We all know the drill: the band say it’s their last song. They walk off the stage. The lights go down, and fans start chanting: ‘One more song!’ Soon enough, they’re back to knock out a few more, and once they’ve played their biggest hit, the show ends for good. Encores are a staple of gigs, and have been for years, but there is some awkwardness around them. Bowling For Soup compared bands leaving the stage to ‘peek-a-boo, but for adults’ while another viral post described them as the band asking fans to ‘beg’. And in a more recent post, a concert-goer overheard a fellow audience member saying that encores were a ‘TikTok trend’. Um… Not every show has to end with one, though. Boston Manor just don’t do them, period. “We think they’re lame,” frontman ...