It's generally best to send us an e-mail before ordering back issues, just to check we have some in stock - issues 1 and 2 are out of print, but you can download issue 2 for free here.

The first printed issue of Noisy zine was published in May 2005, consisted of 28 b&w pages and included the following:

• Trash Monroe Interview with vocalist Mel & guitarist Dave
• Return of the Furies Quick chat with vocalist Mercedes & guitarist Jo
• Hallelujah Johnson Profile of the alternative rock/dance band
• Ox-i-moron Short profile of new punk/industrial rock band
• Bubblegum Slut Interview with Colchester-based fanzine editor Alison B.
• Music Utopia Interview with Kimber Chick, co-creator of online independent CD store Music Utopia.
• Live Reviews Goldmaster Allstars, Blondie, Subscribe, Joint Conspiracy etc.
• Aural Pleasures demo/album reviews including: Nothing, Absent Kid, Echelon, Return of the Furies, Joint Conspiracy etc..
• Press Packs Noisy's guide to creating a good one!
• The Jerome Experience Interview with record-breaking drummer Jerome Dehedin
• Internet Radio Southenders who broadcast online
• Space.filler in an attempt to fill blank spaces, and as a homage to 75orless.com, EJ Warner reviews gigs in 10 words or less

Issue one is no longer available, sorry!

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Issue two published in October 2005, this time with a colour cover and gorgeous exclusive cover art by Amanda Sutton:

• Carmen Pimps Interview with vocalist Steve & guitarist Eddie
• Absent Kid Frontman Martin tackles our questions!
• Humane Music Interview with Richey Estcourt, founder of local electronica label
• Echelon/Jack's Family/Novella Short profiles of these Essex bands
• Noisy Night Report Our first gig this Summer
• Second-Hand Vinyl Shopping Guide to some cool charity shops in Southend, as well as hints & tips on buying used records.
• Live Reviews Goldmaster Allstars, Inme, Queen Adreena, Beatroots, Zen Motel, Spike & Friends etc.
• Aural Pleasures demo/album reviews including: Nothing, Celeste, In Shadow, Rick Oliver, Trash Monroe, Pillow Queen, Carrier, Dismembered August, Airbomb etc..
• Band Promotion on the Net A few sites worth checking out
• Competitions Win our cover art on a t-shirt & goodies from Celeste!!
• Back Pages Focus on cool stuff in the UK/abroad: Glam rock singer/songwriter Steven Rosenberg chats to us, zine reviews and bits on The Authentics & ProXima too!
• Space.filler in an attempt to fill blank spaces, and as a homage to 75orless.com, EJ Warner reviews gigs in 10 words or less

Issue 2 is sold out, download it for free here (PDF File).

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Issue three published in May 2006, featuring cover photography from our second Noisy Night gig and a special feature on Essex punk:

• Caleb – one of Southend's most unique indie-rock bands in session and chatting
• Club Revolution – DJ Lloyd discusses his new alternative club night in Braintree
• Escalator – Grant scheme for musicians in the east of England, one panel member answers your questions on how unsigned bands can benefit
***Essex Punk Special Feature!***
• Steve Pegrum – creator of southendpunk.com discusses the town's punk past!
• Romford Punx – quick question & answer with online punk community
• Crass – small biography of these anarcho-punks
• Live Reviews Picture 15, Tessmarka, Caleb, Soliss, Easy Kill, The Glitterati, Anderson Shelter, The Pricillas, Trash Monroe, Adam Bomb, The Morenas, Jackson's Warehouse, The Dude, The Others, Wrecked 45, Cat, Karma Down, Beatroots, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., The Marshals, The Automatic, The Suffrajets, The Nurse Who Loved Me, Carmen Pimps, Whoremoan, Rattlesnake Remedy, Underdog, Diastole, Zen Motel, Ox-I-Moron, Dr Schlong, Good Times, Euthanasia, Kunt & the Gang, Devil Rides Backwards on a Horse Called Maybe, Fashoda Crisis, Shouting At Strangers, Smother, Die So Fluid, Obsessive Compulsive, Jack's Family, Cellorythmics.
• Aural Pleasures demo/album reviews including: ENGERICA, THE GOURAMI, RETROFIN, FARENHEIT451, CELESTE, BLOOM, JAKE SEARSON, LEFT OVER LUCY, BROOKE, WREX EVERYTHING, RETURN OF THE FURIES, THE NURSE WHO LOVED ME, RAGMOP, CANDY PANIC ATTACK, BOX CAR REBEL, TEN WAYS TO GO, SHOUTING AT STRANGERS, W.I.T, THE FALLEN, THE FREAKS, OX-I-MORON, TURTLE SOUP, GIRLS THAT SCRATCH, EXILEINSIDE, RED HOUSE, DEFERRED SUCESS, GOLDMASTER ALLSTARS.
• CD Packaging – more record-collecting geekery and quick lowdown on artists who are producing some unique releases!
• Competitions Win Papa Shango goodies & Scarf gig tickets
• Phoenix FM – Local radio station's recent CD recording sessions
• Noisy Night II Report – our second gig
• Profiles: Scarf, The Brights, Hoffman's Bicycle, Karma Down & Papa Shango
• 'Outta town': Not enough room this time for interviews – loads of fanzine reviews and some CD reviews of Isaws, Ivy's Itch etc. instead.

