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January 1999
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sinead in millennium concert
Clinton controversy part 1
millennium gig update
New Sinead T.V. appearance.
Sinead and Indigo Girls
You've Got Mail Movie
Tear Of Stone withdrawn ???
Chiquitita video clip
I'll Make You A Priest, Sinead
Tears of Stone according to ICE
Clinton controversy part 2
Sinead accused of neglecting daughter
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sinead in millennium concert
Read this in a sting newsgroup today:
<Sting, along with U2, Sinead O'Connor, Peter Gabriel, and Alanis Morrisette are among 50 musicians who will perform in a 24 hour millenium concert which will be broadcast live over the internet and
on television New Year's Eve of 1999.>
can anyone provide more info regarding this?
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Clinton controversy part 1
A newspaper had the next article:
Famous Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has caused a new scandal by addressing the USA prisident Bill Clinton as the most sexy man of the world. Sinead O'Connor, who declared that she envied Monica
Lewinsky, said: "When I met Clinton, I got very excited. I wish I had taken those cigars to the president myself instead of Monica."
Please take it for granted, we don't know how she said it, and whether she really said it....
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millennium gig update
<From the World Entertainment News Network>
(DEC. 31) WENN - FOURTH - HOLLYWOOD, SHOWBIZ & PEOPLE NEWS - feature U2, STING, BON JOVI, SINEAD O'CONNOR and CELINE DION among others.
They're among the 50 performers already keen to take part in a 24-hour event on the eve of the new century - which will be beamed around the world via the Internet. More than 80 national and
international TV broadcasters have already pledged to broadcast parts of the show live themselves.
The event has quietly been put together during the past year by American Live Aid producer HAL UPLINGER and London based Japanese entrepreneur HIROSHI KATO. WARCHILD, the British charity which aids
children around the world, maimed and orphaned by the ravages of war, are one of the most important sponsors. According to Kato, the round-the-world concert will feature QUINCY JONES producing and
performing from the Antarctic, EURYTHMIC DAVE STEWART producing a global choir of 200 children.>
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New Sinead T.V. appearance.
Sinéad appeared in a comedy programme on BBC2 called Bang Bang, it's Reeves and Mortimer. To my surprise they were conducting an interview with Sinead. They were wearing masks.( Sinead wasn't ) It
finished with them pretending to get very angry with her and storming off the set leaving Sinead sitting there. She looked a little bemused/ amused and said "is that it?" lights fade, credits
roll. Anyone see the rest of it?
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Sinead and Indigo Girls
Found this on the Indigo Girls Mailing List
>>>Indigo Girls Hit The Studio In February<<<
One of the hardest working duos in show business will be getting back on the bus in February. The Indigo Girls, who have been writing new material for the
past six months, will head to London to record new tracks with Sinead O'Connor's band during the first week of February, according to a spokesperson for
Epic Records.
Whether or not the girls work on any new tracks with O'Connor herself depends on the singer's schedule (she's currently working on her own album with
producer Dave Stewart (allstar, Dec. 22, 1998). The duo will be recording one or two new tracks at the home studio of O'Connor's drummer.
The following week, the duo will head to their drummer Jerry Marotta's home studio in Woodstock, New York to work on a few more tracks before heading
back to their hometown of Atlanta and recording the remainder of the new album. A producer hasn't been chosen yet.
A few songs the duo performed on last year's Suffragette Sessions Tour (allstar, July 16, 1998), including the Amy Ray-penned "Go," may turn up on the
new album, their seventh studio effort overall and first since 1997's Shaming of the Sun.
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You've Got Mail Movie
In the movie "You've Got Mail" they don't use sinead's version of 'i guess the lord must be in new york city' in the movie proper. Hardcore Sinéad-fans *must* stay till the end. Because when the end
credits started rolling, and lo and behold, sinead's version comes on. it is the very, very last song you'd hear.
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Tear Of Stone withdrawn ???
According to the biggest import channel of Holland (Bertus), the Chieftains new coming album thats already been delayed several times, is now withdrawn.
(Of course that also may mean it's just delayed for a longer period now). The only channel that didn't cancel YET, is the Japanese one. It's still possible to order a Japanese import, but that would
cost about $45-$40 to get. And I'm asuming they will cancel also one of these days.
