12,400+
Photography
Gig, backstage & street
Archive
The material
Every object in the MABEL archive was made for one night, one gig, one pressing. Together they reconstruct seventy years of Belgian music.
Full-text search across thousands of items is being built. Categories below are the entry points.
3,100+
Posters
Screenprints & offset
8,700+
Vinyl
Singles, LPs, test pressings
6,200+
Flyers
Clubs, squats, festivals
1,450+
Fanzines
DIY print culture
2,900+
Audio
Tapes, demos, radio sessions
780+
Video
Live footage & TV
60+
Guitars
Stage-used instruments
2,000+
Memorabilia
Badges, shirts, passes
5,300+
Documents
Contracts, letters, riders
1,900+
Magazines
Belgian & international
9,000+
Press clippings
Reviews & interviews
Concert Archive
Performances, kept
Featured recording
Bloody Belgium
Book Launch Concert
The complete concert, filmed and recorded in full — the first entry in a growing archive of historic Belgian performances.
Full concert — player coming soon
Growing the concert archive
MABEL is collecting live recordings, soundboard tapes, bootlegs and video footage of Belgian performances from the 1950s onwards. If you have a recording, a camera tape or a memory of a night that mattered, we want to hear from you.
Future-proof
Built to become a database
- Searchable archive of thousands of items
- Artist pages
- Photographer pages
- Exhibitions & events
- Digital exhibitions
- Research portal
- Educational resources
- Licensing requests
- Memberships & museum tickets