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First there was The Witch back in 2015 and then there was The Lighthouse in 2019. Two Robert Eggers movies that pushed the boundaries of the horror genre with hallucinatory execution, menacing atmosphere and arthouse flair paving the way…

Each November, thousands of music fans from all over the world flock to Reykjavik for the city’s annual gathering, Iceland Airwaves. It’s a four-day festival which this year attracted over 8,500 attendees. Notable headliners over the years…

Happy Christmas, it's the podcast. NO ENCORE is back with an absolutely stuffed episode, so let's act accordingly and see what's going down in the music world, shall we? ACT ONE: Dave and Colm report back from Wolf Alice in the…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the lowdown on what you might have missed. This week:…

We've all heard of Padraig Pearse, James Connolly, Eamon De Valera, Constance "Biz" Markievicz, and Michael Collins. Some of us have even heard of Eamon "I" Ceannt "Even" thanks to @aoiph's excellent twitter joke. But the 1916 Rising was…

Hello again, happy new year and all that. It's been a while since we tittererered. Let me just pull the dust covers off everything in the Digest room. Ok so, to the north there is an exit marked Hilarity. To the south another exit marked…

When I was trying to arrange an interview with music video director Bob Gallagher, he had one request; we were to go somewhere that serves Fat Frogs. Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, we never made it to a pub but Bob upheld the…

There's a spiky gothic charm about Naoise Roo. The Dublin native stalks similar shadows to those of Nick Cave, Neko Case et al, though she rises above soundalike status thanks to a voice that simultaneously manages to allay and excite.…