Rihanna

Emma Jane Purcell chats to people at the top of their game about failure - from their first memory of failure to how they cope with it now. This week on Fail Harder Emma chats to Zacc Milne. At age fifteen Zacc moved to New Zealand to…

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…

“We decided to not write for radio, not write for a label, not write for anyone but ourselves.” - Aly & AJ in PAPER 'Potential Breakup Song' was huge. It was loud and bombastic. A moment-defining piece of pop music that vaulted…

I’m an Ocean’s virgin. That’s probably one of the stranger sentences I’ve written but what I mean is that I’ve never seen any of the original Ocean’s trilogy. I’m not a fan of heist movies because it’s rare that they allow for good…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge defined poetry as ‘the best words in the best order’. This playlist is dedicated to one of the most visceral swear words in the English language (rhymes with duck, definitions range from ‘drat’ to ‘copulate’). Below…

The boys are back in town, as goes the popular Twitter meme. Hey, someone should maybe write a song about that. NO ENCORE returns with yet more dispatches from the ever-evolving world of music... ACT ONE: A rock star exit leads the…

This week, Ireland went on Strike4Repeal, the rest of the world celebrated International Women’s Day, and Rihanna looked well, as usual. It was also the two year anniversary of #YokeTuesday, when ecstasy and other drugs became temporarily…

WE'RE BACK. New year, new season, new music, same old NO ENCORE fun and games. Dave Hanratty and Colm O'Regan are joined in-studio by State Magazine Reviews Editor Zara Hedderman for an hour-or-thereabouts of music-related chat including…

This week, acting legend Gene Wilder passed away, Apple didn't pay their tax, and Beyoncé won all of the VMAs ever. We also pondered how to speak to a woman who is wearing headphones. #GeneWilder dies, aged 83 You probably remember the…

My love of Britney Spears runs deep. It’s a love so strong that it reminds me that I have the ability to actually love at all. People are often bewildered by my love. She is seen as an act who is past it or irrelevant when the fact is that…