| News | Welcome to the News area of Sinéad O'Connor. This is the heart of the unofficial web site. From here, you will find confirmed and non-confirmed news from various sources by Sinéad's admirers, internet, newspaper, press, and other sources. |
What's new here:
- Added lyrics from TDYA [18:00 19.11.'05]
- Photos from Berlin concert, 14th nov. 2005 [15:00 18.11.2005]
- Concert from Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany, 31th january 2003 in section downloads (20:20) [12.11.2005]
- All tours date in section Tour (20:20) [9.10.2005]
- 1999-07-23: lakewood amphitheater - atlanta, georgia (lilith fair) - what doesn't belong to me (5:20) [24.07.2005]
- New CD here [22.07.2005]
- download new wallpapers part. 2 here [22.07.2005]
- download Nothing Compares 2 U (from Zdenka Predna - Slovakia) here
- download My Lagan Love (Angel Alanis C pen remix) here
- link for Mochino's web site not function
:: This Is A Rebel Collection
- New bootleg album in download section [10/02/05]
AIC from Santiago de Chile, 13th october 1990
- added new pictures from Florence and another [10/02/05]
- updated songs list [6/07/04] download
- all part from cac deleted [5/02/05]
Jim Fitzpatrick: Strange Days, 2003, oil on canvas,122 by 183cm; image held here Florence Paquot: Sinead came back 2005, France, 15th February 2005, pencil, 23x28cm |
Meteor Award nominations announced
[www.rte.ie 23 Nov 2005] 15 Dec 2005, 18:30
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17 Meteor Ireland Music Awards will be presented in February, with public voting in six categories - Best Irish DJ, Best Irish Band, Best Irish Male, Best Irish Female, Best Irish Pop Act, Best Live Performance - and RTÉ 2fm listeners choosing who wins the Hope for 2006 award.
Mary Black, Gemma Hayes, Róisín Murphy, Sinéad O'Connor, Sharon Shannon and Claire Sproule make up the Best Irish Female award shortlist.
The awards, hosted by comedian Patrick Kielty, will take place on Thursday 2 February 2006 and will be broadcast on RTÉ Two at 9pm on Sunday 5 February.
Vote here 
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Sinéad's set list from London
19th November 2005, 09:04
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The set list from Lonfdon gig [8th Nov 2005]:
01. Jah Nuh Dead
02. Marcus Garvey
03. Move out of Babylon
04. He Prayed
05. Y Mas Gan
06. Door Peep
07. Abendigo
08. Curly Locks
09. Prophet Has Arise
10. Throw Down Your Arms
11. Vampire
12. Untold Stories
13. Rivers Of Babylon
14. War
15. Downpressor Man
16. None A Jah Jah Children
Encore:
17. Run Comes (Throw Away Your Stony Heart)
18. Keep Cool Babylon
19. Stepping Razor
20. Creation 
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Sinéad's new album 2007
9th October 2005, 20:30
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Sinéad is reportedly working on a new album titled Theology, a "collection of spiritual songs" due out in 2007
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Sinéad Official Website
25th August 2005, 20:30
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Sinéad Concert Tour 2005
go in Tour section
18th August 2005, 08:00
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03/november/2005 - IRL, Dublin, Helix Mahony Hall - info ticket
06/november/2005 - UK, Glasgow, Barrowland - info
08/november/2005 - UK, London, Sheperds Bush Empire - info
09/november/2005 - UK, Manchester, Manchester Academy - info
10/november/2005 - Uk, Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall - 19:00 - info ticket
12/november/2005 - F, Paris, The Olympia
14/november/2005 - D, Berlin, Tempodrom - 20:00 - ticket
15/11/2005 - D, Koln, E-Werk - 20:00 - ticket
16/november/2005 - NL, Den Haag, Theater aan het Spui - 20:30 - info ticket
17/11/2005 - B, Brussel, Cirque Royal - 20:00 - ticketU.S. dates are reportedly in the works as well.
