• Music
  • 11 Oct 02

Celebrity author: Gemma Hayes

Celebrity author: Gemma Hayes
The Hot Press Newsdesk
The Hot Press Newsdesk

By now you will have heard that 21-year-old London MC Ms Dynamite won the Mercury. As good as she is we ahem do not think she should have done. And we know that with the possible exception of Compass, and he didn't even think she'd pull it off, neither do you. So no better time to have a visit with this year's only Irish Mercury nominee, the fab Gemma Hayes, on the artists that first made her sonar go Ping, in a Celebrity Author special...
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