22.12.09
Listen to a live show from Basel, Switzerland online
here is a live show as a little christmas present:
2007-11-14 - Basel, Switzerland
01 - The emperor's new clothes (5:14)
02 - I am stretched on your grave (4:40)
03 - You made me the thief of your heart (5:15)
04 - The lambs' book of life (4:54)
05 - Never get old (5:14)
06 - Dark I am yet lonely (4:16)
07 - Something beautiful (6:23)
08 - If you had a vineyard (6:37)
09 - Nothing compares to you (5:25)
10 - Thank you for hearing me (5:39)
11 - In this heart - band intro (4:04)
12 - This is the last day of our acquaintance (4:56)
02.12.09
New version of "This Is To Mother You" with Sinéad and Mary J. Blige
You can listen to the song at Sinéad's Myspace.
Renowned recording artists SINEAD O’CONNOR and MARY J. BLIGE have joined forces for a remake of O’Connor’s 1996 song,
‘This is To Mother You’ as a part of the Girls Are Not For Sale campaign to bring awareness to the issues of child sex
trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of American girls. The song’s proceeds will benefit GEMS: Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, the nation's largest non-profit organization designed to empower American girls and young women, ages 12-21, who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.
“I am moved by the really important work that GEMS is doing,” says O’Connor, who has consistently used her voice to advocate against injustices impacting children. “I was delighted to contribute my song to the campaign if it can help and inspire women and children to feel safe.” O’Connor recorded at Dublin’s legendary Windmill Lane Studios (also dubbed ‘the U2 Studio’) this summer.
Mary J. Blige, who was invited to participate by O’Connor, recorded at Germano Studios in New York City alongside newcomer and GEMS member MARTHA B. “When I read the lyrics to ‘This is to Mother You’ I really fell in love with the song,” says Blige, who like most Americans was unaware of the prevalence of child sex trafficking stateside until her introduction to GEMS. “It describes how I feel about my work and how so many fans view me – as a mentor and a mother figure. It has always been my dream to be able to encourage women and let them know that if I can make it, they can make it too despite any physical and emotional abuses they may endure.”
“This Is to Mother You” will be available for purchase online at major retailers and at http://gems-girls.org in December 2009.
25.08.09
Fake Twitter account
sinead is not on twitter and the content posted on the so called sinead o'connor twitter profile is not approved or authorised as content by her.
24.08.09
Troy live at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, August 16th 2009
21.08.09
Message from Sinéad
hi, sinead here. i've been silent for a while so i thought i
should let you know whats been going on and what i think i will be
doing over the next while. some of you probably know i have been
doing a small number of acoustic shows during the summer. like
last year, i have been playing with steve cooney (gtrs) and kieran
kiely (gtr, kybds, whistle, flute) and we have really really enjoyed
ourselves. some of the venues have been really beautiful and this
weekend just gone (aug 15/16/17) i was in holland, firstly, for the
pinkpop classic gathering, followed by a show in the paradiso in
amsterdam. next night we were in antwerp at a beautiful open air
arena in a park in the suburbs and it was a kind of magical evening.
for a change, i did a solo version of the old song 'troy', with me
playing electric guitar, in amsterdam and antwerp and it seemed to go
down well. funny thing is that troy was the first ever hit that i
had when it was released as a single in holland in, i think, 1987.
as far as i remember it got to no 3 in the charts at the time which
was amazing cos the song was about six minutes long. the song
always seemed to have a special connection with the netherlands and
certainly in amsterdam and also in belgium the following night the
audiences reacted really well when i played it.
there is just one more show to do and that is in grief en see in
switzerland on sept. 4. in some ways i will be sorry but i also
want to spend plenty of time with my children, like i did during the
summer, cos they will be starting back at school in early september.
i did a vocal last week in a studio in dublin for a re recording of
my song this is to mother you. the idea came up cos i was
approached by the gems charity organisation in new york which
concentrates on helping and supporting young girls in nth america who
have become the victims of child trafficking, especially for sexual
purposes. gems helps to rescue the girls, provides safe homes for
them, arranges counselling to help them take control of their
traumatic experiences and helps them with education and training
opportunities. it also provides programmes to enable law
enforcement people to reach a greater understanding of the victims of
child trafficking. anyway, the gems people thought this is to
mother you would be a particularly appropriate song to musically
spearhead a campaign to raise awareness, and funds, for their
work. they were also interested in two other vocalists being on
the track so we suggested mary j blige and santigold as collaborators
and, thankfully, both were really enthusiastic and will be doing
their vocals in new york in the next couple of weeks. the new
version of the song is produced by doc mckinney and ali shaheed from
tribe called quest. i think it sounds great. keep an eye out
for news about when it will be available for download.
