hotpress.com members update: " Not bad for a Ballymun lad who left school when he was about 15"
8 August 2007
Okay, we worried last time that we'd cause storms by celebrating the rare appearance of Mr. Blue Sky, so we take full responsibility for costs incurred by anyone who had to take a boat to work this past week. Actually, we don't really mean that. Don't sue us. Sorry all the same though...
Now, to jog those fine brains of yours re the lyrical teaser of last week:
"Hurry up, hurry up and wait
I stay awake all week and still I wait
I got the blues, please come see
What your loving means to me"
Last week we gave you an easy one, but that doesn't take from the achievement of buds, to whom we would like to say a hearty "nice one!" for getting the answer right: 'Sunday Girl' by Blondie. Kudos!
Maybe we'll step it up a gear this time around:
"Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing really, nothing to turn off..."
Start the Countdown theme tune. Now give it socks, dearies!
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FREE THRILLS/KILA CD IN THE NEXT ISSUE!
Yesiree - the issue out tomorrow comes with a free CD, featuring a Thrills song remixed by Kila and vice versa.
Plus interviews with Garth Cartwright, The Fratellis, Maria Doyle Kennedy, the Minister for Drugs Pat Carey, New Young Pony Club and Albert Hammond Jr. Plus reviews of Super Furry Animals, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Midlands Music Festival and The Game.
e3.50 - the CD's worth it alone, but we'll throw in the mag for free.
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Songs That We've Been Listening to This Week!
The Flaws - 'You And I' (from forthcoming album Achieving Vagueness)
Dark Room Notes - 'Love Like Nicotine' (still)
Smashing Pumpkins - 'Tarantula' (from Zeitgeist, 2007)
Dirty Epics - 'Underrated' (from myspace.com/dirtyepics)
Belle & Sebastian 'Sleep The Clock Around' (from The Boy With The Arab Strap, 1998)
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COMPETITION TIME!
Hot Press and Beck's Fusions have just launched two exciting nationwide competitions, which aim to fuse music and art...
FOR MUSIC FANS: Irish music fans are in with a chance to win VIP treatment (and much more) at Beck’s Fusions, an exciting new cultural event launched by Beck’s Vier and featuring Calvin Harris who takes to the stage with Novak 3D Disco to create an electrifying 3D performance on September 16 in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar.
FOR BANDS AND SOLO ACTS: Hot Press is searching for an unsigned band or solo artist to play at the exclusive Beck’s Fusions launch party in The Village, Dublin on September 5.
For info on how to enter, go to: http://www.hotpress.com/3910471.html
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Essential Reading on hotpress.com Department
1. The hotpress.com Member CDs
You know when you gather loads of change together, and you find yourself with enough coinage for a cheap-tastic album? Imagine if that wait was even shorter. Imagine if you were a hotpress.com member and you could get fabbo CDs like Sinead O'Connor, Somadrome and more for the pithy price of e10. Imagine that, eh?
http://www.hotpress.com/members/Membercds/
2. Gorgeous George - Tom Mathews' tribute to George Melly
With the deaths of Ingmar Bergman, Lee Hazlewood and Michelangelo Antonioli within days of each other, the obituary pages seem almost too packed to take stock the passing of another grand old man.
http://www.hotpress.com/features/reports/3942552.html
3. Tommy Dearest - The Tommy Tiernan Interview
If the now-it's-humid, now-it's-lashing business in the outside world is starting to grate, let Tommy Tiernan provide some light relief.
http://www.hotpress.com/features/comedy/3927049.html
4. The Enemy - We'll Live And Die In These Towns
The new Arctic Monkeys - or are they just a bunch of teens in a strop? With choruses so shouty they make the denizens of Hill 16 seem like a Welsh choir, The Enemy are practically overflowing with that adolescent desire to do get their asses in gear and get the hell out of home. Hear Olaf Tyransen's judgement on the matter.
http://www.hotpress.com/music/reviews/albums/3942760.html
5. Kid A - Shia LaBeouf Interview
All fired up about Transformers? Jealous about some punk kid getting to play with them on the big screen? Well, have a read of this - he's such a good bloke that you won't even want to feel jealous anymore.
http://www.hotpress.com/features/interviews/3926681.html
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Old New is Good News Department
Feeling a little swamped by the big-budget behemoths which have torn through our screens this summer? Reminding you of being in the same PE class as the school hurling team? Here's a quick run-through on all the big hits of the summer so far.
