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About Mary Boukouvalas
Mary is a photographer and a writer, specialising in music. She runs Rocklust.com where she endeavours to capture the passion of music in her photos whether it's live music photography, promotional band photos or portraits. She has photographed The Rolling Stones, KISS, Iggy Pop, AC/DC, Patti Smith, Joe Strummer, PULP, The Cult, The Damned, The Cure, Ian Brown, Interpol, MUDHONEY, The MELVINS, The Living End, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against The Machine, The Stone Roses –just to name a few - in Australia, USA, Europe and the Middle East. Her work has been published in Beat magazine, Rolling Stone magazine, Triple J magazine, The Age Newspaper, The Herald Sun, The Australian, Neos Kosmos, blistering.com, theaureview.com, noise11.com, music-news.com. She has a permanent photographic exhibition at The Corner Hotel in Richmond, Victoria Australia.
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FEATURED: Video Premier: Fiona Lee Maynard – today at 12!

May 22, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
BEGGARS FOR LOVE will be premiered on Wednesday 22 May at 12 noon: FOR MORE INFORMATION ON FIONA LEE MAYNARD’s music, gigs, news, visit: bandcamp  Facebook
Star Scene

ReScene: Star Scene: Matt Johnson ~ THE THE

May 22, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
Ahead of their Australian tour, we revisit Mary Boukouvalas’ interview with Matt Johnson. Matt Johnson’s scene is calming. The legendary THE THE founder states: “My scene is meditating, playing chess, and having as much silence […]
Star Scene

ReScene: Star Scene: Peter Hook of Joy Division, New Order, Peter Hook and The Light by Mary Boukouvalas

May 21, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
Ahead of his upcoming AUstralian tour, we re-visit Mary Boukouvalas’ interview with Peter Hook! Peter Hook’s scene these days revolves around his computer and being nudged by his dog to take her out for a […]
Q&A Scene

Q&A Scene: Fiona Lee Maynard

May 16, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
Tell us about your latest single/album/ tour.  My new single (the second single from my new solo album Junction) is called ‘Beggars For Love’. The album Junction was a watershed, it was written and recorded […]
Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Vexation, The Gasometer, 6th May 2024 by Mary Boukouvalas

May 9, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
Three piece Death/Thrash from Melbourne Australia.

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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Rotting Christ (GR), The Gasometer, 6th May 2024 by Mary Boukouvalas

May 9, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
Rotting Christ is a Greek black metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene.

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ReScene: Star Scene: Sakis Tolis ~ ROTTING CHRIST (GR)

May 2, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
Rotting Christ (GR) are finally back on Australian soil this week with Jungle Rot (USA) making their Aussie debut for the first time in 30 years! Most shows are now sold out – an extra […]
Q&A Scene

Q&A Scene: GREG GOULD

May 2, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
Tell us about your new single Who Gave You Permission? It’s a powerful anthem I wrote for my fellow survivors of sexual abuse. Its been the most empowering, emotional release of my career and life […]
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Snap Scene: Dandy Warhols, The Forum, 28th April 2024 by Mary Boukouvalas

May 2, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
With over a quarter of a billion streams across 10 studio albums, six EPs, and 27 singles to date, The Dandy Warhols are one of the most fundamental and influential rock acts of the 21st century.

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Snap Scene: Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, Corner Hotel, 18th April 2024 by Mary Boukouvalas

April 25, 2024 Mary Boukouvalas
With one of the most enviable rock n’ roll resumes in existence, Kid Congo Powers was a founding member of cowpunk blues outfit The Gun Club, guitarist for legendary psycho-billy purveyors The Cramps and and Australia’s own, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

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What’s Your Scene?

