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Sex & The Single Girl

With a date at the Olympia Theatre looming in December, and a much anticipated album on the way in the new year, these are crucial times for Sinéad O’Connor. In a remarkable interview, she also discusses her search for a man, the lovers she has known, sex, sex – and more sex. Plus: Ireland of the squinting windows and the Catholic Church...

Olaf Tyaransen, 05 Dec 2011

If sex is one obsession another consistent bugbear of Sinead’s is the Roman Catholic Church. The album’s caustic closing track ‘V.I.P.’ features the lines, “To whom exactly are we giving hope/ When we stand behind the velvet rope/ Or get our pictures taken with the Pope/ Like some sick April fool kinda joke.”

“It’s inspired by my trying to involve certain very, very, very internationally successful Irish artists, major artists, in the Church issue. And, being unsuccessful. And it strikes me as terribly heartbreaking that certain artists are not vocal on those subjects, or on any subjects that are actually important to Irish culture, given the role that artists have played in the past.”

You’re taking a pop at Bono, basically…

She nods. “And Geldof. And, um, things went badly there – you know, trying to kind of involve them… it’s important that we all just entertain and get the tits out and waggle our arses and sing all the gorgeous songs – that’s great. I want to do that as much as anyone. But I also think it’s important that we be conscious, because it was important in Irish history that the musicians and the artists are vocal about certain things. Because you’ve got to ask yourself, could it be that the fact that artists have stopped playing that role, does that play a part in a national stunned silence on certain issues, too?

“The Irish artists and musicians that I admire at the moment are the ones that have actually touched on the Church issue. And when we do go forward into the Second Republic, one of the structures we’re going to have to look at is our spiritual condition, as exemplified by the fuckin’ behaviour of everybody around the presidential election. Like, okay we really need help (laughs). So you know, musicians, they’re all at the Grammys, waving around their Grammys, saying ‘thanks to God’ to their fuckin’ Grammy. And then when there’s a pitch battle in the street for the honour of God, fuckin’ no one’s to be found. There’s tumbleweed. And that just pisses me off.”



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