Sinead O'Connor: C/D?

Just got a message that Sinead has pulled out of her gig for the arts festival next month.

Had her hug me once in Dublin in the mid 90s.

Looks like she cancelled a current tour due to having to deal with coping with the death of her son. Tour would have included date in GIAF.

yeah, the announcement (advised to take the rest of the year off and reschedule in 2023 when she's feeling better) is on the opening page of her site https://www.sineadoconnor.com/

Those are all great Josh, thanks for reminding me of them - I always slot this with them as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ31yNp6Nao

I'm seeing the new documentary tonight!! I am SO excited.

― music for A★TEENS’ musicians (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, June 17, 2022 11:14 AM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

how was it? might see it on Wednesday

Mikal Gilmore has a long and great Facebook post more or less reviewing the documentary (starting with a few comments on the new Marilyn Monroe and Elvis movies to create some context), but you need to have an account and follow him to see it.

Also I watched Year of the Horse again - great performance, it's worth tracking down the DVD that pairs it with an earlier, lesser concert video (also an excellent performance, but ruined by intrusive video effects). Otherwise, it's visible here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iTviZRVKxA

A helluva post.

that was a great post.

This is infuriating, fuck Prince's estate: "The urge to insult her some more even crept into the making of this film, when Prince’s estate refused the use of the song “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Prince’s sibling, Sharon Nelson, said, “I didn’t feel [Sinéad] deserved to use the song my brother wrote in her documentary, so we declined. His version is the best.” It was an ungenerous refusal on the estate’s part, and an unworthy statement. Prince’s version was not the best. He didn’t even originally stake out the song for himself, but instead assigned it to a side project of his, the Family, and it sat merely as filler on the band’s sole album from 1985. Though Prince had recorded his own version in 1984, he never released it. That version didn’t appear until 2018 as a posthumous single, though Prince had taken to performing the song live years after O’Connor had her hit with it. Sinéad apotheosized “Nothing Compares 2 U,” and in doing so won her place on the international popular music stage with her mesmeric rendition. She is the whole—and sole—reason people know the song, the sole reason why, thirty-two years later, it still speaks to a hurt memory that can still speak to our hurt hearts. Sinéad O’Connor is why “Nothing Compares 2 U” is indelible. It stands as one the greatest singles of all time."

Seems like a perfectly normal reasonable person, this sister:

https://twitter.com/Sharon_L_Nelson

oh jesus, fuck that family

i'm sure she really dislikes all the money Sinead's version of that song has made for the estate

Yeah, it's fascinating to realize Prince never ONCE got "Nothing Compares 2 U" right.

I love Prince, but he's always been a real dick to O'Connor over that song. It's like O'Connor did something to it that he didn't/couldn't and that hurt his ego.

I'd drop the "it's like."

*shakes head* Fuck, man.

Oof, terrible. Way too young. I'll be honest, I just never really clicked fully with her music, but I always respected the hell out of her and understood why people did fall so hard for her. RIP, hope she's found some degree of peace.

RIP little bird. You'll be missed.

I kept hoping she'd have her late-career renaissance moment.

This is a terrible loss. RIP.

horrible, horrible news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_GXwF6GE4

damn. she was a real one. that's all I can say about it.

This is terrible news and makes me sad

the documentary on showtime was very affecting...some amazing footage of her as a young performer.

i thought a lot about it, like i feel like most musicians, or a least i feel this way, have a certain knack for something, or at least a clever way of going about it...but not to sound uh rockist or anything, but there's something about people like her

it's beyond regular musical talent, like a pure thing, that pure voice she had, whoever gave it to her, i guess sinead would say god did...just a pure pure pure thing, that sound that came out of her, like something so profound you are born with it, that ability...not to say you don't learn how to sing better or have craft but it's got to be there, inside you when you were born. it's just a really deep thing to think about, how it must be to have that.

I know I posted it well upthread somewhere but this performance has lived with me for years, and years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIHZvZTJTg

The Lion and the Cobra was one of the first two CDs I bought, back in...1987? Early 1988, probably, 'cause I bought it after seeing the "Mandinka" video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNXYFOPRuQ0

awful yet unsurprising news; given her life in some ways I can't even say I blame her, but I wish this had been different

man, i remember seeing that grammy performance of "mandinka" when I was 10 years old or so and just being amazed — nothing else like that.

i've always loved this one, not sure if I could actually listen to it today, though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRgnU4C1S-g

that moment when she almost whispers the words..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km64pT6bDXs

Sinead deserved so much better than she got. And we all know it. And I think we're all grieving for that too.

— Gino Fellino 🤌🤌 🔪🦀🤌🤌 (@Bubblenoma) July 26, 2023

Damn RIP. Truly wish she is at peac.e

Unjustifiably canceled for shining light on the dark evils of the Catholic Church, sacrificing her career/mental health/financial security in the process.

The cassingle for "Mandinka" was in my cassette player for months (b/w "Drink Before The War") back in the good old days.

Wow, RIP

I saw her perform on the Universal Mother tour; she was a warm & powerful presence. And I still pull out Throw Down Your Arms every Christmas. Such a sad & terrible way to end. RIP

There are few artists I admired more in this world, RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGSaWR-DCQ8

This is one of the prettiest songs of all time. My wife used to sing it to each of our kids when they were babies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chv1JkArc4g

nooooooooooooo
i have nothing to say, she was the best, i hope she is at peace <3 xoxo

I was lucky enough to see her on her first North American tour. I'll never forget it. She was so intense as to be almost frightening. Taken too soon after too much hardship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiEcut07GrM

that 89 grammys performance was one of the first things i remember seeing of her, just unforgettable.

shaved head, torn jeans & boots with that amazing voice. she hooked me for life. never got to see her live & so wish that i had

A story I read once from her producer/engineer that in a way really summed her up.

The only difficulty we had took place during what should have been a relatively easy mix on the SSL at Eden Studios, because there wasn't much instrumentation. For some reason, Sinéad hated compression, and when I'd come in each morning there would be a piece of white A4 paper on the console saying 'NO FUCKING COMPRESSORS!' The problem was, she had a reverse mic technique. When most people sing loud, they back off the mic, but she used to do the opposite — she would stand away from the mic when singing quietly and then scream right into it.

I’m at a loss for words. Her records were tremendously important to me. I was lucky to see her live in 1990, and it was a movingly contradictory combination of slightly-uneasy-on-a-large-stage (Chicago Theatre) and absolutely commanding the full attention of everyone in the building. I’ll never forget it.

i'm crushed

I just watched the Showtime doc this month. The making of the video for Nothing Compares was really moving. I hope she is in a better place.

There are few artists I admired more in this world, RIP

― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, July 26, 2023

really this. I'm reeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yuQLPkdRsI

RIP and to hell with the catholic church.

i saw her at camp bestival in 2014.
to hear that voice in a gorgeous live setting was rather special.
this song was built up and up, and made me totally get something in my eyes.
i always hoped she would find peace and a good and happy life.

rest in peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXyGEw8lHG8

haven't explored much beyond the first two albums, but both had such excellent songwriting to accompany the incredible vocals. she was so young then, really a shame what she had to go through.

rest in peace

she was only 20 when lion and the cobra came out, and she'd already lived so much