Melbourne. Nowhere else is as great as Melbourne.
Brat Farrar
I love being on a little boat near home in South West Victoria with a fishing line in the water, the Sun coming up or going down. I also love walking the streets of Melbourne or Manhattan or many of the beautiful towns and villages of Ireland or anywhere. My partner and my family are central to it all. I also love being in the midst of a great music session, anywhere, anytime, being transported into the soul of the Universe.
Shane Howard
Well these days my scene tends to revolve around my computer and being nudged by my dog to take her out for a walk. And then having my wife shout at me for spending time on my computer. I’m loving it actually. I’m quite relishing that scene. I miss them both very much.
Peter Hook, Joy Division/New Order/The Light
When I’m not working in the studio or doing shows I’m at home with my partner and our baby so I guess they are my scene.
Way of the Eagle
Any scene with Al Swearangen & Mr. Wu from the show Deadwood ;)
Mathas
Currently, I’m completely enveloped by writing my book; trying to complete the manuscript for my tome.
Jeff Duff
I will continue the continuum, singing my Songline.
Kutcha Edwards
All of the above and more in my shed every Friday night
Hound
Cool small bars with good food, good wine, good company
The Backsliders
Leadfinger is a very strange band, hard to define, but we are free.
Stew, Leadfinger
Scones, savory, sweet I don’t mind
The Wooden Sky
Tunes, mates, and honesty. No dickhead policy!
Buddha In A Chocolate Box
Hot, hot lovers
Luke Monks, Gay Paris
Country roots, old time, bluegrass, folk, Americana scene Traditional plus :)
Whitetop Mountaineers
My scene is Brunswick. I love it. It provides me with just about everything I need.
About Charlie Marshall
Book clubs, philosophy and extreme black metal
Elsen Price
Comedy, surreal show girls, burlesque and theatre
MC KREWD
My bedroom
Nantes
The car wash scene from Cool Hand Luke will do just fine thank you.
Old Gray Mule
Ep. 1 Series 3 of BBC’s ’Sherlock’ where Sherlock bungee jumps through a window and kisses Molly Hooper.
Miss Adelaide Everheart from Early Burley Burlesque
I like to think that I belong to the head-strong Independent Music Scene – where we – musos and audience and everyone in between – all make gigs/tours, recordings, releases happen for ourselves and work our arses off to keep it going for the rest of our lives – all for the love of Music!
Florelie Escano
Going to the river on sunny afternoons with the blow up dingys and resting your beers on lily pads.
The Frowning Clouds
Rock’n’Roll
About Heels on Decks
Our scene is in the city of Bath, a small city with a very big musical identity, we play the British festivals and I am also in the ’choirs scene’. We are also in other bands for fun, music all the way, roll on summer!
Su Hart, Baka Beyond
What’s my scene? well…
And another thing I’ve been wondering lately
Oh, baby,
Tell me where have you been?
Now the stage is set
Where’s my Juliet, baby?
Is it maybe
My Midsummer Night’s Dream?
What’s my scene?

Clowns
Yass KFC
Simon, Loon Lake
Anyone who welcomes a hairy, gold wearing, hot air blowing idiot to a dinner table is my scene.
Henry Wagons
“Malcolm Hill is a lifetime member of the Melbourne Music Mafia and part of the ratpack of post punk Melbourne artists who have been keepin’ it real across diverse art forms for thirty years.”
Malcolm Hill
Art is my scene. No labels, restrictions or judgement. I love art in all it’s varied glory.
The Last 5 Queers
That’s a hard one, although I do love anything electronic with an indie-pop feel!
Franki
The Astor Theatre on chapel st. Old cinema with copious amounts of atmosphere playing classic films (Chaplin, Gene Kelly, Kubrick, etc) and me with a honeycomb choc top spilt on my Tshirt because that’s just how I roll.
Jude Perl, Comedian
The TV show “Full House
World Wild
If you’re a Max Chillington then you’re our scene.
Gunslingers
Our gigs have an air of danger and sex. Beautiful women are free to express themselves and are as dangerous as hell. Everybody can have a good time ’cos there’s a lot of love in the room and we just can’t help but stomp out that primeval swamp boogie ooze.
Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk
We can be dirty, we can be imperfect, we can be classy, it doesn’t matter. We drift between scenes and eventually may just create our own.
The Ugly Kings
Currently its the Yarra River Trail I’m walking along. Generally my scene would be Melbourne. Nothing feels or compares to home.
Simon McConnell, The Delta Riggs
Act III, Scene VI of King Lear. A tense and gripping scene wherein the ageing king informs his three daughters that they have all been accepted as contestants on Family Feud.
Ben Pobjie, comedian
I have no idea what my scene is; I have been listening to Dubstep and a bit of Drum N Bass. I found a lot of Hip Hop and RnB stuff is getting very interesting again it is pushing different sounds out. I’ve been really into cycling since the early ‘90s; racing mountain bikes and racing road bikes. So between cycling and music there is not much time left, a bit of sleep now and again.
Mike Edwards, Jesus Jones
Our scene is this big gorgeous wide world we live in all its majestic splendour!
Kim Salmon, The Darling Downs
Bed. Pringles. Whisky. Attenborough doco. Wham.
Marlon Williams
It’s Thonbury. It’s my dreaming. I’ve lived here 30 years and it’s evolved with me. The more I drink wine, the more wine bars appear in the neighbourhood. The more I eat, the more cafes appear in the neighbourhood. Fantastic.
Denise Scott, Comedian
The beach. Tea with gin at your grandparents house. They have the best stories.
Betty & Oswald
Wherever there is music is where I feel most at home
Toby Robinson
Staying home out of harms way.
Peter Milley, Cairo Club Orchestra
World/folk. Acoustic and proud of it!
Ilana Cravitz, The London Klezmer Quartet
Flanelette pyjama pants.
Timberwolf
It’s beards.
Nathaniel Beard, The Beards
I don’t wish to belong to any scene that would have me as a member (with thanks to Groucho Marx).
Bob Spencer, Raw Brit
All the kids who weren’t cool at school and still aren’t. Those people who didn’t manage to become awesome artists and uber hip performers. The raggy dolls who never found a way to make their raggy doll-ness work for them.
Jonathon Duffy
Fuck the Fucking Scene question! xo
Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene
Aside from music and everything creative, I love open-mind people, unexpected humour, seeing the world and nature, riding my bicycle, playing billiards. I’m also a fan of coffee, whiskey and most things vintage.
Jessica Stuart Few
Beer, riffs, good people, good food and new adventures, anywhere those things exist, that’s my scene!
Andy, Don Fernando
My scene is finding any excuse to dance with my 2 year old daughter Ruby.
Matthew Hardy, Comedian
I think my style is more just making cameos in everyone else’s scene.
Mojo Juju
Anywhere there is good company, great conversation, and a glass of red.
Helen Perris
Local bands at sticky carpet venues. Vinyl. Social networking. Keeping healthy in order to play full throttle live sets. Loud rehearsals. Good people with creative ideas. PRIMITIVE ROCK.
Jon S Williams of City of Cool
My scene is at the moment Big Wongs General Tsos Chicken as I get sauce on the keys typing to you :-)
Brian Mackey
All the wandering. The bastards and the angels. The sound of the rain and the pains of the heart. The silence. All the houses and all the rooms. All the keys and phones.
Raised By Eagles
Sitting in the sun, in a nice chair, with a good book.
James Reyne
I’m in with the Out-Crowd
Dave Warner
I just do my best to live a life full of the things I love. Rock’n’roll, photography, New York City – they are three things right there that I love a lot!
Paul Miles
Deep 70s disco, wonky synths, shady lyrics, fairy lights and cheap wine.

