Ed Sheeran

The NO ENCORE boys are back - well, two of them, at least. With Daithí away, Dave and Craig will play. On the agenda; the new Ed Sheeran album, Craig's festival trip abroad and the current state of The Strokes, and one Song of the Week…

Recorded before the dramatic events of the NO ENCORE Quiz of the Year, it's the final episode of the podcast season before we get down to the business of deciding the top songs and albums of 2017. It's a packed edition, with verdicts on…

The NO ENCORE crew summon Daithi from the subs bench for a typically raucous episode that tackles ALL aspects of the past seven days or so in the music world. Were you at Electric Picnic 2017? Us neither, but we have a review... ACT…

Tickets are funny things, as things go. They’re a luxury item, yet not really items in and of themselves; tickets are more the promise of a good memory. At least that is what we were taught during my training and induction into an online…

Monday Today was just an ordinary day in the life of a proud Ulsterman, where I began the weekly fight against the persecution of my culture and community. An incident occurred this morning where I caught my daughter listening to a chap…

NO ENCORE is, in fact, talkin' U2 to you this week as the boys park the regular album review segment to... construct their very own U2 record! Elsewhere, there's all the usual noise with big news, Songs of the Week and Colm's personal Top…

This week, Donald Trump made some inappropriate comments about Irish journalist Caitriona Perry, the Jobstown six were found not guilty, and Brid Smith became the first TD to speak publicly about her abortion. Ed Sheeran also announced a…

What can possibly be left to say about Ed Sheeran, 'Galway Girl' and its parent record? Plenty, as it turns out. With Colm off performing jury duty, Dave and Craig are joined by their former Hot Press colleague Celina Murphy to try and…

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…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week; The…