(Note added february 20th: the album got finally released on february 15th 1999)
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Chiquitita video clip
There's an video clip for Sinead's version of the ABBA song Chiquitita. It's a lovely clip of Sinead in the kitchen making a cup of tea and singing as if she were talking toyou. It's faded colour
rather than b/w I think, but it's virtually b/w anyway, and Sinead directs her speech towards the people at home as if they
are Chiquitita. So I'm Chiquitita last night on the sofa, and Sinead is making me a cup of tea. She offers me some biscuits and even does a little dance with the biscuit tin when she sings "you'll be
dancing once again". It's a nice clip. Sinead is great in it. Wearing War Child t-shirt (black) and dark army style pants. Hair is about 2 cm long.
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I'll Make You A Priest, Sinead
I'll Make You A Priest, Sinead.
Bishop Pat vow to star.
Rebel Bishop Pat Buckley has offered to make Sinead O'Connor's dearest wish come true. He is prepared to help the singer become a priest - despite the
Vatican's ban on women. Bishop Pat said: "I would like to meet with Sinead and discuss her wishes. If she still wants to be a priest and is of appropriate disposition, then I would be prepared to have
her study for the priesthood with a view to eventually ordaining her. Sinead has always impressed me. She has been a troubled and a tortured soul, but she also has a great spiritual element to her
life. I also like the fact that she is a liberal thinker with courage, qualities which have been displayed by her on a number of occasions, such as when she tore up the photo of the Pope during a
concert in New York."
"Sinead challenges things, and that is precisely the kind of person we need in the Church."
The 32 year old star spoke of her ambition on a recent edition of Gay Byrne's Late, Late Show in Dublin. She said: "I would like to be a priest, but a woman is not allowed to be one." Sinead added
that it was something she dreamed of even when she was younger. "I wanted to do something for myself," she explained. "Something I considered to be in religious service. Yet I didn't want to do what
most women with a calling did - become a nun."
Sinead married John Reynolds in 1989. The pair who had a son Jake, later separated. She had a child by Dublin journalist John Waters. Any move by
Bishop Pat to ordain her as a priest - to be known as Mother Sinead - is sure to spark fury in Rome.
The News Of The World [Irish NOTW] columnist [Bishop Pat] outraged the Catholic Church last autumn when he defied the Pope and ordained Ireland's
firt woman priest. Mother Frances Meigh assists him in churches at Larne, Co Antrim and Omeath, Co Louth. The Vatican is thought to be probing Bishop Pat and his activities. And some Irish Catholics
want the Curch at its highest level to issue a statement disowning him.
Last September, the then Father Pat was ordained a bishop by rebel Tridentine bishop, Michael Cox. The Catholic Church in Ireland then officially declared that Bishop Pat had excommunicated himself
for taking part in the ceremony.
Seperate article... Hymn To Sinead.
Bishop Pat Buckley is offering to help Sinead O'Connor realise her ambition to become a priest. Aparently the rock star has always dreamed of donning a dog collar.
Bishop Pat does insist that candidates for the priesthood in his breakaway organisation should meet the most exacting standards of holiness and integrity. If Sinead passes that hurdle and does become
Mother Sinead, no doubt a new tune could enter the hymn books.
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Tears of Stone according to ICE
First, the more music-oriented news, from ICE Magazine:
CHIEFLY ABOUT WOMEN
Four years after enlisting such luminaries as Sting, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, and The Rolling Stones for The Long Black Veil, Ireland's national treasures, The Chieftains, do it again with Tears
Of Stone, coming February 23 on RCA Victor. For this outing, the group turns its attention to female themes with a little help from Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, The Corrs, Joan Osborne,
Natalie Merchant, O'Connor, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Diana Krall, and Loreena McKennit,
among others.
The album opens with a poem by W.B. Yeats, "Never Give All The Heart," read by Academy Award-winning actress Brenda Fricke (My Left Foot) with backing vocals by Anuna, an Irish chorale group.
