The Cranberries: the historic “Live At The London Astoria, II 1994” is released for the first time in audio format

The Cranberries bring back to light one of the most significant concerts of their early career with the release, for the first time in audio format, of “Live At The London Astoria, II 1994”. The historic live show, already available for years on Dvd thanks to the restored original footage, will now also arrive on cd and in a double-vinyl box set with fully remastered audio.
Recorded on 14 January 1994 at the Astoria II in London, the concert captures the Irish band in the midst of the tour supporting “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?”, the 1993 debut album that established Dolores O’Riordan's group on the international scene.

The setlist documents a crucial moment in the Cranberries' history. Alongside tracks that would go on to become major classics, such as “Linger” and “Dreams”, the quartet also performs a handful of songs still being worked out live, destined to appear on the following year's “No Need To Argue”. Among them stands out “Zombie”, the famous song inspired by the civilian victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland, destined to become one of the band's defining anthems. The concert also features live versions of “Daffodil Lament”, “Ridiculous Thoughts” and “Dreaming My Dreams”.

In recent years the Cranberries' catalogue has been the subject of numerous celebratory reissues. “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” has returned to shops in various special editions, including the Vinylphyle version, while the band's first EP, “Uncertain”, originally released in 1991, has recently been remastered and reissued in a limited edition to mark its 35th anniversary.
In 2025 the band also received the Icon Award at the Rolling Stone UK Awards, a prize given to artists who have left a lasting mark on the history of music. Accepting the award, bassist Mike Hogan recalled the legacy of Dolores O’Riordan, who died in 2018: "Dolores has been gone for almost eight years now", so the fact that our songs have lasted this long is a testament to that. When we were kids starting out in Limerick, we never imagined our music would still be alive 37 years later.

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