Nice Stupid Playground

Genre
Indie

Website
http://www.myspace.com/thenicestupidplayground
http://www.nspmusic.tripod.com/

Band Members
Charles Rossem [Vocal], John Boniface [Bass], Abdul Aziz [Guitar], Nellfee [Guitar], Abdul Hadi [Keyboard] & Bendy Ismardy [Drums]

Nice Stupid Playground was formed in 1992 and fronted by Charles Rossem. Musically, they are influenced by the now defunct early 80s British sounds. In 1996, John Boniface (bassist) sent their most successful demo titled Thirty Zero Eight to Paul Moss, one of Positive Tones highly rated producer. The demo automatically caught Paul Moss interest and immediately offered Nice Stupid Playground a compilation album deal. The compilation which was released in 1997 entitled Boys & Girls 1 + 1 = 3 in which Nice Stupid Playground contributed 3 songs- ‘Bedroom Window’, ‘She Wants’ and ‘And I Don’t Admire’.

Dubbed as Sarawaks best kept secret, Nice Stupid Playground success follows with a full length album deal offered by Positive Tone. In 1999, they started working on their new album and by December 1999, a new first single Stereo Girl was released and immediately topped several local chart shows.

In February 2000, the first full length album ‘My Life Is My Parents Biggest Television’ was released and at the same time, a music video for Stereo Girl was shot. Stereo Girl music video was awarded 3rd Best Music Video at the Malaysian Video Awards (MVA) in 2000. The album also received good reviews from music critics everywhere but unfortunately the album sales are not too convincing.

Nice Stupid Playground parted with Positive Tone in 2003 due to a change of management. They did get an offer to record a full length Malay album but were not keen to persue the project. However, Nice Stupid Playground kept on performing at numerous shows both in East Malaysia and the Peninsular during their quiet period. They keep on writing new songs and hoping somewhere, somehow there will be an offer a deal by any label or perhaps a potential investor who are willing to invest.

Finally in 2005, Nice Stupid Playground was offered an album deal by Mr. Clinton Ang who is now the spokeperson cum manager for the band. All the new songs were recorded between May October 2005 at Zanzibar Media in Kuching, Sarawak. The album is called A Beautiful Life and musically tagged as the new BorneoPop, most of the new songs sounding pretty much from the 80’s New Wave era. Nice Stupid Playground hope to catch up with their fans who’ve been waiting for something new from the band for the past 5 years.