Noel Gardner

New Weird Britain In Review For July By Noel Gardner

Psychedelic noizegaze and fractal deathyowl electro! Air-thinning drone immensity! Basslines they should store in old phone boxes in case the defibrillator doesn’t work! It could only be the return of your regular New Weird Britain roundup, courtesy of Noel Gardner

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For June

In a special, British bands-only summer edition of his punk and hardcore round-up, Noel Gardner surveys superb new releases from Chain Of Flowers, Yfory and more, as well as a highly-reccomended new compilation of classic anarcho punk. Homepage photo: Fashion Tips

New Weird Britain In Review For May By Noel Gardner

From spannered metallic dungeon durge to a crucial chute of rave sludge, your guide to the best from the fringes of New Weird Britain returns, courtesy of Noel Gardner

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For April

Your buyer's guide to the best new punk and hardcore returns, with reviews of new releases from Gel, Poison Ruïn, The Van Pelt and more. Homepage photo: Gel

Reissue Of The Week: Moss Icon’s Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly

You can call it post hardcore if you like or you can refer to it as an essential corner stone of first wave emo; Noel Gardner just wants to celebrate an essential underground album seeing the light of day for the first time in a quarter of a century

New Weird Britain In Review For March By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner returns with his latest round-up of New Weird Britain's boldest and brightest new releases, reviewing music from Helena Celle, Kate Carr, Mantra and more

PREVIEW: A Guide To Rewire 2023

With this year's edition of the Netherlands' Rewire festival just a month away, we asked Noel Gardner to pick out ten unmissable sets from this year's lineup

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For February

Your essential guide to the best new punk and hardcore returns, with reviews of blistering new records from Heaven's Gate, Speed Plans, Nervous Eaters and more. Homepage photo: Skitter

New Weird Britain In Review For January By Noel Gardner

Your guide to the essential new releases from New Weird Britain returns, with jazz-into-techno impulsion sessions, feverish drone-doom and rickety synthpop in tow

Historically Fucked

The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067

A truly unhinged record from four well-seasoned noiseniks

Straight Hedge: The Best Punk And Hardcore Of 2022

Noel Gardner looks back at 2022's best punk and hardcore releases, picks his top ten from the year and rounds up a handful that got away

New Weird Britain: 2022 In Review By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner reflects on another year of bold and boundary-breaking sound from New Weird Britain, and rounds up his ten favourite releases plus ten great albums that flew under his radar

New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner

Your guide to the most weird, wonderful and diverse sounds from the UK underground returns, courtesy of Noel Gardner

Horse Lords

Comradely Objects

The Baltimore quartet fuse bluegrass, house, post-punk and free jazz in wild new combinations, finds Noel Gardner

Moin

Paste

Post-rock, live dub and some increasingly threatening spoken word – it's all in the mix with the latest from Joe Andrews, Tom Halstead and Valentina Magaletti, finds Noel Gardner

Clean On Your Bean: Man With The Magic Soap By Persher

The duo of Jamie Roberts (Blawan) and Arthur Cayzer (Pariah) leave behind the acid froth for some maggoty post-genre techsludge

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For October

Your buyer's guide to the best new punk and hardcore releases from around the world returns for October, with reviews of High Vis, Long Knife, Zero Again and more. Homepage photo: Balcanes by Sara Roca

Concentration

Aren’t You Gonna Introduce Me To Your Friend?

Top notch shithousery on Bristol's Avon Terror Corps, finds Noel Gardner

New Weird Britain In Review For September By Noel Gardner

From scornful Liverpudlian frostwave to a cosmic and molluscular journey through time and space, your guide to the finest sounds in New Weird Britain returns for another month

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For August

Your guide to the world's finest new punk and hardcore releases returns for August, with reviews of Chat Pile, Gehenna, Trauma Bond and more

New Weird Britain In Review For July By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner travels the highroads and byroads of these fair and foul isles in search of sonic sustenance for summer

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For June

Noel Gardner salutes summer with another clutch of punk, hardcore, crust, oi etc. releases from around the globe. Home page photo: Axe Rash

A Guide To Supersonic 2022 By Noel Gardner

It's now less than a month until Supersonic 2022; Noel Gardner, our punk, hardcore & new weird Britain correspondent, rounds up the ten new or newish acts he's most keen about watching

Petronn Sphene

Exit The Species

One half of Guttersnipe producing some fucked-up beat-choppage. Noel Gardner is suitably impressed

New Weird Britain In Review For May By Noel Gardner

More weird, wonderful and diverse sounds from the UK underground as described by Noel Gardner

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For April

Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you? That's good, because Noel Gardner is back with more of the stuff you love. Home page photo: Romero

New Weird Britain In Review For March By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner's guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, with extraordinary bursts of melody from Margate-via-Maine, the Bristolian blurring lines between techno and noise, fizzy meteorites of party-smashing illbience and more

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For February

Noel Gardner, bringing you news of a band called THATCHER'S SNATCH, sprints back into the pit with all that is good, bad and ugly, or named THATCHER'S SNATCH, in international punk rock, hc, oi, D-beat and crust. And, did we mention THATCHER'S SNATCH?

Bye Bye Tsunami

s/t

Copenhagen-based instrument inventors and banana fanciers erupt into belching jazz-noise jams, finds Noel Gardner

New Weird Britain In Review For January By Noel Gardner

The selections Noel Gardner has made from the UK DIY underground this month are so good they have started to dissolve the very concept of time

New Weird Britain: The UK’s Best Underground Music Of 2021

Straight Hedge! The Best Punk Of 2021

Noel Gardner looks back over 2021 and selects ten albums from his tQ column, plus another ten that got away