• Culture
  • 31 Oct 02

Celebrity author of the month: you lot

Celebrity author of the month: you lot
The Hot Press Newsdesk
The Hot Press Newsdesk

Have a traipse through this Hot Press Mixed Grill retrospective - and see what a fearsome question-asking machine you guys are

This week, in a Celebrity Author special, we bring you the work of our most favourite non-staff scribblers of all: you lot. That's right. We're bringing you the collected Mixed Grills so far, wherein we writerly types, as cult film director John Cassavettes once said, get out of fucking shot* and let you guys ask the questions.
Click below to enjoy the fruits of your own genius :
Korn
U2
Ash
Brian Wilson
Lemmy
And be sure to check back later in the week, to see how the Perrier-award-winning, Late-Show-audience-bothering, Dylan-Moran-admiring comic Tommy Tiernan got on under your stern and incisive questioning...
*may or may not be actual quote from John Cassavettes

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