Tom Dunne's Music & Me: Nothing compares to Sinéad O'Connor 

Despite the fact that she once almost ruined a gig for us, I can't say enough good things about a true national treasure 

 Sinéad O'Connor. Picture: Ian West/PA Wire

The Olympia Theatre, a dressing room near the stage, sometime in 2012. The barely audible tones of Sinéad O’Connor’s gig are wafting gently across the room. Spirits are high. Myself and Something Happens are appearing at a multi-band charity gig. It’s just four songs, a great cause and great to catch up. What could go wrong?

The wisdom of going on after Sinéad O’Connor had been briefly discussed but at this point it had been five years since her Theology album and apparently she had stopped performing Nothing Compares To You. Mind you I’d seen her singing Scarlet Ribbons accapella a few months previously so I wasn’t completely at ease.