Why be a member?

Well, why just read Ireland's coolest (and yet, let's face it, sometimes hottest) music & culture magazine, when you can avail of all sorts of other special features here on the web as well? Such as...

MESSAGEBOARDS

The now infamous hotpress.com messageboards are a treat within a treat. Over the last 9 months the burgeoning messageboard crew has pondered long and hard on some of the crucial - and some of the not so crucial! - issues of the day (and, if you don't mind, the night too). The thousands upon thousands of posts from members of hotpress.com have been variously learned, trivial, entertaining, heart breaking, hilarious and always really real. This is a living, breathing, fascinating community. Reach out and touch them. They don't always bite back!

COMPETITIONS

Over the last 9 months, members of hotpress.com have won 2 wonderful trips to foreign climes, backstage VIP access at 6 of the major gigs and events in the Irish music calendar, and rakes and rakes more desirable goodies! Over the coming months, there will LOTS of other great competitions, EXCLUSIVE to subscribers - the kind of thing you'd kick yourself to have missed. We promise!

THE INDUSTRY CHANNEL

hotpress.com's Industry Channel gives you access to the Hot Press Music Directory, the most comprehensive collection of Irish music industry contacts availble anywhere, and the only Irish music industry resource you'll ever need.

But it gets better. In addition to the goldmine of contact information Hot Press Yearbook users have come to rely upon, the Music Directory online will also offer exciting new features to keep you educated, updated and in the know about what's going on in Ireland, both in relation to talent and in the music industry generally. This is a vital service for professionals and for fans alike.

All this for just €20 a year ... you're right, you'd be mad not to.

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