Up Close And Personal With… John Gilligan
In response to the beating which he received as a result of his Hot Press interview, John Gilligan has decided to set the record straight by giving an interview on his mobile phone from his maximum high security prison cell to Gubuwire. Hello, hello, are you there? JG. Hello Philip, it is I, John Gilligan. [...]
Up Close And Personal With… Chris de Burgh
Chris! CDB. Hello my son. Chris de bleedin’ Burgh! What the hell are you doing here? CDB. Eh… I’m here to do an interview aren’t I? Oh yeah, let’s get started then. I read in the paper that you’re going to play a gig in Iran, is that true? CDB. I’m thinking about it. You [...]
Up Close And Personal With… Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney. PM. Hello Paul Paul Paul Paul! PM. Yes? PAUL MC-FUCKING-CARTNEY!!! PM What?! Paul, welcome to Gubuwire PM. Thanks. Thanks for giving us your first interview since your high court divorce settlement with Heather Mills. PM. No problemo, I didn’t want to go to a paper that had been talkin’ shit about me all [...]
Up Close And Personal With… Des Lynam
Conas atá tú Des? DL. Don’t talk that muck to me. Sorry Des, do you not appreciate your native tongue? DL. What do you mean by native? I am not Irish. I thought you were born in Clare? DL. LIES! Communist disinformation spread by the KGB to make the British nation lose faith in its [...]
Up Close and Personal With… Brendan O’Carroll
Brendan, welcome to Gubuwire. BOC. Thanks love (in the voice of an old Dublin woman) Stop that. BOC. Sorry (again in the voice of an old Dublin woman) Fucking stop it now! No more of the Dublin aul’ one voice! BOC. Sorry. So Brendan, you’re Ireland’s leading comedian. After Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan, Ed Byrne, [...]
Up Close And Personal With… Twink
Twink! Twink Twink Twink Twink Twink, how the hell are you? T. I’m doing great thanks. Twink, maybe you’d like to explain to our readers just why it is you’re famous, ‘cos we all know you, but nobody seems to know just what it is you do? T. WHAT?! What do you do? T. I… [...]
Up Close And Personal With… Shane MacGowan
Shane, hello! Welcome to Gubuwire SM. Urgh ggarrgh aaa. First things first Shane, are you going to record any new material with the Pogues? SM. Pmift… fgrhud? You know… the Pogues? The band you’ve been in for the last 25 years? SM. Plerdhh aaahgf udh hhtigfh. Urdfeg? Yeah! They were really good, you should check [...]
Robbie Keane Interviewed
Robbie, how art thou? RK. What? I don’t understand what you just said. Sorry, how are you? RK. What? I don’t understand what you just said. Eh… what’s your take on the imminent sacking of Steve Staunton from the Irish managerial position? RK. Steve’s a good lad, and I think he should be given some [...]
Up Close And Personal With… Colin Farrell
Hello Colin, welcome to Gubuwire. CF. You can call me Farreller, wha’. No you’re alright. So anyway Colin- – Thanks, this’s rapid, it’s me first internet interview it is, wha’, deadly. Really? Do you surf the Web regularly? CF. Yeah defo, it’s deadly it is, wha’. I’m buzzin’ I am. I’m always online – between [...]
Up Close And Personal With… David Bowie
Bowie displays his new ‘Thin White Russian Pimp’ image Hello David, welcome to our site. How does it feel to be free again? DB. Great thanks, and it’s great to be here! Are you bitter about what happened, do you feel you were wrongly imprisoned? DB. No it was all my heroin. I enjoyed my [...]














