TOP 5 WALKING SONGS ft. Oliver Nolan

TOP 5 WALKING SONGS ft. Oliver Nolan

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May 22, 2026 · 1h 58m · Episode 495

About this episode

The episode features Oliver Nolan discussing his top five walking songs while also covering music news and festival experiences.

We're rambling back into things this week after our start-of-summer sojourn, and walking into studio this week is Oliver Nolan of the Irish Film Institute to accompany us on a stroll though his five favourite songs about the wonder of the wander. That's not all the listening we have for you, though. Available on the NO ENCORE Patreon right now, you can hear Adam's 85-minute reliving of his adventure to SPOT Festival in Aarhus, Denmark. Tap in for some new Nordic discoveries, festival crowd discourse, highlights (and lowlights) and a Top 5 of the acts he saw. Forthcoming, is the return of Film Club in which the boys have yet another one of their extremely-podcastable disagreements about the movie Fall f rom 2022, but which of our co-hosts will be driven to the top of the proverbial tower and which one has Fall -en for the movie? You'll have to wait until Monday to find out. Onwards, we've got a ways to go! ACT ONE: The preamble, in which we have a brief catch-up and, of course, ramble – no pun intended. ACT TWO (23:32): Drake's triple-drop, Macca no longer monkeying about, Taran Egerton's Chemical curations, Aqua submerged to a permanent end and a local talent hits big in the…

People in this episode

Host: Adam

Guest: Oliver Nolan

Topics covered

  • music
  • walking songs
  • festival experiences
  • film discussions
  • current music news

Keywords

  • walking songs
  • music news
  • SPOT Festival
  • Fall movie
  • Irish Film Institute

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Irish Film Institute, Billboard, Aqua

Books & works: Fall

Places: Aarhus, Denmark

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