messnoise
Restoration in progress
An independent home for Australian music, writing and conversation. The archive is being reviewed and original stories are progressively returning to their historical addresses.
Independent media. Cultural history.
Some stories
deserve a future.
restored.media recovers and restores independent cultural publications, helping their writing, voices and history remain accessible.
Our work
First project
Our approach
Preserve the work.
Keep the record clear.
Original voices
Preserve the original writing and credit the people who created it. Identify any new editorial context separately.
Original addresses
Return recovered stories to their verified historical URLs wherever possible, so old links can lead somewhere again.
Documented restoration
Check surviving sources, verify publication details and document material repairs. Make unresolved gaps clear.
About
Led by Joel King
restored.media is led by Australian media founder and publisher Joel King. Its first public restoration project is Mess + Noise.
Help restore the record
Were you part
of the story?
If you wrote, photographed, edited or contributed to Mess + Noise—or have material that could help restore its archive—we’d like to hear from you.
Contributor information at Mess + Noise