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Sinead presents 'Rasta record'
[jamaica cleaner 10th August 2005 by Mel Cooke] 10th August 2005, 22:30
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HAIR CUT low, 'Ireland' in letters on the front of her burgundy T-Shirt and in speech on her tongue, Sinead O'Connor made her intentions clear at the Liguanea Club, New Kingston, on Monday evening. Sinead O'Connor (centre) sits with Rhythm Twins Sly (right) and Robbie at the launch of her album, 'Throw Down Your Arms', held at the Liguanea Club, Knutsford Boulevard, New Kingston, on Monday night. WINSTON SILL/FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER
"To me I have not made a reggae record, but a Rasta record," she said.
However, she also made it clear that "my intention is not to exploit the teachings of Rastafari, but to pass on the message to some who might not know that God and religion are two separate things."
That Rasta record is her latest album, Throw Down Your Arms, which was officially launched by musician Ibo Cooper, with Mutabaruka being the guest speaker.
The album's title is taken from a Burning Spear song - and appropriately so, as Spear's music dominates the set of cover versions, with He Prayed, Jah No Dead among the handful of remakes. Lee 'Scratch' Perry's Vampire, Peter Tosh's Downpresser Man, Buju Banton's Untold Stories, The Abyssinians Y Mas Gan, the Haile Selassie speech turned into song War and Junior Byles' Curly Locks also made the album.
Musicians and engineers in the all-Jamaican cast who worked on Throw Down Your Arms are Sly and Robbie, Robbie Lyn, Mikey Chung, Dean Frazer, Nambo Robinson, Chico Chin, Sticky Thompson, Keisha Patterson, Pam Hall, Bulby, Roland and Fatta.
With red, green and gold around the tent under which the official proceedings took place and thick joints of sugar cane in a similarly coloured cart in the area where the members of the audience could have a bite, O'Connor confirmed in words what was obvious to the eye, beginning her brief address with a reading from the book of the prophet Micah:
"In the last days it shall come to pass, that the house of the Lord shall be established on the top of the mountain... The law shall go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Zion... Nation shall not lift up sword against nation... And each nation shall worship its own God and we will walk in the name of our God, Jah Rastafari."
THANKED RASTAFARIANS
O'Connor thanked Rastafarians for telling people that God and religion are separate, as well as having touched and saved individual lives. I would not be alive on this earth today if not for the teachings of Rastafari. When somebody saves your life, you owe them. I dedicate my life entirely to the teachings of Rastafari," she said.
In the end she had kudos for Jamaica as "the most incredible country, with the most incredible people in the world. So thank you Jamaica for everything and Jah, Rastafari!"
O'Connor told The Gleaner that she does not plan to do a reggae album with original songs and that the tour for Throw Down Your Arms starts in August and continues until next summer, with a stop in Jamaica either before or after doing the US in 2006.
Mutabaruka pointed out that when O'Connor had publicly torn up a picture of the Pope, she had been wearing a red, green and gold sash.
He said that "there is something that the Rastaman is saying that is seeping into the mind of radicalism. The children of the oppressors might see the necessity to react to a certain state and condition that the Rasta man has been saying exist for a long time".
Sinead O'Connor is reacting to a system that is pushing a dogma on the people," he said.
He also gave credit to Sly and Robbie for passing "the borders of boxing music into boxes".
And Ibo Cooper recalled a time when "not even radio in Jamaica did want to play reggae. That's why we had to have a reggae radio station. We pass that stage, but we have to remember."
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Sinead O'Connor performs
8th August 2005, 23:46
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Sinéad promo album "Throw Down Your Arms"
total reggae already now on the net
7th August 2005, 00:46
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 www.ebay.comBrand new cd Album with unique insert and disc artwork.
Not a commercial release but for use by dj`s or music reviewers and may not yet be commercially released. Produced by Sly and Robbie at Tuff Gong Studio, Kingston Jamaca.
