The Infernal Noise Brigade was a Seattle, Washington-based musical group, who originally formed to participate in the protests at the WTO Meeting of 1999.
[1] Over its seven-year history, the group performed as part of several large-scale protest actions, such as those at the 2000 IMF/World Bank Meeting in Prague,[2] the 2003 WTO Ministerial in Cancún,[3] Mexico, the 2004 United States Republican Party National Convention in New York City,[4][5] as well as at numerous events in their homebase of Seattle.
[6] In July 2005, they participated in the protests against the 31st G8 summit in Scotland as part of a European tour that also brought them to England, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Austria.
[6] Christopher Frizzelle, in an "obituary" for the band in the Seattle-based arts weekly The Stranger, remarked that their "most important and dramatic public events were standoffs with cops" and that they "can be credited for keeping WTO protestors energized, focused, and photogenic… What their parties and their protests had in common was intensity, vividness, and a fun, frightening sense that anything could happen.
As example, Frizzelle provided the roster from the mainland portion of the European tour: "Annemat, Atomika, B. Q.