Love/Hate: Inside the new issue of Hot Press

The new issue of Hot Press is an extremely star-studded one, as we bring you plenty of exclusives and some of the biggest interviews around.
Kicking off at home, with our cover – isn't Nidge looking well? – Love/Hate is well and truly back. Craig Fitzpatrick meets four of the faces who will be crucial to the fate of Tom Vaughan-Lawlor's anti-hero this series, as Joseph Connors, Laurence Kinlan, Aoibhinn McGinnity and Johnny Ward open up about being inside the phenomenon. Oh, and that's Patrick The Pipe Bomb Maker, Elmo, Trish and newcomer Pauley to you.
Elsewhere, we go overseas with Roe McDermott and get truly A-List. Robert Downey Jr tells us how he'd like to be remembered as a "stingy, mean lesbian" and Robert Duvall muses: "there's no such thing as the bad guy or the good guy."
In sport, we meet a trio of Irish rugby stars. Dave Kearney talks to Stuart Clark about returning from injury and Six Nations glory, while Jamie Heaslip vows to go again and Robbie Henshaw looks to the future.
All that and we have yet to get to the music...
London Grammar are on top of the pop world. Founder Dan Rothman surveys the view with Craig Fitzpatrick and talks advice from Chris Martin and why it's just fine if David Cameron digs their music.
Fresh from their 3Arena show (their biggest headline show to date), alt-J discuss accusations of being boring.
As per usual, the mere tip of the iceberg, as The Antlers, Eagulls, Welcome To Nightvale, Barry Devlin and more all feature, while we review new works from the likes of Thom Yorke and shows from the likes of Ed Sheeran.
Read all about it in the new Hot Press (Love/Hate cover), out now!