"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.