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About Paul Miles
Paul Miles is a rock photographer specializing in live music photography, who captures the true spirit of rock’n’roll in action by many of the world’s greatest performers. Over the years, he has shot a vast array of rock music photography: from gigs in world-famous clubs like the Apollo in Harlem and the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, to iconic arenas like New York City’s Madison Square Garden and Australia’s MCG, as well as in retail stores Barnes & Noble, Apple, and John Varvatos CBGBs.
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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Starcrawler, Luliepalooza, Melbourne 23rd Nov 2024 by Paul Miles

December 3, 2024 Paul Miles
Californian rock band Starcrawler headlined Luliepalooza in Melbourne on Saturday 23 November 2024.

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Snap Scene

Snap Scene: Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, Forum Theatre, Melbourne 9th Nov 2024 by Paul Miles

November 21, 2024 Paul Miles
American punk supergroup Me First and the Gimme Gimmes performed at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Saturday 9 November 2024.

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Snap Scene: Dwarves, Forum Theatre, Melbourne 9th Nov 2024 by Paul Miles

November 21, 2024 Paul Miles
American punk rock band Dwarves performed at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Saturday 9 November 2024. Formed in Chicago during 1985, they have been based in San Francisco since 2009. Dwarves are led by […]
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Snap Scene: Heilung, Palais Theatre, Melbourne 6th Nov 2024 by Paul Miles

November 19, 2024 Paul Miles
Dark world music band Heilung performed a sold-out ritual at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne on Wednesday 6 November 2024 as part of their second Australian tour. Founded in 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark by vocalist […]
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Snap Scene: Eivor, Palais Theatre, Melbourne 6th Nov 2024 by Paul Miles

November 18, 2024 Paul Miles
Wednesday 6 November 2024 as part of her first tour of Australia. Eivør Pálsdóttir is a singer-songwriter (and actress) born and raised in Syðrugøta, Faroe Islands – a Danish archipelago territory located between Iceland, Scotland and Norway.

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Snap Scene: Dream Evil, Leadbeater Hotel, Melbourne, Australia 4th Nov 2024 by Paul Miles

November 14, 2024 Paul Miles
Swedish power metal band Dream Evil performed at The Leadbeater Hotel in Melbourne on Monday 4 November 2024, as part of their first Australian tour. T

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Snap Scene: Bridear, Leadbeater Hotel, Melbourne, Australia 4th Nov 2024 by Paul Miles

November 14, 2024 Paul Miles
All-female Japanese power metal band Bridear performed at The Leadbeater Hotel in Melbourne on Monday 4 November 2024, as part of their first Australian tour.

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Snap Scene: Steel Panther, Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne 26th Oct 2024 by Paul Miles

October 31, 2024 Paul Miles
American comedy glam metalheads Steel Panther performed at Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Saturday 26 October 2024, as part of their On The Prowl World Tour.

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Snap Scene: John 5, Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne 26th Oct 2024 by Paul Miles

October 31, 2024 Paul Miles
American guitarist John 5 performed at Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne on Saturday 26 October 2024. Born John Lowery in 1970, he began using his stage name in 1998 when he left David Lee Roth’s solo band and joined Marilyn Manson.

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Star Scene: Voice of Baceprot

October 28, 2024 Paul Miles
Paul Miles interviews Indonesian “freedom sound” band, Voice of Baceprot, during their first tour of Australia on Friday October 25, 2024. All photographs displayed were shot by Paul Miles after the interview.

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What’s Your Scene?

