HOTPRESS MOAN

This is probably not the wisest move, as we hope to up the Balcony anti in the next few months and could use all the friends we can get.
My gripe comes from the fact that Hotpress failed to cover the recent BalconyTV Music Video Awards in their current issue. Added to that, they failed to even list the event in the issue before.
I moaned about Hotpress a long time ago on the same subject. Maybe that got to them.
In 2 years of BalconyTV, Hotpress has covered BalconyTV once in any substance. Once!
Even the state broadcaster, who are always claimed to be devoid of ideas and intuition has featured us a number of times.
Aren't HotPress supposed to represent the anti establishment, counter culture, under ground, indie music scene etc etc?
Keith O Brien, who is a relative unknown in relative terms won the Best Male at the BalconyTV awards. He beat the likes of Declan O Rourke, John Spillane, Ray Heffernan and Mumblin Deafro (all of which appeared on the Balcony). Stiff competition. A mention from Hotpress would have been a fair boost for him and indeed for us. No such luck.
There is nobody else in Ireland that has the responsibility to cover concepts like BalconyTV and the artists it features like Hotpress. There is no where else to run. If Hotpress can't get with it, there is big trouble in little China. Its more than a tad demoralising.
At least we're big in the Netherlands. Cheers Jan!
Im off to watch Bubble Hits.