This Was The Scene Podcast

Boxcar was a pop punk band based out of South Jersey. Their members were Derek, Newman, and Jay Battle who was later replaced by Bnuts.   Their sound was a nice mix of the Lifetime, Digger, Jawbreaker and the Cure, in my opinion. I reached out to Newman and he suggested getting Brendan AKA Bnuts on the call and the following conversation ensued - In this interview, we talk about - Where They Got T...

Welcome everyone to This Was The Scene, the podcast that takes a look back at the late 90s / early 2000 Nj Jersey Punk scene, I am your host, Mike Doyle.   There were a lot of punk/emo/hardcore bands that came out of the Jersey scene. I didn't realize how many there actually were until Joe Pulito showed up in the North Jersey Pop Punk facebook group and said, hi everyone, I've archived all of it....

Welcome everyone to This Was The Scene, the podcast that takes a look back at the late 90s / early 2000 Nj Jersey Punk scene, I am your host, Mike Doyle. From 98-2001 My weekends were as follows: go to a show to see local bands play or play said shows with my band Lanemeyer. Afterwords I would go to diners or random parking lots, smoke cigarettes and talk about life with friends I made from these...

Welcome everyone to This Was The Scene, the podcast that takes a look back at the late 90s / early 2000 Nj Jersey Punk scene, I am your host, Mike Doyle.   Lanemeyer was a band formed by my best friend Chris Barker and myself back in 1998 after the Demise of our first band, Congress of Cow which was named after a sexual position we found in a Kama sutra book in the Rockaway mall.   The original li...

Michael Cipriano, or Monkey as he is known by everyone, was the roadie for Bigwig for a stint in time. He got the gig after being asked by then guitarist Josh if he wanted to come on the road from them. He said he and 20 years later he's being interviewed on my podcast. Lucky man. In this interview we talk about: How a can of food would take money off the cost of the shows back in the day E. Town...

Other than thank you lists in CDS, Fan Zines were the gateway to finding out about new music. These were put together by kids in the scene who would interview bands, write reviews, and come up with total randomness. They would then spend their own money at Kinkos and print 100s or pages, staples them together and then hand them out for free at shows.   I loved these things. I would grab any zine I...

Humble beginnings was a local New Jersey punk band that started in 1996. The roster consisted of Josh, Gabe, Delvecchio, Jeremy, at one point Eben from Saves The Day, Heiner and Conti. Their sound was influenced by bands like NOFX and even the Beach Boys. Though they never made it to the status that lead singer/songwriter Josh initially envisioned, they were a staple in the New Jersey scene and go...

Midtown was a band formed from ex-members of Humble Beginnings, Nowhere Fast, and The Royalties. They create 3 full lengths in their career including 2000s Save the world, lost the girl. I'm not going to lie, back when I was touring, I was quite envious of this band. And I wanted so badly to not like this record but you can't it's just that good. Heath Saraceno was one of the guitarists in the ban...

Welcome everyone to This Was The Scene, the podcast that takes a look back at the late 90s / early 2000 Nj Jersey Punk scene, I am your host, Mike Doyle.   The first band I was in was called Congress of Cow. We played in our drummer Jeff's basement and had shows in front of our friends in said basement.   Once we started playing legion halls we realized that we needed a demo tape so people would k...

This is the introduction to the show where I break down how I went from playing in my band, Lanemeyer, to becoming a part of the New Jersey scene, to now making a podcast about it.