hotpress.com members update: "Necrophilia is dead boring"
9 May 2007
Good day to you all, hoping that the bank holiday weekend provided a chance for that spring clean that's now overdue. Tut tut tut, says we in HP HQ which you are NOT allowed to inspect without giving us at least an hour's warning. We know our rights.
"It's hard to say I'm sorry
It's hard to make the things I did undone
A lesson I've learned too well, for sure
So don't hang up the phone now
I'm trying to figure out just what to do
I'm going crazy without you"
...Was last week's lyrical teaser, and all the pop people like corritor came out to the fore this week, as indeed it was 'I Want You Back' by N*Sync. Now we'll to try and claw back our credibility with an solo venture from the frontman of a supercool band. There's a clue if ever I saw.
"You shoot me glances and they're so hard to read
I misconstrue what you mean
Slip me a napkin and now that you start
Is this your name or a doctor's eye chart?"
Who's that dyreckon? Answers by reply...
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WIN A TRIP TO HULTSFRED FESTIVAL IN SWEDEN WITH KOPPARBERG - LAST DAY TODAY!
Kopparberg want to reward great taste... We want tasty designers, artists, journalists, photographers anyone with creative ability to amuse and delight us.
All YOU have to do is come up with a design for anything with a music connection: a logo, album cover or gig poster, for instance. And remember we're not saying that your designs have to be practical - if you can make us laugh you'll be in the running.
The winner gets a trip to Hultsfred festival, Sweden which takes place between June 14th - 16th.
So get your thinking caps on!
Entries to designcompetition@hotpress.ie or post them to Hot Press, 13 Trinity St, Dublin 2
Closing date IS TODAY!!
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Songs That We've Been Listening To This Week!
David Bowie - 'Ashes To Ashes' (from Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) 1980)
Sonic Youth - 'Shoot' (from Dirty, 1992)
Director - 'Be With You'
LCD Soundsystem - 'All My Friends' (from Sound Of Silver, 2006)
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NEW ISSUE: OUT NOW!
It's a bit of a politics special, with interviews with Enda Kenny and Pat Rabbitte. Plus there's a Rock The Vote supplement featuring an idiot's guide to democracy and interviews with Colin Farrell and Katy French.
On the music front, we hear what Manic Street Preachers, The Automatic and Headgear have to say. There's plenty of features too, with a summer movie preview and an in-depth interview with Johnny Adair.
Plus bejillions more bits and bobs, all for just 350 shiny cents.
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Vacancies at Hot Press
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Applications for the position of Deputy Advertising Manager can be emailed in the strictest confidence to: jobs@hotpress.ie
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ROCK THE VOTE
Rock the Vote Ireland in association with Hot Press is a non-profit, non-partisan organisation with one simple aim: to increase youth voter turnout in Irish Elections.
In the coming weeks the campaign will show videos from the likes of Mundy, The Thrills, Dara O'Briain, Mario Rosenstock, Rosanna Davison and Colin Farrell, who have pitched in to give their thoughts on voting. Some of these rather amusing shorts will be broadcast on TV while others will be found on hotpress.com.
Look out for guides, articles and other related info in a Hot Press supplement with the issue out on May 3 or see:
http://www.hotpress.com/2920591.html
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hotpress.com members: get CDs for E10!
On offer this fortnight...
Architecture In Helsinki - We Died, They Remixed
We Died, They Remixed is, as the title suggests, a remix album of the octet's In Case We Die. Unlike other remixes, this album is a creative triumph, giving the colourful songs of this bonkers band fresh, new identities. Architecture In Helsinki are the type of freaky renegades that pop music was supposed to be made by all along.
Soulsavers - It's Not How You Fall, It's The Way You Land
Recorded between Los Angeles and the band's home base in the North of England, the album is a bold combination of hip-hop, rock, gospel, soul, and everything else picked up along the way. With frontman Mark Lanegan's smoky rasp completing each track, this solid recording is a necessary addition to any collection.
