Culture That Made Me: Cork singer Joe O’Callaghan of Hot Guitars
Joe O'Callaghan of Hot Guitars, at his home in Cork. Picture: David Keane
Born in 1949, Joe O’Callaghan grew up off Model Farm Road, Cork. In 1977, he co-founded Hot Guitars, a legendary blues band on the Cork music scene, not least for his antics as a frontman and its long-running Monday night residency in Sir Henry’s.

