Sinead O'Connor

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (pronounced /ʃɪˈneɪd oʊˈkɒnər/, shi-NAYD-oh-KON-ər[1]; born 8 December 1966) is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U". Since then she has regularly courted controversy with her views on religion, while still maintaining a career in music.

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Edward Scissorhands, Mel Winning and Simon Dee
PARSLEY’S COMMLOCK Theatre Review : Edward Scissorhands, Sadler’s Wells Continued my Tim Burton education with a trip to Sadler’s Wells for a musical adaptation of Edward Scissorhands.<!--break--> I hadn’t seen the film so I thought it would be interesting to see this version first. My friend Tony Reeve assures me I’ll be blubbing my way through the film version,...
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Bomb The Bass : Future Chaos
Its been a fair old time since Bomb The Bass had an album out, 15 years in fact, and even longer since their biggest track ‘Beat Dis’ topped the charts in 1987. Tim Simenon’s ever evolving outfit has come a long way since then with the newest incarnation moving towards minimal electronics and Krafwerk inspired beats. In stripping the production back to the bear bones an unusual...
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The World Is Yours
Band name: Ian Brown Label: Fiction Teaser: It’s fairly standard opinion that Ian Brown’s new single is ‘the most lamentable piece of music you’re likely to hear all year’ but will it’s parent album redeem the monkeyman? David Carritt investigates… Pull quote 2: The lowest point comes in the form of an ill-advised collaboration...
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