In shops today with the amazing Grace Jones on the cover, the new issue of Hot Press is a Metropolis special with all you need to know about the upcoming RDS festivities!
Our man Olaf Tyaransen unravels the enigma of Ms. Jones with the help of Sophie Fiennes, the director of the Grace Jones – The Musical Of My Life documentary, which she’s been collaborating on with the Jamaican legend for the past eleven years, and other people who’ve worked with her including former Island Records boss Chris Blackwell.
In a remarkable and wide-ranging interview, Minister Eoghan Murphy rejects the Swedish model on sex work.
"I know it doesn’t work,” he insists. "I’ve looked into it. We don’t have the resources to police prostitution. We don’t have the resources to police the women in prostitution. We definitely don’t have the resources to police the people who are purchasing, because it’s obviously a much larger number. I don’t see it as a solution."
The Big Interviews don’t end there as we get up close and personal with Bell X1, The Riptide Movement, Mick Flannery, Robert Harris, Tom Chaplin, Spinal Tap and Simpsons man Harry Shearer, the 3Arena-bound Bastille and Ben Affleck who gives us the lowdown on his new box-office smash, The Accountant.
Ibrahim Halawa’s sister, Somaia, tells us why it’s time for Enda Kenny to intervene in the jailing of her brother in Egypt, and we report on the stranger than fiction battle between Hillary and Donald in Texas.
Album of the Fortnight honours go to Lady Gaga, while Marc O’Reilly, Declan O’Rourke, Jinx Lennon and We Cut Corners are among the Irish albums assessed.
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