Sinéad O'Connor Tour 2007
Sinéad O'Connor Tour 2008

Sinead O'Connor with Cathy Davey at yesterday's Meteor Ireland Music Awards launch. They take place on February 15

   Ian Brown, ex singer of the landmark British rock group Stone Roses and creator of four highly acclaimed solo albums, launched his latest single 'Illegal Attacks' as a Stop the War exclusive.
   'Illegal Attacks' is an anti-war song and Ian Brown is joined in this powerful duet by Sinead O’Connor. Shot in London directed by Colin O'Toole, the video tells the story of a young British man who enlists in the army and is sent to war.
   "It’s a commercial crusade, ‘Cause all the oil men get paid, And only so many soldiers come home, It’s a commando crusade, A military charade, And only so many soldiers come home, Soldiers, soldiers come home, Soldiers come home"  Lyrics from Illegal Attacks

Malta Festiva, pznan, Poland, 16/July/2007

  

   "Theology," Double-Disc Set Featuring New Songs in Acoustic (Dublin Sessions) and Full Band (London Session) Versions; In Stores Tuesday, June 26 via KOCH Records
   NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 08, 2007 -- Sinead O'Connor will be performing songs from her new album, "Theology," as well as her greatest hits, many of which she has not performed in years, during her upcoming world tour (full itinerary TBA). Prior to the tour, Sinead will premiere songs from "Theology" to stateside audiences during two intimate acoustic concerts in New York City and Los Angeles in late June. O'Connor last performed in the U.S. in November 2005 when she toured with legendary Jamaican musicians Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare in support of her reggae-influenced "Throw Down Your Arms" album.
   O'Connor recently finished rehearsals in London with her band which includes long-time collaborator and producer John Reynolds (Brian Eno, Bjork) on drums, Clare Kenny (Shakespears Sister, Edwyn Collins) on bass guitar, symphonic concert cellist Caroline Dale (David Gray) on electric cello, multi-instrumentalist Kieran Kiely (The Corrs) on keyboards, accordion, flute and veteran guitarist Kevin Armstrong (David Bowie, Thomas Dolby, Iggy Pop). Sinead said, "It's totally exciting to be looking at touring the world with such a killer band and doing many of my favorite songs along with ones from my new album, 'Theology.'" The world tour kicked off with a triumphant homecoming at Dublin Castle on May 6 to a capacity crowd of more than 4,500 ecstatic fans.
   Influenced by a wide variety of musical and literary sources which have helped shape her aesthetic consciousness since childhood, O'Connor composed the majority of the songs on "Theology," a special double-album set which was recorded as an acoustic album in Dublin and an electric album in London. It will be released on Tuesday, June 26 via KOCH Records. This is the first album with mainly her own material since her fifth full-length album, "Faith and Courage," which was released in 2000.
   "Theology" premieres eight new songs written by O'Connor as well as three covers: Curtis Mayfield's soul-searching "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue," a ferocious interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "I Don't Know How To Love" (from "Jesus Christ Superstar"), and the traditional reggae spiritual, "Rivers of Babylon," with new lyrics written by Sinead.
   "'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 place and is affecting everyone around the world since September 11, 2001. I simply wanted to make a beautiful thing which inspires me."
   Each disc of "Theology" presents Sinead's new songs in different forms. The minimalist acoustic "Dublin Sessions" disc was produced by traditional Irish musician Steve Cooney (In Tua Nua, The Chieftains, Mary Black), who, along with Sinead, plays guitar on the stripped-down recordings. The "Dublin Sessions" were co-produced by Sinead O'Connor & Graham Bolger and feature a "hidden track": Sinead's haunting rendition of "Hosanna Filio David."
   "Originally there was only gonna be the acoustic version," Sinead says of her "Dublin Sessions." "Over the years of doing shows I used to do an encore with just an acoustic guitar and that was often the audience's favorite part of the show. So I'd been thinking for years I would love to do an acoustic album. I wanted it to just be acoustic guitar and one voice, really bare and not give in to the temptation to make it pretty."
   The second disc of "Theology," dubbed the "London Sessions," showcases the songs in electrifying full band arrangements produced by cutting edge UK DJ/producer Ron Tom. Instrumentation on the "London Sessions" includes drums, bass, guitar, piano, harp, violins, celli, French horn, flute, backing vocals, percussion and programming. Guest artists include reggae bass master Robbie Shakespeare.
   "Ron and I had met a year before I started recording the acoustic sessions and we had done some demos just to see how we got on working together. Ron really wanted to produce the album. I explained I had already committed to the acoustic one and again he literally begged me to do it. So in the end I said I would do both versions, because I wasn't going to abandon the acoustic one as I loved it and I equally loved what Ron was doing with the songs. Then I liked how the two records came to symbolize the different slants that can get put on theology. I love that the acoustic one feels like a show and achieves very much the alone quality. I love the London studio version because it has a big power. Where the Dublin one is soft, the London one is the testosterone version. I played a minute amount of guitar on the Dublin sessions and the same on the London sessions. I like the differences. I was getting off all the time on how both records differed and loved all the arrangements consequently."
   "Theology" will be released via KOCH Records on That's Why There's Chocolate and Vanilla, Sinead's own label imprint.

