Hot Press
Continuing their involvement with U2, Hot Press released a double cover edition featuring Bono in July 2009 just before the U2 360° Tour shows at Croke Park, Dublin.
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| Editor | Niall Stokes |
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| Categories | Music, current affairs |
| Frequency | 26 per year |
| First issue | June 1977 |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0332-0847 |
Hot Press is a fortnightly music and politics magazine based in Dublin, Ireland, founded in June 1977. The magazine has been edited since its inception by Niall Stokes. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it had a circulation of 17,084 during 2014.
Hot Press was founded in June 1977 by Niall Stokes, who continues to be its editor in 2016. Since then, the magazine has featured stories in the music world, both in Ireland and internationally.
The first issue of Hot Press featured Irish blues rock legend Rory Gallagher, ahead of his headlining performance at Ireland's first open air rock festival, "The Macroom Mountain Dew Festival" in 1977. Hot Press has also covered the career of U2, since the late 1970s. Sinéad O'Connor first talked to Hot Press about her lesbianism.
Hot Press writer Stuart Clark was interviewing Oasis band member and songwriter Noel Gallagher when he found out that his brother Liam would not take the stage for that evening's performance, and the band came close to splitting up.
Hot Press was at the centre of a legal dispute over the copyright of the term De Dannan in 2009 after it featured an advertisement using the term to promote a new tour by the traditional group. In September 2009, an interview conducted by Olaf Tyaransen with the comedian Tommy Tiernan at Electric Picnic 2009 proved controversial when Tiernan made some remarks which were later perceived as antisemitic. The comments were reported in the Irish and international media; however, both Tyaransen and Hot Press editor Niall Stokes, as well as Tiernan himself, defended them as being taken out of context.
Past writers for Hot Press have included ninth President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, the authors of BAFTA award-winning Father Ted, Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews, Sunday Times television reviewer Liam Fay, author and Daily Telegraph columnist Neil McCormick, Bill Graham, The Sunday Business Post US correspondent Niall Stanage, Irish Examiner soccer correspondent Liam Mackey, The Irish Times columnist John Waters, food writer John McKenna, Sunday Independent journalist Declan Lynch and The Guardian football writer, Football Weekly regular Barry Glendenning and Daily Mail writer Jason O'Toole.
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