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1 week ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
The cast of The Ballad of Wallis Island have revealed the songs in their lives that hold the most sentimental value. "Mine's 'She's a Rainbow' by The Rolling Stones", shared Tim Key, who plays eccentric millionaire Charles Heath. "I've got a lot of connotations with that, I've used it in a lot of theme tunes. I sort of always go back to that track."Key's co-star Tom Basden meanwhile, shared his love for a Smiths classic.
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1 week ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
Recognising the precarious path young musicians face, Grammy-winning mix engineer and producer from Camden Studios Ruadhri Cushnan has launched Rubarb - a new Ireland-based artist development label. “As a producer/mixer, I would come across so many brilliant creatives who have to do so much by themselves and usually on a shoestring budget,” he told Hot Press.
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1 week ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
Not many songwriters can say they’ve been on Love Island. Maybe that isn’t the whole picture, but still, Bradley Marshall’s hit ‘Perfect For Me’ featured on a recent episode of the show – sparking a wholesome reaction from his surprised family (which you can see on his Instagram). When the 24-year-old Dubliner is asked how he thinks he’d do on the programme, he’s less than optimistic. “Not good, man,” he laughs.
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1 week ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
When he catches up with Hot Press, Tom Ogden is relaxing at home - taking a break from doing up his house in the North West of England, where he resides with his wife. It all sounds very quaint and quotidian, until you bring up the fiberglass gorilla(s). “He’s in our rehearsal room at the moment,” says the Blossoms frontman. “We’ve got an 8ft Gary and 6ft Gary, and depending on the venue size, they keep each other company.
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2 weeks ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
Ireland has abandonment issues. Walk around any of our cities, towns or rural areas and you’ll see that they are peppered with vacant, neglected, and often completely derelict buildings. Ugly and unsafe, these sites also represent a wasted opportunity to revitalise communities and provide an essential resource.
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2 weeks ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
There’s considerable virtue in being uncomplicated. Just ask Amble’s Oisín McCaffrey. “People crave going to see someone who’s just going to go up and sing a song with meaning behind it,” he told us in October last year. “It’s almost as if the more complex the world becomes, the more you need a simple song.”It’s a paradox. For many, life does seem louder, weirder and more fragmented than ever. And more frightening too.
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2 weeks ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
Kneecap have said the terror charge facing member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh is a "carnival of distraction", and that the British establishment are trying to "silence voices of compassion." Ó hAnnaidh, who is better known by his stage name Mo Chara, was charged for displaying of a pro-Hezbollah flag during a show at the 02 Forum in North London last November “in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that he is a supporter of a proscribed organisation”, according to the...
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2 weeks ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
Hot Press Hot For 2022 pick KhakiKid has gone viral with ‘Pylonz’, which finds the dextrous Dublin wordplayer collaborating with English singer SOFY. “London indie sleaze meets Dublin rap, the best international collab since Kim Kardashian enjoyed a cold pint of Guinness with a really good head,” is how she describes the summery banger which would sit neatly between Ellie Goulding and Wet Leg on the radio.
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2 weeks ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
Peel back its tourist-friendly veneer, and Kilkenny reveals itself as an unlikely landmark for music lore. Nowlan Park, better known for the tribal roar of hurling matches, has welcomed Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Rod Stewart and most famously Bruce Springsteen, who has his own mural on the stadium’s walls. A short trek from the floodlights, down Hebron Road and onto John Street, the Marble City cradles a more intimate treasure in the Set Theatre.
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3 weeks ago | 
hotpress.com | Riccardo Dwyer
There’s a quiet crisis unfolding in classrooms, living rooms, and group chats across the country: we’re running out of things to talk about. Not because there’s less happening in the world, but because fewer people are experiencing the same things at the same time. As an instructor to secondary school students and a college lecturer finishing up another semester, I’ve been feeling this absence acutely.
