Noel Gardner Archives | Page 4 of 10 | The Quietus
Search for:

Noel Gardner

Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For January

Noel Gardner opens the first instalment of this column for 2021 by taking a look at current punk acts "whose lyrics and outlook are for and about the Black community". Home page photograph of Twisted Thing
Low Culture Essay

Gumph! Viz As Left Wing Satirical Magazine By Noel Gardner

Viz is more than just a very funny comic to long time fan Noel Gardner. But the extent to which it's a vehicle for incisive, leftwing satirical commentary, he says in this subscriber only essay, is something that's open to debate...
Punk

Noel’s Straight Hedge: The Best Punk & HC Of 2020

Noel Gardner marks a full decade of reportage from the claret pumping edge of punk rock, HC, oi, crust &c. by bringing you his prime cuts from 2020

Reviews

Robert Hood

Mirror Man

The maestro returns with an album by turns gloriously ambient and unabashedly pounding, finds Noel Gardner
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain: The Best Of 2020

In the first of our end of year columns, Noel Gardner casts his eye back over 12 months of highs and lows in the fertile UK DIY underground, and selects 20 transmissions you need to hear
Reviews

Pharaoh Overlord

Boldly unearthing the missing link between disco and death metal, Pharaoh Overlord deserve to be taken seriously – just don't call them a Circle side-project
Reviews

Star Feminine Band

S/T

A seven-piece group of school-age women from Benin prove to be far more than just a remarkable story, finds Noel Gardner
Reviews

Budokan Boys

So Broken Up About You Dying

Berlin-based Budokan Boys bring skewed avant-pop delights on this nine-song metaphysical sound clash
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner is back with another dispatch from the bristling & thriving UK DIY underground
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For October

Noel Gardner is back with the best in punk, hardcore and crust. Isotope live shot on homepage courtesy of Carlos Garcia
Reviews

Howie Lee

7 Weapons Series

Looking back to the 1970s stories of wuxia author Gu Long, Beijing-based producer Howie Lee may just have produced his funkiest work yet, finds Noel Gardner
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For September By Noel Gardner

So much more than a microscopically small bolthole of distraction! Noel Gardner is back with more new and weird sounds
Reviews

Duma

Duma

Kenyan duo Duma bring the Nairobi metal scene to Kampala's Nyege Nyege Tapes label
Album of the Week

Ad Cor, Ad Culus: The Passion Of Special Interest

Punk and rave combine to form a heady brew in the latest release by New Orleans' Special Interest, finds Noel Gardner
Reviews

Senyawa & Stephen O’Malley

Bima Sakti

The Sunn O))) main man goes head to head with Javanese duo Senyawa with visceral, elemental results
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For August

Noel Gardner is back with this Summer's best punk, hardcore and 80s focused French Oi. (Home page portrait is of All Hits)
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For July By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner is back with reviews of new releases by Laura Cannell, Charles Hayward, Ashtray Navigation and more
Reviews

Gábor Lázár

Source

Gábor Lázár gets low on fourth solo album, Source
Low Culture Essay

Low Culture 9: Chris Morris And The Legacy Of Blue Jam

Comedy tends to age badly but is this necessarily always the case? Noel Gardner - a self-confessed former "right teenage fanboy" - revisits Chris Morris' Blue Jam with a more critical, adult eye
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For June

Noel Gardner brings you all of the punk & hardcore etc. fit to blast your small gravel carpark this summer. Sial live photograph by Christina Inferno
Reviews

Nihiloxica

Kaloli

Hailing from Uganda (but recorded in Bradford), Nyege Nyege Tapes' alumni Nihiloxica offer up six musicians giving it six-nowt on their debut album for Crammed Discs
Reviews

Grid

Decomposing Force

An irrationally gnarly release from well-connected New Yorkers, Grid
Reviews

Blóm

Flower Violence

Blóm’s debut stakes out a singular presence, finds Noel Gardner
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain In Review For May By Noel Gardner

Cometh the weird hour, cometh the writer with (relatively) weird tastes. Noel Gardner is back with a clutch of reviews that run from exo-generational metallers Haq 123 to the monster truck psych out of The Domestiques
Reviews

Fra Fra

Funeral Songs

An album of ceremonial music from the north of Ghana sounds gloriously raw, finds Noel Gardner
Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For April

Noel Gardner is back once again with all the information that is fit to publish from the world of punk
Black Sky Thinking

Stockpiled Sounds & The Consumption Of Music In Covid-19 Isolation

With many stuck at home in Covid-19 lockdown, Noel Gardner reflects on the ethics of our music consumption habits - even now, are you really going to listen to all that vinyl?
Reviews

Joyfultalk

A Separation Of Being

The third album by Canada's Joyfultalk is a densely packed bundle of fun, finds Noel Gardner
Reviews

Concentration

I’m Not What I Was

A USB stick release on Bristol's Avon Terror Corps indulges Noel Gardner's taste for vulgarity
New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain This March Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner writes in praise of sticking together, plus new releases from Slum Of Legs, Noods and Handle
Reviews

Revenant Marquis

Youth In Ribbons

Noel Gardner finds his resolve tested by the mysterious Revenant Marquis
Punk

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore In Review For February

Noel Gardner is back with this month's best in punk, hardcore and OMFUG from around the globe. Home picture: Soakie live
Previous Page / 10 Next

Most Popular

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

Don’t Miss The Quietus Digest

Start each weekend with our free email newsletter.

Help Support The Quietus in 2025

If you’ve read something you love on our site today, please consider becoming a tQ subscriber – our journalism is mostly funded this way. We’ve got some bonus perks waiting for you too.

Subscribe Now
The Quietus

Get The Portal Direct To Your Inbox

Sign up for a weekly delve into the tQ archives.

The Quietus Digest

Sign up for our free Friday email newsletter.