Gospel Oak EP
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Gospel Oak is an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

. The album sold 250,000 worldwide.

The cover photograph of the album shows the two brick skew arch
Skew arch
A skew arch is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a right angle. This results in the faces of the arch not being perpendicular to its abutments and its plan view being a parallelogram, rather than the rectangle that is the plan view of...

 bridges adjacent to Gospel Oak railway station
Gospel Oak railway station
Gospel Oak railway station is in the borough of Camden in north London. It is on the North London Line and is also the western passenger terminus of the Gospel Oak to Barking Line...

 in north London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, UK.

Track listing

  1. "This Is to Mother You" (O'Connor) – 3:13
  2. "I Am Enough for Myself" (O'Connor) – 4:07
  3. "Petit Poulet" (O'Connor) – 3:44
  4. "4 My Love" (O'Connor) – 4:06
  5. "This Is a Rebel Song" (O'Connor) – 3:03
  6. "He Moved Through the Fair
    She Moved Through the Fair
    "She Moved Through the Fair" is a traditional Irish folk song, existing in a number of versions and which has been recorded many times.-Origins:...

    " (live) (traditional arr.: O'Connor/Lunny/Henderson) - 4:22

Personnel

  • Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

     - vocals, electric guitar on track 5
  • John Reynolds
    John Reynolds (musician)
    John Reynolds is a record producer. He was the first husband of singer Sinéad O'Connor; they have one child, Jake. Reynolds, formerly a drummer for Jah Wobble, met O'Connor and recorded her first album, The Lion and the Cobra...

     - drums, bass, programming
  • Clare Kenny
    Clare Kenny
    Clare Kenny is a British musician who has been bassist for a number of groups from the 1980s to the present day, including:* Amazulu* Shakespears Sister* Orange Juice* Coming up Roses* Indigo Girls* Sinéad O'Connor* Damien Dempsey* Andrea Corr...

     - bass
  • Justin Adams
    Justin Adams
    -Biography:The son of a diplomat, Adams grew up in the middle-east and Egypt, before settling in the UK.He began his career in music in the 1980s with the band The Impossible Dreamers...

     - guitar
  • Caroline Dale
    Caroline Dale
    Caroline Dale is a widely-recorded British cellist who has performed music for numerous films, including Truly, Madly, Deeply, Hilary and Jackie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as well as the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and 2007's Academy Award winner Atonement...

     - cello
  • Carol Issacs - piano, accordion
  • Ian Stanley
    Ian Stanley
    Ian Stanley is an English musician, songwriter and record producer...

     - key sounds
  • Davy Spillane
    Davy Spillane
    Davy Spillane is a songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle.early yearsDavy was born in Dublin in 1959 . At the age of 12 he started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him and inspired him with his love of all music genres...

     - low and high whistle
  • Jah Wobble
    Jah Wobble
    Jah Wobble is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums...

     - bass on track 3
  • Andy Wright - programming on track 3
  • Dónal Lunny
    Dónal Lunny
    Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician. Lunny has been at the forefront of the evolution of traditional Irish music for more than thirty-five years and has participated within the renaissance of traditional Irish music in that time period...

     - bozouki
  • Graham Henderson - keyboards

Chart performance

Chart (2003) Peak
position
Certification
Billboard Top 200 128
Austrian Album Charts 49
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