373 bands · 12 records · festival 2008

Stuttgart D.I.Y. punk & hardcore, archived

Shows, festivals, records and venues of a scene that ran on volunteers, squatted rooms and cheap vinyl. This is an independent archive built from what was published at the time.

• History

  How a handful of volunteers in Stuttgart built a booking collective, a festival and a record label between 2002 and 2012.

• Concert archive

  Dozens of shows from 2002 to 2004 with Dropdead, MDC, Tragedy, Disorder, Zounds and many more, by date.

• Be-Part.Festival

  The full programme of the fifth edition, 12–15 June 2008, at JUHA Fasanenhof: bands, lectures, contests, vegan brunch.

• Bands A–Z

  Hundreds of bands that played Stuttgart and the surrounding area, from Agrotoxico to Zerstört.

• Records

  Catalogue 001–012: crust, d-beat and emotive hardcore pressed on vinyl, plus the mail-order distro.

• Venues

  The youth centres, squats and clubs where it happened.

• D.I.Y. culture

  Principles and practical notes on organising shows, running a label and keeping it non-commercial.

The idea

The collective described itself as a volunteer-run, non-commercial, non-profit project to celebrate D.I.Y. music, politics and culture, organised by consensus with a flat structure and open to anyone who wanted to help. The motto says the rest.

be part of the scene, not just the scenery