 

   On Monday 30th April, 'I Don't Know How To Love Him' will be released as a download single in Ireland and the UK. It will be available from iTunes, Napster, Tunetribe and all leading digital stores.
   Composer Tim Rice (with Andrew Lloyd Webber) says this about Sinead's version of this classic song: "It's good, more than good, to have 'I Don't Know How To Love Him' recorded by an important contemporary singer almost four decades after it was written.
   Sinéad O'Connor's wonderful voice enabled me to find new things in a song that has been part of my life since 1970. She always gets into the heart of what she sings, whether her own work or that of others. I'm delighted to be one of the others on this occasion".

   According to media reports, she planked down close to $3 million for a Victorian home with a seaside view in Bray, Co. Wicklow. She’s reportedly reconciled with Frank Bonadio, the father of her baby son, Yeshua, but Frank’s estranged wife, singer Mary Coughlan, lives around the corner from the new digs. Let’s hope there’s no awkward confrontations in the local supermarket.

    SINEAD O'Connor has shelled out almost €2m for a plush home located beside the scene of a grisly Halloween murder.
   The mutilated body of a teenage girl was found in a laneway at the back of the Co Wicklow house in 1991.
   It is understood the singer had been unaware of the macabre drama when she signed up for the property which overlooks the sea at Bray.
   The mother-of-four has said she always loved the seaside town, which is home to American surgeon Frank Bonadio, the father of her baby boy - Yeshua - who was born at Christmas.
   However, the six-bedroom Victorian house, which was bought through a third party last week, is also located near the home of her love rival, fellow singer Mary Coughlan.
   The singers were engaged in a bitter slagging match over Sinead's relationship with Mary's estranged husband, in which Sinead blamed the blues singer for her falling-out out with Dr Bonadio in February.
   But Sinead, who recently turned 40, is believed to have purchased the luxury home after reuniting with the American surgeon.
   Even before the controversial singer snapped up the house, known as Montebello, it was known locally that the property was near the scene of the horrific killing of 18-year-old Gillian Bishop.
   Gillian's battered body was found in a laneway at the back of the house on Halloween night. She had been strangled and had a pound coin stuffed down her throat.
   Earlier that night, she had agreed to take her young sister to her first disco in the local Bray Head Hotel. Her killer, Michael McLaughlin, was given a life sentence for murder.
   The house, which was withdrawn at auction for €1.65m, has six bedrooms and a sunroom overlooking a mature Victorian garden with a fishpond.
   The new home of the singer also contains a games room for her children and a gym.

   Sinead O'Connor has revealed full details of her much-anticipated new album.
   Theology will finally be released through Rubyworks on June 22.
The double album was originally due for release late last year, but plans were shelved following O'Connor's pregnancy. An April release was also pulled.
   The double album will include eight original songs written by O'Connor, as well as covers including Curtis Mayfield's 'We People Who Are Darker Than Blue', Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 'I Don't Know How To Love' from the musical 'Jesus Christ Superstar', and the reggae spiritual 'Rivers of Babylon' with new lyrics penned by O'Connor.
   O'Connor has described the album as "an attempt to create a place of peace in a time of war".
   She added: "It is my own personal response to what has taken place and is affecting everyone around the world since and including September 11, 2001. I simply wanted to make a beautiful thing which inspires me".
   The album was recorded in two separate sessions in Dublin and London. The first disc features the 'Dublin Sessions' -which is acoustic and was produced by Trad musician Steve Cooney.
   The 'London Sessions', produced by Ron Tom, features a full band including drums, bass, guitar, piano, harp, violins, celli, French horn, flute, backing vocals and percussion.
   Fans who missed O'Connor's showcase gig at Dublin's Sugar Club last October will be able to get a preview of the album when she plays Dublin Castle on May 6 as part of the Heineken Green Energy Festival.

