Where it came from
It started days after the Big Takeover in May 2024, one kid with a phone and a printer and a name for the thing everyone was already part of. The early issues were rough and they were ours. They got photocopied at a youth space, sold off a shelf at a record shop until the shop ran out of room, and passed hand to hand at the gigs they were about.
Then in September 2024 we wrote the whole history down for the first time, fifty years of the all-ages scene in one go. It became the most-read thing the zine ever put out. People who were there read it; people who weren't read it; bands that had broken up years ago turned up in the replies to argue about dates.
Where it went, and back
Then it went quiet. A cyclone, school, and a stretch of not being sure it was worth it took most of 2025 off the board. The zine kept ticking over but the heart had gone out of it for a while, and we'll say that plainly because pretending otherwise is the kind of thing this scene is sick of.
It came back rough early in 2026, then properly in April when fifty-five kids came through the door of a gig we put on, in a winter where everyone said the scene was dead. This revived edition is the answer to that. The history, rebuilt and corrected, released as drops: the gig that brought it back, then the record in five parts.
Breakbone · since May 2024 · Brisbane
