In Between Days of Sinéad O'Connor

 

Sinéad O'Connor performing Mandinka, aged 22

at the Grammy's in 1989

 

In the midst of Brit-Pop mania, Sleeper released Inbetweener, a song about the suburb, boredom, frustration and lack of a deeper connection in love, in life. The song ends “Now it's much too late to ask me where I've been You were just my in-betweener”. It’s about 7.30PM when the song ends on 26 July 2023, Jo Whiley talks at her usual fast speed about next day show with Steve Lamacq on BBC having a memory lane special about Brit-Pop when she abruptly reports Sinéad O'Connor’s death.

A young menopausée has left our soil, it's now her time to fly high.

In 1992, aged 26, Sinéad O'Connor condemns the Catholic Church for sexually abusing over 70000 children and tears off a picture of the then pope. Many artists like Madonna will condemn the Irish singer and activist for her action!

13 days later, at a Bob Dylan Anniversary concert, she gets booed for speaking up, for breaking silence on abuse. The violence of that scene is chilling, but here she stands defiantly, looking straight, taking the crap!

On 3 October 2013, she writes to Miley Cyrus in The Guardian warning the young singer about the phallocratic patriarchy in the music business. Followed up days later by Annie Lennox.

Today, Annie Lennox celebrates the singer Sinéad O'Connor joining Massive Attack; Jah Wobble; Brendan Courtney; Louise Woodward-Styles; Laura Cumming; Sinead O’ Shea and so many more for days.

Sadly there is Carole Boinet, sales girl for Les Inrocks where I was sexually harassed in 1991-1992 celebrating my aggressor celebrating the Irish abused female performer and activist! Whom in 1997, he describes in his first paragraphs as morphed by maternity as well as a pacified woman... an artist on her way to maturity when nobody thought she would be capable one day of such writing clarity due to be a tormented soul! Following her death, the former Inrock journalist, sacked journalist, continues his indecency with an anecdote, bragging about being in Letterman's green room and keeps his publicity vivid! (Torments for victims of sexual violence [term he refutes via RT] in journalism never ends as death of an interviewee is an opportunity for predators to be re-born / re-promoted!)

Also sadly, neither Miley Cyrus (too busy promoting a perfume that celebrates 'inner strength') nor Madonna (too busy feeling 'like the Luckiest Star in the world!') have a word for the voice for the voiceless.

Hopefully BBC will put the link back to hear Jo Whiley and Sinéad O'Connor discussing regrets and more... In between without you Without you Without you Without you Without you, without you Without you, without you