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New Weird Britain This August Reviewed By Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner is back again with Glaswegian synth prog punk, Heads spin off space rock, "Netto electrobass" and other transmissions from New Weird Britain Afrodeutsch portrait by FePagani A pair of...
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New Weird Britain This September Reviewed By Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner returns with more music from the British fringes and notes from the UK underground Iona Fortune portrait by Marc Wieland This month’s New Weird Britain has one band making rock music with...
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New Weird Britain In Review For January By Noel Gardner
Our chief New Weird Britain auger Noel Gardner gets busy with new cuts from Richard Skelton, GNOD, Lucy Gooch and a Black Country, New Road side project Lucy Gooch We start this edition of New Weird...
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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 Alabaster dePlume The three years I have now been writing this column has proved enough time...
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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...
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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 “In July, when this column’s next due,” I wrote two months ago by way of concluding the...
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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 Alison Cotton Life, whatever that is, has not at press time reverted to full...
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New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner is back with another dispatch from the bristling & thriving UK DIY underground Mermaid Chunky If you are required to celebrate Britain – even a new, weird, deliberately and pleasingly...
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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 Photo by...
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New Weird Britain In Review For February By Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner's first New Weird Britain column for 2021 looks at what it means to be an international artist currently trapped in London/ Britain by the pandemic and what this means for their practice...
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New Weird Britain In Review For April By Noel Gardner
From a read along sci-fi Italo/prog epic to rebooted darkside rave and juke via earthy Cornish analogue electronics, Noel Gardner is back once again with more tantalising sounds from the UK sonic...
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New Weird Britain In Review For June By Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner marks the middle of the year with a solstice selection of wyrd music from the UK DIY underground. Main photograph: Ahrkh Thinking back, naturally with unbridled nostalgia, to early summer...
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New Weird Britain In Review For August By Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner romps through Summer with a veritable NWB greatest hits... Home page photo: Lucy Railton and Kit Downes by Cristina Marx/Photomusic It’s kind of ridiculous that Justin Broadrick’s deep...
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New Weird Britain In Review For October By Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner unearths some East Sussex noise, the world's first modular acoustic synth, RAF early warning techno, and other odd gems from the British DIY underground Genevieve Murphy First up this...
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New Weird Britain: The UK’s Best Underground Music Of 2021
NONEXISTENT Little secret for you here, but I’m writing this so-called intro last, after getting together all the cool biz that I actually want you to read. As such, it will be short and perfunctory,...
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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 Mücha Speaking recently to an associate about my plans to...
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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...
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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 Break Apart The Idea Of Separation (Bergpolder) is the first LP by Schisms, following a cassette debut in...
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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 Lady Neptune by Marilena Vlachopoulou This time it starts off on a foul one,...
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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 Ultimate Thunder, photo...
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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 Dwellings & Druss, by Ely Grey One of the by-products of a life frittered away...
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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 Yushh This column would never make...
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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 Helena Celle It’s extra...
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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 Susu Laroche The last New Weird...
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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...
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New Weird Britain In Review For September By Noel Gardner
Partially severe synth pop! Monster truck basslines! A chatbot tribute to John Coltrane! Your guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, courtesy of Noel Gardner Lou Venturini They told us you...
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New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner
The return of Creation Rebel, the long-awaited full release of a 90s video game soundtrack classic, a pleasingly non-literal tribute to The Wicker Man and more all feature in your latest guide to the...
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New Weird Britain In Review For February By Noel Gardner
Your New Weird Britain roundup returns, bringing you sauntering goth-house, watery electronics and an album released via a flowerpot Ye Gods, photo by Yves Wilson A whole year of New Weird Britain...
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New Weird Britain In Review For April By Noel Gardner
Disassembled slowcore! Spandex-stretchy heroic jamming! Grubbily shimmering disco-techno! Your guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, courtesy of Noel Gardner Ruth Goller, photo by Zak Watson...
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New Weird Britain in Review for June by Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner brings us artificial birdsong, real birdsong, a metal nail hammered up a nostril, and a big set of technoise gloomsteppers in his latest re from British fringes Weird Weather Nothing like...
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New Weird Britain in Review for August by Noel Gardner
From archive recordings of Notting Hill Carnival soundsystems to free-percussion improvisations from a Todmorden primary school, Noel Gardner delivers his latest guide to the sounds of New Weird...
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New Weird Britain in Review for October by Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner's guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, from watery worldbuilding hip-pop to isolationist, field recording-embellished ambient dub sessions Imogen, photo by Nicho Santini You...
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