This Was The Scene Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Fata Booking is a North America-based, boutique booking agency and management firm. Founded in 1996 by Eva Alexiou-Reo, FATA has worked with and exponentially grown the careers of credible artists such as Jimmy Eat World, ​Hot Water Music, Flogging Molly, Elliott, ​Mae, ​Rusted Root, ​MC Lars,​ The Blood Brothers, Pretty Girls Make Graves​ and many more.​ 

Eva’s name always came up back in the day and I wanted to get her perspective of what it was like to grow a booking agency. With the help of Kim Heiner, I got Eva on the skype and this is what we chat about:

• The Wilkes-Barre scene
• Starting Fata Booking
• Advice from Kevin Lyman
• Should she write a book
• How are bands making money?
• how has she gotten bands
• Pretty girls make graves
• Venues taking a cut of merch
• And a ton more

Lastly I started doing whiteboard animations so if your marketing department has said recently “Hey, we need a whiteboard animation” then email me at [email protected]

This week's episode is a compilation of clips from 5 episodes that I enjoyed. 

Below are the interviews I pulled clips from:

• Kill Your Idols w/ Andy West - Episode 140
• Tripface w/ Scott Jarzombek - Episode 180 
• Brian McTernan - Episode 216
• Shutdown w/ Mark Scondotto - Episode 179
• Victory Records w/ Monika Ebly - Episode 206

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Coalesce is an American metalcore band formed in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1994. They are considered pioneers of mathcore and were known for its aggressive style of music and reckless live shows. The band broke up in 2010 and has performed two reunion shows since then. You can catch them Friday October 4th at Furnace Fest.

I got Sean on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• Getting attacked by dogs
• Earth Crisis’ aggressiveness
• Finding his voice
• Sean messing with their album artwork
• Functioning on Impatience
• Crews threatening his life
• Recording of 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening
• How they broke up
• Reuniting without Jess on guitar
• Singing for Dillinger Escape Plan Shot out to Ziggy for this question
• Reuniting in 2005
• Playing Furnace Fest this year
• And a ton more

Go check out the re-releases of their vinyl at https://www.relapse.com/

Lastly I started doing whiteboard animations so if your marketing department has said recently “Hey, we need a whiteboard animation” then email me at [email protected]

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Gallows are an English hardcore punk band from Watford, Hertfordshire. The band was formed in 2005 and their debut album, Orchestra of Wolves, was distributed in the United States by Epitaph Records. The band were subsequently signed to Warner Bros. Records, and released their second album Grey Britain in 2009. In 2011 Frank Carter left the group and went on to do Pure Love from 2011-2014 and has been doing Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes from 2015 to present day.

I reached out to Frank on Oct 2, 2022 and have been bombarding him with requests until he finally had the time to chat. 

I got Frank on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• His career as a tattoo artist
• Piecing the band together
• Not liking the bands he was on the road with during Warped Tour
• Recording Orchestra of Wolves
• Getting a show cancelled by Disney
• Playing Redding Festival
• Leaving the band
• Is there a possibilty for a reunion
• And a ton more

Check out SMART Recovery which Frank mentions at the end. 

Lastly I started doing whiteboard animations so if your marketing department has said recently “Hey, we need a whiteboard animation” then email me at [email protected]

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The Locust was an American hardcore punk band from San Diego, known for their mix of grindcore speed and aggression, and new wave experimentation complexity. Vocalist/bassist Justin Pearson said, "I wanted to change the way people perceive music, or maybe just destroy it in general." The Locust's music is complex, dynamic and fast-paced, often featuring abrupt and inconsistent time-signature changes. These erratic elements are, according to vocalist/guitarist Bobby Bray, "a reflection of perhaps how our brains have to function in order to be able to do anything in the Western societies we live in."

I got Justin on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• How the uniforms came about
• Getting kicked out of the house at 16
• What it was like recording
• Touring with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Getting shit for signing to Epitaph
• The Extreme Elvis interview
• Being on the Jerry Springer Show
• Head Wound City
• And a ton more

Check out his podcast Cult and Culture which is his podcast along with producer and musician Luke Henshaw. The show explores the DIY-driven, subversive world of art and culture, featuring a diverse array of guests from various subcultures. The podcast, recorded at PengOne Studios in San Diego, offers frank, informal, and well-informed conversations with guests ranging from Grammy-winning musicians, to actors like John Waters, and to Black Panther Party members. The aim is to blur traditional guest-host lines and foster casual openness. "Cult and Culture" is available wherever you podcast.

Check out Justin’s other projects including Deaf Club and the Mike Patton fronted Dead Cross.