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Sinéad interview about new album "Throw Down Your Arms"
6th August 2005, 19:30
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Escale Estivale - 4th August 2005 french radio show Throw Down Your Arms Untold Stories |
SINEAD'S GOT IT COVERED
[NME 1th August 2005] 3th August 2005, 09:30
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SINEAD O'CONNOR is to release an album of roots songs.
Her new album, 'Throw Down Your Arms', will be released on October 3.
Recorded in two weeks, the record is made up of tracks which have “inspired Sinead in her life and work for the past fifteen years”.
’Throw Down Your Arms’ features tracks written by Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh and Lee Perry.
The tracklisting runs:
‘Jah Nuh Dead’
‘Marcus Garvey’
‘Door Peep’
‘He Prayed’
‘Y Mas Gan’
‘Curly Locks’
‘Vampire’
‘Prophet Has Arise’
‘Downpressor Man’
‘Throw Down Your Arms’
‘Untold Stories’
‘War’
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Sinead Throws Down Arms
[RollingStone 1th August 2005 by Charley Rogulewski] 3th August 2005, 09:30
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A more spiritual O'Connor goes deep with roots reggae classics
On October 4th, Sinead O'Connor will release Throw Down Your Arms. The twelve-track record is a tribute to reggae music and features covers of songs penned by the likes of Bob Marley, Lee Perry and Peter Tosh.
Throw Down Your Arms is the Irish native's eighth album and continues her pledge to break down barriers between genres. This past spring, O'Connor entered Tuff Gong studios in Kingston, Jamaica, to record inspirational Seventies reggae classics -- including Winston Rodney's "Door Peep" and Perry's "Curly Locks" -- with veteran producers Sly and Robbie.
Fulfilling her promise, made earlier this year, to "aim my records at a more spiritualized market," O'Connor said of the Throw Down sessions, "The originals of these songs could never be bettered, and so all I can hope in recording them is to honor the composers and pass on their teachings in the hope that doing so will carry the message of Rastafarai to some who might otherwise not know that God and religion are two very different things."
O'Connor's last CD release was the 2003 live set She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the . . ., and her 2000 best-of compilation has sold more than 2 million copies since hitting stores.
O'Connor will launch a tour of the United States in support of her new album in November, including two dates at New York's Webster Hall.
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Living: Unsung modesty
[timesonline 19th July 2005] 24th July 2005, 17:30
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Sinead O’Connor’s suburban estate bungalow is not the usual image of a rock star’s pad, as Colin Coyle finds out
For Sinead O’Connor, nothing compares to the southside suburbs. The singer has lived within a few miles of sleepy Glenageary, where she was born in 1966, for most of her life. Over the last decade, despite her fame, O’Connor has shunned Dublin’s more genteel neighbourhoods to live quietly in a modest estate of family homes in Monkstown.
Now her unobtrusive 1,900-sq-ft four-bed has been placed on the market with an €850,000 price-tag. The sales brochure describes it as “a bright and spacious bungalow in a mature residential development of family homes close to Monkstown village”.
Already stripped of the O’Connor family belongings, No 37 Castlepark is the very antithesis of a rock star pad. The only hint as to its former owner are the electric gates that O’Connor installed to keep the press at bay and a hi-tech alarm and video intercom system.
Gone, also, are O’Connor’s rather off-beat ecclesiastical design touches. “My house is kind of like a church. I collect Virgin Marys and churchical stuff. I got this gorgeous Virgin Mary in Lourdes, it’s five foot tall, and I’ve got a lovely stained glass window with St Michael on it, things that are not expensive but that are beautiful,” she said in a 2002 interview.
Instead, the house is a blank slate, suitable for remodelling or extension, according to the sales material. A smart decked area and a rambling rear garden, ideal for young children, will be the understated property’s chief selling points.
The house’s inconspicuousness is what attracted the mother of three to it in the first place. “I don’t live in a big posh rock star house. I live in an ordinary house because I want my kids to feel normal like everybody else. It’s a little housing estate with normal people,” she said recently.