Tegan Voltaire, The Voltaire Twins
Quirky cabaret bars that serve a mean G&T and boast a stellar cocktail list..which is why you’ll always find me returning to The Butterfly Club! I also love the buzz of a Fringe or Cabaret Festival, or a smart Opening Night. Any excuse for a dress up, really!
Amelia Ryan, Lady Liberty
Obviously to create music. My family. I love driving my Ferraris.
Yngwie Malmsteen
Our scene is folk that are interested in change. Not just music, but breaking the norm, the boundaries and stereotype of Australian ’rock/pop’ music. Unpredictable, the question marks, the new jokers in town. Don’t Believe The Haze.
Slumberhaze
Hiking a 14K foot mountain in Colorado
Cole Washburn
My scene is a Punk-hardcore scene or an underground, minimal electronic scene, something grungy – where everyone is wearing black. That’s my vibe; don’t go out until 11 when all the other vampires come out and go home when the sun comes up at 7. Oh shit. Creatures of the night.
Greg Puciato, Killer Be Killed & Dillinger Escape Plan
Well I’m still looking for my scene, and I think I might have found it. Between the pages of What’s My Scene Magazine.
Dave Faulkner, Hoodoo Gurus
My family, my friends, my home.
Cory Putman, Norma Jean
My scene is driving fast cars and shooting guns.
Ace Frehley
I like to be out in the nature, to get away. Go to the woods. My dad lives in the woods. Maybe once or twice a year I don’t have phone reception there is no Wi-Fi
Fredrik Åkesson, Opeth
No set scene. We have played with a variety of bands from King Parrot to The Datsuns. Offer us a show and give us a try!
Los Hombres Del Diablo
I am a simple man. My scene is simple. I like playing metal and spending time with my family.
Waclaw ”Vogg” Kieltyka, Decapitated
I like the beach more than anything. The beach feels like home all year round. In terms of a scene…I actually prefer to hermit most of the time.
Abbe May
The dog park’s pretty good. I have a couple of miniature pinchers. And they’re the loves of my life. I take them for walks to the dog park; I’ve got a Harley Davidson I ride around. It’s not too exciting. It used to be sex, drugs and rock n roll; now I walk my dogs.
Stan Lee, The Dickies
It’s a delirium, really, but I like to live like this.
Hugo Race
Cool venues with good beer on tap that don’t mind us getting loud and getting room grooving so hard you feel the floor shaking.
Papa G and The Starcats
Alice likes the Google. Sime likes taxidermy. It’s a pretty happening scene.
Sweet Jean
Right now it’s a room with no lights on. An unmade bed. A laptop with 9% battery and a mosquito that just refuses to die.
Dave Larkin, Dallas Crane
Experimental electronica, musical metacreation, multiplicitous media, hacking.
Ollie Brown

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    July 3, 2026

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