May 30th 2008
/ Message
from Sinead
"Hello
Everyone, Here
are my summer shows. I'll be joined onstage
by guitarist Steve Cooney who
played on and co-produced the
'Theology' Dublin Sessions
disc; together with multi-instrumentalist
Kieran Kiely from my 2007 touring
band on keyboards, accordion,
whistles and guitar. Hope to
see you somewhere along the
road. Sx"
Feb 19th / 08 - Sinéad & Republic
Of Loose
Sinéad has collaborated
with Irish based funk rock band
Republic Of Loose on a new version
of Curtis Mayfield's 'We People
(Who Are Darker Than Blue)'. Both
artistes were invited by the
organisers of Ireland's annual
Meteor music awards to perform
together, and decided on 'We People'.
Watch the video here.
As timely in Ireland
in 2008 as it was in Chicago in
1970, this heartfelt plea to respect
cultural diversity still rings
true today.
Such is the interest from fans
and Irish media that the track
is being released as a download
single, to be available
exclusively from iTunes
Ireland from
Sunday 10th February, and on other
digital stores from February 17th.
Sinéad will perform 'We
People' with Republic Of Loose
and the Dublin-based Discovery
Gospel Choir live at the Meteors
at the RDS Dublin on Friday 15th
February, the performance will
be broadcast on RTE TV 2 on Saturday
16th February.
December
6th /
2007 'The
Water Horse' soundtrack now available
The theme
song "Back Where You Belong' from
the Revolution Studios/Sony Pictures
movie 'The Water Horse' was written
and performed by Sinéad and
produced by Daniel Lanois.
Soundtrack available now from
Amazon.
Visit the 'The Water Horse' website here.
Visit the 'video blog' here.
Listen to the song here
November 30 / 2007
Sinéad nominated in 2008 Meteor
Ireland Music Awards
Sinéad has
been nominated in the Best Irish Female
category for Ireland's celebrated Meteor
Awards. The ceremony will be held in Dublin's
RDS on Friday 15th February. The voting
is open to the public, and votes can be
cast in the following ways:
Text VOTE to + 353
(0)85 7114444 to receive
a list of keywords and categories, then
choose who you want to win. Voting is open
to all Irish mobile networks and will be
charged standard text rates.
Online voting will be available on www.meteor.ie and
everyone who votes will be automatically
entered into a competition to win tickets
to the 2008 Meteor Awards.
You know what to do...
November 13
/ 2007 Sinéad O'Connor, Royal Festival Hall,
london
Gospel truth from an unpredictable
and inventive performer. Read here
By Elisa Bray / The Independent (UK)
October
23 / 2007 Sinéad O'Connor
shows Orpheum crowd nothing compares to her
By Sarah Rodman, The Boston Globe
Photo by Robert E. Klein
Sinéad O'Connor may have kept her eyes on
the stage floor for much of last night's performance
at the Orpheum Theatre due to stage fright,
but her voice remains unafraid.
Twenty years into an unusual but never boring
career, the Irish chanteuse remains possessed
of an uncommon power and spirit that has not
been diminished by the crises, both public
and private, that she has endured and sometimes
created.
Over the course of a consistent 90-minute
show, backed by a four piece band on an unadorned
stage, she let her agony, ecstasy, fear, and
faith filter through music that went from whisper
quiet to storm-force howls.
The sound mix was not her friend at the start
- especially the tamped down drums - but the
fire of opener "The Emperor's New Clothes" was
enough to ignite the audience, as was the wheeling
and winding fiddle of its follow-up, "I
Am Stretched on Your Grave."
Although O'Connor claimed fear kept her gaze
downward, her stage presence did not suffer.
She chatted about becoming addicted to television
preachers during a brief time living in Atlanta
prior to the Celtic-reggae hybrid "Lamb's
Book of Life." And she mused about doing
interviews with the Christian press for her
new album "Theology" and the fact
that a small percentage of the interviewers
would take issue with her suggestion that "God
perhaps doesn't want war."
As a rebuttal she offered up "If You
Had a Vineyard," with its direct quotations
from Isaiah and lush backing vocals, which
pulled the listener along as if caught up in
a current.
While "Theology" draws inspiration
from scripture, a well O'Connor has tapped
since her debut album, "The Lion and the
Cobra," it was not the ecclesiastical
that produced the night's most rapturous moment.
