The Hot Press Round Table

Clare rapper God Knows was still buzzing after causing a ruckus at Nanu Nanu's wedding gig with a Mr. E. Sheeran.
"We're on stage smashing it and suddenly he's next to me, jumping up and down and freestylin'," he beamed. "I tell you, he's got some really good lines!"
Skype-ing in from LA (maaaan!) was Kodaline's Stephen Garrigan who was in giddy Queens Of The Stone Age fanboy mode.
"We got to play frisbee with Josh Homme at one of the festivals, which was quite random and surreal," he cooed. "He's a really nice guy and massive; I wouldn't ever get into a fight with him."
Wise. Mark Austin from The Minutes was similarly enraptured by Future Islands.
"It was like, 'What the fuck?'" he reminisces. "I couldn't get over the energy this guy has, and the crowd was eating it up. I saw them on Letterman and thought, 'Get me tickets to that!'"
Stephen Kelly from Raglans was in two minds about the way U2 unleashed Songs Of Innocence.
"It sets a bad precedent in that I don't want to wake up tomorrow with a Miley Cyrus album I can't delete," he proffers. "I didn't think much of Songs Of Innocence when I first heard it, but then they put out all those acoustic versions and I was like, 'Yeah, I get it now!'"
Nicole Maguire had watched Nidge getting whacked - and wished she hadn't.
"I'd never seen Love/Hate before, but because everybody was talking about it I decided this was the perfect time to start and, well, I'm still traumatised," she winced. "I wasn't expecting it to be so full-on!"
Rainy Boy Sleep reckoned that the water charges are a portent of even worse to come.
"I reckon that in ten years time they're going to go all Total Recall on it and start charging us for air!" he warned.
One of the highlights of Gavin Glass' 2014 was working with Once man John Carney.
"He asked me to be Music Director on his new film, Sing Street, which is about a young band based in the inner city," he divulged. "It touches on the recession and the Christian Brothers thing and is amazing."
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