29.10.08 Opening night in Belgium
'so, the night of the proms shows began in antwerp, belgium, on oct. 23 in a huge venue called the sportspaleis. 16,000 capacity which of course made me very nervous. that was on top of the nerves i was feeling cos i was singing troy from the lion and the cobra for the first time in twenty years. I had two days of rehearsals with a full orchestra and everybody, robert, the conductor, franck, the orchestrator, and jan, the producer/promotor of the proms, were all very encouraging and enthusiastic and that gave me some confidence. anyway, there should be a version of troy from the second night for you to hear on the site. I also sang dark i am yet lovely, or solomon, as i call it, from theology and nothing compares 2 U with the full orchestra. the crowd seemed to like all three and i actually really enjoyed singing them, especially troy cos its been so long and i am a different person now, obviously. another highlight of the proms for me was the fact that there were members of the harlem gospel choir performing also and i was totally amazed by their voices and by some of the solos they did. its very humbling to be singing on the same shows as them. antwerp itself has some lovely buildings and i went for a stroll around the museum of beautiful art and saw some nice work. not an awful lot to do in the city so i have been catching up on some tv documentaries as well as keeping up to date on the us elections.'

16.10.08 The Proms

Hello everyone,
I am going to be spending a fair while, over four weeks, in belgium and holland up to nearly the end of November. I am doing a thing they have every year called the proms. Its a big deal with an orchestra/big band and this year, besides myself, the guest performers are going to include the american band, live, simple minds, midge ure and a number of local artists. You can see the whole line up if you go the ticket sales site, they should have a full listing there.
I am going to be doing three songs with the orchestra - dark i am yet lovely, troy and nothing compares. i am really looking forward to it although i have to say i am quite nervous, especially about performing Troy. It's years since i have done it and my voice is not as young as it used to be! plus, my feelings are quite different now, i was probably quite angry when i used to sing it years ago. I can remember doing it at pinkpop festival in holland, just me and acoustic guitar. I think flea from the red hot chilli peppers was standing at the side of the stage, watching and listening. I believe its on youtube somewhere....anyway, i am looking forward to the proms although i am going to be missing my home and my children. There are lots of shows in antwerp, arnheim and rotterdam and when it is all finished, near the end of november, i will go back home and do nothing for a while! If any of you are at any of the shows, enjoy yourselves and gimme a big shout.
Sinead

30.05.08 Summer shows

"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"

30.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.

Ok, so last I wrote while? I was in London rehearsing for touring with my band. Talk about baptism by fire!!! The first gig we did was the evening of Sunday May 6th before a capacity crowd (4,500 they tell me) at Dublin Castle...right here in me very own home town..yikes!!!

It had been what seemed like forever since I had played a set like this with both lot's of my older songs and half of Theology mixed in. At John Reynold's ? prodding? (my long time collaborator, MD, and ex-husband) we even did "Never Get Old" and "Jump In the River" which I've never performed live before....you coulda heard me knees knocking from the stage.

I had so much fun and the crowd literally brought both smiles to me face and tears to my eyes. After the show I whispered to my manager Bruce that it felt like I had been in my kitchen for five years and then when I stepped out its door I found my self standing on stage in front of a huge crowd! I loved it and am looking forward to touring and eventually getting to every major city in the world though it will take a minute or two.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I just wrote and recorded the title song for a really cool film, a fable called 'The Water Horse' which they tell me is gonna open during this coming Christmas. I wrote and demoed it last November just before I delivered Yeshua. The actual recording was produced by Daniel Lanois and took place over the few days before the Dublin Castle show.

Daniel wanted to rent a house to use as the recording studio...so of course I opened me big mouth and volunteered my own place figuring it would let me stay closer to the kids...little did I know how much gear they had untilit seemed that half the house was full of road cases and wires snaked everywhere. It was cool though and here's a few pics we took.

This is me listening to Daniel between takes...notes neatly jotted down on my hand

Daniel trying to be me....

The production team, Dickie Chappell (seated) Tony Mangurian and Daniel Lanois

So I'm off to do pre-album release promotional stuff in Italy, Germany, and France....back home to perform on both the Late Late show and Graham Norton...before blastin' off to America for ten days which'll include small acoustic shows in LA and NY and a World Cafe live show taping in Pittsburgh.

Seems the big problem I'm facing right now is trying to explain to my wonderful three year old son why Mummy doesn't sing the 'silly songs' in her shows...bless him...he has no idea that mummy sings for no other reason than the love of it...and I wanna keep it that way as looooooooong as possible.

See ya soon....

XXX---Sinead