Dave Hanratty

NO ENCORE fires up the flux capacitor once more and revisits a year in Irish music to weigh up the most notable albums of the era. This time out it's 2003, with everything from bedroom experimentation (not that kind) to carefully…

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…

Time once again to step into the past in order to weigh up the cream of the crop of the Irish music scene. This time out it's 1984, a very special year indeed for NO ENCORE host Dave Hanratty. He and Delorentos man Kieran McGuinness are…

NO ENCORE once again travels back in time for THE REVISIT as Irish albums from a given year duke it out for critical supremacy. 1994 was the year when Ray Houghton spurred Ireland to a memorable victory over Italy in the World Cup but there…

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the passing of the phenomenal Prince. As such, the NO ENCORE crew felt it only right and proper to pay tribute to The Purple One with an in-depth Listening Guide for newcomers, novices, die-hards…

Turn the clock back once more as NO ENCORE takes the temperature of the Irish music scene in 1985. It's a serious panel of experts this time out as Dave Hanratty and Kieran McGuinness are joined by Nadine O'Regan (Sunday Business Post,…

That's a reference to both a film starring Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter and the NO ENCORE featured album review this week which, incidentally, kinda-sorta divides the room as Dave, Colm and Craig reconvene to make sense of all the…

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's Irish album flashback time once again on NO ENCORE as Dave Hanratty and Kieran McGuinness step into 1988 alongside the lively panel of DJ, MC extraordinaire and all-round culture vulture Rick O'Shea, HeadStuff Music Editor Andrea…