[ August 2000 ]

• [August 30, 2000 - Handed by Noodle] Sinéad quote from UK's Heat mag: "Have you heard the joke about the Kentucky Freud Chicken?  It's motherfucking good!" - Sinéad O'Connor cracks us up.

• [August 26, 2000 - Handed by Carol] Irish Voice newspaper reports that Sinéad is auctioning off her house in Atlanta.The proceeds will be used to build a clinic in Limerick, Ireland for alcohol counseling.

• [August 25, 2000 - Handed by Kai Chai] The title of Sinéad's new song to be released on the Rugrats In Paris soundtrack has been announced as When You Love. The song is a collaboration between Sinéad and Wyclef Jean, who produced the track. The film's music supervisor George Acogny says: "Sinéad's When You Love summarizes the whole film. It's an emotional ballad written specifically for the movie, and truly shows Sinéad at her best."

• [August 24, 2000 - Handed by Kai Chai] Promotional trips to Denmark, Holland, France, Germany, Japan, Australia and New

Zealand are being worked on, to take place on October. The trips will feature promo appearances on TV's and radio stations as well.

• [August 24, 2000 - Handed by Kai Chai] Apart from Faith and Courage's Dancing Lessons, Sinéad also did another song with Wyclef Jean, which will surface on the new Rugrats OST (Warner). There's also a possiblity that Sinéad will contribute to the OST of the upcoming Adam Sandler film.

• [August 24, 2000 - Handed by Kai Chai] Here's the tracklisting for Sinéad's upcoming single, Jealous:

          The video for the single was shot on August 13 by Mike Lipscombe. The song will go to radio playlists starting from
..........August 28 and the European release date is September 29.

• [August 22, 2000 - Handed by Ben] Today the Queen Latifah show taped an episode with Sinéad to be broadcasted in a few weeks' time. She did a live version of her new single Jealous as well as a duet with Latifah, a song which is believed to be one of Latifah's own. There was also a section where Sinéad met some fans, click here to read the story from Ben and here to read from Jen.

• [August 22, 2000 - Handed by Noodle] Jealous enjoyed an extensive play during UK's Dawson's Creek last week.

• [August 21, 2000 - Handed by Ben] Sinéad performed a special mini-concert for NBC's Summer Concert series yesterday morning. You can read a review here, written by UM's special journalist Ben Adams!

• [August 19, 2000] The Queen Latifah show this Tuesday, August 22, will feature Sinéad as a special guest. There will also be some fan footage at the show and Sinéad is scheduled to perform a few numbers.

• [August 17, 2000 - Handed by Marcel] Vote for Jealous! An Italian radio station now has the song listed in their online hit list. Click here to go there and vote for the second single off Faith and Courage.

• [August 16, 2000 - Handed by Ben] Sinéad showed up at the Jay Leno show yesterday, singing Jealous and giving a little interview. Click here to read a comprehensive review written by Ben Adams.

• [August 11, 2000 - Handed by Veronika] Great new interview from the Czech press, translated by Veronika. Click here to read the interview in full, where Sinéad puts insight into her new album, her priesthood and her family.

• [August 8, 2000 - Handed by Jm] According to a HMV store, Jealous will be out on September 14. Yet no tracklisting is known.

• [August 3, 2000 - Handed by Jake] It's nearly certain that Jealous will be the second single off Faith and Courage. Rumour also has it that Atlantic are planning an extended dance remix for 'Til I Whisper U Something.

• [August 2, 2000] Q Online reports that the news concerning Sinéad's excommunication are untrue. Apparently, one of the Order's bishops -Martin Pius Kelly- made a public announcent about Sinéad when in actuality he had no authority to do so. The founder of Tridentine Church, Archbishop Michael Cox says of the incident: "Bishop Kelly has been suspended and I've apologised to Sinéad. He should have come to me, his archbishop, if he did feel that something was amiss with Sinéad. In actual fact I'm very happy with her, she does very good work which she doesn't want the media to know about." Click here to read the story in full...

[August 1, 2000 - Handed by Matthew] The Heat magazine reports that Sinéad has been excommunicated from The Latin Tridentine Order. The reason is, acconding to the mag, "flaunting her sexuality." There was also a mention of her new tongue stud. Details to come as soon as they're available...

© 2000 Deniz Cebe
This page is a part of  the news database of Universal Mother for June 2000.
Last updated on September 29