Castlepark’s residents are equally enamoured with their little pocket of suburban bliss. Houses rarely come up for sale in this pleasant setting, where the homes are significantly roomier than those in newer, neighbouring developments. Located off Monkstown Avenue, Castlepark is on the doorstep of shops, schools, restaurants, churches, pubs and, crucially, a Dart station.
Now moving to the more rarefied environs of Killiney, not far from her Glenageary childhood home and close to where her brother Joe lives, O’Connor has decided that she would like to be closer to the sea. Ever industrious, the diminutive singer has just released a new album of collaborations, featuring duos with the Edge, Massive Attack and Damien Dempsey.
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 Sinéad O'Connor with Patti Smith Photos in Royal Festival Hall
18th June 2005 South Bank Centre, London
[www.sineadoconnor.foros.st] 17th July 2005, 18:30
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 Sinéad O'Connor with Patti Smith in Royal Festival Hall
18th June 2005 South Bank Centre, London
[GIGWISE.com 29th April 2005 by Lowri Williams] 13th May 2005, 15:30
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 Meltdown 2005
11 June to 26 June at South Bank Centre, London
Spread over 15 days, Meltdown Festival is made up of a number of concerts and events hand-picked by a specially chosen musical director or curator, who this year will be Patti Smith.
Following in the foosteps of Morrissey, Nick Cave and David Bowie, Smith says she aims to touch all aspects of culture, "merging with poetry, politics, the spiritual and the revolutionary".
The full line up is:
• Yoko Ono - Queen Elizabeth Hall - June 17
• Rachid Taha + special guest Patti Smith - Royal Festival Hall - June 17
• ‘Songs Of Innocence, Protest Songs and Lullabies’ featuring Patti Smith, Beth Orton, Sinead O’Connor, Kristin Hersh plus special guests - Royal Festival Hall - June 18
• Billy Bragg - Queen Elizabeth Hall - June 18
Steve Earle and Patti Smith - Royal Festival Hall - June 19
• ‘The Coral Sea' Patti Smith Music: Patti Smith, Kevin Shields, Cat Power - Queen Elizabeth Hall - June 22
• A homage to Bertolt Brecht featuring Patti Smith, Antony, Dresdon Dolls, Marc Almond, Neil Finn, Tim Finn, London Sinfonietta and more - Royal Festival Hall - June 23
• Antony And The Johnsons - Queen Elizabeth Hall - June 24
• Patti Smith performs ‘Horses’ with special guest John Cale - Royal Festival Hall - June 25
• ‘Songs Of Experience’ Featuring Patti Smith, Jeff Beck, Flea, John Frusciante and special guests - June 26
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Jammy pics
26th April 2005 - New York, The Theater At Madison Square Garden
1th May 2005, 20:35
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 SINEAD O'CONNOR AND BURNING SPEAR TO PERFORM TOGETHER AT THE FIFTH ANNUAL JAMMYS
download 3 songs here 
APRIL 26 - THEATER AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
[5th AnnuaL Jammys 26th April 2005] 1th May 2005, 18:30
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LINE-UP ALSO INCLUDES PHIL LESH, RYAN ADAMS, BUDDY GUY, MAVIS STAPLES, BRUCE HORNSBY, TRAVIS TRITT, MANY MORE
New York, NY - Multi-platinum Irish pop star Sinead O'Connor will make a rare U.S. concert appearance at the Fifth Annual JAMMYS all-star concert and awards show, where she will perform with roots reggae legend Burning Spear.
O'Connor's collaboration with Burning Spear, one of her idols, will mark her first concert appearance in New York City in more than five years. The Fifth Annual JAMMYS is being held April 26 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, and will also include appearances by Buddy Guy, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, Ryan Adams, Bruce Hornsby, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Mavis Staples, Roots drummer ?uestlove, Les Claypool of Primus, Travis Tritt, North Mississippi Allstars, Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee and many more. Phil Lesh is the show's official host.