This issue is now sold out, sorry!

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'The Photography Issue' Profiles of seven Essex/London-based photographers, reviews of two photography exhibitions and reader's photos on the cover! Click for detail of front cover

• My Life Story – Jake Shillingford talks about the recent reunion gig and his plans for the future
• Candy Panic Attack – Lo-fi punk rockers on music, djing and that cool logo...
• Superduck – Southend's first sleaze rockers? And what's with the name?!...
• Koopa – You may have read about these guys and their quest for chart success recently, the band have a quick chat about Internet promotion and what the future holds..
• Martin oldgoth – a look back on Essex's past alternative scene....
• Pigtails & Army Boots – a chat with DJ Moonlight about her Internet radio show
• Dirty Love – London punks describing themselves as “Girlschool sucking off Johnny Thunders in CBGBs toilets” drop in for a charity gig and a chat...
• Rizzo – profile on Colchester's newest female-fronted indie band
• Zen Motel – frontman Lee Wray talks about the second album and an unexpected detour of China...
• Noisy's Mix Tape 2006 – we can't afford a free CD for you, so here's one to make yourself...
• Essex music merch – take a look at Noisy's pick of Essex music merch and get yourself kitted out with some affordable clobber!
• Phoenix FM's Creative Sessions – comprehensive review of Phoenix FM's first compilation CD of exclusive sessions recorded in 2006 and the all-dayer that took place to support it
• Competitions – win a punk photography calendar and a Phoenix FM compilation CD!
• Live Reviews: Adem, Kelevedon Festival (Scary Bitches, Burning Trolleys, Rizzo), Fashoda Crisis, Trash Monroe, Dead Heaven, Repulsive Love Fairies, Rock Synchrony, The Maze, Mola Ram, The Joint Conspiracy, Visitor, Mullinski, F451, Leftover Lucy, The Rues, Crazy88, Cav OK, Get Girl, Save the World, Klaxons, CB6, Virgo Intacta, Steve Hooker, The Polecats, Fat Surfer All-Dayer 5, Southend Punk Reunion, Pot Pourri, The Ayres, Love Brigade, Deferred success, Dirty Love, TV Smith, The Straps, Anger Is A Gift, Dead Identities, My Life Story, The Guillotines and The Horrors.
• Record Reviews: Fighting Cocks, Argelico, Jake Searson, Last Fairytale Disaster, Gessekki, My Life Story, The Nurse Who Loved Me, Intern, Leftover Lucy, Sumi Misen, Ghostwood Shanks, Neatpeople, Mr Happy Chainsaw, Girls That Scratch, Underdog, Cells, CAV OK, The Joint Conspiracy, Bloom, 4ft Pimp, The Sam I Am, Hollywood Actress, Leopardskin Nuclear Bomber, Fashoda Crisis, Broken Toys, Retrospex, Steve Hooker, WIT, Flying Heroes, Tessmarka and Nothing.

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Happy Birthday Us! Noisy celebrates it's 2 year anniversary - with a guitar-shaped cake cover! Published May 2007 and launched at our third Noisy Night gig.