what else; i have been writing and co writing and demoing new songs
and i am really anxious to get on with making the next record. a
few people have heard some of the demos and seem to be very excited
about them, maybe in the next couple of months we might make two or
three of them available for streaming on the site. anyway, i am
hoping the record will be made and mixed by the end of this year, at
the latest, and that way we will be able to get it out on sale,
download and physical, sometime in spring of 2010. and who knows,
at that time and afterwards, i might be out on tour with a full band
doing electric and acoustic stuff.
i am also going through some recordings from the live sets i have
been doing during the summer and i will probably have a couple of
those things up on the website for streaming and/or download over the
next couple of weeks. i know everybody likes to hear 'extra' bits
and pieces so i am going to try to have stuff flowing through the
site over the next while.
once again, thank you all for your support and interest in what i do,
i enjoyed all the shows during the summer, i am excited to be on the
verge of recording new material and i just hope that everybody will
like it. look after yourselves.
07.07.09 ActionAid's
6 Degrees Project
Exciting news! I've contributed to a new track out
on the 8th July and it's FREE!
As part of ActionAid's
6 Degrees Project. I, along with Roisin Murphy, thecocknbullkid,
Micachu, Alessi's Ark and producer Amanda Ghost recorded
vocals for a cover of Chaka Khan's I'm Every Woman. The
project is helping to raise awareness and support all of
the great work ActionAid does to help women living in extreme
poverty around the world. Don't forget to show your support
and
download
the track here.
17.05.09 'The Meaning Of Life'
programme with Gay Byrne
On Sunday the 17th May, 'The Meaning of Life' airs at 10.20pm
on Irish national TV channel RTE1. In this new series of
one to one interviews Gay Byrne talks to public figures
about these questions and others. Like him, none of them
is a religious expert, but all of them have, at times,
had cause to think about The Meaning of Life.
Sinead O'Connor has spoken to Gay many times during
the course of her career and the trust and fondness that
exists between the two of them is instantly clear, as
she discusses her ideas about God and the part they play
in her artistic work.
30.04.09 Pop
Matters review of IDNWWIHG (Limited Edition)
PopMatters rates Sinead O'Connor's I Do Not Want What I Haven't
Got (Limited Edition) a 9 out of 10 in a feature review,
calling the album "nearly perfect, and overflowing with
determined beauty, one of the best recordings of the 1990s." Read
here
30.04.09 LA Times feature
I Do Not Want What I
Haven't Got (Limited Edition) featured in Los Angeles
Times as the exclusive subject of Robert Hilburn's monthly
'Backtracking' column on Tue April 28th.
Click
here to view jpg
of article / Online version
"These additional tracks further underscore why
anyone touched by the tenderness of 'I Do Not Want'
should catch up with some of O'Connor's other releases.
She is high on the short list of great artists of the
rock era - and there is at least a touch of greatness
on every album she has made. Nowhere, however, is her
talent more evident than on 'I Do Not Want'."
08.02.09 I
Do Not Want What I Haven't Got re-release
IN 2009 there will be a re-release of "I
Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" including a few
special tracks that are hard to find or unreleased. Read
more here
23.01.08 A
New Years Message
Hi everyone, Sinead here, well into 2009 but wishing you all a very happy, healthy,
fulfilling and so on new year. It seems to be hard times everywhere these days
so hopefully all of you can find some way to survive, make money, feed your children,
heat your homes and have a minute to enjoy life. I suppose it is time to look
at the things that are free in life like walking by the sea or in the woods,
hanging out with friends chit chatting, going to the local park to play with
your kids or your mates, go for a run or a brisk walk, listen to music, go to
the library and get some books to read. Its all good for the mind and the spirit
and its all basically free. When things get better which they probably will eventually
there will be plenty of time to go back to buying things outside of the necessaries
like food and clothes and so on. in the meantime, look for the free things in
life and start thinking about exchanging stuff with friends like books, music,
clothes you dont want.
I had a great holiday season, full of family life and love, presents for the
children, christmas dinner and lots of flopping around on the sofas playing games
of cards and so on. It was great and very relaxing with no stress. After i finished
the Proms in late November in Rotterdam, i was just glad to get home because
i had been away for quite a long time. I enjoyed singing at the proms, especially
with the orchestra, but honestly it is not something i would do again because
it kept me away too much from my home and my children.
This year i am concentrating on writing new songs on my own, co writing with
some other people and demoing the songs before going in to record them 'properly'.
