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Editorials

The editorials, kept in full and in order; the running self-record of the scene and the person writing it, 2024 to 2026.

Breakbone · Brisbaneall-ages · underground

28 May 2026All My People
28 May 2026editorial
All My People A stream-of-consciousness scene report, written as a raw power method demo; the no uniting force thesis. consent check pending
23 May 2026Brispunk '26
23 May 2026editorial
Brispunk '26 The Battle of Brispunk manifesto; Dork Diaries versus Lightning Fuze, Coorparoo Hall, 23 May.
14 May 2026Masterplan '26
14 May 2026editorial
Masterplan '26 The redraft; the 14th April Declaration, quitting the act, and the plan for a scene movement called Brispunk.
4 May 2026Two Years
4 May 2026editorial
Two Years Exactly two years since the first proper gig; the new wave of self-organising bands and the Battle of Brispunk lineup. consent check pending
May 2026Be Here Now
May 2026BB7
Be Here Now The Classic Era editorial; Oasis' 1997 record as a warning against playing to an empty room like it's packed.
May 2026Document, Distribute, Demonstrate
May 2026editorial
Document, Distribute, Demonstrate How he found his voice; the motto piece, from a history teacher's putdown to the worst and best night of his life.
May 2026From The Inside
May 2026editorial
From The Inside A diagnosis, not a history; the lineage from The Saints to Casualty Records, who's still standing in 2026, and what needs to happen. consent check pending
May 2026The Scene Is Dead
May 2026editorial
The Scene Is Dead The cleaned, publishable version; the Classic Era lineage, the Antidismal Sound Riot takedown, and a direct call to arms.
16 Apr 2026Letter to Noel Gallagher
16 Apr 2026editorial
Letter to Noel Gallagher A stream-of-consciousness address to Noel Gallagher; the 76-96-26 fifty years thesis, and the claim to being the voice of a generation.
16 Apr 2026NGVR
16 Apr 2026editorial
NGVR The Pig City torchbearer piece; how the zine started, the Big Takeover night, and how the Complete History got written.
Apr 2026Never Started
Apr 2026editorial
Never Started Whitt's End never had a night they started; busking the Star Ferry in Hong Kong before they were old enough to decide to be in a band.
Apr 2026Stranded
Apr 2026editorial
Stranded The Big Break companion piece, The Saints' lore woven through the first night he knew he wanted to be on the planet. consent check pending
22 Mar 2026Ascendancy
22 Mar 2026editorial
Ascendancy The industry is dead manifesto; a dream about a mansion on a mountain, and the exponential growth of a life on the rise.
21 Mar 2026Creative Corprolalia
21 Mar 2026editorial
Creative Corprolalia The creative-method manifesto; what it feels like to have something on, and building the infrastructure yourself.
17 Mar 2026Whatever Happened
17 Mar 2026editorial
Whatever Happened A Queen Street Mall vox pop; nine people asked, two go to gigs, and the Skyhooks line that says it all.
16 Mar 2026Pissings 2
16 Mar 2026editorial
Pissings 2 The follow-up; loneliness, academic burnout toned down, and a first proper party.
1 Mar 2026Personal Pissings
1 Mar 2026editorial
Personal Pissings A fuckerfuckerfuckerfuck zine; the algorithm thesis, on why the rawest and spewiest posts win.
17 Feb 2026The BB List
17 Feb 2026editorial
The BB List The industry is dead, itemised; from indie pop bands obsessed with tone to secret venues nobody can find.
14 Feb 2026Supersonic
14 Feb 2026editorial
Supersonic The first time it feels like himself; getting his life sorted, the algorithm-and-drama theory of what performs, and 2024 golden versus 2025's Elvis left the building.
7 Feb 2026The Scene Is Dead
7 Feb 2026BB14
The Scene Is Dead The BB14 polemic on Casualty, Antidismal and Project Punk's collapse; catalogued as AI-assisted for information and structure, carried here as published, February 2026.
Feb 2026Raw Power and the Algorithm
Feb 2026editorial
Raw Power and the Algorithm On social starvation, the cycle of overwhelming your own capacity to connect, and why the algorithm rewards drama over craft. Led Zeppelin's first album as the proof.
Feb 2026Scene vs The Industry
Feb 2026editorial
Scene vs The Industry The clean human counterpart to the BB14 polemic; the MIC application never sent, and what filled the gap when no school was going to save him.
Nov 2025The BB Guide
Nov 2025editorial
The BB Guide A newcomer's FAQ to the scene; how to find your first gig, avoid drama, and read a mosh pit. consent check pending
Nov 2025Riverstage
Nov 2025BB11
Riverstage 6:50pm at Riverstage; The Devil Wears Prada's Des Moines as the frame for a stadium show that turned into a theatre of mass enlightenment.