• The Freaks – Essex Garage retro rockers have a quick chat
• F451 – Chelmsford's political punks on gigs, recording and the future
• Devilish Presley – London deathrock trio stop by to fill us in on their awesome latest album 'Memphisto' and exactly who they would contact at a seance...
• 100 Punks – Punk photo exhibition hits Southend with a Southend punk anniversary gig!
• Reasons to be cheerful – a look back at some past Essex musicians of note with EJ Warner
• Noisy's Guide to Essex Music Festivals – music + open air on a shoestring!
• Phoenix FM – what happened when Noisy visited Phoenix FM's new studio for a chat
• Cuckoo Litefoot – Southend's newest blues/rock combo!
• Live Reviews: Fat Surfer all-dayer, Caleb, Misuse of Rage, Gesekki, Fighting Cocks, Cuckoo Litefoot, Susan Experiment, Bethnal Green Buddhist Centre, Mr Junk, Superduck, F451, Get Girl, Save the World, Asbos, Fashoda Crisis, K**t & the Gang, Trash Monroe, Honeykill, Disarm, Zen Motel, Beckett, Sammy, Sonic Boom 6, Pickled Dick, Retrofin, One Night Only, Milburn, The New Exhibition, Joint Conspiracy, Greenleaf56, Sixty Mile Smile, Cav OK, Redlands Palomino Company, Belisha and The Towers of London.
• Record Reviews: Zen Motel, Fighting Cocks, The Horrors, Get Girl, Save the World, Dead Identities, F451, The Little Penguin, Mr Happy Chainsaw, The Sam I Am, Jason's Shadow, Infamous Heroes, Boot50, Lunatic High, Nick Silvey, The Worldonfire, Torque Armada, The Kuru Smile, Belisha, Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly, Cocoma and Geordiebest.

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FREE Priority Clothing sticker with every copy! Exclusive cover photos by Wolfie taken at Noisy Night 3!

• INTERVIEWS
• Weirdgear – Southend Essextronica act tell us about making electro music without computers
• BBC Essex Introducing DJs – Ollie & Mike fill us in on their new show
• FEATURES
• Cool Threads - Noisy takes a look at some out-of-the-ordinary fashions you can buy locally that don’t require a trip to Camden market!
• Diary of a mix-taper – with the death knell of the cassette looming, one writer takes a look at the humble mix-tape and laments its loss
• Review this Record and Become a Rock Writer – a freebie from a long-forgotten music magazine provides inspiration for a new challenge...
• F451 on film – We drop in on F451's video shoot for single 'The Digerati'
• Tattooed Lady – Steve Hooker reports on the Tattooed Lady rock n' grind event in Spain
• Our new favourite band - The Susan Experiment
• Featured clubnight - Vomit
• Plus local label/promoter news, musings on recent art exhibitions and more!
• Live Reviews: 4 Pages of Sutton With Shopland festival coverage, Noisy Night III, Greenleaf56, Beep! Beep! Richie, Nurse Who Loved Me, Cocoma, SixNationState, The Holloways, Kuru, Hoffman's Bicycle, F451, Intern, Keuteuri, Good Shoes, The Moths, The Trash Dandies, The Freaks, The Masonics, The Big Khahuna, The Machines, Roman Jugg and the Doomed, The Supperton Trio, Mr Tarmac, The Lucky Strikes, CB6, Rustic, Fashoda Crisis, Red Nettle, The Rounds, Blackjack, The Jones Gang, Wilko Johnson, The Yardbirds, Sundown Multimedia, Deferred Sucess, Ten Tigers, G.M.T, A Broken Robot, Argelico, The Attika State, Dartz!, It, That and Them, Under Karma, Sheila Lord, Lunatic High, Rizzo, Trash Monroe, Sveldt, Sidechain, Jonealpha, Weirdgear, 586, Sohodolls, The Biceps, Huski, Robots in Disguise, Obsessive Compulsive, Devilish Presley, Zen Motel, 4ft Pimp, Boog and Carnival Bizarre!
• Record Reviews: Trash Monroe, Phillious Williams, Ladyshapes, The Lowriders, Rounds, The Get, British Standard, Jesus Hysteria, Belisha, Baddies, The Machines, Heather Simmons, F451, Deferred Sucess, Peter Brame, Set Adrift, Battle, Gesekki, The Nurse Who Loved Me, The Bootsale Band, Wireless, Cocoma, Girls That Scratch, Last Year's Resolution + compilation CDs from The Trash Society and Essex Rocks.

Still just 50p!!!

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“The Brighton Issue” - what happened when Noisy went to Brighton and put on a gig...

