Phillious Williams Exhibition
January 2012, Leigh on sea
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WEIRDGEAR
A 4 piece band from Southend-on-Sea that use 1970s analogue synthesizers to make music designed for the modern age.
Photo c/o Weirdgear.
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YMCA Etc. Launch, Southend
Read our online review of the event and fashion show here.
ESSEX FANZINE COMPENDIUM
Noisy & Southend Punk are working on a forthcoming publication detailing the history of fanzines in the county of Essex. If you are/have been involved with an Essex-based fanzine, we would love to hear from you! For more information visit this page.
The Southend Record & CD Fair
Usually second Sunday of the month. 9.30am - 3.00pm, admission £1 (OAPs and under 16s free) @ West Leigh Infant School, Ronald Hill Grove, Leigh, SS9 2JB.
Run a record fair in Essex? If so, contact us with the details and we'll post them here!
10/04/12 Low-fi indie types Ten Tigers have released a free download celebrating Formula 1! The track,'Jenson Button' is available for download here and you can check out the accompanying video here.
22/12/11 Celebrating all that is good and musical in Chelmsford, The Panic Awards 2012 will take place on Friday, April 13th at the town's Civic Theatre. If you would like to vote for your favourite band/promoter/venue etc. in the CM postcode area, check out the website now for details.
22/2/11 Planning for the 2011 Kelvedon Free Music Festival is underway, and this year the event will be held on Saturday 9th July, at the Kelvedon Recreation Ground. This is preceeded by the annual Battle of the Bands competition which will be held on Friday 4th March at Kelvedon Institute, doors open at 7pm. Tickets are £6 on the door. Five school age bands will each play a 20 minute set, which must include at least 2 original compositions, in front of an audience of friends, family, their own fans and, crucially, a panel of judges. The judges are all experienced musicians and they will be looking at the bands’ technique, stage presence and quality of their own songs. The winners will, as in previous years, play the opening set of the Kelvedon Free Music Festival. For further information on the festival visit the website.
16/1/11 Rock For Haven's sake will take place on Sunday 10th April 2011, Doors open at The Mill Arts and Leisure Centre, Bellingham Lane, Rayleigh, Essex at 11.30am with the first band on at 12 noon. Canvey Legends Dr. Feelgood will be headlining, with a host of other bands including: May contain Nuts, The Ends, The Elco Jones Band, The Fabulous Feedback Band, The Late Shift, The Famous Potatoes, Dear Acetate, Ethereal Fire, The Long run, The Sanction, Digby Fairweather and The Fifty Fours on throughout the day. There will be a raffle, a bar and fast food and a special auction of a one of a kind painting by local artist Sue Pattle who has painted Sir John Mills and the Queen Mother. Tickets are £10 for the whole day with under 14's at £5. Further details of running order and ticket purchase will be available shortly on the the offical website and the Essexinfo website.
31/12/10 Brentwood and Billericay's community radio station Phoenix FM are scheduling a marathon playlist of Essex music over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day! If you're sick of the usual Christmas/disco tunes, head over to Phoenix FM to hear some home-grown talent! For a taster of some of the music you'll hear, click here.
14/10/10 Essex-based six piece Kings Cross intend to perform at Ben Nevis this weekend with a full electric PA, as part of their Extreme World Tour. They’re also planning to perform the UK’s highest drum and guitar solos while there. No strangers to controversy, the band hope this will be the first of many unusual locations on the aforementioned Extreme World Tour, which - if it goes ahead - will take in "the hottest and coldest inhabited areas in the world, the largest monolith in the world and the most remote island in the world, alongside other unlikely places for gigs like the South Pole." This weekend's endeavour is in aid of charity - with Parkinson's UK and The J’s Hospice set to benefit from funds raised.
13/10/10 Southend folk-punk collective Deferred Sucess have found a way to beat the economic gloom by inviting fans to contribute to the recording of their album. The band, fronted by singer-songwriter Paul 'Doozer' Short have set up a web page here where fans and benefactors can choose from various options to donate money to the process, from as little as £10 to £200. On the strength of last year's 5-track House Parties EP they've appeared at numerous festivals, including Bearded Theory, Beautiful Days and Endorse it in Dorset, as well as touring across the UK and mainland Europe, and supporting the likes of The Levellers, Carter USM and R2 faves Zounds.
28/08/10 Fundraising music festival Rock For Havens Sake is currently seeking bands for their 2011 event which will be headlined by Dr. Feelgood. For more information about the event, it's history and how to apply, please visit the official website here. Bands not successful this time around will be kept on file for other events as they come along.
28/08/10 Essex singer/songwriter Leanne Roberts has reached the regional finals of music competition Open Mic UK. This will see her compete at the Towngate Theatre, Basildon, on Saturday, September 18th 2010 (doors open at 1.15pm), performing for the chance to win management and a recording contract. The grand finals will take place at the O2 Arena, London.
07/08/10 Legendary self-described UK 'trash rock read' Bubblegum Slut fanzine celebrates 10 years in print this year! To celebrate there is a bumper edition out now at £2.00 (includes 21 track free sampler CD!), and a special London gig at The Gaff (Holloway Road) on Saturday 25th September – 8.00pm til 5am, featuring The Bermondsey Joyriders (Slide-guitar fuelled blooze-punk from ex-Damned / Cock Sparrer / Chelsea members!), The Duel (LondonWavePunkRocknRoll!), Zen Motel (Sleazy, unstoppable, garage rock anthems!), Evil Beaver (Boundary-busting sleazy twosome outta L.A!), Achilla - acoustic (London Gothic metal unplugged!), plus DJ Angel (Glamourama / Antichrist / Unholy), Goodie bags for the first 25 in! Birthday cake for all! Reckless Love official aftershow from Midnight!