The announcement comes as O'Connor is in the midst of recording an album of reggae covers. Her seventh studio album, the disc will include covers of such Burning Spear classics as "Marcus Garvey" and "Throw Down Your Arms," as well as her versions of classics by Bob Marley, Buju Banton, Israel Vibration, The Abyssians, Lee Perry, Peter Tosh and others. The album is being recorded in Kingston, Jamaica, with the legendary reggae rhythm section/production duo Sly & Robbie (aka drummer Sly Dunbar and bassist Robbie Shakespeare). The album will be released in the fall.
One of the most successful artists ever to emerge from Ireland, O'Connor has registered an immeasurable influence on popular music since debuting in 1987 with The Lion and the Cobra. Picking up a Grammy for her 1990 follow-up, the breakthrough smash I Do Not Want What I Haven1t Got, she has gone on to sell more than 10 million albums worldwide. |
  One-On-One With Sinead O'Connor
The pop star who puts a spin on old-school roots reggae
[www.jamaicaobserver.com 3th April 2005 by Kevin Jackson] 3th April 2005, 15:30
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Covers of songs made popular by the likes of Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Junior Murvin, Israel Vibrations and Max Romeo will comprise the forthcoming roots reggae album from Irish pop star Sinead O'Connor.
O'Connor was in the island this past week working with producers including Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, Phillip 'Fattis' Burrell and Collin 'Bulby' York, putting together the finishing touches to the album, which is still untitled.
According to O'Connor, the project was one that she had envisioned for a long time and working with the famed duo of Sly and Robbie was like a dream come true for her.
"I have been dying to work with these guys for a long time. Ever since I met up with them five years ago while I was working on a project with Adrian Sherwood, I knew from then that I had to do something with them. I had wanted to make a roots reggae album for about ten years now," O'Connor told SunDay Lifestyle in an interview at the Music Works recording studio in Kingston early last week. |
Sinead O'Connor in Jamaica to record with Sly and Robbie
[www.jamaicaobserver.com 31th March 2005 by AP]3th April 2005, 15:30
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - Irish pop singer Sinead O'Connor is in Jamaica recording a reggae album with some of Jamaica's leading musicians, her producer said yesterday.
Sinead O'Connor (centre) poses with musicians and producers Robbie Shakespeare (left) and Sly Dunbar at their studio in Kingston. (Photo: Bryan Cummings).
The Dublin-born O'Connor has been in the capital Kingston since last week working on tracks for the album, scheduled for release this summer by the British-based Sanctuary Records, said Sly Dunbar.
The untitled album will include covers of some of reggae's most famous protest songs - Bob Marley's War, Peter Tosh's Downpressor Man, and Burning Spear's Marcus Garvey - Dunbar said.
Dunbar, a drummer, and bass player Robbie Shakespeare are co-producing the album.
Dunbar and Shakespeare are believed by many to be one of the world's best rhythm sections. In 1980, they founded their own Taxi record label, which has promoted the careers of such stars as Black Uhuru, Ini Kamoze, Beenie Man, and Red Dragon.
The record is due out through Sanctuary Records in the summer. |
Sinéad in the Late Late Show 6th February 2005
3th April 2005, 15:30
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New CD "COLLABORATIONS"
03th April 2005, 14:03
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Musical pairings from throughout Irish vocalist Sinead O'Connor's career have been compiled for "Collaborations," due June 21 via Capitol/EMI. The 17-track collection is highlighted by tracks with Peter Gabriel ("Blood of Eden"), U2's Bono ("I'm Not Your Baby") and the Edge ("Heroine," from his unheralded 1986 soundtrack "Captive") and Massive Attack ("Special Cases").
"Collaborations" is rounded out by pairings with the The ("Kingdom of Rain"), the Specials' Terry Hall ("All Kings of Everything"), Moby ("Harbour"), Asian Dub Foundation ("1000 Mirrors") and Jah Wobble ("Visions of You").
In the spring of 2003, O'Connor announced she was retiring from the music business. But in an interview last month Ireland's Hot Press, she revealed she had signed a new record deal with Sanctuary and is working on three distinct new albums.
