oslo, hackney
NOISY - 26/11/25
UK band NOISY brought their impeccably loud, relentlessly energetic set to Hackney’s ‘Oslo’ venue on Wednesday, which, as promised, felt (& smelt) more like a Friday nightclub by the end of the gig.
‘We have two songs about love and the rest are about getting f****d up’ announced Cody Matthews. Well, that’s not entirely true; themes of loneliness, self-doubt and insecurity are deftly buried in the songs, though the euphoric sound runs true throughout. ‘I wish I had brown hair sometimes / to sit within the guidelines’ sings the strawberry blonde – a dynamic frontman born to command a crowd from a stage that on Wednesday night was far too small for the Brighton-born trio.
Flanked by Connor Cheetham and Spencer Tobias-Williams, his bandmates play two, sometimes three, instruments simultaneously - and somehow curate the atmosphere of a festival between them.
The band brought Gabrielle Marie-King on the road along their EU/UK tour, which wrapped last night in Bristol – an absolutely fantastic drummer integral to the punchy ethos of NOISY’s music.
Perhaps the only disappointment of the night was the omission of EP ‘FAST FWD: to friday’ from the setlist, but with a catalogue of tune after tune, you can’t feel too hard done by.