EP… and just in time for Valentine’s day (?)

Let’s wait for a possible official announcement….

Special thanks to Spuddy on Twitter/X for the info!

UPDATE · 13 FEBRUARY

It was announced on The Cranberries socials today (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
All platforms and links here.

The Cranberries have published a message on their socials today (TwitterX, Facebook, Instagram).

Dolores,

We miss your presence today
Although it’s been some seven years
Our love for you grow stronger

❤️
Forever

Photo: Alessandro Penso

More details and pre-order on interscope.com
Ships on 21 February 2025

Two minutes of the Garvey sisters belting out “When You’re Gone” by The Cranberries on “Bad Sisters” season 2 episode 5 (starts at 26:15). The video was shared last month on YouTube on the official account of Apple TV. Season 2 is now streaming on Apple TV+

Special thanks to DoloresORiordanSpain for noticing!

Another great share on dimeadozen.org today.
Please note that you have to be a member of the site to view the page and download.
A rare performance from The Cranberries recorded at Rosengarten Musensaal in Mannheim (Germany) on 7 June 1993 supporting the band Hothouse Flowers on their “Songs From The Rain Tour 93”
6 songs out of 18 were broadcast on the SWF3 radio station.

Special thanks to ElvisP for sharing this gem and Luis Hernández for noticing.

Special thanks to Cranberries Italia for sharing the first images of the book “A River Runs Through It”. Noel chose the album “Life Sparks” by Woodstar. More details about the book in the previous post here.

How about a 4K remaster release!

Title says it all. Shop directly on https://thecranberries.shopnylonmerch.com

The 7″ vinyl was shipped early (it was supposed to be shipped today) and many fans already received it this week. First images appeared on discogs and a few fansites. Special thanks to them.

• Discogs:

• John Massaro on Facebook group DOR And TC Collection:

It never stops! Hot Topic added 3 more t-shirts and 1 hoodie to their Cranberries licensed collection this month. Urban Outfitters (Europe) just added 1 t-shirt, same for Urban Outfitters (USA) but a different shirt than the one in Europe, and the BPM (Basic Pleasure Mode) store based in UK has 1 t-shirt as well. Will there be more like this each month!?

Zombie Face · T-Shirt
From S to XXXL
Price: $24.90 to $28.90 (depending on size)

Group Photo · Boyfriend T-Shirt
From S to XXXL
Price: $24.90 to $28.90 (depending on size)

Zombie · Girls Baby T-Shirt
From S to XXXL
Price: $28.90 to $32.90 (depending on size)

Group Photo · Hoodie
From S to XXXL
Price: $54.90 to $58.90 (depending on size)

1995 Tour Graphic Tee
From S to XXL
Price: $29

Paper People Basic Pleasure Mode · Navy T-Shirt
From XS to XL
Price: £34

The Cranberries Tee
From XXS to XXXL
Price: £30