 01. MASSIVE ATTACK - Special Cases (Radio Edit) (3:46)
02. ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION FEATURING SINEAD O'CONNOR - 1000 Mirrors (4:45)
03. BOMB THE BASS FEATURING SINEAD O'CONNOR & BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH - Empire (5:50)
04. AFRO CELT SOUND SYSTEM - Release (Album Edit) (4:13)
05. U2 & SINEAD O'CONNOR - I'm Not Your Baby (5:50)
06. CONJURE ONE FEATURING SINEAD O'CONNOR - Tears From The Moon (Album Version) (4:17)
07. MOBY FEATURING SINEAD O'CONNOR - Harbour (6:27)
08. PETER GABRIEL & SINEAD O'CONNOR - Blood Of Eden (Radio Edit) (5:06)
09. DAMIEN DEMPSEY FEATURING SINEAD O'CONNOR - It's All Good (3:58)
10. THE COLOURFIELD FEATURING SINEAD O'CONNOR - Monkey In Winter (4:59)
11. THE EDGE & SINEAD O'CONNOR - Heroine (Theme from "Captive") (4:22)
12. SINEAD O'CONNOR WITH THE BLOCKHEADS - Wake Up And Make Love With Me (4:58)
13. SINEAD O'CONNOR & TERRY HALL - All Kinds Of Everything (2:43)
14. ASLAN - Up In Arms (3:40)
15. THE THE - Kingdom Of Rain (Album version) (5:51)
16. GHOSTLAND - Guide Me God (6:24)
17. JAH WOBBLE'S INVADERS OF THE HEART FEATURING SINEAD O'CONNOR - Visions Of You (4:20)
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Sinéad under the hammer for 15k
[CIRCA Art Magazine 24th February 2005 by Claire Flannery]28th February 2005, 14:03
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Following the much-reported sale of Lucien Freud's nude portrait of model Kate Moss for the sum of L3.9 million earlier this month, yet another celeb-portrait has come under the hammer. Jim Fitzpatrick's nude portrait of Sinéad O'Connor was bought Tuesday night for 15,000 euro at Whyte's latest auction in Dublin. The portrait, entitled Strange days, was originally commissioned by an unnamed Dublin nightclub, yet it was O'Connor herself who bought the work at that time. Whether this was due to the nightclub's rejecting the work or due to O'Connor wanting the painting for herself is not known.
Although the circumstances surrounding the provenance are unclear, O'Connor's motives for selling the work at this timely moment are arguably transparent. Controversial to the point of self-parody, O'Connor has always been keenly aware of the importance of the staying within the public eye. Following her announced retirement from the music industry in 2003, last September O'Connor took out a full page advertisement in the Irish Examiner to demand her privacy (!). The latest news is that O'Connor is back, with two new albums due for launch this year, and the sale of her portrait is perhaps the beginning of her promotional campaign.
Fitzpatrick is best known for having designed the (in)famous Che Guevara image - widely reproduced on posters, t-shirts and other revolutionary paraphernalia - in 1968. Fitzpatrick is very prolific and his mythical celtic graphic style is instantly recognizable. Though many see Fitzpatrick as an "excellent modern illustrator," and though his work is supposedly very influential, his stylistic designs are certainly not a universal hit. An anecdote recounted by the artist himself (on his official website) tells of how, at a party years ago, Fitzpatrick was informed of the extent of his influence on hopeful candidates for the National College of Art and Design by a former president of the College. When Fitzpatrick asked "what do you do with them all?" he was informed, "Oh, we just fuck them all out.".
So what of this recent work by Fitzpatrick: did the portrait of O'Connor deservedly fetch such a high price? In Whyte's catalogue it was projected that the work would fetch at least 15,000 euro, and possibly 20,000 euro. So the realised price came as no big surprise. The painting is overtly based on Velázquez's Rokeby Venus, 1647-1651, with various alterations such as the substitution of a Celtic comic-style green dragon for Velázquez's Cupid, who holds up the mirror to Venus. In the background is a contemporary view of Dublin. These elements are unified by Fitzpatrick's idiosyncratic graphic style.
