Steve Noble was a student of the Nigerian drummer Elkan Ogunde . In the early 1980s he was a member of the group Rip Rig & Panic . In 1985 he took part in the Thessaloniki Jazz Festival as a member of Derek Bailey’s band, with whom he continued to work in the following years.

He has also been active in other groups, including Tristan Honsinger’s group This, That and the Other , Hans Burgener’s Ki Project , Tim Hill’s Pandaemonium Brass Band and Trio , the Hans Koch / Jacques Demierre Project and Lol Coxhill’s Standard Conversions . He works in trio formations with Davey William and Oren Marshall or Oren Marshal and Steve Buckley , and with Derek Bailey and Pat Thomas . He forms a quartet with Pat Thomas, John Edwards and John Telfer .

He has a long-standing collaboration with guitarist and clarinettist Alex Ward and with pianist Alex Maguire.