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.
Read the interview with NOISY’s Cody Matthews reflecting on the UK tour and what’s next for the band.
‘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 Worthing-based 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.