David Bowie

Good news! Your core NO ENCORE trio of Dave Hanratty, Colm O'Regan and Craig Fitzpatrick are back together as one solid, wildly charismatic and opinionated unit. On the agenda in a busy hour; movies, TV shows, comedians but mostly…

We're just past the halfway point of the year (only five months till Christmas, how grim is that?) and it's been so front-loaded that there's arguably been too much good music released between January and June (which is the timeframe where…

It's a Very Special Episode of NO ENCORE this week as Dave and Colm welcome back the always insightful Dean Van Nguyen to discuss the best - and some of the not so best - music of January - June 2016 as well as the big stories of the year…

Róisín Murphy Take Her Up To Monto There’s a moment towards the end of ‘Mastermind’, the opening track of Róisín Murphy’s brilliant new album Take Her Up To Monto, where a number of incredibly dramatic multi-tracked vocals blend…

Periodically Pratchett In an exciting turn of events, over 45,000 people have so far signed a petition to name one of the four recently discovered elements due to be added to the Periodic Table as “Octarine”. This petition is seen as a…

This week on Twitter was a sad week on Twitter. The death of David Bowie left just about everybody shocked, as millions around the world mourned his passing. Reports of Alan Rickman's untimely death generated a similar response online from…

Blackstar, David Bowie's final album, a curious mix of free jazz, Nadsat and Death Grips, had surprisingly little buzz surrounding it in the build up to its release. Had Neil Young or Bob Dylan or Tom Waits announced that they were…

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…

David Bowie Blackstar There were a few sure things about Blackstar, the final chapter of David Bowie’s Technicolor musical life. It would be brilliant, naturally, strange, ahead of its time and wholly wonderful. Jumping at the chance to…

Too beautiful to live; too elegant to grow old – and David Bowie is dead. The pop superstar/artist’s passing took millions by surprise. The news led bulletins around the world, including the serious BBC morning programme. When I caught…