Breakbone hammer-and-bone mark
The zine for Brisbane's underground youth music scene

● About founded may 2024 · still here

The nights we kept

Breakbone documents the all-ages scene nobody else writes down: the halls, the skateparks, the bands that play to forty kids and mean it. We keep the pictures, and the receipts.

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What Breakbone is

A zine, and
a record-keeper.

Breakbone is Brisbane's underground youth-scene zine. Gig reviews, band write-ups, the arguments and the in-jokes, and one long memory of a scene that mostly happens in school halls and skateparks and never gets filed anywhere. We started in May 2024 because the scene was throwing this stuff away as fast as it made it. Someone had to keep the receipts.

The Wall

Nights we kept
halls · skateparks · floors
pinned, not filed away

A guitarist mid-set on a tarp-covered stage in the rain at Punk in the Park, Thornlands
Punk in the Park · one power cableThornlands · Jun 26
A packed all-ages crowd pressed to the front of a small gig
The front row · all-agesa hall, somewhere
A lone figure facing a crowd under hard stage light
Forty kids, and they meant itwritten from inside
A wall plastered with band flyers and torn gig posters
The flyer wall · paste-uphand to hand
A dense crowd at the Big Takeover, the gig the zine started days after
The Big Takeover · May 24where it started
A band caught mid-song on a low stage, faces lit hard
New race, same floorit got back up

Your night goes on the wall

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your bit.

The wall is missing your nights, on purpose. A gig, a band, a hall, one perfect or cursed show that nobody else wrote down. It goes in the record under your name or no name.

Press the camera. Five minutes, and you're pinned up with the rest.

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The whole thing, in three words

Document Write down what happened while the people it happened to are still around to argue with you. The gigs, the bands, the halls that hosted them and the ones that wouldn't.
Distribute Put it in front of the kids it belongs to. Free, hand to hand, online and on paper, never behind anything that asks who you are first.
Demonstrate Then go and prove it. Put a gig on. Hire the hall. A scene you only read about is a scene that already died; this one keeps showing up.
The scene posts here first

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