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From our 2018 Annual, the full cover story by Olaf Tyaransen.
Read MoreThe former journalist is to be charged with the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
Read MoreHot Press takes a look at the ten tomes that everyone will be talking about in 2018.
Read MoreThe recent death of comedian, actor and writer SEAN HUGHES, at the age of just 51, came as a shock to most people. OLAF TYARANSEN pays tribute to a genuine trailblazer of Irish comedy
Read MoreImelda May was our cover star back in March, and shared everything from her birth, sex, love, divorce and death, all of which appear in her newest album. "It's the story of my life," she told Olaf Tyaransen.
Read MorePersonal? Jaysus...Our man Olaf Tyaransen got a chance to talk with one of the biggest bands in the world at the start of 2017.
Read MoreDónal Lunny and Garry Ó Briain will be playing at Ann Marie Horan’s launch
Read MoreU2’S fourteenth studio album Songs of Experience – a companion piece to 2013’s Songs of Innocence – is set for release tomorrow, December 1. Olaf Tyaransen takes quick scoot through the album track by track, offering a tantalising taste of what to expect…
Read More10 Hot Press writers share their favourite U2 moments as we get set for the release of Songs of Experience on December 1. On our fifth day, Olaf Tyaransen shares a story which reveals a side of Bono that the public rarely see.
Read MoreWith one week to go before their 14th album, Songs of Experience, U2 grace the cover of the 2018 Hot Press Annual.
Read MoreFelix is probably best known as the woman who taught Leonard Cohen how to turn his poetry into song.
Read MoreThe big winners will be the TV audience tomorrow evening. There, the likelihood is that U2's music will shine through, in a way that makes sense of what was strange night in the centre of London.
Read MoreIn advance of their appearance in Trafalgar Square in London tonight, Adam Clayton and Edge spoke to a group of 15 Irish media personnel.
Read MoreThe 12th studio album by The Waterboys, Out Of All This Blue, is their very first double album in a near 35-year career. Recently married frontman MIKE SCOTT talks about his love of Ireland, discovering hip hop beats, meeting Lou Reed and David Bowie, and the joys of fatherhood.
Read MoreThe recent death of comedian, actor and writer SEAN HUGHES, at the age of just 51, came as a shock to most people. OLAF TYARANSEN pays tribute to a genuine trailblazer of Irish comedy
Read MoreChoice Prize-winner ADRIAN CROWLEY has just released his eighth album, Dark Eyed Messenger. He tells OLAF TYARANSEN why the songs could just as easily have been books or films.
Read MoreQuality stuff from the Donegal groove mechanic.
Read MoreIt’s been five years since mega-selling Nevada act THE KILLERS’ last album, but Wonderful Wonderful may be their most vital offering yet. Brandon Flowers and Ronnie Vanucci Jr. talk about growing up in Vegas, chasing the ‘Bono Talk’, Jackknife Lee’s work ethic, playing the White House, the deaths of Bowie, Cohen and Cornell, and the weight of expectation when it comes to making your fifth record. Interview: Olaf Tyaransen
Read MoreOlaf Tyaransen speak with the legendary Swedish composer and ABBA co-founder BENNY ANDERSSON.
Read MoreHighly experimental sophomore album from 2015 Mercury Winner.
Read MoreExcellent effort from prolific Irish artist.
Read MoreOlaf Tyaransen was granted a rare interview with the porn baron in 2008...
Read MoreOne thing is for sure: Courtney Love doesn't doe things by half. One of rock's most controversial figures, she lived in Ireland for a time in the late 1970s. She recalls taking photos for Hot Press, before moving to Manchester. Later, she famously met and married Kurt Cobain. While Cobain was still alive, she had established herself as a musician in her own right, successfully fronting her own band, Hole. Later, she starred in The People vs Larry Flynt, lost vast sums of money, dried up artistically and fell foul of any number of controversies. At the age of 45, she came back, with powerful new record Nobody's Daughter, a very strange boyfriend and - in this remarkable, free-wheeling interview - a shitstorm of gossip to get off her chest.
