Manchester band Pale Waves recently shared a cover of The Cranberries' classic "Zombie" to streaming services.
"We love The Cranberries and I admire Dolores [O'Riordan] so deeply," Pale Waves' Heather Baron-Gracie said. "There's no-one like Dolores and this song is so powerful. It's an honour."
Pale waves performed their version of "Zombie" at the Reading & Leeds Festivals this summer. Explaining their decision to cover the song, Heather said, "I feel like there's so many generations that love that song - it's undeniable. It really appealed to most of the people in the tent at Reading and was by far the best moment in the set."
The cover version sees Baron-Gracie perfectly capture the powerful message behind the "Zombie" track originally released in 1994.
Irish singer-songwriter O'Riordan wrote the song in response to the death of two children - aged 3 and 12 - in an IRA bombing in Warrington in 1993.
O'Riordan, who said she was left "devastated" after hearing the news, told Vox Magazine at the time that she was offended that those responsible for the bombs claimed to have done so in the name of Ireland.
"The IRA are not me. I'm not the IRA," she told the outlet in 1994. "The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. When it says in the song, 'It's not me, it's not my family,' that's what I'm saying. It's not Ireland, it's some idiots living in the past."
"Zombie," which was released in September 1994, topped the charts in France, Germany and Australia, and reached No. 1 on the U.S. alternative rock charts as well.
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