Visit the myspace page for ordering info.
Wondering what this has to do with Essex? Bubblegum Slut started off life in our county! Since it was established in September 2000, by then teenage editor Alison B, Bubblegum Slut has provided a quarterly posting from the glam, sleaze, goth, punk and psychobilly undergrounds. Though still distinguished, as it was on day one, by the trademark fake-fur heart and bawdy lowbrow art which adorn the cover of each issue, the zine has come a long way from its beginnings as after-school project offering the editor underage entry to gigs across the country.
30/05/10 As part of Southend Fringe Festival 2010, Noisy! presents a screening of DIY American film A Hundred Dollars and a T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in the Northwest US directed by Microcosm publishing’s Joe Biel. With a focus on the fanzine community in the USA and particularly the city of Portland, Oregon, the film aims to answer questions including what is a zine, why people make them and what the future holds for zines, through interviews with writers and visits to shops, symposiums, resource centres and libraries. With a running time of around 80 mins, this film will open your eyes to a cultural phenomenon that may just inspire you to create your own zine!
View trailer.
Thursday, June 10 at The Railway Hotel, 32 Clifftown Road,Southend-on-sea, Southend-on-sea, Essex, SS1 1AJ
Doors open 8pm, film starts 8.30pm, £1 per person and there will also be a fanzine tombola!
(Generally suitable for all, contains some swearing.) Tickets can be bought in advance for £1 from www.noisyzine.co.uk or from Southend Fringe Festival directly.
02/05/10 The Leigh Folk Festival has announced a pre-festival fundraising concert featuring THE UNTHANKS on Bank Holiday Monday, May 31 at Leigh Wesley Methodist Church, starting at 7.30pm. Support will be from the acclaimed singer and composer Hannah Peel. Tickets are priced at £12 in advance, and are available from the festival website. They will also be available on the night priced at £15.
This year’s Leigh Folk Festival will be taking place from Thursday June 24 to Sunday June 27 and as usual will involve a huge array of musical talent, as well as dance displays, ceilidhs, workshops, children’s events and much more. The event is now recognised as the largest free folk festival in the country, and this fundraising concert will be vital in helping to finance this massively popular local institution!
25/04/10 Fresh from an appearance on TV's Hollyoaks, Southend band Redtrack are to release a new single, entitled Perfectly Fine Intellectual/Imogen. The single will be released on the 31st May, by record label Fandango, a subsidiary of Fierce Panda. The single will be followed by an album, Whole Town’s Heart in August. The band have also recently announced the addition of a fouth member to their line-up.
21/02/10 Not In Our Town is a campaign set up by artists in the Southend area to raise awareness of the suffering of wild and domestic animals used in traveling circuses. Visit the website for details on a fundraising event on Sunday, 2nd May 2010 featuring local bands, at the Ship, Leigh on sea. All proceeds to Animal Defenders International.
16/01/10 Happy New Year! Not one but three films about Essex musicians are hitting the cinemas soon if not as I type. Firstly, No Distance Left To Run, the documentary of Blur's career gets a one-off screening at Odeon cinemas in Chelmsford, Southend and Colchester on Tuesday, January 19th, for more info on those click here. Sex & Drugs & Rock &Roll concerning the life and times of Ian Drury is out now, and finally Canvey Island's Dr Feelgood are profiled in Julien Temple's Oil City Confidential due out on the 2nd February, for info on that film go the official site.
23/11/09 Essex quartet The Floe have just launched a campaign to raise awareness of organ donation a year after singer Sarah donated a kidney to her boyfriend. Visit the offical website to download a track in aid of the cause, and even sign up to the NHS organ donors register.
26/10/09 Last night, Noisy! attended a fashion show organised by new Southend charity shop/youth project YMCA Etc. Read our review online here!
23/10/09 With Halloween almost a week away and Christmas just around the corner, Essex's rock bands have wasted no time in crafting some suitably spooky/festive tunes. Punk band The Get are planning a suitably scary release for Halloween keep an eye out on their myspace for updates! and Chelmsford indie rockers The Library Suits will be releasing their festive tune 'Christmas Retreat' as a contender to rival the usual X Factor crimbo number 1 this year! Check out their video on youtube and wish them good luck!
10/9/09 Trekking up to the capital and the mad dash for the last tube home might become a thing of the past - for a little while at least - as this autumn and winter sees an array of well-known bands adding Essex venues to their tour itineraries. Bands such as Motorhead (supported by Girlschool and the Damned), The Prodigy, Ian Brown and Madness have confirmed forthcoming dates at Southend's Cliffs Pavillion venue and Morrissey will be performing at The Brentwood Centre on Tuesday the 3rd of November - tickets for this concert go on sale at 10am on September 11th and can be purchased via the Gigs and Tours website - but be quick - this is sure to be a popular gig!
26/12/08 Blow away those post-Christmas blues with a bargain download bundle from Hoodlums, who are currently offering 7 - yes, SEVEN of their excellent tracks for the princely sum of just 69p only via the musicglue website.
30/11/08 Christmas has crept up on us, and while we wait for issue 8 to emerge, here are some surprises for each day of December until Christmas - it could be an article culled from our archive, a video or pictures, who knows? Click on the picture below for today's surprise!
20/10/08 Southend punks The Machines have uploaded a special photo gallery of Noisy's Brighton extravaganza in May here.