Read MoreThe Depeche Mode singer, who months before had clinically died, was in confessional form when he encountered Mr. T in London...
Read MoreHere's what Olaf Tyaransen made of their name your price album...
Read MoreBrilliant effort from Irish-singer songwriter
Read MoreOsama bin Laden, Jean McConville, Detective Garda Jerry McCabe & IRA bombings were all on the agenda during a spectacularly frosty and fractious meeting with the Sinn Féin leader...
Read MoreSleep Well Beast, the seventh studio album by enduring US indie darlings The National, is a hauntingly dark, paranoid, melancholic and sometimes angry affair. Frontman MATT BERNINGER talks about working with Lisa Hannigan, writing break-up lyrics with his wife of ten years, the “stink” of Donald Trump, and why their new record like “lunch with its underpants on.”
Read MoreHis encounter with the notorious UDA Company C leader is one of the most remarkable interviews ever published in Hot Press...
Read MoreThe Galwegian singer-songwriter is playing three Irish dates
Read MoreThe Taoiseach is a big fan of the band, who took Dublin by storm this week – but it seems that the feeling isn't exactly mutual!
Read MoreHe was thinking of U2 as he drove through the gates...
Read MoreDarkly spellbinding debut from Dublin singer.
Read MoreDebut album from Dublin-based electro duo is no Ryanair affair.
Read MorePrize-winning greyhound Clonbrien Hero tested positive for the drug on three occasions. “I wouldn’t make a habit of it,” says racing insider.
Read MoreThe American writer's most famous novel, The Ginger Man, sold more than 50 million copies
Read MoreThe event is being held in aid of seven-year-old Dravet Syndrome sufferer Ava Barry
Read MoreThere was an abundance of great music, and lots of action in the Hot Press Chat Room, as Electric Picnic recovered from Saturday’s rain storms.
Read MoreIn advance of his first Electric Picnic appearance in seven years, acclaimed UK standup Phill Jupitus talks multitasking at festivals, giving up booze, the stupidity of Brexit, and becoming a Doctor.
Read MoreA brand new track from the Waterford dance collective has just dropped…
Read MoreAfter years of soaraway success, The Coronas hit the buffers when a move to Island Records failed to work out as promised. But the biggest Irish rock band ever named after a typewriter have bounced back emphatically. The Indiependence-rocking quartet talk about hitting No. 1, high-profile relationships, drink, drugs, partying – and what the future holds.
Read MoreOscar-winner CHARLIZE THERON had to learn how to physically fight for her starring role as a deadly MI6 agent in ultra-violent new spy thriller, Atomic Blonde. She reflects on the fall of the Berlin Wall, female empowerment, filming a lesbian sex scene, and her love of Depeche Mode.
Read MoreThe Waterford collective have today released their latest single with Hot Press.
Read MoreU2 have always put more into the crucible of live performance than almost any other band on the planet, endeavouring to make every tour an artistic and creative statement in itself. In advance of the return of their Joshua Tree Tour to Dublin, we chart the circumstances of their tours, recall the iconic moments and the visual highlights and reprise what it is that makes them the world’s pre-eminent live act. By Olaf Tyaransen
Read MoreU2 have always put more into the crucible of live performance than almost any other band on the planet, endeavouring to make every tour an artistic and creative statement in itself. In advance of the return of their Joshua Tree Tour to Dublin, we chart the circumstances of their tours, recall the iconic moments and the visual highlights and reprise what it is that makes them the world’s pre-eminent live act. By Olaf Tyaransen
Read MoreU2 have always put more into the crucible of live performance than almost any other band on the planet, endeavouring to make every tour an artistic and creative statement in itself. In advance of the return of their Joshua Tree Tour to Dublin, we chart the circumstances of their tours, recall the iconic moments and the visual highlights and reprise what it is that makes them the world’s pre-eminent live act. By Olaf Tyaransen
Read MoreThe late Linkin Park singer spoke to Hot Press about their Minutes TO Midnight in Lisbon back in 2008
Read MoreWith Vera Twomey and her family exiled in Holland, where medicinal cannabis is legally available, it is impossible to escape the political backdrop to the Party for Ava which took place last night at the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin. Richard Boyd Barrett and Gino Kelly took up the pics...