What follows is the remainder of the tracks, with the guest vocalist in parentheticals: "A Stor Mo Chroi" (Raitt), "The Lowlands Of Holland" (Merchant), "Magdelene Laundries" (Mitchell), "Jimmy
Momihle Stur" (Candadian Celtic artists The Rankins), "I Know My Love" (The Corrs), "FACTORY GIRL" (not the Rolling Stones tune; O'Connor), "Deserted Soldier" (Carpenter), "Ye Rambling Boys Of
Pleasure" (McKennitt), "Sake In The Jar" (Japanese vocalist Akiko Yano), "Raglan Road" (Osborne), "Siuil A Run" (with Sissel, the Norwegian voice of Titanic fame), "Lady Fiddlers" (featuring just that
with Natalie McMaster and Riverdance's Eileen Ivers), and the traditional "Danny Boy" (Krall).
In a prepared statement, chief Chieftain Paddy Moloney describes the album as a tribute "to the beauty and magnificence of womanhood," and adds that the disc was five years in the making. A
world tour is planned in support of the album.
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Clinton controversy part 2
SINGER SINEAD O'CONNOR URGES END TO CLINTON TRIAL
Apparently she has taken yet another article out in the Irish Times, this time about the man she describes as "the sexiest man in the universe." The article mentions the cigar quote again, and
my personal highlight is when she asks, "Does impeachment mean they're gonna turn him into a peach? If so, can I eat him?" That girl.
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Sinead accused of neglecting daughter
Page 14, Sunday Mirror, Jan 31 1999. (United Kingdom).
SINEAD'S FURY OVER CHILD NEGLECT PROBE.
ALLEGATIONS: Sinead denies claims of child neglect
AT WAR: Sinead and Waters
Rock star Sinead O'Connor is to be quizzed over claims that she has neglected her two-year-old daughter Roisin. The girl's father went to police last week - two days after the singer sacked her nanny
- and she is now facing a police quiz. But Sinead, who also has a son Jake from an earlier relationship, vehemently denied the allegations in an exclusive Sunday Mirror interview. She said: "The
police are welcome to come into my home at any time to check this. I would take issue with anyone who says I am neglecting my children."
Roisin's dad, Irish writer John Waters, 37, claimed he had been barred from going into Sinead's £1 million North London home. Mr Waters made a complaint at Highgate police station. On Friday he had
talks with officers from the Metropolitan Police specialist child protection team.
Devastated Sinead said: "The father of my child has been threatening to take Roisin away from me since she was born, even making a claim when the child was eight weeks old that I am not a fit mother
because I was abused as a kid.
"He has seized on the fact that I fired my daughter's nanny last week and has twisted this for his own reasons." Referring to the complaint made to Highgate police, she said: "John has done this out
of vindictiveness and he has threatened to do this before.
"I stopped him coming into my house because he was undermining myself and my son. But I have never stopped him seeing his daughter. "Now he cannot see the child in this house but is still free to see
her outside. "He does not pay anything toward his daughter's upkeep and he wanted me to employ two nannies. We made an arrangement to have the baby together as friends. "But when I had the baby he
moved the goalposts and wanted to get married. But he didn't love me."
Last night the Metropolitan Police confirmed they were investigating Mr Waters' claims.
[Mars-L; Didn't sing Sinéad about that same man and "his baby in her belly" in "4 My Love" and "This IS A Rebel Song"??? painfull !!! ]
february 2nd came this;
HOLLYWOOD -- Irish rocker Sinead O'Connor, 33, has taken up a new cause: fighting to keep custody of her two-year-old daughter, Roisin, the New
York Daily News reported yesterday.
The singer vowed "to fight to the death" when she learnt that the child's father, writer John Waters, complained to London police that she had neglected the child.
"This is all a plan to get Roisin away from me," she said. "Anyone can walk into a police station and make a complaint. There's nothing I can do about it."
One possible point of contention is her reported referral to him as a "donor" when she became pregnant. "That's not what I said at all," she said. "I said it was 'a donor situation'. He used me. I was
the donor. I carried the child and now he wants to take it away from me."
also february 2nd;
LONDON (February 2, 1999 5:31 p.m. EST) - Sinead O'Connor declared Tuesday she would sue the father of her daughter after allegations that she neglected two-year-old Roison were dismissed. O'Connor
said Irish journalist John Waters' accusations arose out of "malice and vindictiveness."