Eric Eckhart - Lost And Found
With the kind of back story any marketing man would wet his pants over, American Eric Eckhart, the progeny of a socialist railroad worker and proletariat artist, who abandoned the dollar and went into self-imposed exile to search for his soul in Ireland, has released a mini-album that reflect Eric's blue collar roots, and the upheaval of the last few years of his life.
Delorentos - In Love With Detail
They've proved themselves capable of pulling off fresh, gutsy live performances but how do the Dublin 4-piece fare with their highly anticipated debut album In Love With Detail? The results are in and fans won't be let down as it is a formidable first time offering that manages to harness as much raw emotion, fashion melodic hooks, and roll out infectious rhythms as their live shows ever offered.
...And there's tons and tons more, from the likes of yourcodenameis:milo, Leanne Harte, Neosupervital, Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Hollows and more.
If you're a hotpress.com subscriber, buy yourself a present here: http://www.hotpress.com/members/Membercds/
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Murphy's Live 2007 Final
Date: 10 May 2007. Time: 7.30pm. The Village
Ilya K and The Chapters will be battling it out for the Murphy's Live 2007 title.
The Automatic will be headlining the night making sure it will be one to remember.
If you bagged a free ticket, be there early to ensure entry!
For more details see:
http://www.murphys.com/murphys2007/index.asp
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Essential Reading On hotpress.com Department
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End special [free content]
As if we weren't tearing our hair out in anticipation as it is, we've got a series of webpods leading up to the conclusion of the Pirates Of The Caribbean triology - and the first two are available now! Plus we've news of an exclusive competition where you could win a super duper very, very limited edition telescope AND there'll soon be details of how you can go to the Irish premiere. Wooh!
http://www.hotpress.com/av/video/2922251.html
2. Director, Republic Of Loose + Sultans Of Ping headline free Cork festival!
Delorentos, The Aftermath, Fight Like Apes, Hooray For Humans, Bill Coleman, The Times, Television Room, Exit The Street, Lerner, Exit: Pursued By A Bear, The Chapters, Miss Motif, Noise Control, The Stone Roses Experience, Ham Sandwich and Vesta Varro are also set to play for free. Find out the details here.
http://www.hotpress.com/news/2923376.html
3. Enda Kenny interview
As the General Election looms, many polls suggest Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny is the next Taoiseach in waiting. So what is he really like? And where does he stand on the issues that matter to Hot Press readers - like ticket touting?
http://www.hotpress.com/politics/frontlines/2923176.html
4. Spiderman 3 review
It's the big release everyone's been talking about - see what Tara Brady has to say here.
http://www.hotpress.com/features/filmreviews/2922818.html
5. The Election ManicFesto
Returning from an extended hiatus, Manic Street Preachers are in stridently upbeat form. In a revealing interview, they reflect on their enduring cultural imprint and talk about long lost Manic Richey Edwards.
http://www.hotpress.com/music/interviews/2923161.html
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Old News Is Good News Department
The Manic Street Preachers are back! As you may have *just* read. There's been ups, there's been downs, but they've always been highly entertaining. Let's reminisce courtesy of the monolith that is the hotpress.com archive.
Album review, 1994
It's known as their most haunting album, but what did we have to say about it at the time?
http://www.hotpress.com/music/reviews/albums/482654.html
News story, 2004
James Dean Bradfield explains to hotpress.com why Westmeath's Grouse Lodge Studios should win the World Enterprise Award.
http://www.hotpress.com/news/2759349.html
Interview, 1997
Wow, it seems crazy that it was over a decade ago that Everything Must Go was released, but there you have it. Jonoathan O'Brien talks to James Dean Bradfield about their rise to the top thus far.
http://www.hotpress.com/music/interviews/392631.html
Live review, 2001
The Manics take on Smithfield, Dublin, as part of the Heineken Green Energy Festival.
http://www.hotpress.com/music/reviews/live/570317.html
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THE ROOMS: NEW PAPERBACK EDITION OUT NOW
The paperback edition of Declan Lynch's critically acclaimed novel The Rooms has just been released... Inspired by the electrifying best-seller, Mark 'Rasher' Kavanagh has imaginatively captured the essence of The Rooms in a stunning piece of art, which is the book's new cover.