Nov 2025Routine, A Shoegaze Editorial
Nov 2025BB12
Routine, A Shoegaze Editorial Routine takes over your life; a Man's Search for Meaning-inflected reckoning with monotony, and eighteen months of the zine leading into the Phantasm Street coverage.
1 Oct 2025Exile On Brunswick Street
1 Oct 2025BB9
Exile On Brunswick Street Empty, lonely, burnt out; a state of exile since the last close friendship faded, the Botanic Gardens shut for a council light show, and a decision to publish anyway.
Oct 2025The Empty Void
Oct 2025BB9
The Empty Void A second BB9 editorial on the same lack of progress; Sid Vicious as the case study for confidence beating skill, and thanks owed to Eliza, Tani and Shock Value.
Oct 2025Raw Power, Wake Up
Oct 2025BB10
Raw Power, Wake Up Thirty-five days of holidays spent with nobody, fixed by mass-following strangers as a numbers game, ahead of the Braxton Hunt-Nissen interview and the Delirium review.
8 Sep 2025Brisbane Square Library
8 Sep 2025BB7
Brisbane Square Library A lock-in at the library to finally finish the editorial that never quite got perfect; Maslow's hierarchy and a decision to stop chasing approval.
Sep 2025I Found A Way
Sep 2025BB8
I Found A Way Written in fifteen minutes flat, a Kurt Cobain line as the mission statement, and a magazine with eight hundred readers that nobody in the scene can beat him at.
Sep 2025September Exile, Seven Months
Sep 2025BB7
September Exile, Seven Months Seven months since the last issue; the outsider psyche traced to his upbringing, and a case that elitism inside 'alternative' just makes it a second mainstream.
Sep 2025The September Trilogy
Sep 2025BB7
The September Trilogy An abandoned fragment; the artist and his art addressed in the third person, six months of emptiness reframed as a story with adversity in it.
Sep 2025My Daydreams, That Man Is Me
Sep 2025BB7
My Daydreams, That Man Is Me A man on a bridge between two lives, Frankl's search for meaning, a failed party, and a long thanks owed to a best friend named Alicia.
12 Aug 2025A Fork In The Road
12 Aug 2025editorial
A Fork In The Road Straight A's and a spotless room against the loss of two close friends and a return to zero; the sponsorship effect theory of friend groups, and a long roll of thanks and apology.
4 Aug 2025Psychedelic, A Six-Month Retrospective
4 Aug 2025editorial
Psychedelic, A Six-Month Retrospective One word for the last six months; from a burnt-out gifted kid on four hours' sleep to straight A's, and the day he met a girl who became his best friend.
2025 (month unconfirmed)Zine Plans, Late 2025
2025 (month unconfirmed)BB9
Zine Plans, Late 2025 Working outlines for Issues 9 through 11, kept from the files; choosing your own path, Brax and music over people, and everyday stories worth telling.
2 Jul 2025A Thailand Reflection
2 Jul 2025editorial
A Thailand Reflection Written from his grandmother's house in northern Thailand, alone on the night of the family reunion dinner; the move to Brisbane, the grandfather he lost, and what the scene cost him.
24 Jun 2025Four Months Gone, The Cost Of Success
24 Jun 2025editorial
Four Months Gone, The Cost Of Success All A's and full marks in four subjects, four months after the gigs stopped and a cyclone shut the city down; academics won and it wasn't worth what it cost.
18 Apr 2025SkatePunk And Brax, A Preview
18 Apr 2025BB7
SkatePunk And Brax, A Preview An issue dedication opens the run, then a status check on April; the scene as what you make it, ahead of the Brax interview and the SkatePunk write-up.
16 Apr 2025WW3 In March
16 Apr 2025BB7
WW3 In March The Indro crew implodes, Queen Street dies off, and a term of being used for free favours ends in a torrential-rain walk home from a gig he went to alone.
15 Apr 2025Isolation Week
15 Apr 2025BB7
Isolation Week A week alone in a library to finish the MIC application, written under pressure that beat the deadline anyway; the queen street crew's rise and the storms that broke it up.
Apr 2025Depressive Rut, A February Flashback
Apr 2025editorial
Depressive Rut, A February Flashback A rut that started in mid-March, traced back to the best school-year start he'd ever had, and a hindsight verdict that none of it was ever that deep.
Apr 2025Fame Is Connections
Apr 2025editorial
Fame Is Connections Exams, shitty weather and writer's block; the theory that fame takes attention and marketing over doing big things, ahead of the Brax interview and the SkatePunk review.
