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A Complete History of the Brisbane Youth Music Scene 1950 — 2026

Issue · live the scene died in 2025. it got back up.

You're the scene

Fifty years of the all-ages scene, written from inside it, because no one else will. Released as drops: the night in a skatepark that brought it back, then the record in five parts. You're in it.

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The Drops

Released in sequence
Unlocked as they land
01 live · the record drops soon
DROP01
Phase 1 · the gig review — 13 Jun 2026
Punk in the Park

A hundred-plus kids in a Thornlands skatepark in the rain, the whole show finishing on one power cable. Deadtrigger came back, and it didn't read as a comeback. It read as the scene starting a new count.

A guitarist mid-set on a tarp-covered stage at Punk in the Park
● Live
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DROP02
Phase 2 · the record, part 1 of 5
From the Saints to Now

Preface and the first two chapters. Four state-school kids pressing five hundred singles in 1976, and the thread that runs from there to a hall full of kids this winter.

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DROP03
The record, part 2 of 5
The Revival Years

Casualty, the all-ages circuit, and the scene at its loudest.

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DROP04
The record, part 3 of 5
The Peak & the Crack

When it was everything, and the first signs it wouldn't hold.

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DROP05
The record, part 4 of 5
The Death of It

2025. How it went quiet, and who was there when it did.

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DROP06
The record, part 5 of 5
It Got Back Up

This winter. The kids hiring halls again, and what comes next.

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After the record
Beyond
Coming

Now · before the record drops

Add Your
Chapter

The history is missing your bits, on purpose. A gig, a band, a hall, one perfect or cursed night. No story is too small; it goes in the record under your name or no name.

Five minutes. The form's open.

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Every claim,
sourced.

The thing no other zine has — the working shown. Read which lines are documented, which are memory, and where each one comes from.