Noisy Cats are back noisier than ever!
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are Bob Cat (Esa Wirta) and Matt The Cat (Marko Virta) and they sing and play almost everything you can hear on their records.
Noisy Cats are here again! In addition to streaming releases, there are some genuine releases available here!
So get your purse and purr…chase some of the most inventive rockabilly music Finland has ever produced! Noisy Cats have been interviewed and reviewed in several Big Beat rock & roll and roots music newspaper releases, among others. In Finnish, alas.
Everything For Somebody is the latest Noisy Cats release of 2025. It contains something old but unreleased and something new. Take a listen to Traylor Love on Spotify! It’s an ode to Taylor Swift and her spouse, if you didn’t guess it already.
If you’re not that much into rockabilly music or even 1950’s rock & roll, you can listen to this one: Misty Mood Blues featuring bluesy vocals by Sunny Cat and, indeed, jazzy be-bop tenor saxophone by Harry Rivers.
These releases can be found on Spotify and other streaming services. Here they are linked to Spotify.
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vinyl single 7″ 1991
9 €
Order nr: NC-01
home-brewed CD 1999
out of print
8 €
Order nr: NC-03
CD 2019
12 €
Order nr: NC-04
CD 2024
14 €
Order nr: NC-05
informal home-brewed CD
no cover & no label
10 €
Order nr: NC-06
Noisy Cats History Walk-Through
Noisy Cats were formed on the ruins of Jumpin’ Scissors, a Finnish amateur rockabilly act way back since 1981, in 1989. Virta brothers Esa and Marko had started to acquire some skills while playing other type of rock music, so it felt nice to come back the their roots with more rockabilly feel to it.
Esa’s 4WD was one of the first songs under the Noisy Cats moniker in 1989. The name came from a line in an REM back cover but its origin goes back to the book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (1939).
It was chosen for their first single release along with Marko’s rolling One Heart in 1991. The song was recorded twice, the second, faster version ended up on the single. The single was the second Indie-Vidual release, taken care of by Timo “Zim” Nurmi. Esa’s art work caused something to talk about. 4WD bw One Heart was reviewed in many a place, b-side being regarded superior to 4WD.
The brothers recorded more demos. In 1999, they made a home recording on CD. It was a leap forward but not even close to the moon.
By the time Esa bought an Epiphone Dot while working in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008, Noisy Cats was long forgotten. It gave a new start for playing rockabilly again. Back To Stereo was the result. HC fans may want to find it on MySpace. The songs were remixed and partly re-played by the two, years later for Everything For Somebody.
In 2011, Noisy Cats All Stars released a CD-single. Maestros Jouni Joronen was on grand piano and Ola Turro on lead guitar, both on one but different song.
Perttu Torvinen was on drums. For the Everything For Somebody release Ola’s part was replaced with Esa’s, and there were some other changes as well. So, the original line-up and mix can be heard only on CD.
The Stetsonics happen
In the meantime, Esa and Marko were occupied with their monster project The Stetsonics. The purpose was to record a version of songs as close to the original as possible. With mistakes if needed. The chosen songs represented persons before they amounted to something big.
After 5 years and 107 songs with The Stetsonics saga, it was time for a break with rockabilly and the 50’s music. If anyone interested, those tracks recorded between 2011 and 2015 included real rarities by Bob Seger, Kris Kristofferson and Danny Gatton. Every song has a video and some information on the artist or group in question.
Slowly but surely it was time for rockabilly again. Thanks to The Stetsonics era, the playing was now more authentic than ever. To celebrate the 30 years of Noisy Cats, Esa and Marko (Bob Cat and Matt The Cat, if you prefer) released a full-size CD in 2019. It was reviewed in the Big Beat magazine by Kyösti Mäkinen, of Too Much Noise and The Cattle Thieves fame. Kyösti wrote the liner notes for the 4WD single, by the way. He’s an old friend of Esa’s, since the days in high school.
Hey, covid-19!
And then there was covid… You can see masks on Esa and Marko on the cover of Stich ’em Up. It has been one big rock and roll session ever since. This was the first streaming-only release by the cats. It was Bob Cat’s personal favorite so far. The Noisy Cats’ primary idea was to revive some Jumpin’ Scissors tracks and play how they should have been played in the first place. In addition to that, some new rockabilly pieces were created, in great detail.
A lot to catch
The massive rockabilly sessions began in late 2021. It was the very first time Noisy Cats paid their homage to their own rockabilly heroes. The streaming-only releases Catch 22 EP’s, Catch Us If You Can (also on CD) and Life Of Brian (a tribute to Setzer) are basically one big and long session. Esa had purchased a Gretsch guitar and Marko bought a slap bass to make the sound even more authentic. The CD got reviewed in Big Beat, but sadly this time the reviewer wasn’t up to the sound of these wild cats.
Streaming-only release Strate Outta Oven is Noisy Cats at their best! The playing is beautiful and the songs have meaningful lyrics. The follow-up Everything For Somebody contains leftovers from several previous sessions, some songs released before but not available anymore, and one new track, Trailor Love. The future is now open for possibilly-ties. And maybe for a break. But rockabilly never gets old!