Craig Fitzpatrick

It's about that time. Dave and Craig rock up for another round of NO ENCORE mayhem as a duelling top five comebacks brings the best - and worst - out of your beloved hosts. There's another notable return in the form of Doves, back with…

Your NO ENCORE listening experience returns following a nice long weekend in which we holidayed to other rooms of the house. Exotic stuff. This week, Craig tries to rein himself in during The Strokes review, Dave visits Sweden via the magic…

It's the final stop before NO ENCORE LIVE II hits Whelan's and the boys are very excited indeed. What's more, a year-long saga is finally resolved as ace DJ extraordinaire Claire Beck hops into the guest co-host seat. Chaos ensues.…

YOUR terrible/terrific NO ENCORE trio are reunited and it feels so good. It's an all killer, no filler episode as Dave, Craig and Colm get straight to the point, keep it real and some other generic way of saying 'Hey, just listen to the…

In which Colm absconds to his native land of Cork for frivolity and thus a tired Dave and buoyant Craig are forced to bring in a ringer. That ringer? None other than David A. Tapley of famously dormant dream-pop shoegaze outfit Tandem…

Colm may have jetted off to the permanently bright surroundings of Norway (yep, again) but Dave and Craig are in fine form as they welcome David Higgins back to the pod for a raucous episode that takes in not one but TWO album reviews. We…

NO ENCORE once again turns back the clock in order to evaluate a select group of Irish albums from a given year. This time out the team are 2002-bound - a simpler era when Roy Keane caused a national uproar, nu metal was still making an…

The boys are back in town the studio together for the first time since the triumphant live outing at The Workman's Club. Craig's fresh from yet another wild stag weekend, Colm is basking in the afterglow of judging the Choice Music Prize…

What can possibly be left to say about Ed Sheeran, 'Galway Girl' and its parent record? Plenty, as it turns out. With Colm off performing jury duty, Dave and Craig are joined by their former Hot Press colleague Celina Murphy to try and…

It was a highly eventful evening in The Workman's Club, Dublin, as NO ENCORE - The HeadStuff Podcast Network's only music podcast - turned 50 in some style. There was NO ENCORE LIVE! Not your usual instalment, this episode takes in…