10th Anniversary Hot Press Summit
To cap another highly eventful rock‘n’roll year, a slew of Ireland’s most hip and happening musician types and gatecrasher Phill Jupitus converge on Dublin for the 10th Anniversary Hot Press Summit. President Higgins, The Stone Roses, Amy Winehouse, the Boys In Green & marauding North Korean submarines are all on the agenda as 2011 is subjected to CSI-style forensic examination.
Stuart Clark, 07 Dec 2011
Forget the Late Late Toy Show and Garda breathalyser checkpoints, the surest sign that Christmas is upon us is when the good and the great of the Irish music industry assemble for the annual HP Summit.
We’ve been putting the rock ‘n’ roll world to rights for ten years now – the first summit taking place in 2002 when Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, Mundy, David Kitt, Glen Hansard and Gemma Hayes were among those pontificating, prevaricating and lots of other things beginning with ‘p’.
Since then our round-ish tablers have included Joe Elliott, Cathy Davey, Tim Wheeler, Sharon Corr, Neil Hannon, Laura Izibor, Paul Noonan, Niall Breslin, Danny O’Donoghue, Duke Special, MayKay and Conor J. O’Brien, to name but a dozen. But – in the immortal words of ABC’s Martin Fry – that was then, this is now. Michael D is rocking in the Áras, the third coming of the Stone Roses is nigh and all thoughts of terminally dull football have gone out the window as Trap’s men head for certain Euro 2012 glory in Poland and the Ukraine. Here in The Workman’s Club to chew over these and other matters of national import are:
Lydia Des Dolles – lead singer with Sweet Jane, the Velvet Underground-worshipping Dubliners who had to leave their Wrigley’s at home this year when they journeyed to Singapore. Currently recording their second album in Grouse Lodge, they could just be the dark horses of the Irish rock pack.
Thomas Walsh – purveyor of some of Ireland’s most perfect pop, Thomas returned to Pugwash duties this year, having spent 2010 moonlighting alongside Neil Hannon in the cricket-tastic Duckworth Lewis Method. Made it two top 20 Irish albums in a row with The Olympus Method, and continued to have extremely nice things said about him by the likes of Chris Morris, Stephen Fry and ELO legend Jeff Lynne.
James Byrne – not content with drumming his way round the world this year with Villagers, James runs the Any Other City label whose latest signings Hello Moon have made January’s Eurosonic cut. Has also been known to man the 1s and 2s in various city-centre nightspots and reckons that The Clash’s Topper Headon is one of rock’s greatest unsung heroes.
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