Articles by Mary Boukouvalas

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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Snap Scene: Mental As Anything – By The C – Leura Park Estate 9th Feb 2019

February 13, 2019 Mary Boukouvalas
Forty years of recording and touring and the show goes on. A fresh 5 track EP release titled “Mental as Anything – 5 Track EP” and a prime slot on the national Apia Good Times Tour sees Mentals rocketing into the future.

The EP sees Greedy and Martin trading songs in their time-honoured tradition.

Martin is currently off the road but Greedy and he are still creating new songs with that Mental Flavour.

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Snap Scene: Do Re Mi – By The C – Leura Park Estate 9th Feb 2019

February 13, 2019 Mary Boukouvalas
In 1982, two Melbournites and two Sydneysiders – Deborah Conway/Dorland Bray, and Stephen Philip/Helen Carter respectively – released their first independent record, which appeared with no title except for the band’s name and little other information. It became known as the green EP, partly because it was released on the label of the same name, and partly because the cover was, well, green.

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Snap Scene: Dee Snider – Shouted – Croxton Bandroom, 2nd Feb 2019

February 5, 2019 Mary Boukouvalas
He is one of the most recognisable and notorious frontmen of all time and DEE SNIDER headed to Australia for a unique set of shows in Sydney and Melbourne!

Each city was be treated to one SPOKEN night and one SHOUTED! These SHOUTED shows saw Dee hit the stage backed by his full band and slam out a killer set list top heavy with classic TWISTED SISTER Material.

A true rock legend, the frontman of TWISTED SISTER, DEE SNIDER on stage in two very different environments and two that he absolutely thrives in.

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Snap Scene: Daryl Braithwaite – Caravan Music Club 11th Jan 2019

February 1, 2019 Mary Boukouvalas
Daryl Braithwaite’s initial success as a singer came with Sherbet, a band which forever remains in the history books of Australian music. Throughout the 70’s, Sherbet produced 20 national Top 40 singles and were the first Australian band to top the one million dollar mark in album sales in the country with a total of 15 albums and 30 singles to the credit with songs like “Summer Love” becoming the highest selling single of 1975. And, “Howzat” not only a #1 hit in Australia, but also achieved #2 in England.

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