That occurred when O'Connor stood at the microphone
and lifted her voice for "In This Heart." As
she was joined in harmony one by one by her
bassist, fiddler, and guitarist, the intertwined
notes pulled a little bit of heaven onto the
stage and easily survived a momentary lapse
of lyrical memory.
On recent tours, O'Connor shunned her earlier
work, but she has embraced it again wholeheartedly.
She reached back to "Lion" for the
quietly majestic vocal showcase "Never
Get Old" and offered six songs from her
best-selling 1990 album "I Do Not Want
What I Haven't Got," including her hit
Prince cover, "Nothing Compares 2 U," and
the melancholy yet raucous "The Last Day
of Our Acquaintance."
11th
Oct 07 / Sinéad on Oprah
Sinéad made a special guest appearance on The
Oprah Winfrey Show on Thursday 4th October
(USA transmission). Oprah sought Sinead out
to to help her address bipolar disorder with
the hope that they will be able to enlighten
and help millions of viewers worldwide who
might be suffering, undiagnosed, from the
debilitating effects of this condition which
Sinead herself has experienced.
Oprah focused on Sinead as an
artist, her balancing life outside career as
mother of four, her newest album Theology',
her role as an advocate, and how she has maintains
this all while dealing with bipolar disorder.
Oprah filmed Sinead at home in Ireland,
and then had Sinead join her and her audience
live at Oprah's television studio in Chicago.
Visit the story on Oprah.com
View Sinead's
recent Blog
Click
here to enter
competition for Sinead's Boston show on Oct
22, 2007
Theology
is released on double CD and download on Friday
22nd June in the Republic Of Ireland and Monday
25th June in the UK. The album features eight new
O'Connor compositions, plus covers of songs by
Curtis Mayfield and Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber,
as well as a version of the spiritual 'Rivers Of
Babylon' with new words by Sinead. The songs were
recorded in sessions in Dublin (acoustic) and London
(full electric band). The album is produced by
Sinead O'Connor, Steve Cooney and Ron Tom. Click
here to view the USA Theology ecard
Reviews
"As usual, O'Connor demands our attention…impassioned…glowing…she's
still as relevant as she is colorful." (USA Today)
"Theology is the best record Sinead O'Connor
has made for years."
(The Sunday Independent)
"An exquisitely pure joy. 9/10." (Hot
Press)
Twenty years after the release of her culturally-transformative
debut solo album, "The Lion and The Cobra," the
uncompromising musical artist Sinead O'Connor is
releasing 'Theology', a new double-CD collection
of vital emotionally-charged songs.
'Theology' premieres eight new songs written,
or cowritten, by Sinead O'Connor: "Something
Beautiful," "Out of the Depths," "33," "Dark
I Am Yet Lovely," "If You Had A Vineyard," "The
Glory of Jah," "Watcher of Men," and "Whomsoever
Dwells" as well as three thematically-appropriate
covers: Curtis Mayfield's soul-searching "We
People Who Are Darker Than Blue," a ferocious
interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "I
Don't Know How To Love" (from "Jesus
Christ Superstar"), and the traditional reggae
spiritual "Rivers of Babylon" with new
lyrics written by Sinead.
" Theology is an attempt to create a
place of peace in a time of war," said
Sinead. "It is my own personal response
to what has taken and is affecting everyone around
the world since and including September 11, 2001.
I want to be very clear - there is no message.
No preaching. Nothing deep and meaningful the
artist wants to say, nothing trouble making.
I simply wanted to make a beautiful thing, out
of something beautiful, which inspires me."
24th Sept
07/ Water Horse crew....
(L-R) Director Jay Russell, theme song producer Daniel
Lanois, Sinead O'Connor, music supervisor Denise
Luiso and her partner famed rock guitarist Tom Morello
backstage after her performance at Los Angeles' Orpheum
Theater where she premiered the theme song from the
Water Horse which se composed and recorded for the
film which is to be released this Christmas.
14th August 07 / Illegal Attacks
Sinead O’Connor guests on the new Ian Brown
single “Illegal Attacks”, due for release
on Fiction / Universal on September 17th. A passionate
anti – war song with a clear message – “Soldiers
come home”. Brown duets with Sinead on the
track, one of her two appearances on his new album – “The
World Is Yours”, due for release September
24th.
