twin peaks

"Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there." - David Lynch Television three decades ago was a very bland landscape. Nothing…

Control is the culmination of many things. It's influences are wide and varied but it's distinctly it's own beast as well. It owes as much to the imagination of its writer Sam Lake as it does to the likes of Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach…

It's the last NO ENCORE before the festival hiatus is shattered and there's a superstar guest on board in the form of the quite excellent Saint Sister. Morgan MacIntyre and Gemma Doherty release their long-awaited debut album on October…

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:…

Across the 18 frightening, hilarious and utterly compelling hours of Twin Peaks: The Return, there have been some excellent musical moments. Several esteemed musicians have taken to the stage of the Bang Bang Bar; their performances often…

Note: This piece contains spoilers for Twin Peaks: The Return “What year is this?” - Dale Cooper And with those words (along with one last classic Laura Palmer scream) Twin Peaks: The Return comes to an end. At this point whether this is…

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…

We could spend all day talking about how Fire Walk With Me relates to the current return of Twin Peaks but it’s more interesting to consider it as something of a watershed moment in Lynch’s filmography: from this film on his output got…

Happy Twin Peaks day, everyone! Er, that is if you're listening to this on the Monday. If not, fear not, for the NO ENCORE wrecking crew kick this edition off with some thoughts on the cult phenomenon. Talk soon moves to the sad passing of…

News Dublin's Influence on Nigerian Writer Poet and playwright Inua Ellams, who moved to the Dublin suburb Firhouse with his family at 15, has revealed that his time in Ireland was significant and formative. "When I started school in…