As the hotpress.com messageboards will tell you, frequent and/or repeat readers of our pages tend to be quite passionate, not to say pretty damn vocal, about their pet HP loves and hates. One of (several of) our writers who is never short of a noisy fanbase is the bould Bootboy. And we certainly don't disagree. Hence, we've picked three of our recent faves of his for you to read:

In the beginning, there was bigotry. And lord knows there's still bigotry now - but Bootboy explains how Hot Press made things significantly freer for gays in the Irish free state... Click here to read.

Bootboy on how every story of addiction - to love, to sex, to pills or to whatever you're having (too much of) yourself - is at once different and the same... Click here to read

Boottoy encourages us to sing when we're winning... Click here to read

(If you want more, click on the bottom of any of the above pages, on the phrase "More by Bootboy". There ya go.)