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Packed, packed house this week in the NO ENCORE studio as film critic and American sports enthusiast Dave Higgins makes his grand return to the podcast and oft-referenced friend of the show Joshua Hughes comes in from the Toronto cold to…

Your glorious NO ENCORE trio convene to make sense of things in a post-Trump world. It's a fun episode though, honest. ACT ONE: Reaction to President Trump, Michael Stipe's present and past strange activities, Lorde pens a very…

Winter has come, so get warm with your red hot NO ENCORE wrecking crew as they welcome 2fm, Newstalk, Today FM and State Magazine's Jennifer Gannon to the dance. Up for discussion - Oasis and their Supersonic documentary, the pop merits…

Heard the one about Justin Bieber repeatedly asking a guy in a calm and measured fashion to please stop following and recording him on a Dublin street? It’s bloody hilarious, isn’t it? That Bieber, what a prick! He deserved it. How dare he…

Once upon a midnight dreary, Colm O'Regan returned from holidays to join Dave Hanratty and ethnomusicologist extraordinaire Andrea Cleary on the spookiest NO ENCORE yet. There's terrifying tales aplenty in the world of music news, some…

Fresh from headlining The Workman's Club in typical raucous fashion as part of this year's LINGO Festival, the one and only Sage Francis dropped by NO ENCORE HQ for a lengthy chat with Dave and the oft-referenced, rarely heard (for good…

It’s Holy Fuck by name and by nature this week on a feature-length episode as NO ENCORE chats to Brian Borcherdt of the profanely-monikered Toronto electronica outfit mere moments before a very raucous indeed Dublin headliner. With Colm…

Dave went to see Canadian rock 'legends' Nickelback in concert and lived to tell the tale, and tell it he does as NO ENCORE turns 30. Dave and Craig are joined this time out by the returning Ruairi Lynch aka ace producer Bantum, who…

Yep, it's yet another episode where Craig flagrantly absconds from podcast duty. He'd not last a day in the Night's Watch. To be fair to the boy, he was legitimately under the weather at time of recording. "Zombified", apparently, which…

That's the truth. It's a feisty episode this week as Craig reveals all about his feud with the drummer from The Blizzards, while Colm opens up about recent rucks with Jedward and Bastille. Elsewhere, Dave is relatively docile for once while…