"It's the worst thing that you could accuse a person of, other than sexual abuse," she said from her home in the fashionable area of Camden, north London.
"Camden Council have been down and inspected my house, inspected my children and inspected all of us, and are satisfied that there is no basis for the allegations.
"I will be suing him for filing a malicious report and suing him for putting it in the papers, for the damage to my career and family life."
A Camden Council spokesman confirmed that a social worker had visited the house and that they would not betaking the matter any further.
O'Connor was angered by the emotional distress inflicted on her son Jake, 11. "He's worried that his sister might be removed from the house or that his Mammy is in trouble," she said. The singer and
songwriter said she had lost 10 days' studio time as a result of the disruption at a cost of thousands of pounds.
"Now John will have to go through the courts and let the judges work out how and when he can see Roisin. He has just made life much more difficult for himself."
O'Connor and Waters, 37, had Roisin after she announced on a Dublin chat show that she wanted him to father her child. They were apart when the girl was born.
The singer said the latest rift came about after she decided to fire one of her nannies. Waters, who also lives in London, then made a complaint to police about the care of the children.
february 3rd;
The Mirror
HEADLINE: WATERS IS A BULLY.. HE TREATED ME LIKE A PIECE OF DIRT - SINEAD
O'CONNOR A FURIOUS SINGER DEMANDS JUSTICE AFTER BEING CLEARED OF CHILD NEGLECT
ROCK star Sinead O'Connor last night threatened to sue her daughter's father who alleged that she had mistreated the child.
In an exclusive interview with the Irish Mirror she slammed John Waters after being cleared by social services yesterday of neglecting the welfare of their two-year-old daughter Roisin.
She told how:
Waters has never paid a penny of maintenance for Roisin. He used her "like a battery hen" because he was desperate for a baby He wanted to marry her because his mother didn't approve of their
relationship. He dumped her when she was eight months pregnant and tried to have Roisin
taken away when she was just eight weeks old.
She said: "I've never met anybody who treated me so despicably as John. "I fell in love with him and I still love him now - I've always loved him
and I wanted to have his baby. "But I never want to set eyes on him again after what he has done.
"If I get in the same room as him I'll give him such a punch in the stomach he won't forget. "I've spent days howling and crying in pain because of him."
Sinead, who also has a son, Jake, from a previous relationship, said she was completely shocked when she heard about the social services' investigation.
The probe came after Waters filed a complaint last week.
He went to see them after a huge row with the rock star over the sacking of Roisin's nanny. Sinead said: "It's hard to believe he's capable of something like this - he must be going through some kind
of crisis. "Social services coming was harrowing - but it's only one of a series of experiences that have been very bullying.
"I don't want to get into a situation where I'm slagging him off. Both of those things are seriously disgusting."
When Sinead first fell pregnant with Waters' baby it was claimed she had made an arrangement just to get pregnant. But last night she revealed it was Waters who was desperate to have a child. She
said: "John used me to get a baby - I was in a donor situation. I have been a donor for John.
"He was desperate to have children and he used me very badly. "He used me like a battery hen." The couple broke up when Sinead was eight weeks pregnant. Sinead said it was Waters who dumped her when
she was most vulnerable. She said: "John stopped speaking to me and he didn't speak to me for the rest of the pregnancy. It was so cruel - I spent my time howling and crying.
"Then two days before he thought the child was due to be born he came to the door and said 'well done'. "It was as though I had just passed some kind of test."
Waters, a writer for the Irish Times, claims he has been happy to pay maintenance for Roisin.
But Sinead says he has never paid anything. She said: "I have never denied access to John - he comes and stays with me. He comes whenever he wants. "But he has never paid a penny for the upkeep of his
child - I swear that on the lives of everybody I love. "All he has paid is his own air fare to come from Ireland and visit her -that's it. "When Roisin was eight weeks old he applied to take her away
from me "My mother and father fought for custody of me and my sister when we were
kids." He took a book about that to his lawyers. He said I wasn't fit to be a mother because I was abused as a child. His lawyer phoned me and told me I had met my match this time."She said 'I'm going
to take your children away'. I told her Roisin was only eight weeks old and needed me.
