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# Sinead O’Connor: Brighton Dome: Music Review
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/sinead-oconnor-brighton-dome-music-review/
- Published: 2013-05-10T22:55:01.000Z
- Updated: 2013-05-11T01:05:50.000Z
- Description: The question of whether Sinead O’Connor would go into a ranting meltdown was swiftly answered with a flash of her beaming smile at her Crazy Baldhead Tour at the Brighton Dome.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Music

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The question of whether **Sinead O’Connor** would go into a ranting meltdown was swiftly answered with a flash of her beaming smile at her **Crazy Baldhead Tour** at the **Brighton Dome**.Back at last, the singer boldly exhibited her critically acclaimed, and brilliantly titled, comeback album, 2012’s *How About I Be Me (And You Be You)*, as a prelude to her Celtic musings and reluctant chart successes.Dedicated to that other heretic Joan of Arc, the show opened with O’Connor, stomping barefooted and angst-ridden through a biting version of John Grant’s *Queen of Denmark*, which features the gem *“I wanted to change the world, but I couldn’t even change my underwear”*, all before bouncing straight into the rustling-in-the-hay, barnyard shuffle, of *4th and Vine*.Now 21 years since *that* incident on Saturday Night Live, it was the territory and the message of *Take Off Your Shoes*, a pledge to the Vatican that she will *“Bleed the blood of Jesus over you”* and that they are *“running out of battery”*, which were still the most pertinent, and saw O’Connor on familiar ground, sans fragments of a photograph of Pope Francis.Not one for mono-syllabic album titles, O’Connor’s *I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got* was touched upon with the rocking *Emperor’s New Clothes*, the misty ode to child mortality *Three Babies*, and a semi-catatonic *Nothing Compares 2 U* (well, it has by now been 13 years, 7 hours and 15 days), whereby O’Connor virtually vacated the premises.The casual fan may have been disappointed with glaring omissions; there was no *Troy*, too angry, nor was there *Mandinka* (her first UK top 20 single). But then she’s not one to peddle to the masses.*VIP*, a venom-filled attack on the vacuity of celebrity culture, ended the set; a sign that she’s done with the lip service and instead lets her music pull the punches.For future tour info, view: [www.sineadoconnor.com](http://www.sineadoconnor.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)