https://www.noisextra.com/2023/12/27/behind-the-green-door/New episode is really good. It focuses solely on Green Door, house venue that Greh was running couple of years in Detroit.
I have said it before, but perhaps it is thanks to SI forum and living over here, that Finnish shows got so much attention while I don't hear almost at all about shows elsewhere. When Purgist & Maaa was running the noise site with video streams of shows etc, you got to see videos, pics etc. Of course one can say that having a noise show, for people who were there, is more important than documenting and writing about it.
Nevertheless, back in the day, I was reading about European power electronics/industrial sets, live reports about Daniel Menche playing sand with contact mic, stories of Hijokaidan shows, Ongaku Otaku doing Mason Jones Japanese tour reports, Death Squad mailing out live information, Whitehouse live gigs often commented with few lines of text, etc etc etc... Of course 2023 is different, but back in the day, there was nothing happening in Finland that I was aware of, and had to travel to Sweden to see Con-Dom - to catch my first noise show. It was that "oh... live noise is done like this!". Even more curious was the early 00's when this USA house gig scene started. I had visited metal/rock gig local guy organized in concrete basement he lived in, but even that didn't really make me thing you could run entire noise scene without public venues. Now it feels 1000% obvious that of course that's one way to do it, but here in nordic countries, you'd have pretty big support for underground culture. Even if it feels not being enough (haha..), when you hear stories from other side of the world, often there is nothing and over here you got youth houses, funded spaces, funded art spaces, bars that may welcome you, and if nothing helps, then renting whatever "social hall" is possible. But house shows? I did play one this year, but in general it seems to happen less. Perhaps main thing is that you don't want bunch of scumbags to come to your house.
This is one element that Greh talks about. People trying to steal stuff. People behaving like cunts. You do non-profit house shows giving all money to artists and crowd just leave mess behind.
Anyways, back to thing that I have mentioned before that some of the annual fests in Europe or live gigs in Finland get covered, but very rarely hear about shows around the world nor anyone says there is some place where people would talk or post info about them? Of course, if it is worst possible "local noise" event, where you got meaningless hobbyist gathering, then fine.. over here most shows then to be known recording artists who have even albums out and recognized around the world - at least in small circles. Of course estimation could be made that it is anomaly caused by couple people who like to write and platform where is urged to do so... and remove couple of those elements and you'd hear nothing?
So, that said, glad there is Noisextra and that they started to talk more about things there were involved. Of course I am familiar with Green Door, even have live releases recorded there, but the magnitude of shows, the conditions, all that, gets either forgotten or been clouded in first place how much there was! Not that I need crowds of random mess makers to my reh place or garage, but it is nice reminder for spoiled Finns that doing noise shows in cultural centers, bars and galleries is not only way to go, but there is also options of total DIY.
