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Playground


There are six bands with the name Playground: 1) Playground is a cult Post-Punk band from Herne Bay, Kent (UK) that started as an idea in 1985 by both Richard Johnson and Andy P. (who together were also respectively editing/publishing and writing the popular Grim Humour 'zine). Rehearsals intially comprised them and their friends Dylan Hollinsbee, Harvey 'Havoc' Francis and a couple of others improvising a kind of industrial-tainted noise-rock around a drum machine. As well as guitars, the band would use backing tapes and a keyboard sometimes. During the course of a year, however, the sound developed from being ramshackle and sludge-like to something more powerful, helped no less by the arrival of Paul Dudeney on drums and Paul 'Fuzz' Wright on bass (themselves replacing 'Havoc' and Dylan...who was asked to leave the band for being too good a musician). Still drawing from industrial music and both post-punk (such as Wire, The Fall, The Cure, ATV - whose 'Splitting In Two' they covered initially) and its sprawling into the then extremely vibrant scene centred around NYC and Blast First Records, Playground's sound developed strongly before their first release in 1987. Musically based around primal drum rhythms, guitar noise and shouted vocals, the band comprised initially of Richo Johnson (vocals), Andy Pearson (guitar), Paul Wright (bass) and Paul Dudeney (drums). With this line-up they released several demo and live tapes, as well as two 7s (Seeking The Truth and Conception...

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