“Illegal Attacks” and the other collaboration “Some
Folks Are Hollow” were recorded at Dublin’s
Windmill Lane studios. To hear a snippet of “Illegal
Attacks”, go to myspace.com/ianbrown
3oth
May 07(A
new message from Sinead)
Hi everybody....sorry I've been off radar, but the
past few weeks have been wild, wild, and wild.
Now that I can catch my breath...I'll fill ya
in. Click here to view
30th April 07 Rehearsals (A message from Sinead)
Hiya all....I'm here in London
rehearsing with my kick ass band for a whole bunch
of touring....this band is awesome... made up of
some past band members and exciting new ones. John
Reynolds on drums, Clare Kenny on electric cello,
Caroline Dale on bass, Kieran Kiely on keyboards,
accordian, etc and Kevin Armstrong on guitars along
with me. It's totally exciting to be lookin' at
touring the world with such a killer band and doing
many of my favourite songs along with ones from
my new album Theology. It's a bit overwhelming
lookin' at the year ahead with the things I have
to deal with like mountains of press interviews,
promotional stuff, rehearsals and gigs....balancing
it all with being a good mum to my four wonderful
kids tis no easy task...but on we go....
I'm performing at Dublin Castle on May 6th, and got
some butterflies a flappin' around in the ol' stomach
since it'll be my first gig with the band and this
set in eons...they all keep sayin' how good it sounds,
so I'll just trust them instead of my own self.
The
rest of May is Sinead interview season...then I
am off to the States to continue blabbing to the
press...I'll be playin' two intimate acoustic shows,
me and another guitarist named Bill Shanley (Dublin
lad) in Los Angeles and New York. I'm sure there'll
be some tv and radio stuff there too....and I'm
hopin' to visit my buddy David Letterman and give
him and his viewers a fine taste from Theology...
one of my most favorite songs"Something Beautiful".
I am actually thrilled that there is so much interest
in the album...this one means a lot to me. Well...stay
tuned and thanks for visiting...best get my bottom
back into rehearsal...byeeeeee
20th April.07 New Sinéad O'Connor Single
'I
Don't Know How To Love Him' is
available
to download now from iTunes in
Ireland and the UK or
from TuneTribe
& www.three.ie.
Composer
Tim Rice (with Andrew Lloyd Webber) says this about
Sinead's version of this classic song: "It's
good, more than good, to have 'I Don't Know How
To Love Him' recorded by an important contemporary
singer almost four decades after it was written.
Sinéad
O'Connor's wonderful voice enabled me to find new
things in a song that has been part of my life
since 1970. She always gets into the heart of what
she sings, whether her own work or that of others.
I'm delighted to be one of the others on this occasion".
14th March.07 A personal message from Sinead
Hello
everyone…
I’m just getting back to abnormal now after having
my baby Yeshua in December. I’m still slightly
fat but my boyfriend says he likes my "curves"...
so that’s ok... unless he's just being nice...
I'm getting ready now for my album Theology to come out on June 22nd.
Doing photos and such... putting a band together for touring... this starts with
a Dublin show on May 6th.
I'm very excited about working
again as I really haven't worked at all since
the end of May last year as I was pregnant.
I did do three shows in Italy in
July... but that didn't seem like work. So I've
been out of my mind with boredom hangin' round
the house for a year so I really can't wait to
get going.
I just had my fortieth birthday in December
too.. so I'm an old hag now.. but I can still party on the crew bus with
the best of them..so.. I'll see u all at the shows and
I hope u all like Theology.
I made it a double record because
I noticed at shows the audience liked it when I
did some stuff just me and acoustic guitar so Theology
has one side which is just acoustic guitar and
voice for the hardcore fans and the other
side is a full on stadium hip hop feel, with loads
of classical strings and loads of distortion on
the guitars.. which reminds me.. I went to see
Stiff Little Fingers the other night.. they
were evilly brilliant.. Their singer also plays guitar and he has a serious
distortion set up.. he's an incredible player.. he made me wanna get my fuzzbox
out.. an’ deafen my kids.. so I’m off
to do that now.. see u all in the summer. Have
a listen to both versions of ‘33’ from
Theology here…
