Date: July 3, 2010 Venue: Parco San Giuliano – Heineken Jammin' Festival Town: Venezia

[voto: 4.5]

They're back!
Back after a six years and back for the second time in Italy in few months.
Finally, I add.
I have always appreciated The Cranberries and I have always believed that, after all, they were only the support band for Dolores, frontwoman and outstanding singer. Instead, after two anonymous solo album released by the thirty-nine year-old singer, I had to change my mind. Evidently, the mixture and magic between Dolores, the Hogan brothers and Fergal Lawler is such that every single member is essential for the band.

Under the burning sun of one of this summer's hottest days, at 19.30 the four Irish musicians come on stage. The Cranberries is the second main band of the first day of the Heineken Jammin' Festival 2010.
Although they have been very recently in Italy, although they should have performed three other dates (in a few days will play in Rome, Perugia and Turin, the last two concerts have been cancelled due to Dolores' illness) and, above all, despite they have to play before giants like Aerosmith, who are not playing in Italy since many years, there are many fans for them. And those fans were right, because we enjoyed a memorable concert.

In the past I've seen tv live performances by Dolores and not always she sang well like she is able to do in the studio, but this time she sang divinely, managing to carry on stage all the energy and pathos contained in the studio albums. She interacted with the audience between songs having a high time, even suffering the hot and oppressive sky of Mestre like us in the audience.
The stage was obviously her own but, as already explained, the chemistry between the four guys (plus multi-instrumentalist Denny DeMarchi, who already worked with his brother Steve, with Alias and Dolores) made it even more energetic and magical.
All the band's career was taken into consideration with songs from all five albums plus two songs taken from the singer's solo albums.
So many are the hits that thrilled the twenty thousand people in the crowd, but euphoria reached the highest peak with the conclusive "Dreams" and especially with the classic song "Zombie" which, despite of its lyrics that tells of wars and deaths, was able to trigger a happy and entranced audience. How good not to speak English!

The Cranberries proved on stage that they're back at the top, now we only have to wait and hope that the same miracle will be recreated in the studio.. maybe for a long time. 

Setlist:

01. Analyse
02. Animal Instinct
03. How
04. Ordinary Day
05. Linger
06. Wanted
07. Just My Imagination
08. When You're Gone
09. Switch Off The Moment
10. Desperate Andy
11. Time Is Ticking Out
12. I Can't Be With You
13. Ode To My Family
14. Free To Decide
15. Salvation
16. Ridiculous Thoughts
17. Zombie
ENCORE
18. Shattered
19. Still Can't…
20. Dreams