Editing Hot Press (section)

==History==
''Hot Press'' was founded in June 1977 by Niall Stokes, who continues to be its editor to the present day.<ref name="Rockers out in force for Hot Press launch"/><ref name="GeivettSpiegel2009">{{cite book |author1=R. Douglas Geivett |author2=James S. Spiegel |title=Faith, Film and Philosophy: Big Ideas on the Big Screen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zPjuQRyrcQ0C&pg=PA301 |date=20 September 2009 |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=978-0-8308-7518-4 |pages=301– }}</ref> Since then, the magazine has featured stories in the music world, both in Ireland and internationally.<ref name="WallaceHalperin2014">{{cite book |author1=Max Wallace |author2=Ian Halperin |title=Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_8GAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT41 |date=20 March 2014 |publisher=Allison & Busby |isbn=978-0-7490-1610-4 |pages=41– }}</ref>

The first issue of ''Hot Press'' featured Irish blues rock musician [[Rory Gallagher]] ahead of his headlining performance at Ireland's first open air rock festival, the [[Macroom Mountain Dew Festival]], in 1977. The magazine has covered the career of [[U2]] since the late 1970s. [[Sinéad O'Connor]] first talked to ''Hot Press'' about her lesbianism.<ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Connor |first1=Aine |title=Sinead comes out of the Hot Press |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sinead-comes-out-of-the-hot-press/26255019.html |work=Irish Independent |date=10 June 2000 |language=en}}</ref>

The magazine has been at the centre of several controversies: for example, ''Hot Press'' writer [[Stuart Clark (critic)|Stuart Clark]] was interviewing [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] band member and songwriter [[Noel Gallagher]] when Gallagher found out that his brother Liam would not take the stage for that evening's performance, and the band came close to splitting up.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

''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.<ref name="Trad legends jig about with a legendary name">{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/trad-legends-jig-about-with-a-legendary-name-1841533.html |title=Oxegen Trad legends jig about with a legendary name |date=26 July 2009 |access-date=3 August 2009 |newspaper=[[Sunday Independent (Ireland)|Sunday Independent]] |archive-date=31 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731110401/http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/trad-legends-jig-about-with-a-legendary-name-1841533.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

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 [[antisemitism|antisemitic]]. The comments were reported in the Irish and international media;<ref name="Six million? I would have got 10 or 12 million out of that. No f**kng problem! F**k them. Two at a time, they would have gone. Hold hands, get in there! Leave us your teeth and your glasses">{{cite web |first=Ken |last=Sweeney |url=http://www.tribune.ie/article/2009/sep/20/six-million-i-would-have-got-10-or-12-million-out-/ |title=Six million? I would have got 10 or 12 million out of that. No f**kng problem! F**k them. Two at a time, they would have gone. Hold hands, get in there! Leave us your teeth and your glasses |date=20 September 2009 |access-date=25 September 2009 |work=[[Sunday Tribune]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924211051/http://www.tribune.ie/article/2009/sep/20/six-million-i-would-have-got-10-or-12-million-out-/ |archive-date=24 September 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Irish comic: 'Six million? I would have got 10 or 12 million out of that'">{{cite web |first=Brian |last=Blondy |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253804298054&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |title=Irish comic: 'Six million? I would have got 10 or 12 million out of that' |date=24 September 2009 |access-date=26 September 2009 |work=[[The Jerusalem Post]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917093109/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253804298054&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |archive-date=17 September 2011  }}</ref> however, both Tyaransen and ''Hot Press'' editor Niall Stokes, as well as Tiernan himself, defended them as being taken out of context.<ref name="How could reporter take my interview with Tommy out of context?">{{cite web |first=Olaf |last=Tyaransen |author-link=Olaf Tyaransen |url=http://www.herald.ie/opinion/how-could-reporter-take-my-interview-with-tommy-out-of-context-1896871.html |title=How could reporter take my interview with Tommy out of context? |date=25 September 2009 |access-date=26 September 2009 |work=[[Evening Herald]] |archive-date=5 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005003259/http://www.herald.ie/opinion/how-could-reporter-take-my-interview-with-tommy-out-of-context-1896871.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2020, in reaction to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland|COVID-19 pandemic]] lock down in Ireland, Hot Press held a set of online music sessions called the Lockdown Sessions featuring artists such as [[Celaviedmai]], Doppler, and [[Tebi Rex]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Newsdesk|first=The Hot Press|date=18 March 2020|title=Announcing: The Hot Press Lockdown Sessions|url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/announcing-hot-press-lockdown-sessions-22808905|access-date=26 July 2020|website=Hotpress|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726205529/https://www.hotpress.com/music/announcing-hot-press-lockdown-sessions-22808905|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=O'Toole|first=Lucy|date=22 June 2020|title=Live Report: Celaviedmai on The Hot Press Lockdown Sessions' Y&E Series|url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/live-report-celaviedmai-on-the-hot-press-lockdown-sessions-ye-series-22820016|access-date=26 July 2020|website=Hotpress|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726202508/https://www.hotpress.com/music/live-report-celaviedmai-on-the-hot-press-lockdown-sessions-ye-series-22820016|url-status=live}}</ref>