Noel Hogan on the mixed blessing of his first major project since The Cranberries
Noel Hogan of The Cranberries.
The 2020 Grammy Awards were hugely bittersweet for The Cranberries’ Noel Hogan. The Limerick indie icons had been nominated for In The End, the farewell album completed by guitarist Hogan and his bandmates following the sudden death two years previously of frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan.
To walk down the red carpet and pose for photographers without their charismatic singer was obviously strange and tinged with sadness. However, there was a comfort in having O’Riordan’s swansong and theirs’ acknowledged publicly. A big jumble of emotions came rushing in as they sat through the ceremony (in which they ultimately lost in the Best Rock Album category to Cage the Elephant).
