Dreaded technical difficulties strike but the NO ENCORE team powers through. We're all just doing our best, right? 
Can the same be said for UK dance titans Disclosure and their third album? What about songs related to the school experience? And did *anyone* watch the MTV VMAs? 
ACT ONE [6:02]: Award shows, governmental brainwaves, surreal futuristic cities and disastrous festivals - it's the news.
ACT TWO [29:04]: The brothers Lawrence return after five years as Disclosure aims to instill copious amounts of Energy into the world. Mission accomplished or better luck next time?
ACT THREE [48:26] BACK TO SCHOOL! No, not the Deftones song that was needlessly bolted onto the stunning White Pony but rather a clutch of other tunes associated with the trials and tribulations of getting an education. It's the Top 5!
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Back at it as another August weekend looms towards the grey and dreary. NO ENCORE is a ray of sunshine by comparison, of course. Dave and Craig sift through yet another contentious rundown, throw out their own shouts for the most noteworthy fictional musical acts and enlist a friend to talk about The Killers and their latest album.
ACT ONE: Vice did a top 50 about landfill indie. The boys react accordingly. Elsewhere in the news cycle, Van Morrison makes a couple of spurious claims, Spotify reveal a list of their own, Bill & Ted want to clear something up and there's conflicting views on the Nirvana-soundtracked trailer for THE BATMAN.
ACT TWO [31:51]: The Killers are back with sixth studio album Imploding the Mirage. Singer-songwriter and noted Killers supporter Carlo Magliocco joins the fray.
ACT THREE [1:01:24] This week's top five concerns musical acts of a fictional nature, derived from film, TV and possibly other pop culture forums, too.
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Too often accused of 'hating The Beatles', Dave sets out to prove once and for all... that Yesterday is a complete shambles of a cinematic enterprise. 
Norma and Higgs are also present with their own hot takes on the Danny Boyle / Richard Curtis musical train-wreck that quite a lot of people flocked to in the summer of 2019.
ACT ONE: What We've Been Watching including emotive arthouse affairs, cancelled filmmakers, corpse-kills and more.
ACT TWO [23:30] Imagine a world in which nobody remembered the music of The Beatles. Now imagine that Richard Curtis came along, *allegedly* fucked over another writer who came up with that premise and proceeded to make YESTERDAY. Enjoy?
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Let's get emotional. 
NO ENCORE is back with a stacked agenda in the form of a devastating Top 5 face-off, the first Bright Eyes album in almost a decade and the absolute STATE of the Irish government...
ACT ONE: Craig's got mail.
ACT TWO [8:46]: Confusion reigns over the status of small Irish gigs in the time of Covid-19 and the government really isn't helping. Dave chats with Vinny Casey of The Workman's Club about a difficult week for artists and promoters.
ACT THREE [23:35]: Further news items of interest including Cher's pivot to public service, Broooooce stanning LDR, and a specialist record store that we hope to visit one day. 
ACT FOUR [39:36]: Conor Oberst and Bright Eyes return after a long absence with some apocalyptic revelry in the form of Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was. Sounds just about right for 2020, OR DOES IT?
ACT FIVE [59:26]: Let the tears fall where they may. Songs That Make You Cry time. 
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Dave is proud of that top five moniker but will he be as happy when the actual rundown occurs? Only one way to find out, dear listener, as NO ENCORE returns for a brand new episode set against a backdrop of a ferocious dead heat.
ACT ONE [4:51]: A whimsical news section takes in the American Song Contest, yet more problematic concert gatherings, Nick Cave addressing cancel culture, Lewis Capaldi cancelling himself and why you maybe shouldn't go down to the woods today.
ACT TWO [31:22]: Beloved art-pop outfit Glass Animals bounce back from a near-death experience to take us into their Dreamland. Are the guys up for the high-concept adventure?
ACT THREE [52:32]: The top five is here as Songs About Animals roar into focus. 
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NO ENCORE does the 'movies and music' blender mix again as Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams do their utmost to pay respect to the most beloved European knockout music competition there's ever been. Dave, Higgs and Norma may be a touch less enamoured. We'll see.
ACT ONE: What We've Been Watching featuring about 10 minutes on Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy because that never goes out of style. Speaking of, there's some professional wrestling chatter, too. 
ACT TWO [30:25]: The main event. Who is this film for, exactly? Is Will Ferrell the right guy for this project? What's going on with Pierce Brosnan's accent? And should Dan Stevens be the next James Bond?
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Summer? Autumn? Who the hell knows. Whatever the weather, NO ENCORE is here.
Another stacked edition on the cards as Dave Hanratty and Craig Fitzpatrick review Fontaines D.C.'s latest attempt at making the best guitar album ever made before clashing with gusto over their shouts for most intriguing music-based rivalries and feuds...
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ACT ONE [8:29]: News-based items of interest.
ACT TWO [22:36]: Popular Dublin beat collective Fontaines D.C. return with sophomore adventure A Hero's Death. Dave and Craig weren't all that bowled over by Dogrel last year. Second time's a charm?
ACT THREE [42:58]: Fight! Fight! Fight! Top 5 Rivalries & Feuds time. 
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We did it guys, we made it through July! Take a moment, celebrate. Then listen to our latest episode, which is a joyous affair. 
Dave and Craig throw down on the apparently literally perfect new Taylor Swift album and then duke it out Top 5-style with a whole host of strange link-ups; good, bad and very, very ugly. 
ACT ONE [5:39]: Coronavirus continues to have its way with the NO ENCORE news section but it's mostly alright, Lars Ulrich and Dave see eye-to-eye on one of music's most long-running battles and Aaron Dessner is a terrible father.
ACT TWO [17:14]: We do love a big new music release on this podcast so let's really drill down on Taylor Swift, folklore and the surrounding noise, shall we? 
ACT THREE [46:28]: A Top 5 that really runs the gauntlet as emotive, painful, offensive and sometimes beautiful shouts dominate the Unusual Collaboration rundown.
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It's the weekend, it's NO ENCORE. Maybe it's the weekday. Up to you when you choose to listen, really.
This week, Dave and Craig mull over a fresh top five that finds them slaughtering acts they generally adore or at the very least admire quite a bit. There's also a jam-packed news section and an album review. Stacked, so it is...
ACT ONE [4:12]: Loads of music news including the Mercury Prize nominations, disaster for the Gavin James-fronted Live at the Drive-In series, nu metal alive and well, Linkin Park versus Donald Trump and wait, what's that? Peter Hook has something to say about New Order? 
ACT TWO [44:46]: Jarvis Cocker is back with his JARV IS... project. Dave thinks it's a mite pretentious. What of Craig, though? What of Craig? 
ACT THREE [57:34]: Time to put some sacred cows out to pasture as the boys dive into Songs You Hate By Artists You Love.
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It's been a while, as yer man from Staind once warbled.
NO ENCORE's music x movies spin-off comes in from the cold as Dave Hanratty, David Higgins and Norma Howard return with thoughts on two biopic-type efforts; Control and 24 Hour Party People. Both focus on the rise and fall of Joy Division, while also making considerable room for the wider 'Madchester' scene of the 70s and 80s. 
Which film better captures Ian Curtis? Is it possible to divorce Steve Coogan from Alan Partridge? Are the Happy Mondays the worst band of all time? All these questions and more considered on this here edition. 
ACT ONE: A lengthy enough 'What We've Been Watching' catch-up.
ACT TWO [29:00]: Let's talk about Control and 24 Hour Party People.
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