I have been playing/going to alot of gigs recently, and the turnout has been somewhat dwindleing over the past year or so, its worth adding at this point that I am from Manchester, England.
I know that as a genre, breakcore was quite big, say 8 9 or 10 years ago, with illegal gigs going on all over the place ( allthough I was 13 then 
) and as a genre it has also become more poular over the past 5 years, with new artists emerging and boundries being pushed etc, however I have noticed that although I now know LOOOOADS of peeps who MAKE this style of music, I know less peeps who go to gigs.
so I was wondering, is this just a phonomenon of manchester, or is it happening all over?
in short, what is the breakcore scene like near you?
not sure about UK, but aint it really big in Belgium right now? anyone from Belgium here?
I plug my guitar into an amplifier and I tell you what boys it’s a revolution.
I can only speak for me (leipzig, germany, we have two labels called alphacut and phantom noise records here, you might have heard of them).
here the crowd for such events has stagnated at about 150-200 people (in a 450.000-people city). There was a time about two years back when I went to some breakcore gigs/parties to see jason forrest (and other acts) with alot of other people, but overall I have to say breakcore is not for me. too noisy, too unfunky, too harsh. and most people I know feel about the same.
So, what I am trying here is to say that the phenomenon “breakcore” is slowly falling apart and only the real fans will be left. There will be certain “areas” and small crowds in each bigger city/area for this “subculture” but overall I guess it’s kind of “over”.
Hope I am not breaking any hearts here. And this little analysis be me should never ever stop you from making/enjoying breakcore if you really love it.
The opposite of tracne
Distortion…
well, without getting into genre defining too deep, im talking about the kind of night where on one hand you could see scotch egg blasting tunes on his greyboy, and on the other see snares destroying the decks, the kind of night where anything thats f**** up goes.
There’s not a really big scene here in Rotterdam, Holland… as opposed to the drum & bass scene for example, but you can usually count on about 200/300 people, familiar faces often, attending parties, travelling the country to see Drumcorps play, or Rotator… but yeah, it seems like a dying thing, desperately waiting for a fresh wind… I’m still hoping Venetian Snares is the impuls that can revive the phenomenom ‘breakcore’ because I love it more than anything else on a dancefloor, anyday, anytime, anywhere.
I’ll be one of the last hardcore fans, waiting for the inevitable end of it all.
glad to hear it! I still think id rather be at a bad turnout in rotterdam, than a bad turnout in mancheser!- ive been to gigs with less than ten peeps there- and it was big names aswell.
looks like ill be needing to go on tour.
i heard theres this new french cheese coming out called ‘beatslice-bri’ i think it would taste quite nice on a baguette!! 
Le Monsieur Baguette IS french cheese.
cheese on the mr’s baguette…!?
near my place in rostock are going some things. 3 parties had taken place the last months, called “Schiffbruch” (shipwreck, location is a ship ) but i haven’t been there…
berlin got some nice events like Clash of the Titans or auf:Bruch - good stuff!
im here ! 
mlon
Breakcore will flourish again soon… you see, what inevitably ends up happening with almost all punk-styled-genres, is they go through phases. This is end of the initial phase… where the genre is defined… and, like it’s cousin, industrial, someone will invariably pick it up and mix vocals with it so it can flourish in a more mainstream environment. It will be digital hardcore all over again, just harder and more kore.
… or perhaps it’s just dead. 
i’ve already begun the breakcore revival! not really, but i have been influenced heavily by breakcore. that alone (not me but situations like this) is evidence of the evolution (not death) of breakcore. there is no such thing as breakcore! all that matters is if what’s being released at the time is a valid response to what existed before. how can music thrive without also at times seeming completely unoriginal and stale? the next movement depends on the current lull.
+1
but please no more raggacore
dramacore is the next big thing
I saw this guy the other day… He had a guitar and he was singing with it… And I though, man… I gotta copy that!
There’s a breakcore scene here??!!