- Music
- 04 Mar 15
The HamsandwicH star's iconic, American Beauty meets Hot Press pose will grace shelves around the country this fortnight...
It is a landmark edition of Hot Press as we hit 900 issues, and we've gone all out to make it a memorable one.
It all starts with the jaw-dropping cover. As HamsandwicH gear up for "world domination" with new album Stories From The Surface on April 17, singer Niamh Farrell decided to bare (almost) all for their cover story.
With the first ever Hot Press to hide her modesty, she has recreated the Mena Suvari poster for American Beauty, lying atop a multitude of iconic old HP images and creating a new one in the process.
Along with the Meath star, ace photographer Kathrin Baumbach and a huge amount of scaffolding in the Hot Press back room made it all possible!
Before the photoshoot, Farrell was nervous but excited.
“In fact, I’m really looking forward to it now," she said. “It’s an honour to be on the cover of Hot Press anyway. I rang my dad up like ‘I’m going to be on the cover of Hot Press!’ ‘What’re you doing?’ ‘I’m sort of going to be a little bit naked!’ He was like ‘really?’ I was like ‘yeah!’ He was like ‘Ah, cool!’ The first thing Podge said was, ‘It’ll be Playboy next!’”
Inside the issue, HamsandwicH twosome Farrell and Podge McNamee talk about the big leap forward they're taking with their third album, ignoring Bono's advice to change their name and much more.
Here it is in its full glory:
Not only that, a host of massive names will feature throughout the bumper edition to join us in the trip down memory lane and celebrate. Stay with [link]hotpress.com[/link] for more very soon...
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