Transformers
The biggest, brashest and robotest of our summer blockbusters, Transformers is set to stomp all over box offices around the globe. Whet your appetite for destruction here, and then get thee to a cinema - post-haste!
http://www.hotpress.com/features/filmreviews/3926427.html
The Simpsons Movie
Probably the most eagerly-awaited of the bunch, have a read of the review and remember the apprehension you felt when it came out: Would it be sacrelicious or would it be toothless? Would we laugh until we were stupid (like a fox)? Or would Comic Book Guy term it the worst movie ever? An anticipation more painful than the wait for the Leaving Cert results.
http://www.hotpress.com/features/filmreviews/3926200.html
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Even though the series of books has come to a (rip-roaring) close, the film series is set to run and run. Keep yourself going past the final page with the latest update on Potter's progress - and marvel at Daniel Radcliffe's new-found acting ability!
http://www.hotpress.com/features/filmreviews/3877729.html
Shrek the Third
The third instalment of the Grumpy Green Giant's adventures. Will they get the series back on track, or will it be the case that the best thing about the franchise was the soundtrack to the first one? Only time will tell. Failing that, Tara Brady will.
http://www.hotpress.com/features/filmreviews/2932965.html
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Webpods
If you managed to see the film, stretch the enjoyment a bit further with some delightful extras. If you didn't, well, this'll pique your interest more pique-tastically than a chance sighting of Super Mario on Baggot Street.
http://www.hotpress
Summer overview
If you've seen them all and you're so overwhelmed that you can't remember, or if you saw none of them and you want to catch up, rest your weary eyes upon this page and let our dedicated guide, er, guide you through this year's cinematic onslaught.
http://www.hotpress.com/archive/2923755.html
All the latest film reviews:
http://www.hotpress.com/features/filmreviews/
The HOTPRESS MIX 07 (Music Industry Xplained) is a course for those seeking careers in, and for those already employed in, the music industry.
The course will give participants a practical overview of the workings of the industry. MIX SIX is a 12-week series of lectures (one each week) by top professional exponents from the Irish and International music industry. Lecturers include: Willie O'Reilly (Managing Director Today FM), Janine Nallen (Marketing & Business director RMG Chart Entertainment), Steve Averill (U2 Designer) and Jackie Hayden (Hot Press).
Key subjects covered in the course include Music on the Internet, Record Companies, Music Marketing, Publicity, Image Development, Record Production, Songwriting, Music Publishing, Working with the Media, Management, Finance, Touring and Distribution.
MIX 07 will run at The Holiday Inn, Pearse St, Dublin every Tuesday at 7.30pm from September 25th to December 11th, 2007. The Course Directors are music publisher and IMRO board member Johnny Lappin and Jackie Hayden of HOTPRESS.
For further information see http://mix.hotpress.com, contact Elaine at HOTPRESS on 01-2411 500 or email mix07@hotpress.ie
Our Favourite Postings From The Dank Bathroom Wall / Personal Advert Column / Huge Throbbing Collective Brain That Is The World Famous hotpress.com Messageboard...
GLEN HANSARD ON JAY LENO
**randumpunter:
It was on last night in the States - should be on this side of the water tonight or tomorrow. I think this'll make his head expand even more - but I guess fair play. 'Once' seems to be doing the trick for him over there.
**markf:
You are gay for Glen Hansard.
**randumpunter:
Oh - ya got me!
**markg:
I sure did.
**skennedy:
I was in the US a few weeks ago, and on my day of arrival I opened the USA Today newspaper, and there was a big picture of Glen on the first page I saw, and a promo for Once. Not bad for a Ballymun lad who left school when he was about 15. Might be another film in that.
I miss the threats about eating Frankie from Corrie's gick or eating chips out of Fearne Cotton's kaks.
**randumpunter:
Aw me mouths watering.
*************post of the week: clearly not an avid reader of Hot Press then!**************
**igor:
Who the fuck is Glen Hansard???
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**serpent_in_the_sky:
Best known for his role as Outspan in The Commitments
**muzzlemusic:
He has done well for himself. Not a fan of The Frames, few good sober songs but fair play to him. I lived in Ballymun until I was two. We did live in a penthouse though...
**igor:
He was great in The Commitments...scooting around on his little Suzuki... riding all the Commitmentettes...
As you probably know by now, Hot Press has joined forces with the Wexford Arts Centre and Beat 102 103 FM to present a series of monthly gigs for new bands and solo artists in the South-West called the First Cuts Sessions. The following acts have been chosen for the next gig:
17th August, 8pm, Wexford Arts Centre
The Arrangements (Waterford)
Niall Colfer (Wexford)
Chaplin (Wexford)
Remember: Acts who have already submitted entries will be considered for their September and October gigs. New entries are still welcome.
For information on how to enter see www.hotpress.com or email any queries you may have to: firstcuts@hotpress.ie
For a full list of what's on: http://www.hotpress.com/whatson/
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CURRENT ISSUE - OUT TIL TOMORROW!
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