Offset Festival 2009
September 5th, Hainault
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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 first Sunday of the month, next date is June 6. 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!
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.
03/11/09 At last issue 9 of Noisy! is out now! This issue comes with a fifteen track CD to celebrate 4 years of the zine. For full contents and ordering information please go here!
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!
Village Green is back - a festival of music and arts sees appearances this year by the likes of Camera Obscura, Billy Bragg, The Blockheads as well as local musicians such as Phillious Williams and The Seasiders, there's plenty more to see and do in addition to this great live music - best of all it's FREE! For a programme of events Click Here. The day begins around 11am at Chalkwell Park, London Road, Westcliff on sea on Saturday Septemnber 26th.
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!
26/7/09 Montsdale Studios in Burnham on Crouch is hosting a special evening of music on Saturday August 15th, featuring local group Hoffman's Bicycle, London's The Higher Craft and all the way from Berlin, Germany Zaphire Oktaloque. The event kicks off at 7.45pm and entry is just £2, so bring food, drink, incense and cushions!! (Montsdale Studios, Marsh Road, Burnham on Crouch, CM0 8NJ.)
30/6/09 The Golden Lion pub in Southend-on-sea is currently seeking bands to perform on a Friday night, if you are interested please contact them via their myspace page or by e-mailing djdotmoonlightatmtjr.co.uk
3/5/09 A new competition for unsigned Essex bands is taking entries from May 1 - June 30 2009, for more information on eligability etc. visit the official website. Bands can also create profiles and upload tracks for visitors to vote on.
27/4/09 MySpace, the world’s premier social portal, today announced that Hylands School in Chelmsford will be hosting an ultimate school party with Elliot Minor on Friday 1st May as part of MySpace School Invasions On Tour. The nationwide School Invasions competition gives 13 to 18 year olds the chance to host a gig with a top music act in their school or college. This year, not one but five schools had the chance to win the once in a lifetime gig as well as £1,000 worth of music equipment. Details of all the winners can be found on the MySpace School Invasions profile page. Elliot Minor will be supported by a student band from Hylands School on the day and the school arrange a media room for interviews. Be sure to check out issue 9 of Noisy! for an exclusive report!
26/2/09 East London's Trap 2 Gallery is hosting an evening promoting the almighty fanzine on Thursday, March 5th 2009 between 6pm - 10pm where "Small press, zines, comics, and all things DIY will be exhibited, swopped and sold". Unfortunately Noisy won't be holding a stall at the event, but to make up for not being able to attend we have made up a limited amount of goody bags containing back issues and bits n' bobs, available to attendees on the night.
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!
15/11/08 Noisy is currently seeking gig reviewers to contribute the odd review of events mainly in the Colchester and surrounding areas, if this sounds like something you would be interested in, send an email to info at noisyzine dot co dot uk asap!
20/10/08 Southend punks The Machines have uploaded a special photo gallery of Noisy's Brighton extravaganza in May here.