Selling his work online, Fitzpatrick charges as much as $30,000 for certain pieces, such as Boanne (Newgrange), a work dating back to 1996. It is not known who the buyer of Strange days was or whether he/she is particularly a fan of Fitzpatrick's work or that of O'Connor.
Fitzpatrick has long been a friend of O'Connor. The two friends must certainly be in concurrence in their rejection of the mainstream, in terms of their respective art. O'Connor recently said in an interview with Hotpress, adding to her tiresome litany of shocking statements, that mainstream music "has all the sincerity of a whore's kiss."
As a post scriptum it is worth noting that, far from being the star of the auction, the portrait of O'Connor was outshone by Wounded pigeon by Louis Le Brocquy, a work dating from 1984, and by Paul Henry's Cottage's on Killary Bay, which exceeded the projected price of 80,000 euro, selling for 87,000 euro. There were some surprises at the auction, with John Kingerlee's On the Beara Peninsula fetching 36,000 euro, triple the expected selling price. |
Sinead Goes Reggae Controversial singer comes out of retirement with multiple albums
[RollingStone.com 15th February 2005 by ALEX MAR]16th February 2005, 06:03
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Sinead O'Connor, who announced her retirement from the music industry in 2003 after a controversial career, has signed a management contract with Sanctuary and begun work on at least two albums for release in 2005. The records -- including one reggae effort -- will be followed with a tour that will include U.S. dates.
According to her new manager, Danny Heaps, O'Connor will likely team with Jamaican producers Sly and Robbie for the reggae album, while the second album will be "more of a Sinead record." O'Connor has said that at least some of the new material will combine her punk roots with her more newfound spirituality. "I want to at least aim my records at a more spiritualized market," the thirty-eight-year-old singer told Irish music magazine Hotpress, blasting mainstream music as having "all the sincerity of a whore's kiss." While a record deal has yet to be finalized, Heaps is confident that this "will be resolved imminently."
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Sinead Takes On Paparazzi...
ShowBiz Ireland [14th February 2005]15th February 2005
   
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Controversial Irish singer Sinead O'Connor is making a comeback to the music industry after a two year break and as usual she is grabbing headlines and photo opportunities...
We've missed unpredictable Sinead O'Connor since he announced exclusively to ShowBiz Ireland two years ago that she was leaving the world of celebrity and going back to a private lifestyle.
But as we've seen many times before the drug 'fame' is hard to shake off and most can't handle the cold-turkey - and if a strong minded woman like Sinead cannot live without it then perhaps it is an incurable affliction...
The Nothing Compares 2 U singer was on the Late Late Show last Friday to announce that she coming back with an album aimed at a more "spiritualized market" but the most fun was had when the pint-sized star left the building...
When confronted by the familiar faces of the Irish Paparazzi Sinead seemed delighted and posed for photos with each of them, she then grabbed one of their cameras and started taking snaps of the assembled Photographers!
And from the look on her face she got a real buzz from the table-turning experience... Well Sinead, if you ever need a job ShowBiz Ireland would love to have ya!
In a month when certain politicians are whining about the press isn't it nice to see how a seasoned professional deals with photographers? Great to have you back Sinead...
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Songstress Sinéad is returning to music scene
O'Connor to gig with McPeakes in Belfast
Belfast Telegraph [11th February 2005] by Emma Fitzpatrick13th February 2005 |
Controversial Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has today announced that she is to make a return to the music industry after having dramatically retired only two years ago. The star is set to sign a management and record deal with Sanctuary Records, based in New York, and is concurrently working on three records.
"My thing, musically, is to try to avoid, as such, the mainstream rock and pop thing," she told Dublin's Hot Press magazine. "I want to at least aim my records at a more spiritualised market. Not religious records strictly speaking, but in the spirit of roots, gospel, chant."
Mother of three Sinead spoke of how she had become disillusioned by the music industry describing it as, "for the most part, spiritually bereft". But the singer revealed she will be back on stage in less than three months time in a special appearance with the McPeakes family in Belfast.