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
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
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
The TV show “Full House
World Wild
Beer, riffs, good people, good food and new adventures, anywhere those things exist, that’s my scene!
Andy, Don Fernando
Yass KFC
Simon, Loon Lake
Staying home out of harms way.
Peter Milley, Cairo Club Orchestra
Hot, hot lovers
Luke Monks, Gay Paris
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
Rock’n’Roll
About Heels on Decks
I will continue the continuum, singing my Songline.
Kutcha Edwards
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
Melbourne. Nowhere else is as great as Melbourne.
Brat Farrar
The car wash scene from Cool Hand Luke will do just fine thank you.
Old Gray Mule
Going to the river on sunny afternoons with the blow up dingys and resting your beers on lily pads.
The Frowning Clouds
Anyone who welcomes a hairy, gold wearing, hot air blowing idiot to a dinner table is my scene.
Henry Wagons
My scene is driving fast cars and shooting guns.
Ace Frehley
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
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
Any scene with Al Swearangen & Mr. Wu from the show Deadwood ;)
Mathas
Comedy, surreal show girls, burlesque and theatre
MC KREWD
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
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
Sitting in the sun, in a nice chair, with a good book.
James Reyne
Leadfinger is a very strange band, hard to define, but we are free.
Stew, Leadfinger
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
“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
I think my style is more just making cameos in everyone else’s scene.
Mojo Juju
My scene is Brunswick. I love it. It provides me with just about everything I need.
About Charlie Marshall
Tunes, mates, and honesty. No dickhead policy!
Buddha In A Chocolate Box
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 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
Alice likes the Google. Sime likes taxidermy. It’s a pretty happening scene.
Sweet Jean
Fuck the Fucking Scene question! xo
Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene
Cool small bars with good food, good wine, good company
The Backsliders
I am a simple man. My scene is simple. I like playing metal and spending time with my family.
Waclaw ”Vogg” Kieltyka, Decapitated
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
My bedroom
Nantes
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
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
My family, my friends, my home.
Cory Putman, Norma Jean
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
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
The beach. Tea with gin at your grandparents house. They have the best stories.
Betty & Oswald
Currently, I’m completely enveloped by writing my book; trying to complete the manuscript for my tome.
Jeff Duff
Flanelette pyjama pants.
Timberwolf
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
All of the above and more in my shed every Friday night
Hound
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
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
Obviously to create music. My family. I love driving my Ferraris.
Yngwie Malmsteen
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
I’m in with the Out-Crowd
Dave Warner
Bed. Pringles. Whisky. Attenborough doco. Wham.
Marlon Williams
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
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
If you’re a Max Chillington then you’re our scene.
Gunslingers
Wherever there is music is where I feel most at home
Toby Robinson
Our scene is this big gorgeous wide world we live in all its majestic splendour!
Kim Salmon, The Darling Downs
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
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
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
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
Book clubs, philosophy and extreme black metal
Elsen Price
Hiking a 14K foot mountain in Colorado
Cole Washburn
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
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
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
Anywhere there is good company, great conversation, and a glass of red.
Helen Perris
Country roots, old time, bluegrass, folk, Americana scene Traditional plus :)
Whitetop Mountaineers
Experimental electronica, musical metacreation, multiplicitous media, hacking.
Ollie Brown
Deep 70s disco, wonky synths, shady lyrics, fairy lights and cheap wine.

Tegan Voltaire, The Voltaire Twins
It’s beards.
Nathaniel Beard, The Beards
My scene is finding any excuse to dance with my 2 year old daughter Ruby.
Matthew Hardy, Comedian
Scones, savory, sweet I don’t mind
The Wooden Sky
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
World/folk. Acoustic and proud of it!
Ilana Cravitz, The London Klezmer Quartet

Star Scene

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    September 15, 2026
    STEVE TURNER AND MORE OF HIS BAD IDEASSteve Turner is no stranger to fans of Grunge music.He was the guitarist [...]
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    August 25, 2026
  • Star Scene: PETER HOOK ~ PETER HOOK & THE LIGHT, NEW ORDER, JOY DIVISION ~ by Mary Boukouvalas
    July 13, 2026
  • Star Scene: Andy Scott ~ SWEET by Mary Boukouvalas
    July 3, 2026

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    September 24, 2026
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    September 23, 2026
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