The Agenda

LotsofNoise.com: The Musical

by Tanya Hardingcore

A musical debut depicting the epic struggle of good versus evil as played out in the Providence underground was penned and performed recently by the Lots of Noise Forum Players. The trials and tribulations of working within a rapidly gentrifying cityscape are told through a musical score written only by the group’s online forums. The storyline seemed loosely based on Rent, but instead of a ragtag group of New York bohemians struggling to express themselves through their art and by “measuring their lives in love,” it became a story about a ragtag group of Providence hardcore-noise-metalheads struggling to express themselves through their music and “finding a goddamn place to host a decent fucking music show.” Against the ever faster redevelopment of Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood, these forum posters strive for a space to call home (err… I mean, practice space), all while enduring the obstacles of poverty, post-Station fire codes and wealthy developers from Baltimore.