Rave Adelaide A fan archive of the forums, 2003–2008

The Rave Adelaide forums, 2003–2008

From 2003 to 2008, Adelaide's ravers, clubbers, DJs and promoters talked, argued, promoted parties and posted flyers on Rave Adelaide (raveadelaide.net, later raveadelaide.com.au). It was one of the busiest forums the scene had: by mid-2008 it held nearly a million posts. The site went offline that year and its database is gone. This fan-made archive rebuilds what it can from the copies that web archives happened to keep, so the scene's history isn't lost.

60,890posts survive
1,824threads
1,426people
1,244events
2,606images

The flyer wall

80 flyers recovered, 50 of them for Adelaide and South Australian events, plus 229 pieces of artwork and 45 of the site's banner adverts. See them all →

Flyer for Sounds of the Underground, Adelaide vs Melbourne night at Gateway NighInfusion flyer for Friday December 19 at Black Cat White Cat, Gouger St, AdelaidAdelaide Massive flyer for Calyx and Black Sun Empire album tour at Earth NightcFlyer for A Day at the Beach featuring Kosheen (UK) and The Bird (SYD) at The ShFlyer for The Breakbeat Block Party at HQ Complex, Adelaide, Friday 29 SeptemberEcho trance night flyer at Tonic Bar, Friday November 25th, with DJ Solace, MattDubstars and Shadow Play flyer for Caspa (UK) dubstep night at Rhino Room, FromeShadow Play flyer for DJ Distance (UK) with Spherix and local crew at the Rhino Earth Nightclub flyer for Steve Murano (Germany) on Friday July 18, 27 Hindley SEarth Nightclub flyer for Fragma live, World Tour 2008, Friday August 15, with d

Events, 2003–2008

1,244 gigs, parties and club nights in one timeline, from the board's events calendar and its event boards; 44 with their flyer. See the events →

Site news, 2005–2008

22 announcements from the site's front page: ticket sales, shop news and changes to the site. Read them →

Surviving posts by year

06,16312,32718,49124,6552003: 3,024 posts captured with their page2003: 469 posts recovered from other copies20032004: 4,749 posts captured with their page2004: 1,852 posts recovered from other copies20042005: 23,180 posts captured with their page2005: 1,475 posts recovered from other copies20052006: 18,215 posts captured with their page2006: 2,859 posts recovered from other copies20062007: 3,169 posts captured with their page2007: 107 posts recovered from other copies20072008: 1,770 posts captured with their page2008: 21 posts recovered from other copies2008

captured on thread pages recovered from lo-fi, print, WAP and front-page copies

Busiest boards (surviving posts)

Shoot The Breeze23,264
Past Events12,006
Upcoming Events9,562
Music & Production5,991
Insight5,474
Buy & Sell2,244
Gold Threads1,286
News367
Help & Feedback348
Board unknown113

Where this came from

Nothing here was copied from the old database; it no longer exists. Every page was rebuilt from the public copies held by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Threads were pieced together from ordinary thread pages captured in different years, the board's lo-fi and printable versions, a 2004 mobile (WAP) copy and the site's front page; 6,783 posts were recovered from those other copies alone.

How it was rebuilt → · What's missing, in detail →

What's missing

Most of it. The archives captured only some pages of a very busy board, so about 6.3% of its posts survive. Many threads are known only by their titles. Members' profiles are not included, private messages were never captured, and many pictures were never archived; where an image is missing, the post says so.

Privacy and takedown

This is a non-commercial fan archive of the Rave Adelaide forums, kept for historical interest. Posts are shown as they were written, with email addresses and phone numbers removed. If something here is about you, or is yours, and you'd like it removed or changed, contact [contact address coming soon] with the page address. Requests are handled promptly, no questions asked.