Dublin's new indoor festival, Metropolis, has announced first details of its November 7 and 8 Conversation & Spoken Word elements - and a highly impressive and eclectic line-up it is too!
Taking place in The Library and Concert Hall areas of the RDS, Giorgio Moroder, Howard Marks, Sir David Rodigan and John Cooper Clarke are all confirmed along with David Haslam, Mike Pickering and Greg Wilson who are joining forces for the Legend Of The Hacienda panel.
Eamon Sweeney will be conducting the much-anticipated Hacienda panel from 14.15 on Saturday, while Olaf Tyaransen will be talking to Howard Marks about his remarkable life from 16.45 on Sunday afternoon.
The Light House cinema will also be curating special screenings of the fabulous Tony Wilson and Factory Records biopic, 24 Hour Party People, and, appropriately enough, Fritz Lang's 1927 classic, Metropolis.
Hot Press can exclusively reveal the participation of Nelson George, the New York columnist, filmmaker and culture critic who was Billboard Music Editor for a large chunk of the '80s; helped finance Spike Lee's debut feature, She's Gotta Have It; flexed his cinematic muscles further with Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah and Halle Berry, and has penned top notch tomes on Motown, Michael Jackson, James Brown and the state of the hip hop nation.
We're also looking forward to meeting Rob Doyle whose Here Are The Young Men was hailed by many - Hot Press included - as one of the finest debut Irish novels of the millennium so far. The follow-up, This Is The Ritual, is due in January 2016 so we'll be pumping him for as much pre-publication info as possible!
There'll certainly be no shortage of people who can talk the talk in Dublin 4 over the weekend - all the mores with members of the Hot Press Massive throwing some of the questions.
As previously announced, the band and DJ turns over the weekend include Mark Ronson, Giorgio Moroder, Chic, The Roots, Hot Chip, Flight Facilities, Jamie xx, Kaytranada, Todd Terje, Vic Mensa, Jeff Mills and many more.