The White Stripes in the Hot Press Archive

Music
03 Feb 11

With the news that the White Stripes were no more - we thought it'd make sense to open up the Hot Press archive for all to read what Jack & Meg have told us over the years. We also check out what Kim Porcelli thought of their legendary Witnness performance

24 August 2001
Two Colours: Red
KIM PORCELLI Witnnesses the first Irish coming of Detroit’s finest, THE WHITE STRIPES [link]www.hotpress.com/archive/1481506.html[/link]

08 May 2002
Some Candy Talking
1 guitar + 1 drum kit + 1 boy + 1 girl = The White Stripes. In other words, sweet, sweet noise meets the best brother and sister penned pop since The Carpenters. Eamon Sweeney meets Detroit's finest, who play Dublin Castle on Saturday, May 4th as part of the Heineken Green Energy Festival [link]www.hotpress.com/archive/2613170.html[/link]

21 May 2003
The story of the red, white & blues
How The White Stripes turned the bare essentials into an essential noise, insisted that three is indeed a magic number and wound up becoming one of the most phenomenally successful rock acts in the world
by Peter Murphy
[link]www.hotpress.com/archive/2657812.html[/link]

07 June 2007
Things that go thump in the white
As The White Stripes prepare to unleash another work of scuzz-bucket genius, frontman Jack White talks about his Catholic upbringing and explains why, as a teenager in blue collar Detroit, he fell hopelessly in love with the blues.
by Peter Murphy
[link]www.hotpress.com/archive/2928991.html[/link]

29 Oct 2009
All White On The Night
On a fleeting visit to Dublin the legendary Jack White sat down with Hot Press' Stuart Clark to discuss his past life as an upholsterer, jamming with Bob Dylan. Jimmy Page and The Edge and going for dinner with Loretta Lynne.
by Stuart Clark
[link]www.hotpress.com/archive/5933851.html[/link]