The Dublin-born singer told Hotpress magazine that she was already working on material for three different records. "I want to at least aim my records at a more spiritualised market," she said. "Religious songs with bad words, that's the best way I could describe it," said the singer, who was ordained a priest in the controversial Latin Tridentine Church by Pat Buckley in 1999.
O'Connor, who then called herself Mother Bernadette Mary, added: "I've been thinking for years the religious area of music has a huge gap in it. Needs a bit of punky filling."
At the time of her retirement, O'Connor had been due to appear alongside Massive Attack at several live appearances but unexpectedly cancelled at the last minute. Rumours began to circulate that her recent diagnosis with fatigue syndrome had forced her to withdraw from the scene. However, these were quashed when she published a statement on her official website stating how she no longer wanted to be famous.
She said at the time: "I am a very shy person, believe it or not. So I ask with love, that I be left in peace and privacy by people who love my records too." |
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Controversial Irish singer Sinead O'Connor is coming out of retirement with a return to the spiritual music scene, it emerged today.
O`Connor, famed for her haunting voice as well as notorious antics such as shredding a picture of the Pope on live television, left the industry two-years ago at the age of 36 to raise her three children.
But the singer revealed she will be back on stage in less than three months time in a special appearance with the McPeakes family in Belfast.
The Dublin-born singer told Hotpress magazine that she was already working on material for three different records.
"I want to at least aim my records at a more spiritualised market," she said.
"Religious songs with bad words, that`s the best way I could describe it," said the singer, who was ordained a priest in the controversial Latin Tridentine Church by a rebel bishop in 1999.
O`Connor, who then called herself Mother Bernadette Mary, added: "I`ve been thinking for years the religious area of music has a huge gap in it. Needs a bit of punky filling."
The singer, who claimed she was tired of being famous back in 2003, is believed to be signing a management and record deal with New York-based Sanctuary Records.
She said her friends and family had a strong influence on her comeback decision. "I like the idea of building musical bridges. So that`s what I am up to," she said.
"There are three records, which are in very embryonic stages. First is a roots album, which I have been dying to make for years as I was with Sean Nos Nua. Second is Psalms and the Song of Songs. And the third is chants from different esoteric traditions."
Recording on the albums is currently set to begin in April, with guest vocalists and musicians from The Wailers as the rhythm section.
The singer said she had been ill and had wanted to devote herself to taking care of her three children, Jake, 17, Roisin, nine, and one-year-old Shane. O`Connor revealed she was suffering from a debilitating and painful fatigue illness called fibromyalgia at the time of her retirement. "Fibromyalgia is not curable. But it`s manageable," O`Connor said. "I have a high pain threshold, so that helps, it`s the tiredness part that I have difficulty with. "O`Connor said that she loves singing and finds it calming but this time round she will be avoiding the mainstream rock and pop market. The singer, whose biggest hit was a emotive version of the Prince song Nothing Compares 2 U, said she had left after becoming disillusioned with the music business and the coverage of her life. In 2003, she stated on her website that: "I would request that as of July, since I seek no longer to be a `famous person` and instead I wish to live a `normal` life, could people please afford me my privacy." She said she wanted to be like any other person on the street. |
Sinéad O'Connor announces return to music
www.rte.ie [10th February 2005] 10th February 2005 |
Singer Sinéad O'Connor has announced that she is returning to her music career.
In an exclusive interview with Hot Press published today, O'Connor, who retired two years ago, said that she is signing a management and record deal with Sanctuary Records.
Hot Press says that O'Connor is working on three records concurrently, though no decision has been made on the projects' sequencing.
"I want to at least aim my records at a more spiritualised market," O'Connor told Hot Press. "Not religious records strictly speaking, but in the spirit of roots/gospel/chant." |
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Meteor Ireland Music Awards 2005
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Nominees for Best Irish Female:
Cathy Davey
Bronagh Gallagher
Sinead O'Connor
Ann Scott
Eleanor Shanley
Juliet Turner |
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