So, the new edition marks the coming together of two of Ireland's brightest creative talents. Rasher's fans include Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Bono's wife Ali Hewson and Princess Haya of Jordan – each of whom own original works by him. Declan Lynch is one of Ireland's finest writers.
Lynch's stunning novel takes the reader behind the closed doors of Alcoholics Anonymous, the biggest secret organisation in the world. Written through the eyes of an Irish musician, the wise and embattled Neil, it is a sustained and brilliant exercise in narrative fiction, that takes the reader on an emotionally charged white-knuckle ride, across the country and back. And right to the heart of the human condition.
But The Rooms is also a love story. As the beautiful and enigmatic Jamaica, a rising star of the fashion world, bewitches the narrator with her soft skin and sexual candour, the reader is taken on a dramatic and unpredictable journey that brings you face-to-face with a life-altering truth. Or is it the truth at all?
Lynch has written a great book that speaks to people about things that really matter. Rasher has brought the author's words to canvass in a way that will stop you in your tracks. The Rooms is available for E9.99 in all good bookstores and on http://www.hotpress.com/books/. Don't miss out on what The Sunday Tribune has described as a "future collectible".
http://www.hotpress.com/books/
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Our Favourite Postings From The Dank Bathroom Wall / Personal Advert Column / Huge Throbbing Collective Brain That Is The World Famous hotpress.com Messageboard...
HERE'S ONE FOR GLADYS
**poppycock:
Which would you prefer: -
1. To go into hospital for something and be forgotten about and left to die on a trolley, or
2. To go into hospital in the full of your health and come out with a life threateing disease and/or less body parts/organs than before, or
3. All of the above AND waking up in the morgue with a tag hanging from your big toe?
**cyberbuli:
None of the above.
**poppycock:
I'm not sure that's an option...
**jenwhite:
no 2 please.
**gladys:
This is a tough survey, Pop. If pushed, I'd have to go with number 3, especially if the morgue attendant was cute and a deviant.
**cyberbuli:
Ok then, 2. Then I'd sue the HSE!
**mark_g:
Wait what about a 4th option - Same scenario as number three but you wake up feeling like you've been interfered with.
********post of the week: boom boom********
**gladys:
Necrophilia is dead boring. Sorry.
********end post of the week********
**poppycock:
That's what Gladys was going for. I'd go with 2 myself. Only I'd be grateful.
**gladys:
I'd be ever so grateful, too.
**gladys:
Erm, point of order, Madam Speaker. Why would you go into hospital in the full of your health in anyway? I demand a recount.
**poppycock:
To visit your granny.
**poppycock:
If your 'mate' died in the throws of passion, do you reckon you'd have to lie there and wait for the paramedics? Would you say the stiffy goes stiffer and you need to be popped like a cork?
**mark_g:
It wouldn't be necrophilia if you were only fake dead.
**gladys:
I'd call no one. I'd keep him as a bracelet stand.
**poppycock:
"Jesus Gladys, you'd know you don't watch enough Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen - your bracelet stand is rottin'"
**cyberbuli:
Point of spelling there: throes. Carry on.
**musegirl:
I believe she meant "throws" actually buli. It's either a type of seat covering - a throw of passion - within which her mate was wrapped at the time, or it's a type of game related to the tossing of the caber.
**poppycock:
Indeed, the bracelet stand was one an olympic javelin impersonator.
**gladys:
Once it isn't a winking Fatima Whitbread - her mickey scares me.
**poppycock:
All we can hope for now is that cyberbuli does not offer interesting facts about Fatima Whitbread's corns, or something..
**jaimeh:
One of them went for 30,000 pounds the other day at Sotheby's. Another sign of the much talked about move from investment in fine art to "patriotica". Marvellous.
**gladys:
One of her corns? Bargain!
**jaimeh:
That's what I thought. I actually suspect foulplay. My telephone bidder got cut off just after offering 28,000. Pity. It would have gone lovely with my Padraig Pearse toenail clippings.