I am really excited about how its going; its going to be a guitar based electric
kind of record, I think. mostly songs about love, in some way or another. I have
been doing some writing and demoing with Marco Pironni (ex adam and the ants)
and chris constantinou who plays bass. I have known Marco for years, he played
on various songs in the past, including Mandinka and Jump in the River, and I
feel very comfortable working with him and Chris. I have also come up with some
songs of my own and now i have to work on getting my voice really into shape
so I can make the record I want to make. I suppose it is going to be early next
year before it gets a physical release but, in the meantime sometime later this
year, I will start making some of the stuff available through the website or
somewhere appropriate.
EMI is going to release a deluxe package of 'I do not want what i have not got'
sometime probably around the end of April. It is supposed to mark the 20th anniversary
of the record and 'Nothing Compares to You' even though it is really only (only!)
19 years since it came out but really who cares. There will be an extra cd of
some unreleased tracks and b sides and hard to find mixes on so on; John Reynolds
is the one who has compiled all that stuff and my manager Fachtna is just talking
to me now about what things I might do around the record release. Its kind of
funny for me in some ways because a lot of what happened at that time is completely
gone from my memory for some reason; I know that when 'nothing compares' really
took off it was a kind of a crazy time and I was whizzing here, there and everywhere,
doing TV shows, endless interviews, etc. I am sure I was really overwhelmed by
the whole thing even if i didnt really realise it at the time. So, if I do some
interviews around this re release I am going to have a hard time when they start
asking me how it was!
I am also looking to do some shows this year, although not too many. I think
they will be acoustic shows with just myself, Steve cooney and Kieran Kiely,
like last years shows. I want to do live performances because of course I love
to play and sing live and also it is good to feel the audience reactions. but,
I have to say, my priority this year is to write and record and get stuff down
so we can have an album to release early in 2010. if I can do that and be proud
of the content, as well as enjoying the live shows, then I will believe that
creatively i will have had a good 2009.
There is nothing else really at the moment; keep an eye out here for more info
and some exclusives, I hope, that can maybe keep you musically satisfied for
a while. There are some interesting ideas about collaborations and individual
projects that are being floated around at the moment so once we make decisions
on those things I will let you all know. til then, be safe, be happy, be inventive.
Much love to everyone, Sinead.
12.12.08 Baby,
Can I buy you a Drink'
Sinéad singing 'Baby, Can I buy you
a Drink' on RTÉ's Late Late Show with a band made
up of Liam Ó Maonlaí, Steve Cooney (producer
of the song), Alex Nkosi (from Malawi), Mutale (from Zambia), Ódhrán Ó Cadaide,
Conor Murray, Tommy Moran (co-writer of the song) and Éamonn
Coyne. The song was co-written by journalist John Waters
and is from the CD 'Wells for Zoë - Water for Life'. More
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.' Read the rest of Sinead's message here
"Troy" performed live at Night Of The Proms on
Oct 24th 2008 in the Sportspaleis Antwerp, Belgium.
29.10.08 Sinead
O'Connor Live At The Sugar Club CD & DVD ( Pre-Order
here )
Rubyworks is pleased to announce the release of Sinead
O'Connor - "Theology - Live At The Sugar Club" in
a deluxe CD+DVD package. This is a once only pressing of
just 2,000 copies worldwide, and is exclusively available
through www.sineadoconnor.com. The CD and DVD will be presented
in a lavish hardback outer case with a foil-blocked Theology
logo. The booklet will include photographs from The Sugar
Club concert in Dublin on 8th November 2006, as well as additional
portraits of Sinead by Kevin Abosch, Amelia Troubridge and
Thomas Canet. The album and DVD document the live debut of
many of the songs featured on Theology, recorded in the intimate
environs of The Sugar Club, in front of an invited audience
of Sinead fans from around the world; and featuring Sinead
and a stellar band of Irish musicians specially assembled
for the evening. The DVD also includes an extended interview
with Sinead. The album and DVD will ship worldwide week commencing
December 8th 2008, and is available to order now for $30.00
(€23.50) including postage and packing from the shop
here.
CD & DVD (NTSC – Region 0) Tracklisting - Something
Beautiful, Out Of The Depths, If You Had A Vineyard, The
Glory Of Jah, Whomsover Dwells, I Don't Know How To Love
Him, We People Who Are Darker Than Blue, 33, Rivers Of Babylon
04.10.08 Sinead plays the proms
Sinéad will be participating at this year’s shows
of Night of the Proms (www.notp.com)
in Antwerp, Belgium and in Rotterdam and Arnhem, Holland. Click here for Live dates
30.05.08 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"
19.02.08 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.