"Theology," the New Double CD From Sinéad O'Connor, Available in North America via KOCH Records on Tuesday, June 26th

Uncompromising Musical Artist Explores Beauty, Love & Esse
ntial Truths on New Collection of Original Songs and Covers Recorded in Dublin and London    NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 29, 2007 -- Twenty years after the release of her culturally transformative debut solo album, "The Lion and The Cobra," the uncompromising musical artist Sinead O'Connor is releasing "Theology," a new double-CD collection of vital emotionally charged songs, via KOCH Records on Tuesday, June 26.
   "Theology" premieres eight new songs written, or cowritten, by Sinead O'Connor: "Something Beautiful," "Out of the Depths," "33," "Dark I Am Yet Lovely," "If You Had A Vineyard," "The Glory of Jah," "Watcher of Men," and "Whomsoever Dwells" as well as three thematically appropriate covers: Curtis Mayfield's soul-searching "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue," a ferocious interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "I Don't Know How To Love" (from "Jesus Christ Superstar"), and the traditional reggae spiritual "Rivers of Babylon" with new lyrics written by Sinead.
   "'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 place and is affecting everyone around the world since and including September 11, 2001. I simply wanted to make a beautiful thing which inspires me."
   Each disc of "Theology" presents Sinead's new songs in different forms. The minimalist acoustic "Dublin Sessions" disc was produced by traditional Irish musician Steve Cooney (In Tua Nua, The Chieftains, Mary Black), who, along with Sinead, plays guitar on the stripped-down recordings. The "Dublin Sessions" were co-produced by Sinead O'Connor & Graham Bolger and feature a "hidden track": Sinead's haunting rendition of "Hosanna Filio David."
   The second disc of "Theology," dubbed the "London Sessions," showcases the songs in electrifying full band arrangements produced by Ron Tom. Instrumentation on the "London Sessions" includes drums, bass, guitar, piano, harp, violins, celli, French horn, flute, backing vocals, percussion and programming. Guest artists include reggae bass legend Robbie Shakespeare.
   Both icon and iconoclast, Sinead O'Connor has been making music, rejecting stereotypes and defying expectations for more than a quarter century. At the age of 14, she wrote and recorded the debut single for the Dublin-based Irish band In Tua Nua, then left the band because she was too young to tour. In 1987, she wrote, recorded and released "The Lion and The Cobra," which Rolling Stone called "easily one of the most distinctive debut albums of the year," and charted with her first alternative hits "Mandinka," "Troy," and "I Want Your (Hands On Me)."
   In 1990, her sophomore album, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got," peaked at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 while her Prince-penned single, "Nothing Compares 2 U," reached #1 on the Hot 100 and earned her a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance. She would later withdraw her name from Grammy consideration despite multiple nominations. Her groundbreaking video for "Nothing Compares 2 U," featuring Sinead's unforgettable performance in single-shot close-up, took home the Best Video trophy at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, marking the first time a woman had won the Best Video category.
   Her clean-shaven head, ferocity of intelligence and intent, dignified persona, and penetrating aesthetic acuity established a new template for women in popular culture. She obliterated objectification and demanded to be taken seriously as an artist.
   While her third album, 1992's "Am I Not Your Girl?," presaged the current resurgence of torch songs and standards by nearly a decade, a series of well-documented controversies led to her withdrawal from the music business while continuing to refine her art and pursue her own spiritual path.
   In 2002, Sinead released "Sean Nos Nua," a vital reinterpretation of familiar Irish traditional material, which was warmly welcomed by critics and fans alike, and once again illustrated her ability to reinvent herself irrespective of prevailing fads and notions. She followed up in 2003 with "She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty," a well-selected compendium of B-sides, rarities and covers coupled with a riveting live performance recorded at Dublin's Vicar Street.
   Exploring spirituality as interpreted by Jah Rastafari, Sinead decamped to Jamaica in 2005 to record "Throw Down Your Arms," a collection of conscious reggae classics, recorded under the tutelage of Sly & Robbie with some of JA's finest musicians.
   With her new album, "Theology," Sinead O'Connor is once again offering the gift and beauty of her music with humility and candor. The album will be released by KOCH Records on Sinead's own label imprint, "That's Why There's Chocolate and Vanilla."
   Sinead's career is managed worldwide by industry veteran Bruce Garfield.

