Dave Hanratty

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…

THE REVISIT podcast returns to tackle a given year in Irish music and the gold standard thereof. It's gone all Y2K - remember that particular hysteria? - this time out as regular hosts Dave Hanratty and Delorentos man Kieran McGuinness…

It's a raucous atmosphere in the NO ENCORE studio as Dave Hanratty and Colm O'Regan are joined by Dara Kiely and Daniel Fox of the wonderful Girl Band ahead of their Vicar Street headliner on February 17 in aid of Pieta House. On a…

WE'RE BACK. New year, new season, new music, same old NO ENCORE fun and games. Dave Hanratty and Colm O'Regan are joined in-studio by State Magazine Reviews Editor Zara Hedderman for an hour-or-thereabouts of music-related chat including…

2016 is going to go down in the books as a pretty horrible and grim year and yes, while lots of bad things did indeed occur and a great many beloved cultural heroes bowed out, good stuff happened too. No, really. Google it. There were good…

The NO ENCORE boys are back - not in town, for they already reside there - with all the happenings in the music world, with everything from Kanye West's hospitalisation to We Cut Corners' recent headline show in Temple Bar to the return of…

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…

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…

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…