The Adelaide Massive forums, 2003–2014
Adelaide's drum & bass, dubstep and party crowd talked, argued, promoted gigs and posted flyers on adelaidemassive.com for over a decade. The forums went offline years ago and their databases are gone. This fan-made archive rebuilds them from the copies that web archives happened to keep, so the scene's history isn't lost.
The original board
8,127 posts in 498 threads, 12 boards.
The SMF board
143,258 posts in 2,564 threads, 20 boards.
The flyer wall
589 flyers recovered, 408 of them for Adelaide and South Australian events, plus 1,207 pieces of artwork and 16 animated banners. See them all →
Events, 2002–2026
1,076 gigs in one timeline, from the forums' event boards to the later events calendar; 343 with their flyer. See the events →
The 2004 website
Before the forums, adelaidemassive.com was a gig-news site. 20 of its stories survive. Read them →
Local mixes & news, 2014–2026
214 posts from the WordPress years: Adelaide DJs' mixes, local radio shows and site announcements. Browse them →
Surviving posts by year
original board SMF board
Busiest boards (surviving posts)
Where this came from
Nothing here was copied from the old databases; they no longer exist. Every page was rebuilt from public web archives: the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, the Australian Web Archive (National Library of Australia) and Common Crawl. Threads were pieced together from normal pages, printer-friendly copies, single-post links and the original board's front-page news.
What's missing
The archives only captured some pages, so a lot is gone. About 56% of the SMF board's posts survive, but only about 4% of the original board's. Members' profiles were never public, private messages were never captured, and some images were never archived; where an image is missing, the post says so.
Privacy and takedown
This is a non-commercial fan archive of adelaidemassive.com, 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.