• INTERVIEWS
• Caleb – Southend alternative group tell us about winning a battle of the bands competition and subsequent recording at Maida Vale
• Phoenix FM's Paul Golder – The Lowdown on Brentwood and Billericay's community radio station
• Onslaught Promotions - promoter Billy Jason tells us about upcoming events in Colchester
• Bird Eats Baby - Outta Town band from Brighton invite us for a brief glimpse into their world...
• FEATURES
• Sundown's 'How Many Roads?' - Review of the poetry/music event held in Southend earlier this year
• The Panic magazine awards – Chelmsford's own free music mag hands out awards to promoters, bands and venues...
• DIY Feature Part 1 – how to get your band reviews (written by Andrew Culture) and put out CDs (by Devilish Presley's Jacqui Vixen)!
• What Happened To The Guitar You Loved So Much In The Music Shop? – Our new guitar agony uncle addresses some common problems
• Literati – Reviews of Essex-based fanzines and books including Jez Kemp's Devolution novel, Butterscotch Magazine and Stuart Bowditch's poetry compilation
• Plus competitions and news!
• Live Reviews: Imperial Vipers, Dice, Dirty Phoenix, Devilish Presley, Optic Nerves, Two Stroke, Buried In Mexico, The Colours Between, Blind Vision, Soprano, Kill Cartel, Fighting Cocks, Belisha, Victorian English Gentlemen's Club, Sons & Daughters, CB6, Trash Monroe, Breakneck Static, 4ft Pimp, The Shy, Ferrungenous Buzzard, Closure, Kenai, The Straights, Mannequins, The Maze, Sultans of Ping, Greenleaf56, Pure Cult, Ten Tigers, Rounds, Superduck, Rustic, Jez Kemp, Touchι Baby, One Of Twelve, High-Level Acumen, Little Penguin, Hybernation, The Sword, The Machines, Splodgenessabounds, Outrι, Baddies, Operator Please and The Futureheads.
• Record Reviews: Jake Shillingford, CB6, Whoremoan, Greg Kiss and the Feral Cats, Chasing Ora, Absent Kid, The Nurse Who Loved Me, Hybernation, The Get, K*nt and the Gang, The Shivers, Greg(o)rian, Weirdgear, Zen Motel, Stratus, Death of the Elephant, Kojo, Street Light Youth, Surface To Air, Mantango, Annette Mencke, Ye Crap, The Brights, Candy Panic Attack, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip plus various compliations.

Still just 50p!!!

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The Festival Special!

• Includes reviews of Offset, SWSF, Village Green and Cambridge Rock.
• Interviews with Future Daydreams (festival accessories shop) and the organisers of Kelvedon Festival, plus new band Lady Grey and the Earls (formerly The Hooks).
• Career retrospective of Danielle Dax, scribbles on F451 and Ipso Facto, regular guitar advice column from Felson, this issue how to 'Pimp Your Plank'! and book reviews, news etc.
• CD reviews: Dirty Trixx, Anger Is A Gift, Jack's Family, The Art of Rebellion, I Draw Lines, The Get, The Perry Lane Sect, Subject To Change, Amoriste, The Tibetan Tea Company, The 3am Context, Bad Moon, Anthony.Love, Cling, The Tumbledryer Babies, Proceed, Walk In Coma, Brigade, The Misanthrope, I.C.H, Rustic, Rocksmith, Ten Tigers, The Beatroots, Miss Cosmos, Koopa, Picture Pretty and The Stolen Coda.
• Live reviews: The Talks, The Fullertons, MC Teef, The Scuzzies, Mad Staring Eyes, The Paddingtons, F451, The Buck Brothers, Jez Kemp, Ten Tigers, Trash Monroe, Hoffman's Bicycle, Blonde Logic, Flamboyant Bella, The Morning After, Midnight Arcade, Slaves to Gravity, Rounds, Caleb, Harry Shuttleworth, Steve Hooker, The Bullies, The Machines, Sans Wilfred, The Riots, Thee Templars, Buried In Mexico, Teegan, The Pins, Lostaura, Breakneck Static, Cats and Bears, Superduck, Syd and the Small Kids, Britta Persson, Camera Obscura, Esoterica, Shotgun Affair, Carved from Violence, Gary Go, The Feeling, Lost Harbours, Dead Rat Orchestra, The 3am Context, Fashoda Crisis, Cnt Pig, Beep! Beep! Richie, Aluminium Risk, Halomobilo and The Library Suits.

Still just 50p!!!

Issue 8 Errata - on page 5 we incorrectly state that Ipso Facto played the Latitude Festival - we meant Offset Festival, sorry about that!

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Back Issues

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#1 - May 2005

#2 - Oct 2005

#3 - May 2006

#4 - Nov 2006

#5 - May 2007

#6 - Dec 2007

#7 - July 2008

#8 - February 2009