L.A. Confidential
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
It’s around 7.30am on the fifth morning of January, and Sinéad O’Connor bounces into the guest bedroom of her Bray seafront home to deliver a personalised wake-up call to your sleepy-eyed Hot Press correspondent. “Wakey-wakey!” she cries. The 45-year-old singer has a child on her back (her five-year-old son, Yeshua) and, for some odd reason, a glass of hot coffee in her hand.
“Sorry, but I couldn’t find a clean cup,” she explains in her husky voice, placing it on the bedside locker. “Anyway, get up! We’re going to LA. Yay!”
Elsewhere in the spacious house, other souls are also stirring. Following a very public break-up after just 16 days of marriage, Sinéad is now back with her new husband, affable drug counsellor Barry Herridge, and as I clamber out of bed, he is getting ready to depart for work in Dublin. Her 15 year-old daughter, Roisin, is also up, helping her mother pack a suitcase.
“Is Count Olaf up yet?” I hear her ask.
Her eldest son, Jake (24), is visiting from London, but there’s no sign of him at this ungodly hour. Nor is there any of seven year-old Shane, though the voice of one of the household’s two male nannies can be heard trying to rouse him. Why male nannies? I wonder. “It’s because my boys don’t have their dads around all the time,” Sinéad explains. “It’s good for them to have men around the house.”
As most of Ireland knows, Sinéad met Barry online after she publicly announced via the Sunday Independent that she was looking for a man, and the couple swapped vows in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 8, the day of her 45th birthday. Married as they may be, the couple don’t actually live together. Late last night, in the comfortable wooden cabin in her back garden, I’d met Barry for the first time and was impressed with his boyish good looks and honest smile. It was also his first time meeting Jake, Sinéad’s son from her first marriage to drummer and producer John Reynolds – a handsome young man who looks like his father.
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