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HEINEKEN GREEN ENERGY FESTIVAL 2007 present
LIVE AT DUBLIN CASTLE MAY BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND

Sunday May 6th

Tickets €29.50 incl booking fee on sale this Friday March 23RD 2007 from 9am
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   MCD Productions are delighted to confirm that Sinead O'Connor will headline at this year's Heineken Green Energy Festival 2007 on Sunday May 6th, she will be joined by special guests Kila and Delorentos.
   Sinead O'Connor one of Ireland most accomplished female artists will be performing her greatest hits along with new material from her forthcoming album "Theology" as part of the Heineken Green Energy Festival 2007 at Dublin castle on Sunday May 6th, tickets for this show will go on sale this Friday at 9am
   Sinead has had a busy year to date following the birth of her baby son Yeshua earlier this year, Sinead looks forward to the release of her new album this coming June. 'Theology' is a collection of beautiful songs which deal in universal themes from Sinead's personal point of view – love, spirituality, reconciliation, knowledge mixed with her unique observations on life. Sinead says: "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". The album features nine new Sinead O'Connor compositions, and three inspired covers – Curtis Mayfield's brooding 'We People Who Are Darker Than Blue', Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's 'I Don't Know How To Love Him' (from 'Jesus Christ Superstar') and the traditional spiritual 'Rivers Of Babylon', with new lyrics added by Sinead. Sinead says: "I wanted to create a place of peace in a time of strife and conflict. 'Theology' is my own personal response to the times we find ourselves living in".
   She will be performing this new material along with all of her renowned hits at Dublin castle the May Bank Holiday Sunday May 6th.
   Special Guests have been confirmed as Irish Traditional fusion collective KILA. Originating over thirteen years ago on the streets of Dublin, Kila have developed from a busker's collective to become one of Ireland's most innovative and creative bands. The street origins of the band and their unique ability to absorb other musical influences are reflected in the music they play. It has given rise to an essentially traditional line up (the seven piece play a variety of instruments including whistles, fiddles, pipes as well as brass and woodwind and the more electric end of the spectrum) infused with a modern urban consciousness.
   Delorentos, one of Ireland most promising young bands will also perform as Special Guest to Sinead O'Connor. The Dublin based alternative rock band have been together for over two years and have experienced massive success both here in Ireland and the UK.Their most recently released "Leave It On" EP is the fruit of the bands first success.
   Tickets for The Heineken Green Energy Festival 2007 – Sinead O Connor with special guests KILA AND DELORENTOS will go on sale this coming Friday March 23RD 2007 at 9am. Tickets are priced at 29.50 euro including booking fee.

   I’m just getting back to abnormal now after having my baby Yeshua in December. I’m still slightly fat but my boyfriend says he likes my "curves"... so that’s ok... unless he's just being nice... I'm getting ready now for my album Theology to come out on June 4th.
   Doing photos and such... putting a band together for touring... this starts with a Dublin show on May 6th. I'm very excited about working again as I really haven't worked at all since the end of May last year as I was pregnant.
   I did do three shows in Italy in July... but that didn't seem like work. So I've been out of my mind with boredom hangin' round the house for a year so I really can't wait to get going.
I just had my fortieth birthday in December too.. so I'm an old hag now.. but I can still party on the crew bus with the best of them..
   so.. I'll see u all at the shows and I hope u all like Theology. I made it a double record because I noticed at shows the audience liked it when I did some stuff just me and acoustic guitar so Theology has one side which is just acoustic guitar and voice for the hardcore fans and the other side is a full on stadium hip hop feel, with loads of classical strings and loads of distortion on the guitars.. which reminds me.. I went to see Stiff Little Fingers the other night.. they were evilly brilliant.. Their singer also plays guitar and he has a serious distortion set up.. he's an incredible player.. he made me wanna get my fuzzbox out.. an’ deafen my kids.. so I’m off to do that now.. see u all in the summer.
   Have a listen to both versions of ‘33’ from Theology here…

