David Holmes pays tribute to the late star, as well as Andy Weatherall and refugees, on his new LP.
In David Holmes's recent single, Necessary Genius, he gives a shout-out to all the "dreamers, radicals, outcasts and misfits".But the Belfast producer saves one of his own personal favourites, Sinead O'Connor, until the very last line: "I believe in Sinead O'Connor / I believe in refugees."
"She was a very sensitive, beautiful person. She used to ring me up and say, 'how are you doing? I think you're working too hard'.The pair originally met at the funeral of another Irish music star, Shane McGowan. "It's a song of two parts," he says. "The first part is heart-breaking. But then in classic Sinead , it comes to a certain point where the emotion of the song completely flips and it becomes this song of defiance.
"I had never written a song until I made the Holy Pictures, and what I realised was that I can't actually write words unless they mean something," he says. "Both of my parents had died and I felt it was my duty to pay tribute to them." "Now as a grown man with a family of my own, I was profoundly challenged by what was going on during Covid and I was shocked by it, so I just started writing and a lot of stuff came out."
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