Noisia are writing together again, first show at Melkweg on 4 December

Noisia confirmed on 17 September that they have started making music together again, and that their first show since 2022 will be at Melkweg in Amsterdam on 4 December. The announcement went out via Instagram and a one-line page on the group's own site: the trio are in motion again, Melkweg is the date. Resident Advisor noted the timing — the statement landed seven years to the day after Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger said they were winding the project down.

The mechanics of the split are what make the return legible. The three never stopped sharing a studio, and per RA's report on the statement it was the individual work — the solo projects and side interests they wanted room for in the first place — that ended up clearing the way back. "We've grown a lot individually," the post read, adding that they now feel their separate endeavours can coexist with Noisia. NME led on the line that combining forces again feels exciting to them.

Billboard, reporting from the press release, framed the motivation in two parts: the exchange of ideas between the three of them, and what they called the feedback loop that starts when the music meets a crowd. That second half matters for what December will actually be. Billboard and RA both report that the shows will fold new tracks in alongside back-catalogue material, rather than functioning as a retrospective set.

Melkweg is not a neutral choice of room. It was one of the venues on the farewell run, the tour that stretched into 2022 because of the pandemic, which makes the 4 December booking a deliberate reopening of the same door rather than a fresh start somewhere bigger. Only the one date has been confirmed so far; Billboard reports that further shows will be announced in time.

The groundwork was laid a week earlier. On 10 September the trio put out Vlucht, a 27-minute documentary directed by Farhad Khodadadzade, which Billboard describes as a tease for the reunion. It arrived without the announcement attached, which in hindsight reads as the first move of a sequenced rollout.

What has not been said is as notable as what has. There is no album announcement, no word on the future of Vision, Division or Invisible, and nothing on whether the solo catalogues — the work that has carried each of them through the last seven years — continue in parallel. The statement's own framing suggests they will. For a group whose dissolution was itself presented as a considered creative decision rather than a fallout, the return has been staged with the same care: a documentary, a date, and a sentence about growth, with the music itself still behind the door.