"Something Beautiful " 'Theology' is
a double album presenting the songs in both stripped down
('Dublin Sessions') and full band ('London Sessions') form.
The acoustic disc was produced by noted trad guitarist Steve
Cooney with Sinead, the electric disc was produced
by London based producer RonTom. As the world
at large deals with the uncertainties and tribulations
of this still new Twenty – first century, 'Theology'
seeks not to offer immediate answers or a universal panacea;
but instead provokes timely and thoughtful questions from
an artist who is still pushing herself and inviting her
audience to come with her. Sinead says: " 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."
"If You Had A Vineyard"
"This is a protest song I guess, but it's more of an anti
war song. I have always been fascinated with how the books of the
prophets relate to things nowadays even though they were written
hundreds or thousands of years ago.
I read Isaiah and took the lines from it that I liked and adapted
them so they rhymed. My desire was not to use anything that perpetuated
the myth of a God character being angry and aggressive.
I suppose I observe a lot of violence done in the name of theologies
of various religions, but when you study the actual texts of those
religions you find that they don't back up anyone who might use
them to justify war or violence or anything really which is unloving
of people.