Hot Press, 50 years in the making: The Concert
3Arena, Dublin
★★★★☆
It’s 10 minutes to midnight, well past the 3Arena’s bedtime, when Niall Stokes of Hot Press announces: “You won’t get jokes out of me, I am not Tommy Tiernan.”
However, when he first set up the influential Irish music magazine, it did seem as something closer to a joke, having been told by an editor in RTÉ: “I give you five issues.”
Fifty years later, and with a crowd of 13,000 in attendance, few people were laughing at Hot Press on Friday night even with comedians Tiernan, Tony Cantwell, Rachel Galvo and Emma Doran among those taking the stage as the magazine celebrated a half century in…