"She said that my daughter was attached to me only because she was used to me and she would get used to somebody else."" Sinead revealed she has had many hours of counselling to help her through the
trauma of the relationship.
She blames Waters' mother for helping to cause the split. She said: "We were friends. We agreed to have a baby, but we were friends
too."Then his mother was ashamed of what we had done. I heard him talking to her on the phone and he was crying."He wanted us to get married but I wouldn't because I knew he didn't love me after the
way he treated me. "My son's father was the man who got me through Roisin's pregnancy."Now the star says she will sue Waters for the damage his allegations have done to her career.
She said: "John's done all this to damage me and my career. "People follow me round on the street telling me I neglect my children."I will sue him for making a malicious complaint against me - I have
proof and evidence and I'm prepared to take the stand myself."I have had enough of being bullied around by John, and now I'm going to throw the book at him."He hasn't got the testosterone to beat me
up which is what he really wants to do."He has always been a bullying character - he's treated me like an absolute piece of dirt."It would be very upsetting for anyone, but particularly for me after
what happened to me as a child."He knows me and he knows just how to hurt me. He's using that knowledge now."
Last night a spokesman for Camden Council confirmed the investigation against Sinead had been dropped.
also February 3rd
Audrey Magee reports on feud between Sinead O'Connor and the father of her daughter
Sinead O'Connor: "I thought I was going to faint when I heard what he did"
Singer to sue over child abuse claims
SINEAD O'CONNOR is to sue a former boyfriend after he told police and social services that she abused their child. The multimillionaire Irish singer was cleared of the allegations
after a visit from Camden social services this week. She told The Times yesterday that she was suing John Waters, an Irish journalist, for defamation and maliciously claiming that she neglected and
emotionally abused their two-year-old daughter.
Mr Waters, a columnist on The Irish Times who divides his time between London and Dublin, had reported Ms O'Connor to police and social services in North London last week. O'Connor said he had made
five allegations, including one that implied she had a drug habit. She has admitted smoking cannabis.
Social services called at her home in Highgate on Monday afternoon and, after a 90-minute meeting, exonerated the singer. A spokesman for Camden social services yesterday confirmed that they had
visited O'Connor's house. He said: "We went to follow up a complaint that had been made by a former boyfriend and we followed it up. We are not planning to take further action."
Yesterday the singer said: "This was an absolutely disgraceful thing for him [Mr Waters] to do. A lot of people know that whatever you can say about me, being a bad mother is not one of them. They
know I have been a very loving and conscientious mother."
O'Connor, 32, has rejected all Mr Waters's claims. She added: "I do not take drugs - I smoke a little weed now and again, which I told the social workers and they laughed. I do not take drink or any
other drugs. Everybody knows that."
O'Connor, who was abused as a child by her alcoholic and drug-dependent mother, said she had been deeply wounded by Mr Waters's action. "I thought I was going to faint when I heard what he did. Coming
from the family that I did and having been taken into care, my greatest fear is being told that I was unfit to look after my children. But I handled it. They assured me I was a good mother."
The often acrimonious relationship between O'Connor and Mr Waters, 37, began in Dublin in 1995. He had written about the singer in glowing terms the previous year. They decided, soon after meeting, to
have a baby. She insisted at the time they were not lovers, but friends in "a donor situation". She embarrassed him by suggesting he was no more than a sperm donor. They parted when she was pregnant
and only spoke again shortly before the birth, which he attended.
Mr Waters uses his newspaper column to complain about the unfair treatment he says is meted out to fathers, particularly those separated from the mothers of their children.
Mr Waters, who was not available for comment yesterday, sees his daughter, Roisin, almost every week and takes her to Ireland on holidays. He is teaching her Irish to ensure she remembers her roots.
O'Connor says she will sue Mr Waters for defamation in London and Dublin and is considering her legal options in relation to malicious reporting, which is a crime in Ireland. She said: "I will never
interfere in his relationship with Roisin, but I will not let anybody do what he has done to me. He wants me to look like a hypocrite. I do not want his money because that would hurt his daughter. But
I will hear a judge say, 'You have been defamed by this man and should be getting all his money'. I am going to take"
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