We Cut Corners

Every good celebration needs its PLAYLIST, and of all the public holidays, Christmas has no shortage in this department. However, if you a bit worn out from the incessant playing of the same tunes, over and over again we got music…

Back in the cosy confines of NO ENCORE Towers - complete with Craig for good measure - the boys are back in business. From plagued planes and useless eulogies to the rise of the Swedish far right, there's plenty to discuss so let's get…

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…

Time to party like it's 1992 on THE REVISIT as Dave Hanratty and Kieran McGuinness turn back the clock alongside MayKay (Fight Like Apes, Other Voices), Conall Ó Breacháin (We Cut Corners) and Brian Mooney (The Idiots, Jape, David Kitt,…

The RTE Choice Music Prize, that is. This week, your NO ENCORE wrecking crew boasts a roundtable of academic music-related excellence as it welcomes back Kieran McGuinness of Delorentos fame alongside your regular trio of Dave, Craig and…

From an outrageous year in Irish music, it’s no surprise that this year’s Choice Music Prize 2017 shortlist is solid as hell. Decided by a panel of Irish ‘industry types’, the winner will be announced on the 9th of March 2017. For those not…

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…

We Cut Corners The Cadences of Others A music year like 2016 doesn’t come along all that often. Globally, we have seen some of the best releases of the decade seize the public consciousness, experiment and divide critical opinion.…

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…

Dave went to see Canadian rock 'legends' Nickelback in concert and lived to tell the tale, and tell it he does as NO ENCORE turns 30. Dave and Craig are joined this time out by the returning Ruairi Lynch aka ace producer Bantum, who…