Not Available
They never stopped. The record of them did.
Not Available is a melodic punk band from Eislingen, Germany, active since 1992 and eight records deep. They're still playing.
Their canonical address — notavailable.com, the one gig sites still cite — is dead, and their identity ended up scattered in pieces: the music in one place, the pressings in another, the press in a third, the history on a wiki. Each tells only a part.
The one thing genuinely missing wasn't the band — it was the record of the band. Their own site had promised, three times over twenty years, to tell their story — and never did. The absence wasn't artistic; it was archival.
A single vertical line was built, 1992 to now, with every fact hung on it beside its source. The voice is theirs alone: their attributed words, or a visible gap — a dash — to be corrected later, because the process didn't allow asking the band anything.
And the move that lands it is an «availability check»: every trace of them reads «not available» — the domain, the old site, the last sign of life — until the final line says the opposite. They are: still playing — thirty-nine shows across ten countries — and Barcelona this October.
A site written in the band's own recovered voice — bilingual, wisecracking — where the gaps are dashes waiting to be corrected, not filler. It's a study, not a commission: the band chose to carry on as they were, on their own channels, so nothing has been launched and nothing will be. No results to show.
A band that never stopped — now the record of them doesn't either.
An independent design study, published with the band's permission.