Sinead O'Connor Forum
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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 Fitzpatrick 13th 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." Comment on this... |
