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 |