Brilio.net/en - The 90s Irish band The Cranberries are preparing their comeback on stage for the first time in four years. They hadnt performed since their last album Roses in late 2012 that brought with a big world tour. For the comeback they picked Lublin in Poland for a show this week, and they had been rehearsing in the Irish Chamber Orchestras building in UL. A local photographer and digital media artist Ken Coleman who has worked with a number of bands captured them in full flow.
They knew Ken through the songwriter and guitarist Noel Hogan from the Pigtown Fling project, which formed a central part of City of Culture in 2014. Noel asked me if I would be interested in doing a couple of shots of the lads, because they were trying to get together for the tour, said Ken.
Ken has collaborated with local bands on similar projects and is also working with an American death metal band. But he said it was a nice step up to work with an act of the profile of The Cranberries, who have sold an estimated 40 million albums worldwide.
They are all in different places at different times, so we had a very small window of opportunity to get it done on a Sunday evening, Ken described the situation from the shooting. We knocked it out in about an hour and a half; green screen, live video, and the stills from that last practice before they packed up.
For the band Ken took a stylised poster image and snippet of promo video of the group for the upcoming tour with 10 dates The Cranberries will play before the end of September in Europe and the US. There was no real brief, I just went at it as I usually do, my own kind of style, and they were happy with the first draft I gave them, he added.
The 35-year old UL interactive media graduate from Lisnagry said the four band mates were relaxed and happy in each others company when he shot them, on photograph and video, which has since been released online. I got a couple of shots of them and the video and you can see at the very end that they are having a good chat, they were laughing and joking amongst themselves, he said.
For my own personal thing and from a career point of view, it is good, because I have been working on this now professionally for ten years, pretty much to the month, Ken admitted. He is preparing to unveil a new digital art piece as the curators choice for June in the Hunt Museum. "What is exciting is the international reaction - the video had 300,000 hits in a day, the Instagram had 48,000 likes, he added.
Despite coming from Limerick, they will not play in their hometown. They have only done so once in almost 20 years when performing three songs at the Special Olympics opening ceremony in Thomond Park in 2010. They are trying to rectify that and bring the band home for a show but nothing has been finalized, as Leader reported.
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