Let's get down to quizness. It's the NO ENCORE Quiz of 2020! Six rounds of music-related brain teasers for you to ponder over as you live vicariously through fierce combatants Craig Fitzpatrick and special guest Fionnuala Jones of…

Happy New Year! NO ENCORE returns for 2021 with a preview of the upcoming RTÉ Choice Music Prize, where the best Irish album of 2020 will be officially crowned. Things are a little different this year, though, from both the judging process…

Looks like we made it. The final NO ENCORE episode of the year. The very best albums of 2020. Dave Hanratty, Craig Fitzpatrick and Zara Hedderman combine and clash over the standout long-players of a strange 12 months. Thank you so much for…

Tis! The! Season! Dave Hanratty, Dave Higgins and Norma Howard celebrate this most festive time of year the only way they know how; by reviewing a pretty wretched yuletide romantic comedy in the form of the completely deranged LAST…

LISTMAS is NOW~! Dave Hanratty and Craig Fitzpatrick are joined by Zara Hedderman as they run down the NO ENCORE 20 Best Songs of 2020, complete with a good old-fashioned debate to decide the order of the Top 5. Will they still be friends…

Ace newsman Richard Chambers joins Dave Hanratty in the NO ENCORE co-host hot seat, making his long, long-awaited return to the show. On the agenda for the last regular episode of the year? Plenty. Will the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines mean…

Be excellent to each other! Dave, Higgs and Norma return with a deep dive on a rare thing – a big movie released during 2020. Bill & Ted Face the Music is the long-awaited comeback of Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as two lovable…

One day earlier than usual, it's NO ENCORE~! End-of-Year SZN looms but Dave and Craig still have some important current affairs to take care of; chiefly the latest album from Miley Cyrus, a batch of piping hot news items and another Top 5…

It's beginning to look a lot like... the end of November. A good time to dive into the magical world of Landfill Indie, don't you think? Hope so, because that's our NO ENCORE top five this week. Elsewhere, The Cribs drop their eighth album,…

NO ENCORE's Dave and Craig are all kinds of thunderstruck this week as the new AC/DC album and weather-related songs storm in accordingly. Yep, it's the most elemental music podcast around. All that and an absolutely packed news section so…