In 1981, Willi Warma sang, “Steel city kids live way too fast”. And sure enough, for a long time nothing could go fast enough for the residents in Linz in regards to subculture, underground, and „amateur music“. They played, drank, and partied - raw and somehow real. In subjective, romanticized memories a naturally nostalgic picture unfolds of short‐lived (utopian) music and youth culture.