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With the unpleasant tabloid scrutiny she’s been under recently, it’s easy to forget that Sinéad O’Connor is one of Ireland’s most powerful creative musical forces. Her soon-to-be-released new album, How About I Be Me (And You Be You?), already has critics purring with delight. When Sinéad travelled to the City of Angels to perform at a pre-Golden Globe event, Olaf Tyaransen went with her to report on the latest chapter in her remarkable life.

Olaf Tyaransen, 08 Feb 2012

As soundcheck time approaches, I close the doors to allow Sinéad to play ‘Lay Your Head Down’ a couple of times on her laptop. “We should keep an eye on the time,” she says. “Responsible behaviour required. Not diva-bitch behaviour.”

How are you feeling, missus?

“Great. But I wouldn’t mind if we were only soundchecking today. I’m completely out of my fucking mind.” She takes another swig of her coffee. Although she claims to drink about 20 cups a day, she spills at least half of these. “Coffee helps everything.”

She’s nervous before the performance, but no more or less than normal. She’s also looking forward to meeting Glenn Close again. “I met her in New York when we did the premiere of the movie, but before that we had been in touch by email. Putting the track together we had to email each other a few times so we knew we were fellow nutters. But she’s more sanely nuts than I am. She’s actor nuts. And I mean ‘nuts’ as a compliment.”

By now, you can tell that she’s simply dying to sing the song. Her manager Facthna O’Ceallaigh wasn’t convinced that this trip would be worth the effort, but Sinéad insisted that she was doing it. “I wouldn’t have bothered leaving Dublin one way or the other except the fucking song is such a bastard of a song. It’s one of the biggest bastards of a song that I’ve ever had anything to do with. It could just make me do anything, that song. It has total control over me.”

More to the point, when it comes to the performance, will she have total control over it?

Los Angeles. Where anyone with a prescription can purchase medical marijuana at any number of registered outlets, but smoking tobacco is strictly verboten. Not that this bothers Sinéad. As the musicians tune-up in preparation for the soundcheck in the Palihouse function room, she wanders over to me with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth: “Gimme a light, will you?”

“Sinéad, you can’t smoke here. It’s a major fucking

no-no.”



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