Apr 2025The Queen Street Crew
Apr 2025editorial
The Queen Street Crew Full marks in four subjects and burnout to match; a chance meeting at the Queen Street Mall fountains that became a crew, until 'churchie' got shut down.
Mar 2025Scene Splinters, A Taxonomy
Mar 2025editorial
Scene Splinters, A Taxonomy Three scenes, not one; rock and roll, pseudo-alternative and indie pop mapped out as the youth music scene fractures into pick-your-own tribes.
17 Feb 2025Crossroads, Not Quitting
17 Feb 2025editorial
Crossroads, Not Quitting Weighing whether the zine still serves its purpose against organising gigs directly, medication finally sorted for chronic tiredness, and a decision to keep going anyway.
9 Feb 2025The Double Issue, A Golden Age
9 Feb 2025BB5
The Double Issue, A Golden Age Framing the February double issue the night after Ithaca Hall; rock and roll versus alt/shoegaze, and a Top 10 written twice over.
Feb 2025February Floating, New Friends
Feb 2025editorial
February Floating, New Friends The float-around socialising tactic learned at school, applied city-wide; new connections made while the old ones are slow to re-form.
Feb 2025School Floater, A Self-Portrait
Feb 2025editorial
School Floater, A Self-Portrait A detailed self-portrait of school social life as a floater between groups, the undercut mullet and the punk pins, and five months that felt like five years.
6 Jan 2025Holiday Stagnation
6 Jan 2025editorial
Holiday Stagnation The January school holidays, a six-week family exile to Thailand he opted out of, and cutting loose a mate who passed off a ChatGPT song as his own.
2025 (month unconfirmed)The Alternative Scene Is Awful
2025 (month unconfirmed)editorial
The Alternative Scene Is Awful A short polemic against a self-styled alternative scene that copies TikTok and itself in equal measure, and the halls it got banned from gigs.
Jan 2025A Guide To Abandoned Places In Brisbane
Jan 2025editorial
A Guide To Abandoned Places In Brisbane An urbex rundown of Brisbane's 'bandos', from the Overells Building to Inala Skate Rink, current as of writing.
2025 (month unconfirmed)To Alicia, Born To Be Wild
2025 (month unconfirmed)editorial
To Alicia, Born To Be Wild An issue dedicated to a friend having a hard time; that meeting her was the best unintentional thing to happen to him, and connection over anyone's opinion of it. consent check pending
27 Dec 2024December Days
27 Dec 2024editorial
December Days An Adbusters-style interrogation of screens, advertising and lost time, question after question with no easy out.
21 Dec 2024Writings
21 Dec 2024editorial
Writings A late-December reflection naming late-September to early-October 2024 as his golden age, with a Fraser-and-Whitlam analogy for making up with people.
18 Dec 2024A Raw Rock 'n' Roll Zine
18 Dec 2024editorial
A Raw Rock 'n' Roll Zine An issue announcement, no aesthetics and no gloss, just raw information, and the first introduction of Iggy's own band, Fucken Oath.
13 Sep 2024The State Of The Subscene, August 2024
13 Sep 2024editorial
The State Of The Subscene, August 2024 A cliques-and-drugs critique of the scene, an attack on thirty-dollar ticket prices, and the new-blood bands keeping it alive.
11 Aug 2024Personal Pissings
11 Aug 2024editorial
Personal Pissings A founding document written at 1:18am; the school called his band, an overseas exile, and the earliest statement of a cycle he'd keep naming for years.
24 Jun 2024What The Fuck Is Breakbone?
24 Jun 2024editorial
What The Fuck Is Breakbone? The masthead FAQ; the bris-plus-bane etymology, the print-it-yourself permission, and an apology over the word 'rampie'.
25 May 2024Open Letter To 4ZZZ
25 May 2024editorial
Open Letter To 4ZZZ An open letter demanding more local airplay from 4ZZZ and IndigiBriz, with his own count of how few local bands actually got played.
17 May 2024How I Found The Scene
17 May 2024editorial
How I Found The Scene A forum post, a 4ZZZ carpark gig, and a Piss Off song called The Lob; how the scene found him.
14 May 2024Types Of Bands
14 May 2024editorial
Types Of Bands A four-tier satirical taxonomy of local bands, sorted by how fame changes them.
13 May 2024Document, Distribute, Demonstrate
13 May 2024editorial
Document, Distribute, Demonstrate The foundational scene-state-of-play essay; The Zoo's closure, the split between the pub scene and the youth scene, and the motto that stuck.