NO ENCORE
NO ENCORE

NO ENCORE

NO ENCORE

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NO ENCORE is a music fan’s 10.0, perfect-scoring pod companion. Every week, critic Dave Hanratty and a special guest face off over a themed Top 5 list, while also taking a sideways glance at the biggest headlines. Dissecting music – and themselves – so you can just… listen.




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TOP 5 METAL FOR THE MASSES ft. Craig Fitzpatrick
JUN 6, 2025
TOP 5 METAL FOR THE MASSES ft. Craig Fitzpatrick

Throw those horns up high, it's time to rock out.


And who better to be leading the ferocious charge this week than former co-host Craig Fitzpatrick, as he returns to school Dave Hanratty and Sonic Architect Adam Shanahan in the finest, most commercially palatable metal songs to ever be released.


And if that's simply not enough NO ENCORE for you, over on our Patreon feed you can find our latest Film Club episode where Dave and Andy carefully place Damien Chazelle's box office bomb Babylon under their proverbial microscope. Bonfire of the vanities or overlooked secret masterpiece? Sign up now to hear the boys attempt to make sense of it all. 


Next up on the Patreon feed this coming Monday, Adam will be chatting about the current state of the Irish music industry as Album Club takes a well-deserved break. Tune in for interviews with industry professionals across a number of disciplines to hear what the feeling is on the ground, what their hopes are for the future and what could be improved.


You can sign up to the NO ENCORE Patreon now for a full year and get a whole month free, so get amongst it!


But for now, it's time to dust off that Slayer t-shirt that never quite did fit right...


ACT ONE (5:25): It's been a whole five years since David Guetta ended racism forever, Thom Yorke finally breaks his silence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Swedish House Mafia collab with AI to make their way into an Irish MEP's letter to the European Commission, the Bono Box bursts open once more as he sits down with Joe Rogan for a three-hour epic, Pusha T slams Kanye, Haim address their place in the 'rock community', Fyre Festival is back yet again, and we pay tribute to Simpsons composer Alf Clausen in the wake of his passing – it's the news.


ACT TWO (56:39): Top 5 Metal for the Masses.


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PATREON PREVIEW: FILM CLUB #16 | Babylon (2022)
JUN 5, 2025
PATREON PREVIEW: FILM CLUB #16 | Babylon (2022)

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TOP 5 DEBUT SINGLES II ft. Christian Tierney
MAY 30, 2025
TOP 5 DEBUT SINGLES II ft. Christian Tierney

Get the 7" record out of the sleeve, or open up that thin jewel case you spent a fiver on for that one special tune you couldn't get off repeat.


Dave Hanratty and Sonic Architect Adam return to their respective microphones and welcome photographer extraordinaire Christian Tierney to revisit the best commercial introductions that an artist has given us.


Elsewhere on the NO ENCORE Patreon feed, you can find Adam's most recent Album Club episode on show faves Touché Amoré's album Stage Four from 2016, and coming this Monday you'll find Dave and Andy's Film Club return to discuss what some regard as an overlooked masterpiece, Babylon from 2022. Where will the two men sit on this particular spectrum? You'll have to sign up to find out.


Speaking of which, we now have annual Patreon memberships available! Sign up for the year and you'll get a whole month free, too. Anyway, more about this week's show, if you please...


ACT ONE (13:39): The Bono Box is open as he finally speaks about Israel, Lorde does some typical Lorde things, All-American Rejects receive a rejection of their own, a Bruce Springsteen cover band pay for the sins of their idol, Metallica (literally) save lives and Miley Cyrus is warned off recording a new album by... Harrison Ford? It's the news.


ACT TWO (1:02:00): Top 5 Debut Singles II


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114 MIN
PATREON PREVIEW: FILM CLUB #15 | The Usual Suspects (1995)
MAY 21, 2025
PATREON PREVIEW: FILM CLUB #15 | The Usual Suspects (1995)

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7 MIN