The Frames singer Glen Hansard performs at the Hot Press 50th anniversary gig at the 3Arena. Photograph: Bryan Meade

Hot Press, 50 years in the making: The Concert

3Arena, Dublin

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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:

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