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NO ENCORE #135 | NO SLEEP TIL WORKMANS

By Colm O'Regan

With just over a week until NO ENCORE gets its live show on at The Workmans Club – grab your tickets here if you haven’t done so yet – the fab four are in fine fettle for another run through the burning issues of the week. From over-enthusiastic two-stepping to an Anglo-American union more horrifying than anything Galloway could have envisaged, there’s lots to discuss, so let’s not dilly-dally with this introduction any further, yeah?

ACT ONE: A rare peek at Chic, pain at Shania Twain, and a steaming cup of Korn in the morn’ – it’s the news…

ACT TWO: Just the six years after announcing it, Tha Carter V has landed. Lil Wayne’s claim to the title of “the greatest rapper alive” hasn’t seemed too strong in recent times – does his twelfth (yeah, twelfth) studio album change that?

ACT THREE: It was going to take a lot to knock Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper off the “odd couple” perch this week…and then in rocked Olly Murs and Snoop Dogg! Collaborator-less efforts from SOAK, Art Brut and Sharon von Etten round out the Songs of the Week.

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After first entering the wild world of rock’n’roll at Hot Press magazine, Colm O'Regan has written extensively on everything from music, TV and film to politics, literature and sport. Originally from Cork, though devoid of any accent whatsoever, he currently works as a freelance writer and, of course, is one-third of NO ENCORE – but you probably knew that already.

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