Read MoreOlaf Tyaransen caught up with The Edge just as the band prepared to bring their iNNOCENCE & eXPERIENCE tour home for dates in Belfast and Dublin
Read MoreAs U2 geared up for the release of No Line On The Horizon, they met HP to talk about the creation of their latest masterwork, meeting world leaders, the way they’re perceived in Ireland, the current state of the music business and their future plans.
Read More7 years ago, Olaf Tyaransen reported from U2's No Line On The Horizon tour in Barcelona, ahead of the band's Croke Park headliner.
Read MoreHot Press' Olaf Tyaransen caught up with the band as they flew to Germany to promote Songs of Innocence
Read MoreBack in 2000, Olaf Tyaransen spoke to U2 following the release of 'Beautiful Day', with their 10th studio album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, imminent...
Read MoreThe fundraiser is in aid of six-year-old Dravet Syndrome sufferer Ava Barry.
Read More20 years of U2, through the eyes of Adam Clayton.
Read MoreWith her third album Something’s Changing about to be released, Warwickshire-born singer-songwriter Lucy Rose explains how her Twitter tour of Latin America renewed her love of music and changed her approach to recording.
Read MoreHot Press’ Olaf Tyaransen will be interviewing medicinal cannabis advocate Vera Twomey live onstage on the night…
Read MoreBefore the sold-out Seattle date on their Joshua Tree tour, U2 sat down with Hot Press to reflect on the creation of their iconic masterwork, the current political climate in the US, their upcoming Croke Park date, and their hotly awaited new album. Plus we report on the spectacular show itself and dip into the album’s mouthwatering deluxe reissue.
Read MoreHot Press has lived through some truly extraordinary moments over the past four decades. Over the course of four parts, Olaf Tyaransen rounds up the 40 most seismic events since Hot Press was born.
Read MoreHot Press has lived through some truly extraordinary moments over the past four decades. Over the course of four parts, Olaf Tyaransen rounds up the 40 most seismic events since Hot Press was born.
Read MoreHot Press has lived through some truly extraordinary moments over the past four decades. Over the course of four parts, Olaf Tyaransen rounds up the 40 most seismic events since Hot Press was born.
Read MoreHot Press has lived through some truly extraordinary moments over the past four decades. Over the course of four parts, Olaf Tyaransen rounds up the 40 most seismic events since Hot Press was born.
Read MoreIn 1996, the French film director, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, was murdered just outside the small town of Schull, in West Cork. Twenty years on, no one has any idea what happened on that fateful night. What we do know is that someone in the Gardaí decided that Ian Bailey – a journalist from Manchester who had moved to West Cork six years previously – was the prime suspect. What followed is a tale of incompetence, corruption, abuse of due process, and perversion of the course of justice – plunging Ian Bailey into a never-ending, Kafka-esque nightmare. Here, for the first time, he talks openly and in great detail about the case to a journalist.
Read MoreWith the release of his seventh studio album, Soulsun, imminent, DAMIEN DEMPSEY discusses his occasional battles with depression, why marijuana should be legalised, having dinner at Brian Eno’s house, and working with the likes of Dido, Pauline Scanlon and Imelda May. Interview: OLAF TYARANSEN. Photography: KATHRIN BAUMBACH
Read MoreExcellent effort from veteran Irish rockers.
Read MoreIt’ll be an all-Clare line-up onstage in the National Concert Hall in August with Ennis-born singer-songwriter Susan O’Neill (aka SON) confirmed as the support act to Sharon Shannon on the 17th of that month. Tickets (starting at €25) are on sale now.
Read MoreReturn to roots for Ireland/Germany collaboration.