   Equally impressive is her interpretation of Sinead O’Connor’s Put Your Arms Around Me. The Irish singer – for whose artistic extravagance, together with that of Björk, Sandra has the utmost admiration – has only recorded a demo version of the song so far and gladly offered it to her fellow singer from Ibiza. Thanks to some uncommonly transparent production.

08 Put Your Arms Around Me
Music & Lyrics: Sinead O'Connor/Rick Nowels
Release date: 16.02.07

   We all love eavesdropping on the rows of the rich and shameless. And this week provided a cracker, as Sinead O'Connor and Mary Coughlan's spat went up a notch.
   It is the sort of unseemly spat that celebrities seem to be very good at these days. Mary Coughlan, who is fast becoming more famous for her troubles with Sinead O'Connor than for her songs, this week turned the tables on the shaven-headed singer.
   "Sinead didn't steal my husband," she announced. "I'd already dumped the cheating bastard."
   Quite what her ex, US businessman Frank Bonadio, thinks of her outburst has yet to be recorded, but he can't have been pleased to discover that Coughlan had made details of their early marital problems public in no uncertain terms.
   "Seven months after we got married, he told me that he shagged the au pair," Coughlan said. "And I said, 'You bastard, get out of the f***ing house.' I burned my wedding pictures, I threw out my clothes, I threw away my ring."
   O'Connor has had her say on the ongoing row, too, sending Coughlan the following succinct text last April: "You f***ed with the wrong person now, Mary. Be very afraid because by the time I have finished with you you're going to be crying for your mummy."

   Firstly, Irish singer Sinead O'Connor gave birth to a baby boy at Christmas which she called Yeshua - the Hebrew name for Jesus. Sinead is a priest plus she played Jesus' mother Mary in Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy. Thus, we're calling this Virgin birth the first sign: The Second Coming.

   Sinead O'Connor, who giver birth to her fourth child over the festive period, is to release a new album in April called Theology and two tracks called Jeremiah (Something Beautiful) and If You Had A Vineyard have been made available to download via her official website.
   The controversial Irish singer released two albums in 2005 called Throw Down Your Arms and Collaborations, neither of which made any impact on the UK charts.

   Dublin, Ireland (AHN) - Just like her hit song "Nothing Compares 2 U," nothing can compare to her new bundle of joy.
   Singer Sinead O' Connor has welcomed her fourth child into the family. The Grammy Award winner and her boyfriend, Frank Bonaclio celebrated the birth of O'Connor's fourth baby, and their first child together.
   Yeshna Francis Neil was born on December 19 at Dublin's Mount Carmel Hospital. The newborn was scheduled to make his grand appearance on planet Earth during Christmas Eve. Although he came a bit early, he still managed to arrive just in time for the holidays.
   Since his birth, BabyNames.com reports that the baby boy has been struggling with pneumonia but is being treated at the NICU and is expected to recover soon so he could put his new mommy at ease.
   O'Connor's other children - Jake, 18, Roisin, 10, and two-year-old Shane - are from three of her previous relationships, which include her former record producer husband, John Reynolds, and an Irish Times columnist named John Waters.

   FORMER Stone Roses legend Ian Brown is hoping to collaborate with a bunch of big industry names on his new LP, including Beatles’ icon Paul McCartney.
   According to NME, the Warrington-born veteran has already spoken to McCartney’s assistant about the possibility of the bass player appearing on his fifth LP.
   The follow-up to 2004’s Solarized is also set to feature a couple of famous Mancunian bassists, ex-Smiths man Andy Rourke and former Happy Mondays star Paul Ryder.
   Brown also has another enigmatic star in his sights.
   On the prospect of working with Irish vocalist Sinead O’Connor, he told the weekly rock magazine: “She’s the best female soul singer in the world.”
   The record has a working title of ‘The World Is Yours’ and is set to feature songs entitled ‘Goodbye To The Badlands’ and ‘Some Folks Are Hollow’.