farewell Austria Rock Austria Rock Retrospective

farewell, Austria Rock

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After more than 10 years and (at least) six different locations, the „Austria Rock“ event – or „Austria Party“ as it was called while beeing hosted at „8below“ – will no longer exist. Time for a little retrospective …

two years of Austria Rock 2006 Salon Erna
two years of Austria Rock 2006

First of all I’d like to mention that in the beginning Stefan Böhm of weltmarke.de took care about the visual appearance of the event, so anything I did in the many years that followed is based on his work – credits to Stefan!

The oldest document I could find on my hard drive dates back to 2006 and advertises the 2nd anniversary of Austria Rock, being hosted at „Salon Erna“, Optimolgelände, Munich.

Austria Rock moving to Brickhouse
Austria Rock moving to a new location

In 2008 it was time to move to the first new location (to be precise the second new location, since the first Austria Rock events were hosted at a small bar called Valentin Stüberl). The „Brickhouse“ club was just around the corner of „Salon Erna“ …

Austria Rock slide
Austria Rock slide
Austria Rock EM-Special slide
Austria Rock EM-Special slide

I think it was at Brickhouse where slides announced upcoming partys and special events …

Austria Rock @ Milchbar Poster
Austria Rock @ Milchbar Poster

All the data for Austria Rock at Milchbar (milchundbar) date back to 2009, so this must have been the place the event moved to after Brickhouse had to close.

Austria Rock at evergreen Munich
Austria Rock at evergreen Munich

In 2012 there was a short intermezzo at the „evergreen“ club before moving to …

Austria Rock @ Rausch&Töchter Flyer
Austria Rock @ Rausch&Töchter Flyer

… Rausch&Töchter, Falkenturmstrasse, Munich. No link because the place is closed meanwhile.

Austria Rock Oktoberfest Special 2014 at Rausch&Töchter
Austria Rock Oktoberfest Special 2014
Austria Rock Carneval Special 2015 @ Rausch&Töchter
Austria Rock Carneval Special 2015

R&T hostet some special Austria Rock events like the „Oktoberfest edition“ in 2014, the „Carneval edition“ in 2015 or the …

Austria Rock 10th anniversary @ Rausch&Töchter
Austria Rock 10th anniversary

… Austria Rock 10th anniversary party in 2015. Due to closure this was also the last Austria Rock event at R&T and the show had to go on at …

Austria Rock at new location 8below 2015
Austria Rock at new location 8below

… the 8below club. The document in the bottom right corner is an old Austrian passport.

Austria Party christmas special at 8below 2016 front
Austria Party christmas special 2016 front

At some point of time at 8below the name of the event was changed to „Austria Party“ – as to be seen on this flyer for a christams special,

Austria Party christmas special rear side 2016
Austria Party christmas special rear
Austria Party summer special 2017 at 8below
Austria Party summer special 2017

This is the last „special“ flyer I did for Austria Party. The event will pop up every now and then at small locations but no longer on a regular basis. And „DJ Kneissel“ is planning on something completely new …