bohemian rhapsody

Full disclosure: annoyingly, the headline ‘Brian May Hospitalised After Tearing Buttock Muscles While Gardening’  broke after we recorded. Who’s to say whether we would have mentioned it, right? Fuller disclosure: we…

Back at it with another music and movies breakdown; NO POPCORN returns after a brief life hiatus with man of the moment Elton John. No, he's not in studio as he's very busy, but rather the film of his life - Rocketman - is up for…

On May 22 this year, another music biopic will hit the big screen. This is Rocketman, a movie chronicling the early life and rise of Elton John.  Directed by Dexter Fletcher (Sunshine on Leith) it stars Taron Egerton as Elton and Jamie Bell…

“It was either going to be massive or it was going to be nothing” - Roger Taylor, Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody', one of the most celebrated songs in the history of music, is utterly unique. With the recent biopic bagging 4 awards at the…

It's time for your beloved NO ENCORE music podcast to take a deep dive into the world of cinema. NO POPCORN is our new semi-regular look at a film that boasts a certain music-themed flavour; be it a biopic, a musical or something that…

Roll up, roll up - NO ENCORE returns with the two-man power trip that is David William Hanratty and Craig Fitzpatrick for yet more music-related chatter. There's an interview with Talos man Eoin French as he releases excellent new album …

Award shows are funny things. On the face of it an award show’s sole function is to honour the year’s best and most important work, whether it be in film, music, or some other creative form. It’s at once a simple and complex task,…

This is deeply uncool, but then again I freely admit to being deeply uncool when it comes to music, so here goes. I first became obsessed with Queen because in the textbook we used for English in Transition Year – a slim volume that tried…