NOOSE is a four piece Rock-Punk band based in Nottingham. Originally formed for fun in 1979 by punk rock loving kids, then again when they had learned to play in 1999, with lead guitarist, singer, songwriter Andrew (Roo) Cragg and long time friend and fellow childhood trouble causer Gary Marlow on bass, along with jazz drummer Paul Bailey. Years later in 2002 Colin Smith joined as rhythm guitarist and backup singer. 2003/2006 saw the band try a different lead vocalist John Applegate and a stint with drummer Jon Morgan who once played for Doctor and the Medics. Eventually Jon and the band split and the search was on for a replacement drummer. Many, many miserable auditions and months of time went by until Col happened upon a drummer on Musofinder whose profile said he was too busy, so don’t bother getting in touch, so obviously, Col sent through a fateful message to see if he was interested… And he was, because the music turns out to be just what he’d been looking for all these years, and so, the current incarnation has been around and gathering momentum since October 2014 when drummer Jamie Rhodes-Simpson joined the band, and in 2017 another change of lineup saw Mike McKinnon join the band on bass. NOOSE have played support gigs with local fellow punk bands including Hung Like Hanratty, The Vibrators and Verbal Warning, and opened for the UK Subs in Nottingham and XSLF (Stiff Little Fingers) in Ripley on their respective 2016 tours.