Lastly I started doing whiteboard animations so if your marketing department has said recently “Hey, we need a whiteboard animation” then email me at [email protected]

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Ryan Cabrera is an American musician. He began his career as a lead singer for the Dallas band Rubix Groove before pursuing his solo career. Following the 2001 release of independent album Elm St., he released his first major-label album, Take It All Away, on August 17, 2004. Earlier in the year, Cabrera had become known for his up-tempo pop-rock single "On the Way Down". It was then followed by Cabrera's second single, "True"; and his third single "40 Kinds of Sadness". He’s still performing to this day and you’ll hear all about that in this interview. 

I saw him on MTV a lot back in the day so I was super interested to know how the punk scene influenced him and what his lifestyle has been like since he broke out.

I got him on the Skype and this is what we chat about

• What bands got him into punk music
• Connecting with Joe Simpson
• How he would sell himself at meetings with record labels
• The Ashley Simpson show
• Butting heads with John Rzeznik during their recording session
• His TV show Score
• Getting Punk’d
• Perez Hilton giving him a lot of shit
• Changing his sound
• Being on TRL
• The Lindsey Lohan story
• And a ton more

Check him out on the Pop2000 Tour and listen to his latest single PRESCRIPTION OF YOU on Manic Kat Records.

Check out Chitty from Houston Calls new podcast with his wife called the education breakdown podcast where the 2 of them explore the myriad of educational methods through interviews with teachers, administrators and parents. The goal is to inform those out there of how methods show up in day to day so parents can work to find the best fit for their children. (Side note: they have an interview with Jon Tummillo from Folly since who's a high school teacher).

Follow them on Instagram - Educationbreakdownpodcast

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Steel Train was an indie rock band from New Jersey. They met in the mid-1990s at The Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County, New Jersey. Before the band existed, Jack Antonoff and Daniel Silbert were part of the hardcore band Outline and Evan Winiker and Matt Goldman were in the punk band Random Task. After the dissolution of these bands, Steel Train formed in 2002. The band soon signed to Drive Thru Records. they disbanded in 2013 and you probably have heard about what Jack has been up to these days. 

I got Evan on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• Joining Range Media
• Growing up in the Jersey scene
• The Juliana Theory Story
• Starting Steel Train
• Being the black sheep of Drive Thru Records
• The Finch show
• Playing Coachella with FUN
• Brace Face Zine
• Their video at the Teaneck Legion Hall
• Is there a reunion on the Horizon
• And a ton more

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The Bollweevils is a punk band from Chicago. They formed during the Naked Raygun era which was where the band members met and also, for whom they eventually opened. The group released a number of albums on Dr. Strange Records; though, their first, minor releases were on Underdog Records (Chicago). The group's current record label, Go Deaf Records LLC, is owned and operated by the band. The Bollweevils released a new album, "Essential," on Red Scare Industries in 2023. It was their first album release in 14 years.

These guys have come up a lot in interviews so I thought it would be awesome to talk to Daryl, he agreed, and this is what we chat about:

• Playing with the Adolescents
• Making the newer version of Bottomless Pit
• Naked Raygun
• Getting on Dr Strange
• face to face
• Never playing the Metro again
• Getting kicked off Riot Fest
• The ABC7 appearance
• Why the latest record isn’t on Dr. Strange
• And a ton more

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Neil Kevin Hennessy (born December 12, 1978) is a punk rock musician, music producer and engineer from Chicago, Illinois. Hennessy currently plays in The Lawrence Arms, Colossal, The Falcon, The Smoking Popes, Sparta and is currently filling in on bass for Rise Against on their Blink 182 tour down in Australia because Joe the bassist had to fly home for personal stuff. He has also been a member of Noise By Numbers, Baxter, The Killing Tree, Quattro and played multiple shows with Teenage Bottlerocket.

Fun fact, he co-wrote the Rise Against song "Swing Life Away" with McIlrath, and also played percussion on the Less Than Jake album, GNV FLA. 

I got him on the Skype and this is what we chat about:

• All the projects he’s working on
• Joining Baxter
• The Chicago scene
• Killing Tree
• The Whipple House
• the Lawrence Arms starting
• Matt Allison
• Oh Calcutta
• The Falcon
• How the Lawrence Arms practices for shows now a days 
• The War On Christmas
• Writing a new album
• The infamous Hennessy Painting
• And a ton more

Be on the lookout for the Lawrence Arms new album sometime in the next year or so based on what he told me.

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This week's episode is a compilation of clips from 5 episodes that I enjoyed. 

Below are the interviews I pulled clips from:

• Saves The Day w/ Bryan Newman - Episode 183
• Dynamite Boy w/ Sean Neil - Episode 200
• Midtown w/ rob hitt - Episode 87
• Eyeball Records w/ Alex Eyeball - Episode 189
• Hankshaw w/ Harold Hasselback - Episode 169

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