Read MoreBono, Larry, Adam and Edge played the CenturyLink Field, Seattle last night and Olaf Tyaransen was on hand to give his verdict.
Read MoreWith the massive European success of their double platinum-selling debut, Everything This Way, Kerry’s WALKING ON CARS pretty much owned 2016. Currently back in Dingle writing the band’s second album, frontman Patrick ‘Pa’ Sheehy takes time out to tell OLAF TYARANSEN about their planned shows in Dublin, Cork and Belfast this summer, Fungie the dolphin, Danny Healy Rae, their creative process – and why quitting their day jobs was the best career move they ever made.
Read MoreCurrently starring in TV3 soap Red Rock, veteran Dublin actor Patrick Bergin reflects on fame, success, money, and why some Irish politicians should be put naked in a roomful of wasps.
Read MoreAfter three decades making his living as a visual artist, Hot Press illustrator DAVID ROONEY has just released his debut album. He tells OLAF TYARANSEN how Glen Hansard and Declan O’Rourke helped inspire him to swap his paintbrush for a guitar.
Read MoreVeteran musician Eamonn Dowd on his new album Dig Into Nowhere, working with Nikki Sudden, and how rock n' roll saved him from a life of drudgery in rural Ireland.
Read MoreWhen Craig Walker and Phoebe Killdeer were put together in a Paris hotel room for a songwriting session by their music publisher in 2009, they wrote the No 1 hit ‘Fade Out Lines’ in just five minutes. Now they’re collaborating on a new Berlin-based THEM THERE project.
Read MoreWhen Craig Walker and Phoebe Killdeer were put together in a Paris hotel room for a songwriting session by their music publisher in 2009, they wrote the No 1 hit ‘Fade Out Lines’ in just five minutes. Now they’re collaborating on a new Berlin-based musical project called THEM THERE.
Read MoreHaving drifted aimlessly through his twenties, Galway-born ALAN McMONAGLE didn’t start writing seriously until he turned 30. Now aged 43, all of his hard work has finally paid off with the success of his debut novel Ithaca.
Read MoreBooze! Drugs! Lesbian strippers! One of the biggest rock bands on the planet, Essex synth warriors DEPECHE MODE also used to be amongst the most hedonistic. But on the release of their 14th studio album, Spirit, founding member Andrew ‘Fletch’ Fletcher tells a truly gutted OLAF TYARANSEN that their decadent days are long behind them...
Read MoreMomentum Acting Studio are presenting a three-play suite about love, at the 14th International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Director LIZA MICHAEL talks about what attracted her to the work of Neil LaBute and Louis CK.
Read MoreMaking good on his 2015 electoral promises, yesterday Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party government introduced legislation that will potentially see marijuana fully legalised in Canada by July 2018. Rapper Snoop Dogg had already tweeted his approval…
Read MoreImelda May’s stunning new album, Life. Love. Flesh. Blood, is strongly informed by her 2015 break-up with ex-husband and band member, Darrel Higham. In a remarkably revealing interview, she discusses working through personal pain on the record, reinventing her look and sound, collaborating with legendary producer T Bone Burnett in LA, and how advice from her friend Bono helped shaped the material. “I put my whole heart and soul into this album,” she tells Olaf Tyaransen.
Read MorePeaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy discusses his return to Ireland after many years in London, his working methods, and his role as an IRA man in Ben Wheatley’s ultra-violent new action movie Free Fire.
Read MoreIt took numerous albums and over a decade of hard graft for cult Nottingham duo SLEAFORD MODS to finally start making a living from music. They’re now signed to Rough Trade, and Iggy Pop is a major fan, but acerbic vocalist Jason Williamson still isn’t happy…
Read MoreLong-time murder suspect, Ian Bailey, has spoken to Hot Press about his current legal travails, the planned Jim Sheridan documentary about his case and his debut poetry collection, The West Cork Way.
Read MoreDespite the car crash which claimed the life of the singer’s young niece, The Stunning’s Galway benefit show in aid of five female NUIG lecturers’ equality cases will still go ahead next week…
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