Sinead O’Connor is back with a new album ready to drop next month. In the meantime, she’s released her new video for ’4th and Vine’ as a taster of what’s to come. Directed by Kathryn Ferguson, it’s an artfully done black and white promo focusing on Irish wedding customs, filmed just outside Dublin. It’s also the first music video to feature Sinead herself in over ten years, as she busks in the pub at the wedding reception!

“As it was a wedding song and reminded me of the traditional wedding songs I decided to look back at the now mostly defunct wedding rituals of mid century rural ireland,” Kathryn explains. “Rituals like breaking the bread over the bride’s head and the appearance of the anonymous strawboys used to feature heavily at most country weddings…”

Sinead O’Connor
4th and Vine
Director: Kathryn Ferguson
Producer: Ruth Treacy
Director of Photography: Patrick Jordan
Second Camera Operator: Julianne Forde
Assistant Camera: Tom Byrne
Costume Design: Tara Roughneen
Wardrobe Assistant: Kate Hoey
Production Design: Mark Kilbride
Art Director: Anna Sweeney
Makeup Artist: Morna Ferguson
Hairdresser: Lorraine Glynn
Assistant Hairdresser: Niamh O’Loan
Assistant Director: Conor Slattery
Extras Co:ordinator: Lorraine Harton
Sound / Playback: Conor Dowling
Additional Sound Design: Filmfonix
Editor: Carly Baker
Colour Grader: Faith Millan c/o Pundersons Gardens
Stills Photography: Sean Breithaupt
Filmed on location in Drake Inn and St. Michael’s Church, Castletown Geoghegan, Westmeath
Bride: Isla Jeffrey
Groom: Darragh O’Toole
Produced by Tailored Film
Thanks to John McDonnell and Linda-May Ballard