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    ‘Il caposaldo della cultura irlandese’ – Hot Press festeggia 50 anni

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    1. PoppedCork on

      Fair play to Hot Press on 50 years. It’s easy to forget how much of a role it played in Irish music and culture for decades. I used to buy it back in the day and it was often the first place you’d read a proper interview or hear about a new Irish band. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but it definitely left its mark.

    3. Meath77 on

      This is something I never buy, but I’d be sad if it went. Gonna buy a copy if I see it in the shop now

    4. JunkDrawerPencil on

      I used to get it from the guy who sold them outside bewleys on grafton st, he’d have the new issue the day before the shops.

      It was the best way to find out what bands were playing, about new releases and then I’d skip past the self indulgent columns about taking drugs that most of their writers seemed to specialise in.

      Very good interviews too.

    5. Terrible_Reality4261 on

      I went through a phase of buying that magazine, I absolutely hated it as a teenager in 90s, thought it was useless for music I was listening too.
      And look at that line up for this evening, thats why I still hate it.

    6. jimi_he on

      How it stayed in business this long boggles the mind.  Funding, maybe?  Who knows.  Its always been shit imo

    7. _BangoSkank_ on

      A magazine with it’s head up its own hole. NME or Melody Maker or later Mojo or Uncut were way more informative and relevant at the time.

    8. dropthecoin on

      Fair play to Hot Press. They’re lasting out longer than many other contemporaries. I’ve also found the magazine to be very selective or niche though in its content. Also, I don’t know a single person who has or does regularly buy it.

    9. WoahGoHandy on

      I used to buy this in college religiously 20 years ago along with Q magazine and NME. Q magazine was actually decent but NME/Hot Press were shite, but I bought them anyway.

      I was surprised at the time that Ireland could support its own magazine. Now I’m shocked. How the fcuk is Niall Stokes making a living? Maybe they’re getting government funding or something.

    11. Substantial_Rope8225 on

      I’m working at the gig later, looking forward to it but can’t figure out what the crowd demographic will be.. assuming 40s-50s?

    12. MintyTyrant on

      Maybe they can celebrate 50 years by paying their interns instead of leading them on

    14. BillyMooney on

      They were a hugely important communications channel in the 80s, long before the Internet. I remember reading about this Pogues crowd that were coming over from London and managed to make it to their first gig in Dublin. I remember Shane O’Neill from Blue in Heaven flashing his pubes on the cover. He explained that there was copious amounts of Jack Daniels provided by their publicist for that shoot. I remember regular columnist Michael D Higgins noting how Eamo Dunphy was ‘tugging the forelock’ to his boss at Independent Newspapers, Tony O’Reilly.

      I even got ‘small ad of the week’ once, from their personal ads, but that’s another story.

    15. Vast_Heaven on

      I’ve never heard of this magazine so I thought we were celebrating the concept of the hot press and got very confused.

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