Numerous bouquets of flowers made their way from audience to stage Thursday night in Baltimore as the Cranberries played their first U.S. concert in more than six years—accepted by beaming frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan, who sported the same boyishly cropped hair that fans remember from the band’s mid-’90s peak, and the same spunk.

As she chased back and forth across the stage — punting out joyful “woo”s, kicking off her boots and tossing them backstage, gushing about her children — the feeling was of returning to a roomful of old friends; the sold-out hall, Rams Head Live, was filled with everyone from business-casual men to young hipsters, all responding with the same feverish excitement you might see at a U2 concert.

The reunited Irish band gave a 90-minute show spanning all of their hits, for better (”Zombie”) and for worse (”Free To Decide”), with some interesting surprises in between.

A few of the latter included an O’Riordan solo number (the recent “Lunatic”), which couldn’t quite hold the energy of the room; the marvelously oddball doo-wop “When You’re Gone”; the simple lament “Can’t Be With You,” with its warbling vocal bridge; and “How,” a dark, powerful, and unlikely set opener equal parts race and dirge.

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