Hello Everyone…
We welcome you the noori blog. Well the truth is that the entire website is now going be run like a blog. But this is where we’d like to share our thoughts and have our say.

For the longest time we have felt absolutely handicapped and helpless being dependant on one web designer or another. This time around we said “what the hell lets go DIY …. how hard could it be?” So we set out to learn wordpress and after a lot of struggling here we putting our first blog entry in our brand new nooriworld.net

We are hoping that through CMS’s (content management systems) nooriworld.net just might be able to become what we had always dreamt off…. a dynamic homeground to all those who believe in the noori philosophy and a place to share all our excitement and endeavours.

Both of us intend to start our own personal blogs soon but if you want to know what the band feels about something…which rumour is true…what are our future plans, then the noori blog is the place to be.

Till then…peace and love

noor and hamza

The Musik Awards were held at the Expo Center, Karachi on 14th June, 2008. After a long hiatus from the media, noori showed up at the event. They perform a rocked up version of Yeh Jawani. The brothers wore tuxedos designed by Munib Nawaz and had a great time on stage. It was indeed a grand event.

But the biggest surprise was when Ali Noor won the Viewer’s Choice Award for best OST single - ‘Sherdil’. In his owns words “this is something I was not expecting at all as this is the first song in my life where I did not have to compose, write lyrics or record any thing expect my vocals. All the work was done by Waqar Ali and this award is 99 percent his andonly 1 percent mine”.

Way to go Waqar Ali and Ali Noor!!!

Mandana Zaidi won the award for the “Breakthrough Video of the Year” at the First MTV Video Music Awards held in Karachi on the 26^th of April, 2008. We are thrilled as the award went to none other than “Meray Log”. This is Mandana’s first award in her career as a video director and we hope that there are a lot more to follow. Mandana is all geared to shoot the latest noori video!!!! A big congrats to her.

noori is all set to perform at the Oslo Mela Festival 2008 organized by Horisont Norway. The Mela Festival takes place from 22nd - 24th August at Oslo’s City Square. The programme will present music, dance, poetry and theater from different parts of the world. The band is really excited as this is going to be their first concert in Norway.

We had a great time performing at the Desi Rock 2008 in Dubai here are some pics from the show.

Photography by Mandana Zaidi

Published in DAWN on the Feb 2nd, 2008

We are an entertainment-starved nation. Others might disagree, but this is the underlining black cloud for this article. Entertainment that is not dependant on self-creativity, that can be obtained from a public forum and that is designed as an audience-based service, is hard to find and usually substandard.The Young Leaders and Entrepreneur Summit 2008 concert, organised by JB&Jaws, seemed like a worthwhile event: Josh, Noori, Mauj and other underground bands were all part of one package. Read more »

Excite entertainment presents desi rock 2008- the biggest rock show for desi’sIn association with ary digitalLive on the 20th of march featuring Call, Roxen. Noori, Josh, Karavan, Streben, Hysteria, Hotline, Azal b& DJ HHH 10 rocking performances one amazing night!!
Venue-al nasr leisureland
gates open 6pm - 2am

These are pics from concerts in Canada and also Pakistan mostly during 2007